Chairs
A chair is a kind of partnership whereby a company, social institution, or private individual commits to financing academic research or teaching on a particular theme at Ghent University over a longer period of time. This is a way to support research and teaching, based on the conviction that this makes society a better place.
Each chair has a supervisor (a professor at Ghent University) who is responsible for ensuring that the project fulfils its mission, with financial support from the partner. You can choose whether the chair should be named after yourself, your company, or a person that you wish to honour.
“Chairs create a structural means of cooperation between a business and the University. This means that academic expertise within Ghent University can be used to benefit society while at the same time, scientists, university employees, and students have a chance to come into direct contact with external stakeholders. This can foster connections resulting in strong partnerships, increasing funding, and leading to more in-depth research questions that can be further developed by the academic partners. In this way, academic knowledge is confronted with practical, real-life societal challenges, and thus also leads to opportunities such as internships for students, industry experience for university employees, and the development of research transfer procedures.” - Rector Rik Van De Walle
For more information about chairs at Ghent University, take a look at our brochure.
Watch the video below to learn more about the importance of UGent chairs for the partners involved and society.
Current chairs
- Actemium Chair : Sustainable Energy
- Agrotopia Chair
- AMD Chair
- AquaFlanders Chair
- Assistance dog "Purpose Dogs" Chair
- Bayer Forward Farming Chair
- Biogas Biorefineries Chair
- Biosecurity in Animal Production Chair
- BNP Paribas Fortis Chair
- Business Compliance Chair
- Chair in Integrated Osteoporosis Care
- Chair of Translational Research into the Pathogenesis of COPD
- Chiesi Chair on the Role of Environmental Factors in Asthma Development
- Crelan Chair
- Dr. Frederik Paulsen Chair
- Etienne Vermeersch Chair
- Early Arthritis Education Chair
- Chair ESTRO value-based radiation oncology
- Evides Chair: Industrial and circular water technology
- Frans Verheeke Chair
- Ghent University Chair supported by life insurers NN Insurance Belgium
- GSK Chair of Eosinophilic Airway Diseases
- Henri de Baillet Latour – Jacques Rogge Olympic Chair
- IAS Endowed University Chair
- IBL Chair of Contemporary Islam
- Janssen Cilag Dermatology Psoriasis Chair
- Janssen Haematology Chair
- Janssen-Cilag Systemic Sclerosis Chair
- Jonet Chair on Social Action and Music Making
- Liantis Chair: well-being at work
- Medtronic-Optiluts Chair
- Milcobel Chair
- North Sea Port Chair
- OCAS Chair
- Poultry Health Science Chair
- Pelicano Chair
- South Africa Chair: languages, literature and society
- VOKA (Flemish Chamber of Commerce) chair for study orientation
- VRT Chair – ‘Media in a society in transition’
Contact us
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