From 11-14 June, the AEGIS Summer School ‘African, Afropolitan and Afropean Belongings’, organised by the Centro di Studi Africani in Sardegna, took place in Cagliari.

As one of the participants, Lieselot Tuytens presented a paper; she is a UGent PhD candidate in Literary Studies and member of the Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and South African Studies.

Besides exchanging research experiences, the summer school aims at stimulating African-European inter-university cooperation. It was an extremely valuable event!

In June 2023, the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (The Guild) launched twenty Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE).

Ghent University is actively involved in five of these Clusters.

In celebration of this one-year anniversary, with acknowledgement of a lot of work and strengthening of collaborative relationships thus far, ARUA and The Guild are pleased to launch a new logo for the initiative and provide updates from the Secretariats.

• Are you a researcher between 18 and 35 years old?
• Do you come from one of the 43 UfM (Union for the Mediterranean) countries?
• Are you affiliated to a research centre (think tank or university)?
• Are you proficient in English?

Then the Mediterranean Youth in Action program is for you!

REDAA invites proposals for locally led, multi-locational, research-to-action for restoration programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

In this second REDAA Grant Call, up to nine Programme Grants of between £1,000,000 and £1,500,000 (GBP) will be offered to the best proposals for substantial programmes.

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.

An online information session (focused on practicalities) will take place on Thursday 23 May 2024, (11h-12h).

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) and the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR).

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.