Welcome to the website of the University Foundation

Auditorium or banquet room in different sizes
The complete progam of our club activities
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The University Foundation is the meeting place

for all academics in Belgium,
for academics and members of civil society,
for academics in Belgium, foreign academics and members of international organizations.

The various initiatives of the University Foundation are described on this website. For some parts of the website that are not relevant for international visitors there is no English version.

Happy New Year!

The University Foundation wishes all its members a happy and peaceful 2021!

We hope to see you again soon.Read more

The restaurant of the University Foundation is closed

According to the decision of the Government on COVID 19, we are forced to close the restaurant of the University Foundation from October 19 until reopening is admitted. We are very sorry about this.

As to the hotel and the meeting rooms, please contact us. We will keep you informed as soon as there is more news about the regulations.

Stay healthy and hope to see you soon again.

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Club activities of the University Foundation

The University Foundation regularly organizes academic activities and cultural activities for its members and other interested parties: lunch debates, evening lectures, visits to art exhibitions, music performances in Bozar, opera in La Monnaie... Most of these activities are organized in French and Dutch, sometimes, but rarely, only in French or only in Dutch. Therefore they are not explicitly mentioned on the English version of the website. The interested reader is refererred to the French and the Dutch versions of the website for further information.Read more

Ethical Forum 2020 - A new initiative

It was our intention to orgaize in December 2020 n the annual Ethical Forum a discussion ion exams in higher education, with the challenging title:

Fair exams in a mass university: can technology get us out of trouble?

For a detailed description of the subject and the planned program, please refer to the EF 2020 website.

Unfortunately, in the present situation we are forced to postpone this activity to 2021.

The new date is Thursday 9 December 2021.

However, on Thursday December 3, 2020 from 1 to 2.30 pm, we organised a new type of activity, the "Lunchtime Ethical Forum", a shorter discussion on an ethical-social subject.

The topic of this first edition is "The pandemic-driven digital university: temporary nightmare or seed for better higher education?".

Due to the circumstances, this activity was organized completely online.

For more information, the programme, the ppt-presentations, and the video-recording of the presentations by the invited speakers: click here.

Re-Bel activities

The latest activity of Re-Bel was organised as a "webinar". It took place on Tuesday January 12, 2021, from 12.15 to 1.45 pm. It was devoted to the question whether the formation of a federal government in Belgium can be made easier and quicker. Details on the programme are published on the Re-Bel website.Read more

Financial support possible for linguistic revision of scientific papers

To stimulate publication of scientific papers in international journals, of which the language is mostly English, the Commission for Subsidies and Publications of the University Foundation has the possibility of giving financial support for linguistic editing of the manuscipt. Read more

Fenand Collin Prize 2018 awarded

In an official ceremony at the University Foundation on December 13, 2018, the biannual Fernand Collin Prize for Law was awarded to dr. Joost HUYSMANS, for his doctoral thesis “Legitieme verdediging”, Intersentia, Antwerp, 2017, 958 p. He obtained his Ph. D. from the KU Leuven.Read more