The University Foundation is the meeting place
- for all academics in Belgium,
- for academics and members of civil society,
- for academics in Belgium, foreign academics and members of international organizations.
The various initiatives of the University Foundation are described on this website. For some parts of the website that are not relevant for international visitors there is no English version.
The Club is closed from Monday 23 December 2024 until Friday 3 January 2025.
The University Foundation is at your service : restaurant, meeting rooms, hotel and activities...
For reservations at the restaurant, please contact restaurant@universityfoundation.be.
As to the hotel and the meeting rooms, please contact club.fu.us@universityfoundation.be.Read more
, 
The University Foundation regularly organizes academic activities and cultural activities for its members and other interested parties: lunch debates, evening lectures, visits to art exhibitions, music performances in Bozar, opera in La Monnaie... Most of these activities are organized in French and Dutch, sometimes, but rarely, only in French or only in Dutch. Therefore they are not explicitly mentioned on the English version of the website. The interested reader is referred to the French and the Dutch versions of the website for further information.Read more
Wednesday 27 November 2024 at 5 pm : Debate (in English) “Self-concept and emotions: What has culture got to do with it?” with prof. Batja Mesquita (KULeuven) and prof. Shinobu Kitayama (University of Michigan). Introduction by prof. Philippe Byosière (Professor emeritus Doshisha University Kyoto, Visiting professor Management Centre Innsbruck, member of our Club).
For more information click "Read more".Read more
, 
In the series “Members have their say…” Professor Frederic Vermeulen (KU Leuven) came to talk on Monday November 18, 2024, about his first historical novel "De heks van Gottem. Het waargebeurde verhaal van Tanneke Sconyncx” (The witch of Gottem) (Lannoo Publishers, 2024). It tells the story of his ancestor Anna De Coninck/Tanneke Sconyncx, who was accused of witchcraft at the end of the 16th - beginning 17th century. His talk was be preceded by a presentation by Professor Dick Harrison (Lund University), who recently published the non-fiction book Heksenjacht. Een geschiedenis over angst, repressie en vrouwenhaat (Witch hunt. A history about fear, repression and misogyny) (Omniboek, 2024). The event took place in English.
The Ethical Forum 2024 of the University Foundation was devoted to an exchange of views on the criteria for the appointment and the promotion of academic staff in the universities, with the title
TOWARDS A REVOLUTION IN THE ASSESSMENT OF ACADEMICS ?
The Ethical Forum 2024 took place on Thursday, December 5, 2024 from 2 to 6 pm, at the University Foundation.
For more information the reader is referred to the EF website.
On April 24, 2024 at 6 p.m. the University Foundation, in collaboration with the Royal Military Academy and the Egmont Institute, is organizing a debate (Dutch and Fraench) on the challenges for geostrategy and for world order in the international election year 2024. The debate will be introduced by Lt-Col Tom Simoens , RMA, Col (GS) Peter Philipsen, RMA, and Ambassador Ghislain D’hoop, FPS Foreign Affairs, with Prof. Dr Alexander Mattelaer, Egmont Institute, as moderator
For more information and for the registration form click "Read more".Read more
The next activity of Re-Bel is devoted to the important question "Belgium, a failed state? Unsustainable public debt". It will be held on Monday 11 March 2024 from 5 to 6.30 pm, concurrently at the University Foundation (11 rue d'Egmontstraat, 1000 Brussels) and online. The introductory panel consists of Thomas DERMINE, State Secretary Relance, PS, and Koen GEENS, ex-Finance Minister, CD&V. They will be challenged by Magali VERDONCK, ULB, and Damien PIRON, ULiège. The conversation will be moderated, as usual, by Béatrice DELVAUX (Le Soir) and Karel VERHOEVEN (De Standaard).
More information on the Re-Bel website.Read more
The jury of the Fernand Collin Prize 2023 has decided Prize to award the Prize to dr. Sarah LAMBRECHT. This is the first Collin Prize for English language research works. The Prize is awarded for the doctoral thesis "Convention through States’ Eyes. Embedding of the European Convention on Human Rights in States Parties", which the laureate realized at the University of Antwerp with Prof. ¨Patricia Popelier as promotor. The award ceremony took place at the University Foundation on January 18, 2024. Read more
In 2022 the University Foundation started a series of panel debates in its new “Speakers' Corner” series, which gives the floor to British speakers and speakers from the EU on UK-EU affairs. In cooperation with TEPSA, the Egmont Institute and the EU-UK Forum, the recent debate was on Wednesday December 13 at 6 pm (followed by a reception) The topic: INSIDE OUT: HOW “GLOBAL” IS THE UK’S FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICY AND HOW “GEO-POLITICAL” IS THE EU’S? is discussed by Lord Ricketts, Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst en Baron Frans van Daele, and the discussion was moderated by Professor Dr Alexander Mattelaer.
The debate was followed by a reception.
More information: click "Read more" below.Read more