VUB Today

"Language is a lens through which you view the world"

Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele on the richness of multilingualism.

"It’s fashionable to portray journalists as spreaders of fake news"

Journalist Karl van den Broeck on the importance of Difference Day

Is everyone ready for the electric car?

Transport specialist at VUB Lieselot Vanhaverbeke: 'To improve the impact of mobility on the environment, we need to electrify'

"The figure of Jesus has been depicted naked for centuries"

Exhibition Nom de Dieu opens at Pilar

"I will remain involved, even if it's just to continue following our young researchers"

VUB Professor Jonathan Holslag Becomes Mayor of Tienen

"Just because you’ve lived in a refugee camp doesn’t mean you can’t achieve great things."

Refugee Abdulazez Dukhan earned a master’s degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at VUB.

“Humo had to be cool and grab you by the throat”

Guy Mortier to receive honorary doctorate

‘The Dupes’: A Restored Classic at Cinema RITCS

A moving tale of displacement, hope, and betrayal

"Education should be about how society secures its future"

British anthropologist Tim Ingold, who advocates shifting the Enlightenment's doctrine of progress towards a focus on sustainability, visits the VUB

Archaeologists, including a VUB researcher, find evidence of an early violent confrontation in the Bronze Age

"In Mechelen, children as young as 15 or 16 were sent straight to concentration camps"

VUB alumni expose painful truths in Mechelen 1940-1945: Biography of a City at War

“I am angry, but I do not hate. Hatred cannot be erased with hatred”

Nobel Prize-Nominated Palestinian Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish Visits VUB

VUB archaeologist Soetkin Vervust: "We are reconstructing 5,000 years of coastal history"

Sunken island of Testerep resurrected

Two VUB researchers receive prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for pioneering research

"With these awards, the VUB once again demonstrates its leading position in research and innovation"

“The exploitation of Nepalese workers is, to my knowledge, not the right definition of diversity"

Guest Professor Hans Vandeweghe on sport as a political weapon

Exploring EUTOPIA Artificial Intelligence with Geraint Wiggins

The aim is to teach students how to build AI capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence

“We Don’t Need to Work Longer to Keep Pensions Affordable”

Demographer Patrick Deboosere stirs the waters of the pension debate

Half of Judges Want to Share Their Opinions on Social Media

VUB Researchers: The European Court of Human Rights Allows It Under Certain Conditions

Student Maximiliaan: Balancing university life with caring for his sister

"Op mezelf focussen is moeilijk; het is toch mijn kleine zus, hè."

“The Flemish government wants 10% more medals. But without additional investment, that won’t happen”

The Figures Behind Sporting Success