Folklore studied in Belgium

The student's folklore is a whole of rites and traditions festive, fraternal, bibitives, initiatory being held among the students of higher education and academic in Belgium. Those vary according to the campuses, the type of school… Several of these traditions are centenaries (cap, warp end…), others are more modern.

General information

Blue and bleuettes
Hairs and Plumes
Comitard
student's Baptism
Chansonniers
Committee of student's baptism
Guindaille
Cantus

Folk attributes

The folk cover-chiefs are very widespread within the population coed, and particularly French-speaking person. It is necessary to distinguish the cap, cover-chief of the students coming from universities catholic, and the warp end, which the students of the universities and liberal high-schools carry .

the cap
the Warp end
the viola

Particular festivities

A certain number of headlight activity gather the community coed of all the country, which creates occasions of exchanges between the various folk currents. The largest demonstration in term of multitude are the 24 bicycles of Leuwen-the-New , which has existed for more than thirty years, and gather more than 50,000 students and inhabitants in the university town.

Saint-Torus with Liege
Saint Nicolas's Day with Liege
4 hours child's scooters with Liege
Six hours cuistax with the Night Universit3e libre de Bruxelles
with the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles
Saint-Verhaegen the November 20th date birthday of the foundation of Universit3e libre de Bruxelles
24 hour-bicycle with the catholic Université of Leuwen
festivals of the music to the catholic Université of Leuwen
the week fédé with the catholic Université of Leuwen
Six hours wheelbarrows with Gembloux
the Belgian festival of the Student's Song to the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles
Saint Nicolas's Day with Mons
Saint Nicolas's Day with Namur
Trotinettes with Namur

Folk associations

For a long time existing in order to gather the students according to common criteria, the circles, orders and regional are in the center of the activities student's.

a circle is an association gathering of the students resulting from the same faculty
regional is an association gathering of the students resulting from the same area (province, city, country…)
an order is a more specific association of students gathering students around certain aspects private individual of the folklore or the Belgian traditions

One distinguishes among those:

General association of the Students Inhabitant of Li2ege
Circle of medicine of the ULB
Circle of the students of the Institute Paul Dawdler
Circle Victor Horta (CVH)
Circle of sciences of the ULB
Circle Lukot
Circle of the étudients of political sciences and social of the ULB
Circle of the Royal Academy of the Art schools of Brussels (ACA)
Circle of Architecture and of Visual Arts of Cambers (CLC)
Industrial Cercle (CI) of the UCL
Data-processing Cercle of the Polytechnic ULB
Cercle of the ULB
Circle De Fré, rings students of the High School of Brussels - Defré
Cercle of the students of the teacher training school Charles bulldozers
Cercle Saint-Louis (CSL) of FUSL
Ge Catholica
Academic Ordre of Leuwen-the-New
Academic Ordre of Holy Beard
Academic Ordre of Saint Michel
Sovereign Ordre of the Cap
Ordre of the Perverse Monks of Saint-Louis (SLMPO)
Ordre of the Torus
Régionnale Malmedy
Régionnale the Lux
Cercle of graduated nurses and obstreticians (CIGa)

Songs

Songs are associated with each social group whose student can be member. The university, faculty, the regional one, the Order and other distinction finer can be identified with the hearing of the songs in the great foljloric meetings.

Song of the Walloon Students
Valorous Inhabitant of Li2ege
Gaudeamus igitur song " international" students
the Sower anthem of the students of the ULB.
Li Bia Bouquet Namurian song

External bonds

the student's Folklore in ULg
Funds Boussart
Association of the student Circles of the ULB
General meeting of the Students of Leuwen
General meeting of the Students of the FUNDP

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