The Product Development study programme can start unpacking its moving boxes. After two and a half years of renovation works, its new home on the Paardenmarkt is ready. We will guide you through the renovation works using seven facts.
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Did you spot it in the Meerminne yet? There, a beautiful book tower rose up to a whopping four metres high in February 2022. The story of how it came into being tells a tale of incredible teamwork across departments and faculties.
On Friday 13 January, for the first time since 2020, UAntwerp’s New Year’s reception took place in-person. More than a thousand employees gathered in and around the Rector Dhanis lecture hall to festively toast to 2023.
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 time, Caroline Masquillier (departments of Sociology and Primary Care) passes the feather on to Sarah Lebeer (Department of Bioscience Engineering).
The planning permission was approved, which means that the project developer LIFE on Campus Drie Eiken gets its final green light. The plans? A new sports hall, a new student restaurant and lots of new student accommodation.
On Thursday 24 November 2022, we organised our annual information evening for prospective students and their parents. The central theme was ‘Do I choose university, or do I choose college?. We immersed them into all the aspects involved when making that choice.
Your research has something special that you want to share with a large audience. That little corner of knowledge that you fully immerse yourself in, to break it open and make it understandable for people outside your domain. Clarifying without simplifying. You choose which details to mention or not, and you engage your audience in a story that invites them to search for more information. Sounds challenging? Definitely, but it’s increasingly necessary for any researcher.
October is European Cybersecurity Month and the perfect opportunity to highlight this topic. Historian Kenneth Lasoen is an intelligence specialist and with his academic expertise he helped formulate a vision statement of the Flemish Interuniversity Council – Knowledge Security. The statement describes several measures to reduce the risk of foreign interference. Naomi Huygen of the ICT Infrastructure & Communications Department explains what the risks and consequences of foreign interference can be for our university and what good cyber hygiene means.
Energy prices are soaring and this also affects our university. A few figures to illustrate: Altogether Campus Drie Eiken, Stadscampus and Campus Groenenborger annually consume more than 40 gigawatt hours of gas and electricity. That’s enough to power two small villages or 2,400 households. This obviously has a huge impact on the environment. How can we keep paying for all that, and most importantly, how can we reduce our energy consumption?
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 time, Evelien Smits (Center for Oncological Research) passes the feather on to Caroline Masquillier (departments of Sociology and Primary Care).
The Master of Safety Sciences can blow out ten candles this academic year. Besides being one of the youngest master programmes at the University of Antwerp, it is also a unique, multidisciplinary study programme in Flanders, according to lawyer Kelly Reyniers, sociologist Anne Bergmans and safety expert Karolien van Nunen.
Due to shortages in raw materials, paper has been in short supply for months and this affects the entire production chain for magazines, brochures, course materials and copy paper. Recycled paper is difficult to find and paper prices are rising. This will also have an impact on us.
