Media and Communication Departments - Research Groups in Belgium

Belgium is a federal country with three official languages: Dutch, French and German. There are Dutch and French speaking universities (Flanders, Wallonia, and bilingual Brussels)
 
Media & Communication Departments in
 
(a) Dutch-speaking universities:
 University of Antwerp (UA)
Research groups:
Media, Policy & Culture (MPC) 
Media & ICT in Organisations & Society (MIOS) 
Visual Culture (VC) 
Political Communication (PC) 
Language, Media and Socialization (LaMS) 
 
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Research groups:
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CEMESO) 
The Center for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT) 
 
Ghent University (UGent) 
Research groups:
Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS) 
Center for Journalism Studies (CJS) 
The Center for Research on the Effectiveness of Advertising Techniques, Innovations, Values and Emotions (C.R.E.A.T.I.V.E.) 
Research Group for Media & ICT (MICT) 
 
K.U.Leuven (K.U.L.)
Centre for Media Culture and Communication Technology (CMCCT) 
School for Mass Communication Research (SMCR) 
 
 
Research groups at other faculties and/or departments:
Media, Movements & Politics (M²P) (at University of Antwerp)
NewsTalk & Text (NTT) (at Ghent University)
 
 
(b) French-speaking universities:
Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB) 
Research groups:
Etudes des Médias (EM) 
Sciences de la Communication (SC)
Histoire de la Communication de Masse (HCM) 
Sciences des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (STIC) 
 Arts du Spectacle Vivant (ASV) 
 
Université de Liège (ULg) 
Research groups:
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie de la Communication (LAC)
 
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) 
Research groups:
Groupe de Recherche en Médiation des Savoirs (GReMS) 
Laboratoire d'Analyse des Systèmes de Communication des Organisations (LASCO) 
Observatoire du Récit Médiatique (ORM) 
 
Université de Mons (UMONS)   
Research groups:
Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC)
Marketing et Communication (MC)
 
Université de Namur (FUNDP) 
Research groups:
Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire "Comu & Internet" (GRICI)