On Athena, anyone with a Ghent University account (both staff and students) has access to a wide range of applications. You can launch all these applications online, without having to install them on your professional or personal device first. Athena uses Citrix technology for this.
To use all the applications available on Athena, you first need to install the Citrix Workspace application on your device. Please do not fill in anything when you are asked to add an account. Just click on the cross on the right. Then go to https://athena.ugent.be to start an application from Athena.
The range of software available on Athena will be further reduced. In August 2027, we will permanently shut down this software platform.
Athena uses Citrix technology to provide access to the software range, but this technology is outdated and expensive to maintain. We will continue to offer applications that are still widely used on Athena via an alternative platform (Business Portal or Academic Software), but open-source software and freeware will no longer be offered via a Ghent University platform.
Office 365 is already available to staff and students.
Overview of applications to be removed from Athena from 21 September 2026
The applications listed below will be available on Athena until September 2026. These applications will then be removed from Athena and made available on an alternative platform by September 2026 at the latest.
The applications not listed below (e.g. SAP) will remain available on Athena until August 2027.
| Being removed from Athena (Sept 2026) | Company Portal (Staff only) | Academic Software | Open-source / Freeware | End of license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office 2024 | X | |||
| ACDLabs Spectrus Processor | X | |||
| Adobe Reader | X | X | ||
| Anibio | X | |||
| Ansys Fluent | X | |||
| Ansys Lumerical | X | |||
| AntConc | X | |||
| AnyDesk | X | |||
| Aspen Suite | X | |||
| BankFocus | ||||
| bel-first | ||||
| BioEdit 7 | X | |||
| BioNumerics | X | X | ||
| ChemSketch | X | |||
| Chrome (Google) (browser) | X | X | ||
| CytExpert | X | |||
| Delftship | X | |||
| DEV-C++ | X | |||
| Duden | ||||
| EES | X | |||
| EndNote | X | X | ||
| Eviews 9 | X | |||
| Fiji | X | |||
| File Explorer | ||||
| FileMaker | X | X | ||
| flexAnalysis (Bruker) | ||||
| Foxit PDF Editor | X | |||
| GeoGebra 6 | X | |||
| Gephi | X | |||
| Gimp | X | X | ||
| GISMO | X | X | ||
| GMSafir | ||||
| Gnuplot | X | |||
| GPower | X | |||
| Granta Edupack | X | |||
| Gretl | X | |||
| HecRas | X | |||
| Hydrus 1D | X | |||
| ImageJ | X | |||
| Inkscape | X | |||
| IrfanView | X | X | ||
| Jupyter Notebook | X | |||
| Kinovea | X | |||
| Labarchives | ||||
| LDAP Browser | X | |||
| Lightburn | X | |||
| Loonbrieven | X | |||
| Maple | X | X | ||
| MBT Compass Explorer (Bruker) | ||||
| Mega | X | |||
| Microsoft Edge (browser) | X | X | ||
| MLwiN | X | |||
| MySQL Workbench | X | |||
| NavCad (HydroComp) | X | |||
| Notepad ++ | X | X | ||
| Oasis | X | X | ||
| Octopus Office | X | |||
| Olyvia | X | |||
| Orbis | ||||
| Paint dot Net | X | |||
| Power BI Desktop | X | |||
| Primer 6 | X | |||
| PropCad (HydroComp) | X | |||
| PuTTY SSH | X | X | ||
| PyCharm Community | X | X | ||
| Python 3 | X | X | ||
| QGIS | X | |||
| QuestaSim | X | |||
| R 4_3_1 | X | X | ||
| ReCreateX | ||||
| Refinitiv Workspace | X | X | ||
| Review Manager | X | |||
| @Risk | X | |||
| RStudio R 4_3_1 | X | X | ||
| Safir | ||||
| SAM | X | |||
| SDL Suite | X | |||
| SGeMS | X | |||
| Siemens NX | X | X | ||
| Sigmaplot | X | |||
| SimaPro | X | |||
| SOAP UI | X | |||
| SoilView Analysis | X | |||
| Spede | X | |||
| SPSS SamplePower | X | |||
| SPSS Statistics | X | X | ||
| Spyder Python 3 | X | |||
| SQL Developer | X | |||
| Stata | X | |||
| Strurel Comrel | X | |||
| Surfer 13 | ||||
| TexStudio | X | X | ||
| Tina-TI | X | |||
| Trisco 2D | X | |||
| Visual 3D | ||||
| Vortex | X | |||
| Weka | X | |||
| WinSCP | X | X | ||
| WUFI 5 | X | |||
| XMind | X |
