Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world

Together with Veterinaires Sans Frontières (VSF), the Veterinary Student Association for Wildlife and Development (VSDW) organizes following lecture 'How scientists fight against world hunger'.

Pablo Manzano is an agroecologist and will talk about wildlife declines in Africa: linked with poverty, not with livestock increases.

Emma De Winter is an veterinarian who worked in Rwanda on fly larvae as new food source for livestock.

Op donderdag 2 maart wordt in Gent het boek 'Eén vrouw, vele gezichten' voorgesteld van wereldreizigers Els Heyvaert en Christian Van Kerckhove.

Het werk filosofeert over de vraag wat het betekent om vrouw te zijn in de huidige maatschappij, in relatie tot recente moderne ontwikkelingen en verschuivingen. UGent onderzoeker Els Leye is co-auteur en de opbrengst van het boek gaat integraal naar de vzw Aniké.

ECAS9 2023, 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2023

ECAS9 will be organized by the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne) and the IARA, Institute for Anthropological Research on Africa, University of Leuven, under the theme of “African Futures”. “African Futures” aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements.

The first Ghent University Alumni day will take place on Sunday, March 26 on our campuses in Ghent. We will kick off at 9:30 a.m. with our Alumnus of the year, Catherine De Bolle, and continue until around 5-6 p.m., depending on the location. In the morning the activities concentrate around Ufo, Rectorate and the Krook, in the afternoon the day fans out to all campuses.

All Ghent University alumni are welcome. Feel free to bring your partner, parents, children, friends or family.

Is filosofie een (te) conservatieve discipline? Is het blikveld ervan te beperkt? Welke boodschappen worden in de mainstream filosofie gegeven over wat geldt als ‘echte’ of ‘legitieme’ vragen/thema’s/denkers? 

In deze lezingen- en discussiereeks willen we een alternatieve blik bieden door te tonen welk kritisch onderzoek er ook allemaal gebeurt onder de noemer van filosofie en door samen met filosofen-activisten te reflecteren over verschillende krachtige kruisbestuivingen tussen filosofie en sociaal-politiek engagement.

What do young Africans and Europeans see as the greatest threats to global security? How do they think governments and international institutions should work together to tackle these challenges and help secure our common future?

To hear what young people think, Debating Africa and Debating Europe, in partnership with the European Investment Bank, asked them directly.

The University of the Western Cape, Ghent University
and the University of Missouri invite you to attend
a joint symposium on Precision Medicine: Therapeutic Targets.

Precision medicine has been defined as an emerging practice of medicine that uses an individual’s genetic profile to guide decisions made about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

This symposium has been designed to bring together researchers from UWC, Ghent and the University of Missouri to share their current work, brainstorm on needed resources including innovative data sharing and co-create opportunities for collaboration and competitive funding applications. Ultimately we hope to provide
precision medicine interventions that are more cost-effective than population-based measures and will improve health care in Africa, Europe and the United States.