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The Research Centre for Mathematics, Education, Econometrics and Statistics joins staff members who teach courses on mathematics, econometrics or statistics. The research of the group is rather heterogeneous and pertains to domains of mathematics (e.g., differential geometry), education (e.g, strategy choice and strategy development, numerical and mathematical cognition, problem solving, mathematics learning), econometrics (portfolio ...

1. Education research at university level with attention for:
   • the development of high quality curricula
   • the understanding of the learning process of students and the mutual influence of educational and learning contexts (included the problem of the passage high school-university)
   • the development of high quality evaluation tools for both student and teacher performances
2. Projects ...

The EU-China Higher Education Research Center (ECHE) is established as a research center and platform in Vrije Universiteit Brussel to facilitate research and collaboration on higher education issues among European, Chinese and other international HEIs. The mission of ECHE is to conduct research in the area of higher education; to facilitate research collaborations between European and Chinese higher education institutions & ...

The Decree concerning teacher education and continuous professional education foresees that the departments for teacher education also develop educational research. IDLO is striving for an overall subject-didactical research, research on educational didactics, and the development of research on education-oriented themes which contribute to the teacher education. These goals are certainly stimulated by the multidisciplinarity within IDLO. The ...

The research programme of the CTO includes fundamental and applied research into the relation between language, education and migration.

Research mainly focuses on language acquisition, language behaviour in multilingual settings, interaction in the language classroom, language policy, (second) language education and language testing. Special attention goes to the linguistic mechanisms that influence equity in education. This has led to ...

The division PMA (Production techniques, Machine design and Automation) is unique in its multi-disciplinary system approach in the study and development of innovative products, production processes and intelligent (production) machines. Research programs are primarily defined based on social (industrial) relevance. In addition, fundamental contributions are made to the underlying scientific disciplines (computational dynamics, optimization, ...

The aim of the Division Architecture and Design at the Department of Architecture is to understand and foster design as a way of knowing and means of knowledge production, within the context of scientific research, university education, and the professional practice of architecture and urbanism. Our research comprises a dialectic process of analytical investigation and operational synthesis, with a focus on creativity as a catalyst for ...