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Operations Research and Statistics Research Group (ORSTAT) (main work address Leuven) KU Leuven

In operations research, a challenging research area is combinatorial optimization. Next to exact methods such as branch-and-bound, branch-and-price, also approximation algorithms are studied. Assignment and scheduling problems, winner determination problems and research on client-oriented vehicle routing problems are some of the subjects under study. Further emphasis is placed on machine scheduling, resource-constrained project planning and ...

LUCAS - Centre for Care Research and Consultancy KU Leuven

KU Leuven LUCAS, Centre for care research and consultancy

LUCAS is an interdisciplinary research centre of KU Leuven, active in the fields of care and welfare. Its mission is threefold: research, trainin g and consultancy. In all three areas, LUCAS brings together insights fr om policy, practice and research, and this in constant dialogue with all stakeholders.
Over the past twenty years, LUCAS has specialise d in a number ...

Research Group Sustainable Development KU Leuven

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Research is grouped into two research themes within this research group, Global Development and Environmental Policy respectively, which in turn are also split up into priority research lines.

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

HIVA executes a diverse set of research and evaluation activities related to global development and development cooperation. Its research seeks to inform policy and practice and features the following areas of ...

Centre for Political Research KU Leuven

The members of the Center for Political Research focus on the central institutions and processes of decision-making, inherent in contemporary democracies. Therefore, four major domains are central in their research strategy: elections, political parties and social organisations, parliaments and governments. In the analyses and publications both structural and cultural determinants of the functioning of democracies and its patterns of ...

Centre for Sociological Research KU Leuven

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The main research topics at the Centre for Sociological Research are: work, organization, family, historic demography, population, health care, social policy, sociological theory, cultural studies, art, education, survey methodology and political opinion research.

For more information about the research topics of the different research teams belonging to this department see : - Theoretical Sociology, Sociology of culture and Sociology ...

Inter-Actions Research Unit, Genk Campus KU Leuven

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Inter-Actions – situated at LUCA School of Arts in C-Mine Genk - bundles a series of research groups which focuses on design and artistic research, evoking inter-actions between people, domains and disciplines, while exploring the possibilities of old and new materials, artefacts, media, spaces and events.

By separating “inter” from “actions”, the unit stresses that its research wants to stimulate people “acting (actions) together ...