On September 24 we will meet for the second activity in the Short Training Programme: “Narratives and Objects in a Museal Oral Ecolit-Lab: Ecological Sustainability in East-African Literary scholarship and UGent Curricula”, kindly funded by VLIR-UOS Global Minds Fund.

• Public lecture by Dr. Kimingichi Wabende from the University of Nairobi: '‘Humans, spirits and nature: Performing Kayamba healing rituals, forests and coastal ecology in Kenya’" (10:00-11:15) after which he will moderate a
• Lab: working towards an exhibition (11:15-12:00).

This will be an inspiring online talk with:

• Tom Peeters, International Coordinator IT Department at Karume Institute of Science & Technology
• Dirk Van Merode, International Project Coordinator IT Department, AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• Abid Businge Weere, South Coordinator Erasmus+ CBHE project ACTEA & AHUMAIN, Mountains of the Moon University

You are warmly invited to the launch of the First Waves Web Platform on September 26th at Pianofabriek in Brussels.

First Waves is an open platform dedicated to sharing the stories of the Maghrebi and Black diasporas in Belgium, highlighting their struggles for dignity and revealing the enduring impact of colonial and racialized structures.

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

"The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (Stias), like its sister institutes in the US, in the UK and on the European continent, fosters transdisciplinary conversations in which all fields emerge as equals, even if these different domains enjoy varying degrees of financial and social prestige.

My Stias experience from 15 January till 14 June 2024 has conclusively convinced me that “a positive spiral”, as delineated by former VUB rector Caroline Pauwels, does exist. Stias answers a need for more transdisciplinary academic dialogue."

The deadline of 15 September 2024 is fast approaching for submission of panels for the tenth ECAS, European Conference on African Studies. ECAS 2025 will take place in the beautiful city of Prague, 25 – 28 June 2025.

The conference is framed by the overarching theme ‘African, Afropolitan, and Afropean Belongings’, while, as always with ECAS, there is space for a wide range of research themes and topics to be addressed.  

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.

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.