Guest Lectures

• The foreign guest lecturer is to make a substantial and structural contribution to the curriculum in order to strengthen the international dimension, as well as for for non-mobile students.
• The guest lecturer can also be invited in the framework of a summer or winter school within Antwerp Summer & Winter University
• Broad publicity (e.g. via website, poster, Blackboard) is expected.
• The guest lecturer would be from a country (nationality or residence) on the VLIR-UOS grant list (see below).
• Both guest lecturers for physical mobility and digital guest lectures are eligible.
• The guest lecturer is to give at least 3 contact hours.
• The guest lecturer is to give at least one public lecture for a wider audience.
• The subject of the guest lecture must be development-relevant.
• Number of guest lectures: there is no limit, as long as the maximum grant per faculty/institute is not exceeded.​

Each faculty has a budget of 2,500 euro per academic year (i.e. in this context: the period from 1 October to 30 September) to spend on international guest lecturers from the South if the aforementioned conditions are met. Institutes that organise at least one bachelor, master or advanced master programme have a budget of 1,000 euro. The following costs are eligible for the subsidy payment:

Physical guest lectures:

• Travel costs (including visa costs) (plane: economy class) with a maximum of 1000 euro per guest lecturer
• A maximum of 200 Eur per night (for hotel costs) 
• A per diem of 100 Eur per night in Belgium (for meals and local expenses) 
• Each guest lecturer from the South must be insured during his/her stay in Belgium. The insurance is fully reimbursed.

Digital guest lectures:

• An honorarium of maximum 150 euro per hour can be paid. Note: an honorarium can be taxed by the home country. It is important that those concerned are informed of this in advance.
• In addition, costs for internet or certain facilities can be reimbursed (e.g. transport to a place with a good internet connection).
• Investment costs (e.g. purchase of a router) are not eligible.

Guest lecturers cannot apply directly for funding, it is instead paid to the organising faculty/institute of UAntwerp on the basis of submitting a report at the end of the guest lectureship and as long as the maximum budget has not been exceeded. 

Payment to the organiser (i.e. hosting faculty/institute) is made exclusively through internal settlement at the end of the academic year. This means that the faculty/institute undertakes to pay all eligible expenses beforehand and thereafter the grant is transferred by the International Relations Office after the end of the guest lectureships, provided that all supporting documents are submitted. The organiser is to submit an online application by no later than 1 October, detailing the guest lectureships of the past academic year (in this context: 1 October - 30 September) wherein it asks for a description of the educational activities and the duration of the guest lectureships.