Universiteit Antwerpen

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Overview

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.1 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

5

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Universiteit Antwerpen   (UAntwerpen)

    EU Transparency Register

    924473926079-08 First registered on 01 Mar 2017

    Goals / Remit

    The University of Antwerp is a young, dynamic and forward-thinking university. It is a merger (2003) of the former three university institutions in Antwerp (RUCA, UFSIA and UIA). It ranks 5th in the Times Higher Education Millennials 2020 young universities ranking and 131st in the Times Higher Education 2023 world ranking and is a founding member of the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance, which was selected in the first European Universities Initiative call in February 2019. The University has 706 tenured professors, over 330 assistants and over 3700 researchers. It publishes over 3600 peer-reviewed scientific publications per year. The European Commission awarded the University the “HR Excellence in Research” quality label. The University of Antwerp has an excellent track record as to the participation in EU framework research and innovation programmes.

    Main EU files targeted

    As a university we follow mainly EU policies and initiatives in the field of education and research & technology: EU framework programmes for research and innovation, EU education programmes and horizontal issues such as data protection, ethics, animal testing, clinical trials, data management and storage.

    Individual researchers of research groups might however also be interested in/follow specific EU policies and initiatives as these might be directly or indirectly relevant for the scientific research they are carrying out. These policies and initiatives can be very diverse: health; IT; development cooperation; communication technology; environment; justice; economic & financial affairs; employment, social affairs, inclusion; agriculture; energy; climate; transport & mobility; maritime affairs; culture; etc.

    Address

    Head Office
    Prinsstraat 13
    Antwerpen 2000
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Middelheimlaan 1
    Antwerpen 2020
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    10%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    Above mentioned figures are based on an educated guess: 10-15 persons involved no more than 1% of their working time; totalling 0.1 FTE annually; people involved may vary from one year to another. Activities that fall within the scope of the EU transparancy register only occur sporadically and in an ad hoc way and are usually undertaken by an individual professor at its own initiative, not allowing for adequate calculations. Furthermore, if a person undertakes such activities, these activities very likely do not represent more than 1% of that person's annual working time. In fact, there is not a single person appointed for such activities at the University.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Academic institutions

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Antwerp University Association:
    www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/organisational-structure/antwerp-university-association/
    Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN):
    https://yerun.eu/
    Young Universities for the Future of Europe:
    https://www.yufe.eu/
    EARMA, European Association of Research Managers and Administrators
    http://www.earma.org/
    Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad:
    https://vlir.be/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    389,369,791€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Public financing

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution Vlaamse overheid (Flemish government) 210,442,981€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Although the main activities of a university are providing education, performing research and serving society, staff members (such as professors) of UAntwerp (either acting on behalf of their own research group or on behalf of the university as a whole) may occasionally meet members of EU institutions (in particular from the European Commission and the European Parliament) to discuss scientific and/or policy issues and provide advice in the field of research and education or in the field of an individual professor’s or research group’s expertise.
    UAntwerp also participates from time to time (though mostly indirectly) in formal consultations of the European Commission (e.g. relating to the new EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027, Horizon Europe). We mostly participate indirectly in these consultations through intermediary organizations (such as international university networks, Flemish inter-university bodies or Flemish R&I stakeholder platforms), although direct participations at individual level may also occur occasionally. The same holds for preparing, circulating and communicating position papers. We contributed for instance to the Flemish position paper on the Interim Evaluation of Horizon 2020 (see EC website: https://ec.europa.eu/research/evaluations).
    UAntwerp professors participate regularly in EC expert groups and other platforms (e.g. in scientific advisory boards of Joint Programming Initiatives or EU-funded projects). A central record of our participation in such groups does however not exist (it is very difficult to keep such a record given the high number of staff that might be involved in such activities).

    Other activities

    Ad hoc meetings with (Flemish) Members of the European Parliament on Horizon 2020 related issues (Horizon Europe).
    Ad hoc meetings with EC officials and Commissioner cabinets
    Hosting of meetings/conferences with speakers from the EC, usually related to Horizon 2020 projects

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    5 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

    • Date 19 Apr 2021 Location Videoconference
      Subject Presentation of the EU RoL toolbox and mechanism
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
      Portfolio Values and Transparency
      Attending
      • Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
    • Date 26 Jan 2021 Location Videoconferencing
      Subject European University Initiative and challenges, European Higher Education system
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
      Portfolio Digital Economy and Society
      Attending
      • Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
    • Date 26 Jan 2021 Location Videoconferencing
      Subject European University Initiative and challenges, European Higher Education system
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
      Portfolio Innovation and Youth
      Attending
      • Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
    • Date 15 Jan 2021 Location Videoconference
      Subject Exchange of views on Education
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
      Portfolio International Partnerships
      Attending
      • Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
    • Date 06 Feb 2017 Location Leuven
      Subject Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas
      Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation
      Attending
      • Carlos Moedas (Commissioner)
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