Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Activate as many students as possible If you want to crate a culture of activation, it is important to try to activate as many students as possible. The following suggestions are based on three important barriers that students often…

Nanopore Research Day Antwerp search menu search content Call for abstracts The best poster will be awarded with a ticket for London Calling 2025! (This will be democratically decided with a fun voting system) Submit your abstract now to aim for the price! This is an excellent opportunity to maximiz…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Nature Medicine refers to IHU "In January, researchers from the University of Antwerp in Belgium published a paper calling for more active involvement of regulators and other experts from countries where the medicines will be used (Trop. Med. Int. H…

Master of Political Science Shirley Kempeneer Shirley Kempeneer "The relevance of political science reaches its pinnacle in times of alienation, fear and anger" Shirley Kempeneer holds a PhD fellowship at FWO and works at the university as a researcher. Many of the lectures are based on the scientif…

Research group for Urban Development search menu search content Inspire to Expire: Flanders' zoning plan Flemish spatial planning is inextricably linked to the zoning plans. These were drawn up in the 1970s and cover the whole of Belgium. Fifty years on, they still determine where construction is pe…

Literary and Theatrical Studies search menu search content The Idea of Europe: The Clash of Projections Organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna with support from the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalism (University of Amsterdam) and the Institute of Jewish Studies (U…

Inga Geipel unpaid staff Publications Inga Geipel Multi-year soundscape recordings and automated call detection reveals varied impact of moonlight on calling activity of neotropical forest katydids Source Philosophical transactions : biological sciences - ISSN 0962-8436-379:1904 (2024) p. 1-8 Author…

International and Intercultural Compentencies Training session Calling all international students! You have been in Antwerp for a few weeks now and you have probably experienced that adapting to a new culture and a new academic environment is not without difficulty. Perhaps you have struggled with h…

Cumulus Antwerp 2023 search menu search content Connectivity and Creativity in times of Conflict Cumulus Antwerp 2023: 12-15 April 2023 Society is being constantly challenged by conflict (global/local), contradiction and an ever changing perspective by non-neutral roles of technology and organisatio…

Joachim De Weerdt associate professor Measuring Farm Labour Joachim De Weerdt MEASURING FARM LABOUR Jump to: Introduction Data and documentation Publications Introduction This survey experiment studies the accuracy of farm labour data in household surveys. We tested four alternative survey designs a…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content The Idea of Europe The Idea of Europe: The Clash of Projections Recent developments within and outside Europe have challenged the very idea of Europe, calling it into question and demanding reconsideration of its underlying assumptions. Since Ar…

Henry van de Velde search menu search content Hadeel Al-Sallal 2022 - present Development and Evaluation of Earth as a Sustainable Building Material for Energy Efficiency and Resilience. Promotors: Mario Rinke, Bob Geldermans The global construction industry contributes significantly to environmenta…

Tim Heupink senior researcher Publications Tim Heupink Droplet based whole genome amplification for sequencing minute amounts of purified Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA Source Scientific reports - ISSN 2045-2322-14:1 (2024) p. 1-9 Author(s) Anzaan Dippenaar, Nabila Ismail, Tim Heupink, Melanie Grobb…

Lennert Verboven unpaid staff Publications Lennert Verboven A machine-learning based model for automated recommendation of individualized treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis Source PLoS ONE - ISSN 1932-6203- () p. Author(s) Lennert Verboven, Steven Callens, John Black, Gary Maartens, Kell…

Henry van de Velde search menu search content Menatalla Ahmed To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space Promotors: Els De Vos, Johan De Walsche This research investigates how gender relations become manifest in the design, uses and representations of the built envi…

Naïm Blansaer predoc researcher FWO Research Naïm Blansaer Research team Biobased sustainability engineering (SUSTAIN) RhodoMeal: Photohydrogenotrophic production of purple bacteria as a sustainable proteinaceous food ingredient. 01/11/2022 - 31/10/2026 Abstract A structural transformation of our …

Nikita Shikut doctoral scholarship holder Research Nikita Shikut Research team Protease‐guided tumor targeting tools to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment (OncoProTools). 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2026 Abstract Europe has a high cancer burden: in 2020, 2.7 million EU citizens were diagnosed wit…

Antwerp HeArts search search content Antwerp HeArts Healthcare for Artists Antwerp HeArts? Antwerp HeArts (Healthcare for Artists) is the multidisciplinary centre of expertise for the prevention and treatment of artists’ diseases. It was founded by the Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) and the Uni…

Cultures of Dance search menu search content Research Day: Bridging Research in Dance Excerpt from One, Two, Three, Comrade Dance With Me (2021), video performance by Igor Koruga When: Saturday 21 of May 2022, 10:00 – 18:00 Where: Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Desguinlei 25 – 2018 Antwerpen, Gele…

GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence search menu search content GOBAREG Legitimate Goal-Based Regulation in a Hybrid Multi-Actor Regulatory Regime | 2023-2027 GOBAREG: Legitimate Goal-Based Regulation in a Hybrid Multi-Actor Regulatory Regime Abstract Complex societal issues such as climate change, technol…

IBB-Neurobiobank search menu search content Living donation - prospective sampling What can you expect from the examination and the storage of your body material/data? It is highly likely that increasing knowledge about the mechanisms causing these neurodegenerative or neuromuscular diseases will ev…

Magdalini Thanopoulou doctoral scholarship holder Research Magdalini Thanopoulou Research team Medicinal Chemistry (UAMC) Protease‐guided tumor targeting tools to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment (OncoProTools). 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2026 Abstract Europe has a high cancer burden: in 2020,…

Emile Francqui Our compatriot Emile Francqui was born in 1863 and died in 1935. During his stay in China commissioned by king Leopold III, Francqui met future president Hoover of the United States. At the outbreak of World War I he was contacted by Hoover to intervene in the distribution of the aid …

GOBAREG search menu search content The GOBAREG project Legitimate Goal-Based Regulation in a Hybrid Multi-Actor Regulatory Regime Welcome GOBAREG studies the conditions for legitimate goal-based regulation in a hybrid multi-actor regulatory regime Complex societal issues such as climate change, tech…

Global Change Ecology search menu search content Can you help us find crabs? Wanted dead or alive: blue crabs The University of Antwerp is looking for Atlantic blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). These crabs with striking blue legs and pincers occur naturally along the Atlantic coasts of North and Sou…