From Disciples to Followers: Questioning the Digital Experience of Religions Online

What happens when research, commitment, and encounter come together?

Our New Year's event focused on sustainable partnerships. In conversation with partners from the SOLIGION project and through the photo exhibition Connected in Care, we illustrated what solidarity looks like in practice.

The evening highlighted our shared ambition: to cherish and strengthen partnerships in order to continue building a warm, supportive society together.

This photo report shows moments from the speeches, the panel discussion with Antwerp partners, images from the photo exhibition Connected in Care, and the many encounters that brought the evening to life.

Have you spotted the UCSIA peace flag at the Temple of Peace in Mechelen's Botanical Garden?

The peace festival is an initiative of our fellow resident and partner Pax Christi Flanders and runs until Sunday, November 2, with a rich programme of lectures, theatre, music, film, and workshops.

In times of war and rearmament, we often forget that peace is something we build together – by engaging in open dialogue about what peace means today and how we can work towards it together.

Since June, Pax Christi has organized over fifty Peace Labs throughout Flanders and Brussels: creative meetings where people from all walks of life came together to reflect on peace. In schools, social organizations, prisons and associations, people drew, sewed and talked. Because to imagine peace, you first have to learn to name it – and that begins in dialogue, even with people who think differently.

From 16 – 20 June 2025 UCSIA hosted the Conference of European University Chaplains at Drongen Abbey in collaboration with Zomaar een Dak (University of Antwerp), the University Parishes of KU Leuven and KU Leuven-KULAK, Rapenburg100 of Leiden University, the Studentenkerk of Radboud University Nijmegen and MoTiv of TU Delft.