Practical
Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
- 13:00 until 14:00
VUB Main Campus Etterbeek
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Elsene
Lounge, Ground Floor VUB Resto
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Elsene
Lounge, Ground Floor VUB Resto
Free of charge
Inauguration: VUB's path of resistance
When freedom is threatened, resistance is important. Countless resistance fighters from World War II taught us that lesson. Even today, people all over the world are standing up against ideologies, rulers and warmongers who deny citizens freedom. To honour the resistance fighters of the past and the present, the VUB is renaming one of the paths on its Main Campus into Resistance Path, with recognition plaques for freedom fighters of yesterday and today. Because to them we all owe our personal freedom.
Program
Celebration of freedom and resistance: 1pm to 2 pm
- Welcome by moderator Rik Röttger
- Explanation of ULB's role in the Resistance by Prof Nel de Mûelenaere, Chair of Traces of Resistance
- Speech Henri Heimans
- Speech student Brent Huygh
- Speech rector Jan Danckaert
- Moorsoldatenlied by a small choir
- Inauguration Resistance Path
The world needs you
This initiative is part of the public programme of VUB: a programme for everyone who believes that scientific knowledge sharing, critical thinking and dialogue are an important first step to create impact in the world.
As an Urban Engaged University, VUB aims to be a driver of change in the world. With our academic edcuational programmes and innovative research, we contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and to making a difference locally and globally.
