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📢 Call for Panels for our flagship event! ⛵

EADI / IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions?

📅 29 June – 2 July 2026
📍 @iobua.bsky.social, University of Antwerp, Belgium
⏰ Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025
➡️ bit.ly/EADI-IOB-26-call

🏃‍♀️ Prepare your submission now, time is running!

Advanced Master in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Ready to tackle global challenges?
Our Advanced Master in Development Studies equips you with the skills to drive sustainable change. 🌱💡
👉 www.uantwerpen.be/development-...

#globaldevelopment #sustainabledevelopment #developmentcooperation #developmentstudies @uantwerpen.be

'Van "Free Ukraine" tot "Free Sudan": waarom krijgen sommige oorlogen wél aandacht, en andere niet?' Waarom is er wél solidariteit met Gaza en niet met Soedan of Tigray? Kristof Titeca analyseert de geopolitiek van aandacht en morele verontwaardiging.

Een nieuwe opinie in @knack.be (in reactie op editorial van Bert Bultinck): over Sudan en onze aandachtskaders voor conflicten, en hoe die verschoven zijn over de jaren: www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...

Advanced Master in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Ready to tackle global challenges?
Our Advanced Master in Development Studies equips you with the skills to drive sustainable change. 🌱💡
👉 www.uantwerpen.be/development-...

#globaldevelopment #sustainabledevelopment #developmentcooperation #developmentstudies @uantwerpen.be

UAntwerpen Solar Boat Team wint prestigieuze prijs met zelfgemaakte AI-zonneboot | VRT NWS: nieuws UAntwerpen Solar Boat Team heeft de 1e plaats van de Monaco Energy Boat Challenge in de AI-klasse veroverd. "Voor studenten is dit de meest prestigieuze bootwedstrijd ter wereld", zegt teamleider Toon...

UAntwerpen Solar Boat Team heeft de 1e plaats van de Monaco Energy Boat Challenge in de AI-klasse veroverd met hun zelfgemaakte AI-zonneboot. Proficiat aan het team van ingenieurstudenten!
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

HLPE-FSN Coordinator and participants of the Antwerp Summer & Winter University on Critical Approaches to Global Food Law and Policy, a programme jointly organized by the University of Antwerp and Università degli studi Roma TRE, with the support of Terra Nuova in Rome.

📌 Building just and sustainable food systems starts with critical thinking.

Grateful to meet today the engaged students of the @uantwerpen.be Summer & Winter University on Food Law & Policy, future changemakers exploring food systems, governance, labour, and agroecology.

@iobua.bsky.social

M'n opinie in De Standaard over de Congo-Rwanda vredesdeal: "Vrede is geen vastgoeddeal, ook niet in Congo": www.standaard.be/opinies/vred...

🔍 Pourquoi les réformes de l’administration publique en RDC échouent-elles ? Albert Malukisa Nkuku analyse le poids des rivalités ethniques, du clientélisme et d’une économie informelle persistante.
📎 https://loom.ly/-kEWA0k
#RDC #RéformeInstitutionnelle

🔍 Pourquoi les réformes de l’administration publique en RDC échouent-elles ? Albert Malukisa Nkuku analyse le poids des rivalités ethniques, du clientélisme et d’une économie informelle persistante.
📎 https://loom.ly/-kEWA0k
#RDC #RéformeInstitutionnelle

Exchange to Change - spring 2025 | PDF to Flipbook Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

Meet IOB alumni making global impact! 🌍
🔹 Shirshah – ESG leader at Terumo
🔹 Catherine – From PH govt to the UN
🔹 Adeline – Evaluator at AfDB
Discover their inspiring journeys: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/e2c-spring2025
#IOBAlumni #CareerImpact #LifeAfterIOB

🌍 New policy brief on the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation! How does it impact Brazil, Indonesia & Colombia? Fieldwork from the EPICC project shows why local voices & realities matter.
📘 Read: https://loom.ly/5PzsQGA
#EUDR #ClimateJustice #GlobalSouth

📄 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @kristoftiteca.bsky.social‬ & Giovanni Salvaggio

‘Understanding Uganda’s (Ambiguous) Actions in Eastern DRC: Military Interventions to Protect Roads and Trade?’

