Insurance and healthcare All students must have sufficient health insurance to cover their stay in Antwerp. Although the University of Antwerp does offer accident-liability insurance to all its students, health insurance is not included, so please make sure you are sufficiently insured. We cannot re…

Master of Laws (LL.M) Legal clinic session at Belgian MFA Legal clinic session at Belgian MFA On 16 June, the last legal clinic session of the Module European Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights took place in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the session, students presented the re…

Visa Student Visa: apply in time! When planning to stay in Belgium for more than 90 days all students with a non-EEA nationality need to apply for a long-term visa (visa type D) at the Belgian embassy or consulate in their current country of residence before leaving for Belgium. Check out all the in…

Save the date Mark your calendar! Academic Calendar Check out the academic calendar for important dates such as the start of the semester or exam periods. Orientation Day Right before the start of each semester, all exchange students are welcomed during Orientation Day. Make sure you don’t miss it…

Belgian Historical Gazetteer search menu search content Belgian Historical Gazetteer An index of Belgian historical place names to link archival collections and explore landscapes histories Introduction A gazetteer... why? Belgian toponyms have changed greatly in the past centuries due to the succes…

Testimonials Don’t take our word for it. Hear what others have to say! "Academically, I was truly inspired. The teaching style in Antwerp encouraged active participation, teamwork, and hands-on learning. I particularly appreciated the real-world connections, such as working with local museums and …

Applied Data Mining search menu search content EPU Index Belgian Economic Policy Uncertainty Data Mining The charts below show the daily, respectively monthly average number of news articles on economic policy uncertainty, published by Flemish newspapers. The news articles that refer to policy uncer…

Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research search menu search content Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day (BERD) 2023 UAntwerp and Antwerp Management School are part of the Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Network (BERN). This year’s Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day (BERD) will be organi…

Law and Development search menu search content Belgian Network of Junior Researchers in International Law UAntwerp visit Faculty visit, workshop & panel [4th October, 2024] Creativity and International Law The Belgian Network of Junior Researchers in International Law (BNJRIL) will conduct a visit t…

Leerstoel Jean-Pierre Blumberg zoeken menu zoek inhoud Openingslezing: short-termism in Belgian corporate governance Maandag 21 februari 2022, 18.00 - 20.00 uur, Stadcampus en online (livestream) Deze lezing opent een reeks workshops over corporate governance en kortetermijndenken. De lezing en de w…

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology search menu search content Outbreak Analysis Reveals Insights into Serratia marcescens in a Belgian NICU A new genomic epidemiological study by the LMM of a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Belgium (2022–2023) highlights th…

Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research search menu search content Sharing Insights at the 15th Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day (BERD) On Friday, May 15th, members of the ECOOM Student Entrepreneurship Research Group and Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research participated in the 15t…

Belgian Historical Gazetteer search menu search content The team The Belgian Historical Gazetteer is project financed by CLARIAH-VL and hosted by the University of Antwerp. It is carried out under the supervision of Iason Jongepier and Tim Soens. Léa Hermenault is responsible for the development of…

Cultures of Dance search menu search content Belgian Partners Research Centre for Visual Poetics University of Antwerp CoDa Member: Timmy De Laet (CoDa Coordinator) S:PAM - Studies in Performing Arts & Media Ghent University CoDa Members: Prof. dr. Christel Stalpaert Dr. Annelies Van Assche Cultural…

Belgian Historical Gazetteer search menu search content Scientific outputs This gazetteer will enable researchers to easily identify place names they find in their sources, and could be used in the future to automatically ‘map’ (e.g. annotated) written sources to a great extent. Beyond other pos…

Belgian Historical Gazetteer search menu search content News and activities June 2025: the gazetteer was at the DHBenelux conference for a paper and a demo. June 2025: an updated version of the dataset (Provinces Antwerp and East-Flanders + previously missing towns) has been uploaded on Druid Novemb…

Sustainable water management search menu search content Belgian flood risk governance arrangements Policy arrangements In the European STAR-FLOOD project, the Belgian team – composed of policy scientists from the University of Antwerp and legal scholars of the Catholic University of Leuven – wro…

Belgian Historical Gazetteer search menu search content How to use the gazetteer? The current version of the gazetteer is available here, on Druid, a LOD platform. You can query it using SPARQL language via de SPARQL rubric on the left of the screen. Some basic queries are ready to use and available…

Belgian Historical Gazetteer search menu search content How the gazetter is made? The collect of a first set of toponyms The first phase of the project consists in the gathering of an ancient and geographically homogeneous set of toponyms. This is done by collecting all the toponyms mentioned on the…

Graduating search menu search content Further studies at a French-speaking Belgian university The search for further study opportunities does not stop at the language border. The French-speaking universities have a range of programmes quite similar to those offered at the Flemish universities. The b…

Business Economics Master's Thesis Ellen wrote her Thesis about Belgian tomatoes, and why they are cheaper and more sustainable than Spanish imports Master's Thesis Ellen wrote her Thesis about Belgian tomatoes, and why they are cheaper and more sustainable than Spanish imports What's cheaper: impor…

Master of Laws (LL.M) Legal clinics with Loyens & Loeff Legal clinics with Loyens & Loeff On May 13th a legal clinic session of the Module Commercial Transactions and Disputes took place in the Brussels office of Loyens & Loeff. During the session, students received feedback on their legal clinic as…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Magic Lantern in Belgian Public Lectures and Popular Performances WP2 'Magic Lantern in Belgian Public Lectures and Popular Performances' will focus on public lectures and performances and their locations. PhD 2 will use GIS (geographic information system) technolo…

Chair Jean-Pierre Blumberg search menu search content Opening lecture: short-termism in Belgian corporate governance Monday 21 February 2022, 6 p.m. -8 p.m. (on campus and online) Register for the opening lecture This lecture opens a series of workshops on corporate governance and short-termism. The…

Chair Jean-Pierre Blumberg search menu search content Workshops on short-termism in Belgian corporate governance 2 March 2022 - 18 May 2022 from 6 p.m - 8 p.m (on campus and online) Register for one or more of the workshops Tom Vos, visiting professor with the Jean-Pierre Blumberg Chair at the Unive…