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 University Foundation wishes you all a happy, joyful and peaceful 2025.
The Club of the University Foundation is open again and ready to answer all your questions or making your reservations.Read more
The Club 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
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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
The members of the Club of the University Foundation and their partner are invited to the New Year's reception on Thursday January 30, 2025, at 5.30 pm.
The New Year's reception will be introduced biy a talk by Cécile Dubois and Werner Adriaenssens on "Art Déco: 100 years in Brussels".
More information on the Dutch or French sections of this website.
The next activity of Re-Bel is devoted to the important question "Belgian vs. Flemish diplomacy. Conflict or Cooperation?". It will be held on Thursday 16 January 2025 from 5.30 to 7 pm, concurrently at the University Foundation (11 rue d'Egmontstraat, 1000 Brussels) and online. The panel, introducing the theme, consists of
- Axel BUYSE, former General Representative of the Government of Flanders at the Permanent Representation of Belgium at the EU,
- Johan VERBEKE, former Belgian Ambassador in London and Washington and Permanent Representative at the UN, who teaches at VUB and ULB and is a senior researcher at the Egmont Institute,
- Sofia VANDENBOSCH, postdoctoral researcher in Constitutional Law at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and affiliated researcher at UCLouvain.
The conversation (Dutch/French) will be moderated, as usual, by Béatrice DELVAUX (Le Soir) and Karel VERHOEVEN (De Standaard).
More information and registration form on the Re-Bel website.Read more
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.
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
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Two books which received subsidy for publication from ten the University Foundarion, have received an award.
The book « À la recherche de l’écologie temporelle. Vivre des temps libérés dans les collectifs néo-paysans autogérés : une analyse anthropologique » (author Madeleine Sallustio) was awarded the First Prize as "livre d'écologie politique". For more information on the award click here. For more information on the book, click here.
The book "Le jardin anglais. Evolution du goût et passion botanique" (author Nathalie de Harlez) received the Prize Pierre-Joseph Redouté / Histoire 2023, a Prize awarded every year to the best book on gardens. For more information on the award click here. For more information on the book, click here.
The University Foundation is proud to have contributed to these awards. 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 EU on UK-EU affairs. The recent activitey took place on May 15, 2023, at 6 pm and dealt with the question "The UK and the EU in a changing world. Time for a new departure?". Panelists are - Professor Anand Menon (King’s College London), Andy Bounds (lFinancial Times) and Stefaan De Rynck (Head of the Commission representation in Belgium and former senior adviser to BREXIT negotiator Michel Barnier). Moderator is Paul Adamson, chairman of the UK/EU Forum. Concluding re marks were formulated by Jim Cloos, SG of TEPSA and Senior Associate Fellow of the Egmont Institute. This activity was organized in collaboration by the University Foundation, the EU/UK Foundation, TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies Association), and the Egmont Institute.
Debate iollowed by a reception.
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