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VUB launches Belgium’s first academic bachelor programme in artificial intelligence

  • Editorial Team
  • March 23, 2022
  • 2 minute read

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will launch a bachelor of science (BSc) programme in artificial intelligence beginning in the academic year 2022-23.

Jan Danckaert, interim rector and vice-rector of Education and Student Policy announced that this new academic bachelor’s programme will be the first in the Belgian university landscape to meet a real need in the labour market. He pointed out the fact that VUB has repeatedly played a pioneering role in establishing new programmes and now wants to do the same in the field of AI and its social and economic applications. “This programme has the potential to attract a broad intake of students thanks to its unique mix of STEM (maths, computer science) and humanities subjects (cognition, linguistics, law and ethics)”, added Danckaert.

Broad and interdisciplinary

The curriculum contains a broad range of basic subjects that are fundamental for the field of AI: algorithms and data structures, search processes, neural networks and other machine learning techniques, knowledge representation and reasoning, mathematics and scientific methods.

In addition, there are four cross-disciplinary themes throughout the curriculum: ethics, human intelligence, artificial intelligence and scientific methods. These themes are explored by means of examples, applications and assignments.

Bart De Boer, chair of the Programme Board, shared his views – “In this programme, we study intelligence from different angles: we see how intelligence works in humans, how natural language works and why this is important for intelligence, how a group can sometimes be more intelligent than the individuals, how we can create intelligent systems ourselves, but also how we can use computer models to learn things about human intelligence. In addition, there is a lot of focus on the role of AI in society, such as ethical and legal issues.

From the second year, through a system of profiles – cognition/psychology, linguistics, computer science and intelligent systems – we offer students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the direction that interests them most, with a view to the various transfer possibilities.”

VUB: Pioneering in AI

VUB is a pioneer in research and education in AI and related fields: the university established the first computer science programme in Flanders 40 years ago, last year it launched the bachelor programme in mathematics and data science, and this new bachelor in AI is also unique in Belgium. It also builds on a strong research tradition in AI: the first interdisciplinary AI Lab on the European continent was created in VUB’s Science Faculty. Today, VUB continues to play a leading role in this innovative sector, particularly in the areas of AI, machine learning and software languages. Research groups with an international reputation in the field of law and ethics in relation to AI are also active at VUB.

More info on VUB’s academic programme in artificial intelligence.

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