Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Festival Couleur Café- The Couleur café is a festival that proposes a full array of music styles coming from all over the world. With more than 40 concerts over three days, Couleur Café offers the best of R&B, hip hop, world, afro, reggae, ragga, dub, dancehall, Latin, salsa, electro and rock. Some extra juicy ingredients are added such as the bright souks and decorations, world food stalls, craftsmen and blazing brass bands. Couleur Café is an apt reflection of the city it calls home, Brussels, with its cultural mix that makes travelling the world as easy as looking out your front window. Couleur Café is more than a globe-trotting urban festival. Mandingfoli- Manding Foli is a percussion school founded in Brussels in 2005 by Babara Bangoura. His goal is to transfer West-African culture and traditional music. The AISBL organises lessons on a regular basis, workshops in Belgium and abroad, events like concerts, festivals, animations, team building, etc.

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
A place to not be missed; there are a lot in the city:, the "chips" in the Jourdan place, the best chips in the city, I love the "disco-restaurant" Bazaar that if I`m not in grong is in the Capuchins rue next to the "palais de Justice". You can rate too as event "The music Party" , the city has cocerts for all places. Amd places very, very interestings for me, because I love the art and the architecture are the little museun of Ixelles, little but very warm and all the axpresions of the "art-nouveau" that you can find in Brussels ( Victor´s Horta house, Stoclet Palace, The Comic´s Museum, etc,..

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Travel: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Cafe de la Bourse (it has a Flemish name but I don't remember it). On campus until when exams come they have a lot of crazy parties (TD) where all people drink a lot, mostly bear. Students really have a lot of things to do, if you know how to search. Oxford Café is for Erasmus students. Le Soum is a good disco. Brussels, in the beginning can be very boring, so you must do your work.

Describe host city: Student life dominates the city

Nightlife: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Activities, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Everybody used to go to Tavern on Wednesdays or to Carpe Diem on Tuesdays..On Fridays we often went to Cabraliego (They have cheap drinks there) There are many bars, cafes and clubs in Brussels.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
The whole quartier next to the Bourse is good for having some drinks on weekends....and everyday there is a suoerbe fleamarket on place jeux de balles....

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
The best places to have a beer around the ULB are "Le Tavernier" and "l´Atellier" , and about restaurants, "La Bastoche" is the best in price/quality.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
There two or three funny and trendy disco, of which one, Mirano, vey very interesting for music, people and ambient.In the town is also fully represented new trends concerning modern art and fashion. The atmosphere is anyway good because of the cultural mix: imigration, Belgium specifity history, European Institution.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
The nightlife is pretty good and diverse in the city center. You can go dancing or spending your time in a nice cafe with life music... The jazz scene is quite extense and the cultural opportunities are diverse and often very interesting.

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
O'reilly's irish bar. you cant beat the good old irish pubs. Brussels aint the best for nightlife by the way.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Since I am an english speaker I mostly frequent british pubs where I may interact with anglo-saxon people.

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
The bars around "Bourse" area (such as "Mapamundo") in the center of the city are the best. There are no real good night clubs apart from "Who'sWho's", which is near "Grand'Place" and there's "The Fuse" which is alright but not that great. The nightlife is quiet in Brussels, you should go to Antwerp to party! My favourite places were the Irish pubs ("O'Reily's" near the Bourse)

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
In Ixelles, the students neighbourhood, you cannot miss the ``Tavernier Café´´, l´Atelier ou les TD´s. In the city Center I personally enjoyed the ``Recyclart´´, the ``Fuse´´ and all the bars around the Grande Place.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
There are son many places in Brussels to enjoy the nightlife, it depends on your preferences anyway for my experience I can say Delirium and discos like Redline,Le you and Spirito Martini.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
the area around the "Bourse" is quite a good area to go out, a lot of nice bars; also the area around university is great to go out, for exemple "Atelier", "Taverne", "Cafe Belga",....

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
PP (latin-american music on wednesday), la Bourse zone is full of nice pubs

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
The Place Saint Germain near the Bourse, in the center.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Very nice pubs (ah, la bière belge!). Don't miss St. Verhagen on 20th of November, big ULB and VUB party in the city.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Celtica Irish Bar in city centre, good music and stays open all night. Zillion night club, Antwerp.

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Celtica, Louise Gallery were one of the most popular places for exchange students.

Describe host city: Students interact with the local community without much university involvement

Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Salsa Bars, Les TD, Cafe dAnvers