The Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard is one of the six University colleges managed by the Wallonia Brussels Federation. Located in the city center and the Namur province, the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard offers you cutting-edge teaching.
The Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard (HEAJ) was born on the 15th of September 1995 from the merger between the Institut d’Enseignement Superieur Pedagogique de la Communaute francaise in Namur (ESPENA) and the Institut d’Enseignement Superieur Economique de la Communaute francaise in Tamines (IESET) in compliance with the Decree of 8/5/1995 establishing the general organisation of higher education in University Colleges.
In September 2000, the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard opened the Bachelor's Degree in Computer graphics, the first specialized program in Belgium. The HEAJ grew thus with a third department, the technical department. In 2012-2013, an Honours year in video games was born in collaboration with the University of Namur.
Finally, at the start of the 2012-2013 school year, a fourth department was added: the paramedic's department, Enseignement Superieur Paramedical de Namur (ESPAN).
This department has been created following the French Community's decision to open a new Bachelor's Degree in Psycho-motility. This new program is organized as a Joint Degree with the Haute Ecole de la Province de Namur (HEPN).
Our Programmes are Economics, Computer Graphics, Paramedics, Education. The "Hautes Écoles" is in charge of training half of the higher education students in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Thanks to their applied research activities, which are numerous, exciting, and still very little known, they ensure the high-quality teaching level and participate actively in the regional socio-economic development.
Current research projects at HEAJ are BEE – Builders of Educative Ecosystem. The BEE research project focuses on teaching staff support. It aims at the development of digital learning ecosystems that are adapted to higher education. These ecosystems have the following goals, support students in their learning processes, allow more specific support from teachers during experimental learning stages.
BEE makes the most of inductive methodologies and the wide range of digital tools available nowadays. All this for optimal use and entirely in line with the learning context of higher education students.
The HEAJ supports entrepreneurship, supervises, and encourages student entrepreneurs who want to carry out their projects. This is what being a responsible school means. We at HEAJ think that a student's project, of whatever kind, deserves to be supported. Thanks to our entrepreneurial school status, we offer different services to students with an entrepreneurial project.
