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.
In 2018 a series of lunh-debates is organized to honour the memory of the former Executive Director Prof. Louis Baeck.
In the first semester 2018 a new series of four lunch-debates in the initiative "A World of Cities" is organised.
For further information on the activities please see the Dutch or the French section of the website.
NEW ! The next edition of the Ethical Forum takes place on December 6, 2018, and deals with the increasing use of English as an instruction language in higher education in Belgium, with the provocative title "Towards Anglophone universities?".More information on the website of the Ethical Forum.
Future activities of Re-Bel :
- Thursday 21 June 2018: Belgium, a utopia for our times?
- Thursday13 December 2018: Mobility and urban development in Belgium: how much can/should be decentralized?
- Thursday 20 June 2019: Poverty: Minimum income and child benefits: Anti-poverty policy in Belgium’s three Regions.
More information: www.rethinkingbelgium.eu.
For further information on the activities please see the Dutch or the French section of the website.
For the Queen Elisabeth contest, the concerts at Bozar, and the performances at the "Théâtre National" the reader is referred to the relevant news item on the Dutch or French web pages.
From Wednesday July 4 till Sunday July 8, 2018: Cultural trip to Sils Maria.
For further information on these activities please refer to the French or Dutch web pages.
Belgium, a utopia for our times ?
University Foundation, Thursday 21 June 2018, 2-6pm
16th public event of the Re-Bel initiative
coordinated by Paul DE GRAUWE
In the spring of 2015 the University Foundation and "la Fondation pour l’environnement urbain Pierre Laconte" organized a first cycle of lunch debates on the theme «A World of Cities» for the members of the Foundation and also for a broader public (faculties, economic, social and cultural organisations, ...).
This initiative and this collaboration was continued in the following years. In the spring of 2018 a new series of three lunch debates is organized.
For further information please see the Dutch or the French section of the web site.