Pintra (EN) Blog
How do our employees feel in their day-to-day work? What causes stress? And how has the coronavirus pandemic affected our wellbeing? At UAntwerp, we’ve launched a new wellbeing survey to find the answers to these questions. ‘The more people participate, the better we can make our policies.’
UAntwerp has launched the symbolic video game Corona Combat to mark the start of the second semester. Students, staff and sympathisers can bring out their inner Herman Goossens, Pierre Van Damme or Erika Vlieghe and do battle with virus particles. Professors Van Damme and Vlieghe had the honour of being the first to test the game.
Do you still sometimes travel to the university these days? Then please take some pictures of the snow-covered campuses and win a UAntwerp scarf.
‘Impact on the world, connection, innovation and quality: these are our core values and we want to shine an extra spotlight on them’, says Rector Herman Van Goethem. This sharper focus also serves as the foundation for the new house style. A double interview with the rector and Elisabeth Vanhoutte, head of the Communications Department.
After a sixteen-year career in politics, Inga Verhaert has returned to the University of Antwerp full of enthusiasm as the new head of the International Relations Office – where more than one challenge awaits her. ‘The traditional Erasmus programme is not going to disappear, but we need a broader palette of opportunities if we want to keep growing.’
We’re slowly seeing light at the end of the corona tunnel. But there are still many questions about the COVID-19 vaccines and the vaccination strategy. To answer these questions, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences organised a vaccination webinar especially for UAntwerp staff. You can rewatch it here, with English subtitles.
What if we professors were to do something for the most vulnerable victims of the corona crisis? Professor Lieven Bervoets from the Department of Biology and historian Professor Marnix Beyen had the same idea. The solidarity initiative 1000 x 1000 has raised 700,000 eurosand collected more than 1200 signatures in a call for more social justice.
A Feather in Your Cap: the feather is a prize passed on from one UAntwerp colleague to another in recognition of their efforts or achievements. This month Devanshi Saxena (Faculty of Law) passes the feather on to Sarah Rohaert (Faculty of Design Sciences).
During the online New Year’s debate ‘A look ahead’ on 8 January 2021 you could watch short fragments of interviews conducted by Karolien Debecker, television and radio presenter. The long version of these interviews can be found in this article.
We invite you to share your questions, ideas and ambitions for the future of our university with us.
After four weeks or 28 days of walking the same streets, running extra kilometres and discovering new paths, we’ve reached the finish line of the Millionaire Team Step Challenge. With 834 participants divided over 157 teams, we collected a total of 192,322,465 steps. Team Sport clocked up the most steps.
The collaboration between our university and the Port of Antwerp is flourishing as never before. Some thirty research projects are currently underway. ‘The technologies we are investigating today could be part of our daily lives in just a few years’ time’, says project coordinator Svetlana Samsonova.
