USOS search menu search content Intra- & interuniversity solidarity for justice Tuesday 19 December, from 18.30 to 20.30 at Stadscampus (R.002) Rodestraat 14 Antwerpen Pictures of the event Danya Nadar - moderator Miriyam Aouragh - invited speaker Omar Jabary Salamanca - invited speaker Baraa Odeh -…

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…

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 - 31/10/2025 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…

SOLiDi search search content SOLiDi Solidarity in Diversity SOLiDi official website Promoting solidarities across ethnic-cultural boundaries The rise of national populism and far-right parties in Europe poses a big threat to all forms of solidarity, especially solidarity between members of various e…

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 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Solidarity constitutes a highly-debated, yet under-conceptualized notion that has only…

Peter Thijssen professor 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 soc…

Marloes Vrolijk doctoral scholarship holder Research Marloes Vrolijk 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, th…

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

Haike Delafontaine doctoral scholarship holder About Haike Delafontaine Haike Delafontaine Contact Stadscampus Show email address Sint-Jacobstraat 2 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Haike Delafontaine works for the Centre for Population, Family and Health, at the Department of Sociology. In the Z-building she pr…

Dries Van Gasse guest professor - researcher 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 'Families in Transition, Transitions…

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…

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…

Network on Migration and Global Mobility search menu search content Team Coordinator: Milena Belloni Organisation and communication support: Imane Bendra Roos Derrix Giovanni Penna Irene Landini Research centres: GaP - Grammar and Pragmatics (University of Antwerp) CSB - Centre for Social Policy Her…

Karen Hermans predoc researcher FWO Research Karen Hermans Research team Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy Rights-based versus benevolent solidarity in European welfare states: the case of food banks and minimum income protection. 01/11/2020 - 31/10/2024 Abstract Unfortunately, food bank use i…

Support to Ukraine UAntwerp sets up fund for Ukrainian refugees University shows active solidarity with victims of Russian war violence More and more civilians are fleeing the Russian war violence. As the need to accommodate war refugees from Ukraine keeps increasing, the University of Antwerp has d…

Herwig Verschueren emeritus occasional assignment Research Herwig Verschueren Research team Government and Law Expertise My research concentrates on social rights of migrants. It concerns both EU citizens who make use of the right to free movement within the EU and third-country nationals coming fro…

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Research projects CONTRA Innofins: Innovative Financing TOD-IS-RUR and SOLiDi Soligion Tracks4Crafts Crafting Futures COMMONCITY CONTRA The Urban Studies Institute becomes a partner in a new JPI Urban Europe project on Conflict in Transfromations (C…

Dirk Vanheule full professor Research Dirk Vanheule Research team Government and Law Expertise Research on the legal aspects of asylum and migration from the perspective of legal protection, human rights and EU asylum and immigration law. The Legal Value of the Principle of Solidarity in EU Asylum a…

Network on Migration and Global Mobility search menu search content Newcomers’ housing commons vs military campization in Greece 21 May 2024 | USI Lunch Seminar by Charalampos Tsavdaroglou Dr Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, USI visiting scholar Tuesday 21 May 2024, 12 - 2 p.m.University of Antwerp, S.M.…

University Fund search menu search content Support the Ukrainian Universities UAntwerp shows solidarity in the war between Ukraine and Russia The University of Antwerp stands shoulder to shoulder with the victims of the Russian war violence in Ukraine. UAntwerpen wants to offer the support that is n…

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

Global Engagement search menu search content Paul Panda Farnana Prize Recipient academic year 2023-2024 UCA & Nitlapan partnership The 2023-2024 Paul Panda Farnana Prize was awarded to the UCA/Nitlapan partnership, a collaboration between UAntwerp (formerly UFSIA) and the Universidad Centroamericana…

Personal Rights and Property Rights search menu search content Liability and accountability Research leaders: Thierry Vansweevelt & Britt Weyts Short text Liability law outlines the conditions under which an injured party can recover damages from a third person. This line of research examines how th…

Aula Lumumba search menu search content Strategic Framework for Global Engagement In 2020, the university launched an updated vision on Global Engagement and Cooperation with Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Co-creation of knowledge through equal partnerships, inclusion and diversity are put forward…