Let’s shape the future
This slogan is what drives the University of Antwerp to bring about positive change and take on challenges within society.
Discover the university’s mission statement and learn how the long-term vision is brought to life through cutting-edge research, including academic teaching and active community engagement.
Mission statement
Through its free and innovative research, student-centred academic teaching and targeted service to society, the University of Antwerp aims to have a valuable impact on the development, dissemination and use of scientific knowledge. In this way, UAntwerp aims to permanently strengthen its commitment to the further development of a sustainable world and a democratic and inclusive society founded on human rights.
The University of Antwerp understands its core tasks as follows:
- Academic teaching, focusing on the person as a whole
- Creative and innovative scientific research
- Service to society and engagement based on our own expertise
- Forward-thinking valorisation of knowledge, with sustainable solutions for humans and the world
The University of Antwerp is guided in these tasks by the following distinctive lines of strength:
- Excellence emerging from a culture of quality, supported by a caring work and learning environment
- Academic freedom based on scientific integrity
- Students as full and co-creating partners
- At home in the city, but with a view to the world
- Diversity as added value, inclusivity as the standard
- Active pluralism as a basis for dialogue
- Encouragement for collaboration and interdisciplinarity
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