and the Marie Haps translation-interpreting department, first into Saint-Louis University, and later into UCLouvain. From 2007 onwards, the Marie Haps Institute was able to award double bachelor and master degrees to its students together with Saint-Louis University, Brussels, allowing the department to award university degrees. Initial plans were to transfer the entire department of translation-interpreting to Saint-Louis University, then only the bachelor programmes, moving the masters in translation to Louvain-la-Neuve at the University of Louvain, and keeping the masters of interpreting in Brussels (double degrees with the Université libre de Bruxelles). In 2014, a decree finally established the integration of Belgium's translation and interpreting school to universities. The Marie Haps department was split in two, with only the bachelor programmes being kept in Brussels, within the new Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of Saint-Louis University. Classes are held at the Hôtel Beernaert and the Tilleul campus, both shared with the Institut libre Marie Haps which continues higher education in other fields. All masters programmes have been transferred to Louvain-la-Neuve, founding the Louvain School of Translation and Interpreting (LSTI) within UCLouvain's Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters. In 2014, the European Commission awarded its prestigious European Master's in Translation label to Marie Haps. The same year, the Faculty launched a bachelor programme in translation and interpreting of sign language, the only one in Belgium, inaugurated by Minister Jean-Claude Marcourt. Description Studies The faculty organises 12 different bachelor programmes in translation and interpreting, all composed of three languages: French; English or German; and one other. A special programme is available for German-speaking students. The courses are harmonized with the programmes of the Louvain School of Translation and Interpreting of UCLouvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, where bachelors in translation are not offered. The Marie Haps Faculty is the only one in Belgium offering an undergraduate programme in sign language. Therefore, by an agreement between Saint-Louis University, Brussels, UCLouvain and the University of Liège, students from Liège can take the sign language option at ULiège and follow the courses given in Brussels online, while having their other classes in Liège. With its faculty of translation and interpreting, Saint-Louis University has been participating in the Erasmus programme since its creation in 1987, and before that already organized student exchanges with the University of Granada from the 1970s onwards. Semesters abroad are standard in the third year of the bachelor programme. Research A single research centre