The technological platform serving research & learning
OpenHub, as a technological platform of UCLouvain, collaborates with research teams and students to develop concrete solutions, provide advanced infrastructures, and offer an educational framework focused on innovation.
For students
For the students
StudentLabs
Our flagship program: an intensive internship where students (Belgian and international) develop solutions for real companies.
Guided by our teams, they work in multidisciplinary groups, discover manufacturing, design thinking, and emerging technologies, all while addressing real-world issues..
The students leave with:
- a real professional experience,
- technical and methodological skills,
- a direct application of their studies.
Innovation classes
We also teach a course at UCLouvain dedicated to the innovation process.
Students learn to apply a structured method (design thinking, rapid prototyping, user testing) on real cases provided each year by our partners.
Supervision of theses
We supervise theses for students who are looking for a field of experimentation, a topic related to technology, innovation, or prototyping, or an interdisciplinary work framework.
Access to infrastructure
Students can access our equipment through the internal UCLouvain platform to create, prototype, or support their academic projects..
For research teams
For research teams
Partnership for your scientific projects
We support research teams that wish to design demonstrators, instruments, or experimental devices.
When certain skills are lacking internally (development, electronics, mechanical manufacturing, IoT, XR, prototyping, ...) we can take charge of the design, implementation, and integration of these technical components.
A team strengthening for collaborative projects
Beyond occasional interventions, we also participate in research projects led by UCLouvain departments as a sustainable technology partner..
We then join the project team to contribute to:
- the technical definition,
- the implementation of the experimental system,
- user validation,
- the documentation or the dissemination of the demonstrator
with the aim of accelerating applied research and enabling researchers to focus on scientific value.