Ninth Ethical Forum

Universities, we often hear, should both function and behave more like business enterprises. Is this a welcome trend that will free us from much waste, complacency and arbitrariness? Or is it a trend to be fiercely resisted because it would corrupt the very core of what a university should ambition to be?

Speakers will include
Mathias DEWATRIPONT (president of Solvay Brussels School),
Jean-Claude MARCOURT (Minister of Higher Education for Wallonia and Brussels),
Andreu MAS-COLLEL (secretary general of the European Research Council, former Catalan Minister of Higher Education),
André OOSTERLINCK (president of the Associatie KULeuven),
Jo RITZEN (president of Maastricht University, former Dutch Minister of Education).

A call for interpellations from the floor will be made in due course.