#DRC #Uganda #GreatLakesRegion #ConflictAnalysis #Geopolitics #TradeAndSecurity

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/bdvv5x3m

Cameroun. Éduquer et punir les mineurs, héritage d'une « colonialité pénale » - Série Dans « Prisons et passé colonial », nous explorons les liens encore vivaces entre les réalités pénitentiaires sur le continent africain et la colonisation. Le chercheur Denis Augustin Samnick, (…)

Série "Prisons et passé colonial". Le chercheur Denis Augustin Samnick, spécialiste des milieux carcéraux au #Cameroun et en #RDCongo, a été détenu, mineur, à la prison centrale de Yaoundé. Il raconte la brutalité de la vie carcérale dont les règles sont héritières d’une "colonialité pénale"

Happy to have this report out on Uganda's role in DRC, with Giovanni Salvaggio - in which we document Uganda's ambiguous role, and the role of infrastructure, roads and trade

Exchange to Change - spring 2025 | PDF to Flipbook Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

Meet IOB alumni making global impact! 🌍
🔹 Shirshah – ESG leader at Terumo
🔹 Catherine – From PH govt to the UN
🔹 Adeline – Evaluator at AfDB
Discover their inspiring journeys: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/e2c-spring2025
#IOBAlumni #CareerImpact #LifeAfterIOB

🌍 New policy brief on the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation! How does it impact Brazil, Indonesia & Colombia? Fieldwork from the EPICC project shows why local voices & realities matter.
📘 Read: https://loom.ly/5PzsQGA
#EUDR #ClimateJustice #GlobalSouth

“French was my academic world — suddenly, everything was English.” 🌍 Ezra Moïse Amisi shares his journey from struggle to self-discovery at IOB. A powerful story of growth, resilience, and finding your voice.
📖 Read more: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/e2c-spring2025

Cameroun. Éduquer et punir les mineurs, héritage d'une « colonialité pénale » - Série Dans « Prisons et passé colonial », nous explorons les liens encore vivaces entre les réalités pénitentiaires sur le continent africain et la colonisation. Le chercheur Denis Augustin Samnick, (…)

Nouvel article par cher collègue @denissamnick.bsky.social "Cameroun. Éduquer et punir les mineurs, héritage d’une « colonialité pénale" @iobua.bsky.social afriquexxi.info/Cameroun-Edu...

“French was my academic world — suddenly, everything was English.” 🌍 Ezra Moïse Amisi shares his journey from struggle to self-discovery at IOB. A powerful story of growth, resilience, and finding your voice.
📖 Read more: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/e2c-spring2025

Reminder: the call for abstracts for the ESPAnet/AIPRIL Workshop closes this week! More details below ⬇️

Meet Anna-Sofia, a Development student at IOB, who joined a 5-week course on community-based monitoring in East Africa. From data to football ⚽, she learned how local context shapes global development. 🌍 #IOBuantwerp #GrassrootsLeadership #MEL

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How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia suggests that host prejudice against refugees increases when refugees are perceived as direct job competitors, but not necessarily when actual competition exists.

🆕 How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees?

Today on VoxDev w/ Julie Bousquet (UNHCR), Anna Gasten (University of Göttingen), Mark Marvin Kadigo (UAntwerp), Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain) & Colette Salemi (University of Victoria): voxdev.org/topic/labour...

"From demand deficit to development strategy: navigating mini-grid viability in a fragile context" IOB Working Paper 2025.09 Elie Lunanga, Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten and Sébastien Desbureaux Kivu, DR Congo

⚡ New IOB Working Paper 2025.09
In fragile settings like North Kivu, #DRC, mini-grids thrive not by predicting demand—but by building it through coordinated, community-driven strategies.
✏️ By Lunanga, Stoop, Verpoorten & Desbureaux
🔗 medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/8...
#DRCongo #EnergyAccess

Meet Anna-Sofia, a Development student at IOB, who joined a 5-week course on community-based monitoring in East Africa. From data to football ⚽, she learned how local context shapes global development. 🌍 #IOBuantwerp #GrassrootsLeadership #MEL

"From demand deficit to development strategy: navigating mini-grid viability in a fragile context" IOB Working Paper 2025.09 Elie Lunanga, Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten and Sébastien Desbureaux Kivu, DR Congo

⚡ New IOB Working Paper 2025.09
In fragile settings like North Kivu, #DRC, mini-grids thrive not by predicting demand—but by building it through coordinated, community-driven strategies.
✏️ By Lunanga, Stoop, Verpoorten & Desbureaux
🔗 medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/8...
#DRCongo #EnergyAccess

What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture Aid in contexts like Kakuma should not be treated as optional or discretionary, but as a structural necessity.

What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture
theconversation.com/what-happens...

Last Monday, Juan successfully defended his PhD: “Sumapaz and the Magic Guatila: social-ecological struggles, campesino autonomy and alternative relationalities in the Colombian Andes highlands”.
👏 Felicidades, Dr. Vélez Triana !

#PhDDefense #PoliticalEcology #Colombia #Sumapaz

Augustin Denis Samnick on the prison system as a colonial legacy in Cameroon and the DRC - and a passionate plea to involve detainees in its reform.
hashtag#ConferenceHowtoDecolonizePoliticalHistory @associationpolhist.bsky.social @uantwerppohis.bsky.social