Onze sportieve UGent-alumni zijn welkom in februari 2025 om deel te nemen aan een avontuurlijke fietstocht door Oeganda!

Tegelijkertijd steunen en bezoeken de deelnemers het project 'Kampala Head Trauma Awareness and 3D printing Cranioplasty for Skull Defect'. Dit project wordt uitgevoerd aan het universitair ziekenhuis van de Makerere University door Prof. Moses Galukande en Dr. Hervé Monka Lekuya in nauwe samenwerking met Prof. Edward Baert (UZ/UGent). Deelnemers zullen onder begeleiding van de leidinggevenden het project kunnen bezoeken.

Deze reis zal worden gekoppeld aan een institutionele reis naar Oeganda, onder leiding van de UGent vicerector.

Thanks to the ERC Starting Grant DISOBEY, led by Prof. Dr. Emilie Caspar (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences), a new PhD track in neuropsychology has been initiated at the University of Rwanda.

Developing this track in neuropsychology is crucial for understanding the long-term cognitive effects of the genocide and to offer revalidation programs in the future.

Such a track did not previously exist in Rwanda, and this official joint PhD program marks a significant step toward developing neuropsychology in the country.

Earlier this week Prof. Em. Guido Van Huylenbroeck from UGent gave a lecture to the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (located in Nairobi), on "Institutional and transaction cost economics for agri-business development and environmental policies".

What a great way to emphasise the collaboration between Ghent University and RSIF, with currently close to fifteen joint PhDs in the pipeline.

This session will highlight cutting-edge research on biostimulants in Europe, presented by Dr. Sofie Goormachtig, Rhizosphere Group Leader at VIB PSB and a Prof. at Ghent University in Belgium, and Dr. Ashenafi Hailu, Associate Professor at Arba Minch University in Ethiopia.

Op deze avond van Human Rights @ De Krook gaan we het hebben over de specifieke ervaringen van LGBTIQ+ personen in de asielopvang, over positieve initiatieven die al gerealiseerd werden en wat nog ontbreekt om veiligere leefomstandigheden te creëren voor LGBTIQ+ bewoners.

We are excited to invite you to a unique guest seminar as part of the master’s course "Language, Diversity, and Globalization".

This engaging session will feature two esteemed academics from South Africa, dr. Xolisa Guzula (University of Cape Town) and dr. Robyn Tyler (University of the Western Cape), offering a comparative perspective on multilingualism in education from both the Global North and Global South.

The Open Doors Fellowship Program, coordinated by IPBO (International Plant Biotechnology Outreach) in partnership with VLIR-UOS and UGent, targets post-doctoral and mid-career women working in African (inter)national research centers. Our program aims to support researchers and prevent talent from leaving the scientific pipeline.

The sixth Young Researchers Overseas Day, organized by the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences in Belgium, is aimed at researchers younger than 40 who are working overseas in various research fields. The Young Researchers’ Day is an opportunity to meet one another, discuss, exchange ideas and know more about the Academy and its activities.

De provincie Oost-Vlaanderen hecht veel belang aan de internationaliseringsinitiatieven van de kennisinstellingen en geeft deze al meerdere jaren een duwtje in de rug.

Projecten kunnen tot € 5.000 per deelnemende Oost-Vlaamse kennisinstelling krijgen.
De geografische focus van de projecten moet strategisch zijn voor zowel de kennisinstelling als voor de provinciale speerpuntclusters.

Accelerate aims to provide policy and policy implementation support to the VLIR-UOS community, both in Belgium as well as in all partner and scholarship countries, in a limited number of strategic themes. Accelerate will identify, connect, deepen and mobilise relevant expertise available in the VLIR-UOS network, supporting the acceleration of these themes within the VLIR-UOS community.

Implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases - GACD)

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases, an alliance of international funding agencies representing over 80% of the world’s public health research funding and the first collaboration of its kind to specifically address NCDs.

This call specifically targets implementation science to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs*) and/or those in high-income countries (HICs) serving disadvantaged populations.

The symposiums organised by the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association (GAPSYM) have been trendsetting in the Belgian academic landscape over the last 16 years, in the sense that they provide a unique interdisciplinary forum to showcase academic research taking place in collaboration with African-based partners.

This 17th multidisciplinary conference of the AUGent Africa Platform will be co-organised by Ghent University’s International Thematic Network CliMigHealth, which focuses on the nexus between climate change, migration and health(care), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) and Stellenbosch University.