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Biermans-Lapôtre an international residence project

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.

In elegantly furnished rooms members can meet colleagues and guests. In a pleasant reading room, daily and weekly newspapers, as well as scientific reviews, are available.

The restaurant serves lunch with a varied menu to members and their guests.

Our hotel has 14 attractive bedrooms for our Club members. The University Foundation organises numerous scientific, cultural and artisitic events for the Club members.

Below a list is given of the future academic and cultural activities organized by the Club of the University Foundation. For more information on a particular activity the reader is referred to the relevant Dutch or French section of the website.

The restaurant of the University Foundation is closed

According to the decision of the Government on COVID 19, we are forced to close the restaurant of the University Foundation from October 19 until reopening is admitted. We are very sorry about this.

As to the hotel and the meeting rooms, please contact us. We will keep you informed as soon as there is more news about the regulations.

Stay healthy and hope to see you soon again.

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Club activities of the University Foundation

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 refererred to the French and the Dutch versions of the website for further information.Read more

Ethical Forum 2020 - A new initiative

It was our intention to orgaize in December 2020 n the annual Ethical Forum a discussion ion exams in higher education, with the challenging title:

Fair exams in a mass university: can technology get us out of trouble?

For a detailed description of the subject and the planned program, please refer to the EF 2020 website.

Unfortunately, in the present situation we are forced to postpone this activity to 2021.

The new date is Thursday 9 December 2021.

However, on Thursday December 3, 2020 from 1 to 2.30 pm, we organised a new type of activity, the "Lunchtime Ethical Forum", a shorter discussion on an ethical-social subject.

The topic of this first edition is "The pandemic-driven digital university: temporary nightmare or seed for better higher education?".

Due to the circumstances, this activity was organized completely online.

For more information, the programme, the ppt-presentations, and the video-recording of the presentations by the invited speakers: click here.