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
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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
BELGIUMEU Office
Middelheimlaan 1
Antwerpen 2020
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 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
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Categories
Category
Academic institutions
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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
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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
Type Name Amount Contribution Vlaamse overheid (Flemish government) 210,442,981€ Other financial info
None declared
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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