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Start of works on the Learning and Innovation Center

Press conference - Start of works on the Learning and Innovation Center

When? 19 April 2022 at 10.00

Where? Council chamber, building Y, VUB, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels

A new university building is being built on the border between the VUB and ULB campuses. The Learning and Innovation Center (LIC) will be a melting pot of spaces where high-tech equipment supports knowledge exchange, and will house the universities’ libraries of exact and applied sciences.

Find out more about this project and the progress of the works at the press conference.

In the presence of:

  • Karine Lalieux, minister of pensions and social integration, responsible for Beliris
  • Rudi Vervoort, Brussels minister-president
  • Jan Danckaert, rector ad interim VUB
  • Annemie Schaus, rector ULB

We will be visiting the construction site, so sturdy shoes (such as mountain boots or walking shoes) are recommended.

 

Are you coming by car? Please register your number plate via this link. Access the campus via entrance 6 (see map).

Please confirm your attendance to elien.deswaef@mobilit.fgov.be.

 

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Sicco Wittermans

Redacteur externe communicatie en nieuws

 

 


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Vrije Universiteit Brussel is an internationally oriented university in Brussels, the heart of Europe. By providing excellent research and education on a human scale, VUB wants to make an active and committed contribution to a better society.

The World Needs You

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel assumes its scientific and social responsibility with love and decisiveness. That’s why VUB launched the platform De Wereld Heeft Je Nodig – The World Needs You, which brings together ideas, actions and projects based on six Ps. The first P stands for People, because that’s what it’s all about: giving people equal opportunities, prosperity, welfare, respect. Peace is about fighting injustice, big and small, in the world. Prosperity combats poverty and inequality. Planet stands for actions on biodiversity, climate, air quality, animal rights... With Partnership, VUB is looking for joint actions to make the world a better place. The sixth and last P is for Poincaré, the French philosopher Henri Poincaré, from whom VUB derives its motto that thinking should submit to nothing except the facts themselves. VUB is an ‘urban engaged university’, strongly anchored in Brussels and Europe and working according to the principles of free research.

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