5 ECTS credits
125 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 6021563FEW for working students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
French
Partnership Agreement
Under agreement for exchange of courses
Faculty
Faculty of Law and Criminology
Department
Faculty of Law and Criminology
External partners
Université libre de Bruxelles
Educational team
Daniel Dumont (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
24 contact hours Lecture
101 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

The course includes three parts:

  1. A transversal part dealing with article 23 of the Belgian Constitution and the Charter of the social insured;
  2. Social insurances for the self-employed: pensions, sickness, invalidity and maternity, bridging right and benefits fostering a better life-work balance of the self-employed.
  3. Social assistance: minimum income benefits for the elderly and disabled people and the social integration right.
Additional info

This course will be exceptionally taught by Quentin Detienne during the academic year 2022-2023.

Ex cathedra classes, combined with question and answer sessions.

More information is available on the courses  web page at the ULB website.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

By the end of this course, students have obtained a more detailed knowledge and comprehension of the legal foundations of the Belgian social security system through the study of essential parts of which have not been dealth with in the basic course of social security law.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written Exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Exam questions evaluate to what extent students are able to reproduce and explain the material for the examination and to make use of this material.

Students are allowed to use codes. Underlining and  making of cross-references are allowed. Codes may not be annotated. The use of annotated codes will not be allowed during the exam.

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Social Law: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)