Mission and Partners

Mission

Ghent University and its association partners (AUGent) strive to be an entrepreneurial knowledge institution by:

Acting proactively as the engine of an innovative knowledge region;
Acting as a service provider and a source of inspiration for innovation for its partners

in order to:

play a lead role in the development and expansion of the innovative knowledge region with impact on the regional/national and international (European) level;
to be recognized as an attractive research-intensive and entrepreneurial knowledge institution with an appeal that extends across Europe;
to contribute to the social and economic value creation through transfer of innovative knowledge and technology developed at the Ghent University Association;
and to generate revenues that allow further expansion of these activities, further professionalization and support.