Symposium: KU Leuven Facing the Future – How to Increase Societal Impact?

As a university and academic community, the KU Leuven plays a vital part in addressing complex societal challenges such as global warming and social injustice. Students, researchers and teachers from different disciplines and corners of academia all have important roles to fulfill in catalyzing social change, social innovation, societal impact.

But how can we further this agenda and increase the societal impact of our university? Should our university remain in its traditional role as center of knowledge creation and dissemination? Or should we engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue that moves beyond academic confines and engages with the broader community?

Join the Symposium and discover how different stakeholders navigate this new reality of global challenges and step up to act as agents of change. Get inspired by stories from students, researchers and community actors, and find out how our candidate rectors view societal impact at the KU Leuven