University of Antwerp

Universiteit Antwerpen
Belgium

Additional Information

Web site of university:
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/

Summary

The University of Antwerp is a young, dynamic and forward-thinking university.

The University develops, provides access to and disseminates scientific knowledge through research, teaching and service to society. It carries out these tasks in a spirit of academic freedom and responsibility.
The University conducts creative and innovative scientific research which strives for international excellence. It stimulates both basic and applied research and their valorisation.
The University offers internationally accredited academic teaching based on scientific research. It aims at the development and integration of knowledge, skills and attitudes that will prepare its students to take responsibility in society.

The University stimulates public debate and greatly values its staff and students’ service to society. It seeks constructive partnerships in the fields of research, teaching and academic service to society. In addition, the University shares its expertise with both public and private partners.

Institutional community engagement heatmap

Dimensions of community engagement
Authenticity
Social needs
Communities
Spread
Sustainability
Teaching and learning
Research
Service and knowledge exchange
Students
Management / partnerships
Management / policies
Peer support

Heatmap colour legend:
Lowest level
Highest level
In the TEFCE Toolbox: „4 The heatmap is focused on the dimensions of community-engagement activities. The dimensions that relate to the supportive environment for community engagement (Dimensions VI – Management/policies; and Dimension VII – Supportive peers) are only subject to the ‘Authenticity’ characteristic of the heatmap since those dimensions relate to ensuring the institutional conditions for engaging with communities rather than on engagement activities themselves.“

Featured practices

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* Methodological note:
The aim of this feature is to allow users to explore the variety of ways in which universities approach and organise community engagement, without allowing a direct/competitive comparison of performance. Similar and different institutions are automatically generated based on the results of their institutional community engagement heatmap results. The method used is applying Euclidean distance between institutions to provide the similar and differing institutions, which calculates the distance in an n-dimensional space between two cases.