• The Postgraduate In African Business Studies (PABS) is the first of its kind in Belgium and Europe.
• The Postgraduate is specifically developed to maximise professionals' knowledge of business on the African continent.
• In collaboration with African embassies in Brussels and first-class regional universities, the PABS programme offers a quality curriculum in African Business for graduate students and future managers pursuing a successful business career in Africa, Europe and the world at large.

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.

This workshop aims to explore scenarios of migration without borders (MWB) and a post-national West Africa, as discussed in the literature.

In light of this, the key question of the workshop is: to what extent is ECOWAS moving towards or away from the post-nationalism and decolonization scenario described by Aniche and colleagues (2022), and why?

Hoewel de Europese Unie een actieplan tegen racisme lanceerde, blijken er tal van obstakels bij het realiseren van de doelstellingen. Intersectionele discriminatie gaat over de complexe verhouding tussen racisme en andere sociale vormen van discriminatie op basis van bijvoorbeeld gender en klasse.

In deze avondlezing delen twee experten hun inzichten over deze kwesties.

• Dr. Nozizwe Dube, doctoraatsonderzoeker EU-recht aan Universiteit Maastricht
• Nyanchama Okemwa, voorzitter van The European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
• Prof. Jan Orbie, UGent - moderator

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.

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.