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Health Systems and Health Policy Research Group Institute of Tropical Medicine

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The Health Systems & Health Policy Group aims at making health systems more people-centered, integrated, accountable, equitable and resilient. Through our research, educational and service delivery activities, we aim at improving health policies and systems so that the right to health and Universal Health Coverage is guaranteed to all people.

We contribute to policies, programmes and local health systems that ...

Extremism and democracy University of Antwerp

The core of the research focuses on the relationship between political extremism and democracy, i.e. the process of mutual influence. This includes both the effects of extremist and populist parties on the functioning of democracy in Europe, as the ways in which democracies deal with extremism and its effects on extremist actors. Currently, (doctoral) research projects are being done on populism within Flemish parties (extremist and democratic), ...

ECHO: Research group on media, culture and politics Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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The research group Echo is devoted to the study of meaning across media, culture and politics, and their intersections. The group is home to an international group of scholars working on how meaning circulates, fluctuates, and resonates in society. Echo's aim is to produce a critical and nuanced understanding of how the reproduction and contestation of meaning contributes to social, cultural and political change and continuity.

Forum on Central and Eastern Europe KU Leuven

The Forum on Central and Eastern Europe provides a multidisciplinary platform for dialogue and exploration of research on the politics, histories, societies, cultures, institutions of Central and Eastern Europe in the broadest sense. It is a common initiative of the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences which brings together researchers from within and outside KU Leuven and initiates meaningful conversations on research-related topics.

Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) University of Antwerp

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The Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) focuses on fundamental and applied research of culture and communication processes and issues, often but not exclusively with a visual dimension or pertaining aspects of visual media in many areas of society(e.g. scientific data gathering and communication, entertainment, education and news reporting). A wide range of media (film, television, print, internet) and aspects (production ...

Centre for Information, Documentation and Research on Brussels Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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BRIO, the Centre for Information, Documentation and Research on Brussels, is an interuniversity research consortium with research centres of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel) as founding partners. Its mission is to create a platform for exchanging ideas and information on several aspects of the Brussels Capital Region, in interaction with the Flemish surrounding municipalities and other levels ...

Theatricality and Reality Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The Theatricality and Reality Association Working Group (THEA) wants to combine the scientific and artistic research expertise in theater and theater science within the University Association Brussels and explicitly aims to build bridges between artistic practice, artistic research and scientific research in the field of theater , performance and theatricality. Both contemporary artistic practices and historical forms of theatricality are ...

Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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The basic objective of the RHEA Expertise Center is to contribute to knowledge development on gender, diversity and intersectionality through scientific and interdisciplinary research and education. RHEA is an interfaculty research group and is led by Gily Coene (director) and Karen Celis (codirector). Rhea also provides a platform for researchers from various VUB departments and faculties and also provides advice on equal opportunities and ...

Centre for the Pre-Industrial Production Processes and Labour Relations Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The last few years historical research focuses on guilds: the social, economical, political and cultural functions of guilds in urban industries during the Modern Period. Empirical study concentrates on the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands, especially on the duchy of Brabant and the county of Flanders. A comparative and long-term approach is designed to place guilds in a new perspective, related with the growing international intrest of this ...

Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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The research unit Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) offers a platform for fundamental research on the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern period up to the present. It studies not only the artistic and architectural practice, the material object and the spatial environment, but also the broader cultural, historical and societal context, which often relates to current themes ...