Het Expertisecentrum Onderzoek en Ontwikkelingsmonitoring van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap (ECOOM) is een interuniversitair consortium met deelname van alle Vlaamse universiteiten (KU Leuven, UGent, VUB, UAntwerpen en UHasselt). ECOOM heeft als opdracht een consistent systeem van O&O- en innovatie-indicatoren te ontwikkelen voor de Vlaamse overheid. Dit indicatorensysteem moet de Vlaamse overheid steunen om de inspanningen op vlak van ...
This project probes the impact of political elites on pre-modern economies. The central concept is the seigneurie, the institution that cemented the rural eliteU+2019s power over populations in the countryside. Seigneuries impacted upon the rural economy through their powers of surplus extraction that proceeded from coercion rather than market exchange. Yet, while elite rent-seeking infringed on the income of the peasantry, the macro-economic ...
Caring is sharing: creating a holding environment of quality relationships between the home and the facilitated group-home for children with extensive support needs.
Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites (CFRPs) constitute a highly profitable market in EU’s economy. Their high stiffness and strength and low density allow engineers to design lightweight structures with a lower carbon footprint than conventional metallic ones. Nonetheless, CFRPs hold two main drawbacks which hinder their exploitation in industry: 1) poor damage and impact tolerance; and 2) limited design space due to the lack of robust ...
Co-lingual-S tackles a well-documented disconnect between family- and school language policies regarding multilingualism by applying innovative visual methods to understand multilingual family life, and develop multilingual pedagogies in schools. Co-lingual-S sets out to 1) understand how family members’ intersected identities (such as the interplay between gender, language and migration status) shapes family roles and actions in creating ...