European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content European Solidarity in the Making Dignity Amidst Despair: Migration Challenging European Solidarity Winter School | 1 - 5 February 2027 Join the European Solidarity in the Making winter school an…

Global Engagement search menu search content Koen De Feyter Solidarity Fund Fund to support students at partner universities in crisis situations In times of crisis, universities in the Global South are often hit particularly hard. When conflict, war or occupation erupts, external sources of funding…

University Fund search menu search content Koen De Feyter Solidarity Fund Fund to support students at partner universities in crisis situations In times of crisis, universities in the Global South are often hit particularly hard. When conflict, war or occupation erupts, external sources of funding f…

European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content Application deadline Your application for the winter school should be submitted before 23 November 2026. Applications are submitted and processed through the enrolment platform Mobility Online. T…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Solidarity Poiesis: I Will Come and Steal You In 2011, a multiplicity of self-managed solidarity organisations, with mandates ranging from food provision and healthcare to education initiatives, emerged from the occupation of Syntagma Square in…

European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content Social programme Antwerp Summer & Winter University offers a number of fun social activities to let participants discover the beautiful city of Antwerp and meet fellow students in a more informal…

European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content Participant perspectives Discover what participants from the first two editions had to say about their experience at the winter school. Read how they experienced the academic programme, engaging …

European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content Fee and scholarships Tuition fee Regular fee: €350 University of Antwerp students: €200 (regular fee €350 – €150 reduction applied, see “Scholarships” section below) The tuition fee…

European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content Before you come Visa information for short stay (maximum 90 days) EEA+ nationals If you are a national of a European Economic Area country (EU member states + Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein),…

European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content About the programme Solidarity as compass The founding principle of the European project is solidarity as a means of cohesion between member states and a value in addressing European and global c…

European Solidarity in the Making | Winter School | Antwerp Winter University search menu search content Your stay at UAntwerp Facilities at the university During your stay at the Antwerp Summer and Winter University, we have many student facilities available for you: Student restaurants Computers a…

Anouk Luypaert predoc researcher FWO Research Anouk Luypaert Research team Media, Movements and Politics (M2P) Talking solidarity: how do citizens of different welfare states frame solidarity in their interactions? 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2027 Abstract Solidarity is a burning issue that is stoked even fu…

Law and Development search menu search content The Right to Development and the Duty to Cooperate in International Law Law and development research Right to Development The Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, consists of five independen…

Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality search menu search content AIPRIL seminar series 21 January 2026 Frank VandenBroucke - Responsibility and the demands of solidarity - Defending the welfare state in hard times European welfare states are under pressure: increasing defen…

Jana Van der Smissen predoc researcher FWO Research Jana Van der Smissen Research team Government and Law The Legal Value of the Principle of Solidarity in EU Asylum and Migration. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2027 Abstract Solidarity constitutes a highly-debated, yet under-conceptualized notion that has only…

Marloes Vrolijk - Ramsay unpaid staff Research Marloes Vrolijk - Ramsay Research team EduBROn Citizenship education and beyond: the role of education in fostering solidarity in diversity. 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025 Abstract This research project is set in the highly diverse city of Antwerp in Flanders,…

Peter Thijssen Research Peter Thijssen Research team Media, Movements and Politics (M2P) Expertise My research is situated in the broad field of political sociology. Herein I focus on five specific research domains. 1. Quantitative research with regards to te political participation of social groups…

Eline de Jong unpaid staff Research Eline de Jong Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC) The logic of deservingness in third sector welfare provision. 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025 Abstract This research project on third sector welfare provision is concerned with the …

Michiel Van Dam unpaid staff Research Michiel Van Dam Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC) Expertise Intellectual historical research on the relation between anthropological mechanisms of "faire croire" and social imaginations of the civil body. My current res…

Sarah Maes unpaid staff Publications Sarah Maes A mosaic of solidarity : exploring religion-based solidarity initiatives in Flanders (Belgium) Source European journal of social work - ISSN 1369-1457-29:3 () p. 471-484 Author(s) Sarah Maes, Mieke Schrooten, Peter Raeymaeckers, B. Broeckaert Citation …

Center for European Philosophy search menu search content Europe in a Changing World Lecture Series Philosophical Sources of European Identity 1-3 April 2025 - Chapel of the Grey Sisters Convent University of Antwerp Klooster van de Grauwzusters Lange Sint-Annastraat 7 2000 Antwerpen All are welcome…

Government and Law search menu search content Jana Van der Smissen Jana Van der Smissen is an FWO predoctoral researcher (Fundamental Research mandate) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp since November 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dirk Vanheule. She obtained a Master of La…

Dries Van Gasse academic interim staff ZAP - researcher - guest professor Research Dries Van Gasse Research team Centre for Population, Family and Health Expertise Dries Van Gasse is a researcher at the Center for Demography, Family and Health at the University of Antwerp. Within the project 'Famili…

Patrick Loobuyck full professor Research Patrick Loobuyck Research team Center for Ethics Expertise Talks, lectures and workshops/seminars on the relation church-state, secularisation in the West, tolerance and pluralism, relation worldviews - meaning of life - science and history of ideas concernin…

Stijn Oosterlynck professor Research Stijn Oosterlynck Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC) Expertise - Scientific advice on social inequality, poverty and social excusion - Scientific advice on urban policy and development - Scientific advice on spatial plann…