Bringing education and aviation closer together

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Thomas More & UC Leuven-Limburg

Students combine their expertise to bring fresh insights to the aviation sector.

A great example of a partnership that brings students, experts and real-life challenges together.
Tom Van Brabant, lecturer

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In short

The customer challenge

Thomas More and UC Leuven-Limburg wanted to give students a more practical and multidisciplinary learning experience, connected to real challenges in the aviation sector.

The purpose

The project aimed to bring students closer to the airport environment, encourage collaboration across study domains and connect academic research with real sector challenges.

The approach

Together with both schools, we developed a semester-long programme.

The delivery

We organised the full project journey, from the student kick-off and thematic sessions to sector encounters and the final student presentations.

The outcome

Students bring their own expertise and perspectives to the project, creating richer insights through multidisciplinary collaboration.

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Customer Thomas More and UC Leuven-Limburg

When September - December 2026

Who Students from Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management and Tourism & Recreation Management

Roles Students, lecturers, aviation experts and industry partners

Focus Multidisciplinary learning, aviation challenges, applied research and sector collaboration

Language Dutch

Bringing education and aviation closer together

Students from three study programmes working together on real challenges in the aviation sector.

Together with Thomas More and UC Leuven-Limburg, AHLEX developed a semester-long project that brought students from Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management and Tourism & Recreation Management closer to the reality of the aviation sector. Through multidisciplinary teamwork, expert input and practical exposure, students explored current and future challenges within the airport environment.

The project started with a joint kick-off at AHLEX, where the students were introduced to the aviation sector, the project goals and the different themes they could explore. A broader introduction to Brussels Airport gave them the context needed to understand the complexity of the airport ecosystem and the many stakeholders involved.

From there, students worked in multidisciplinary teams and developed their own research questions around themes such as passenger experience, employee well-being, workforce shortages, mobility, airport operations and digitalisation. Bringing together students from different study programmes encouraged them to look at the same challenge from multiple perspectives.

Throughout the semester, we organised a series of thematic sessions and encounters with professionals from the sector. Students will be able to connect their academic work with practical insights.

This combination of research, sector exposure and multidisciplinary collaboration will help students build a more realistic understanding of their own expertise within the aviation sector.

The project will conclude with final presentations at AHLEX, where the student teams present their research to the different partners involved.

More proof?

It was great that the students were able to explore and experience the room for themselves, and on top of that there was a fun but effective brainstorming session.
UC Leuven-Limburg

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This experience was much more than a training course, it was an opportunity to better understand both myself and the complexity of airport operations.
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