Academic opening VUB: 28 September, 15.00
RETHINK! REUSE! REJOICE!
After an all-too-long period of contact bubbles, social distancing and being forced to stay at home, it’s finally time for a new start. On Tuesday, 28 September, VUB will celebrate with an opening session in the gigantic space of the Gare Maritime on the grounds of Tour & Taxis. Rector Caroline Pauwels and chairman of the board Karsten De Clerck warmly invite you as a member of the press to the academic opening session, which starts at 15.00 sharp.
Rector Caroline Pauwels will make things very clear in her speech. She wants to seize the momentum to change the university and society. We must all courageously tackle the many problems – climate, privacy, inequality, racism, fake news, cancel culture, attacks on science – and we must do it together. It can’t wait.
VUB is an urban engaged university. It belongs to young people. So at the academic opening, VUB wants to hear about what they think should be remembered. We don’t throw away the past, because much of it is very good: REuse.
With Caroline Pauwels, we are looking forward to an academic year characterised by renewed optimism, with REthink, REuse, REjoice as an energetic incentive to face the future with an open mind.
Programme
- Welcome
- Musical act: Ana Diaz
- Introduction by Karsten De Clerck, chairman of the board
- Speech by students
- Musical act: Ana Diaz
- Speech by the chairs of the Student Council and the International Student Platform
- Musical act: Ana Diaz
- Opening address by VUB rector Caroline Pauwels
- Closing: Song of No Language, followed by reception
To gain access to the ceremony, each attendee must present a Covid Safe Ticket, so please arrive well in advance. More information and registration can be found here.
See you on Tuesday, 28 September. Rejoice!
