The aim of this UGent Beamer theme:

• A theme that closely resembles the official UGent Powerpoint/Keynote presentation themes.
• Similar theme options as the depreciated UGent Beamer theme by Pieter Belmans.
• A corporate version, as well as faculty specific versions.
• Ease-of-use for the average Beamer user.

Requires the packages sfmath, helvet and PGF/TikZ to be installed in your LaTeX distribution.

Also available as Overleaf template.

An extended example is available. See example/example.tex and example/example.pdf or click here.

Some example slides:

Download the latest release by following this link.

The theme is an addendum for the LaTeX beamer class, hence it is assumed that you have a running LaTeX installation together with the beamer package and its dependencies.

Once you have the files, all that is required for the theme to work is putting the files into a directory where LaTeX can find them. This boils down to mimicking the so called TDS (or TeX Directory Structure).

After downloading, copy the files named beamer*ugent.sty, together with all *.png files from the image folder, into the same folder as your LaTeX source file.

Then include the theme by writing:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{ugent}

in the preamble of your document.

In case you're using your favorite flavor of Unix (and/or TeX Live) you need to have a local directory (this will probably be ~/texmf/) and you need to place all the files from the theme folder in the directory ~/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/ugent/, finishing it by running texhash.

If on the other hand you're on Windows (probably MiK\TeX) the walkthrough at this url explains in detail how to create a local installation. Don't forget to Refresh FNDB as explained here.

Refer to the extended example (example/example.tex) for an overview of the possibilities of the theme.

The theme options can be set as follows: \usetheme[optionshere]{ugent}

• language=x, where x is the language
  • nl: dutch (default)
  • en: english
• faculty=x, where x is the abbreviation of the faculty
  • lw: Faculty of Literature & Philosophy
  • re: Faculty of Law
  • we: Faculty of Science
  • ge: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • ea: Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
  • eb: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
  • di: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
  • pp: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
  • bw: Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
  • fw: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • ps: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
• usecolors
  • This option sets the secondary color equal to the faculty color
  • Always use in combination with faculty=x
• noframenumber
  • This option suppresses the frame numbers

Some frames can be generated automatically:

• \logoframe: a white frame with large UGent logo
• \titleframe: the title frame
• \sectionframe: frame that shows the current section

This software is released under the GNU GPL v3.0 License.

If you are enjoying this theme please share it with your colleagues or friends!

Any suggestions, comments, criticism or appreciation are welcome!