Courses on special topics are given by many visiting lecturers from different foreign institutions and some Belgian ones. The titles are generic to be as flexible as possible and suitable for the development of research. These courses are usually in English.

The Department would like to encourage future researchers to establish contact with other research teams in neighbouring universities. Exchanges are also designed to provide additional training for certain areas of research.
Students doing either focus will have the opportunity to do an Erasmus, Mercator or other kind of exchange, lasting one semester. For the teaching focus, the exchange must take place in the second semester of the first year. For the research focus, it musts take place in the second semester of the first year or during the second year.