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Partnership agreement concerning the European Project HBM4EU : European Human Biomonitoring Initiative Hasselt University

The overarching goal of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative is to generate knowledge to inform the safe management of chemicals and so protect human health. We will use human biomonitoring to understand human exposure to chemicals and resulting health impacts and will communicate with policy makers to ensure that our results are exploited in the design of new chemicals policies and the evaluation of existing measures. Key objectives ...

European Human Biomonitoring Initiative KU Leuven

Lode Godderis

Environment and Health

The overarching goal of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) is to generate knowledge to inform the safe management of chemicals and so protect human health. We will use human biomonitoring to understand human exposure to chemicals and resulting health impacts and will communicate with policy makers to ensure that our results are exploited in the design of new chemicals policies and the evaluation of existing ...

Biomonitoring of urban habitat quality with airborne hyperspectral observations. Hasselt University

Molecular and Physical Plant Physiology

Biomonitoring of natural vegetation allows the acquisition of well-defined samples at an affordable cost and allows determining air pollution at different time-scales. It reflects longer-term changes of environmental quality, because plant leaves accumulate pollution over months, or even years for evergreen species. Another advantage of this biomonitoring approach is the high spatial resolution that can be obtained. In the BIOHYPE project, ...

WithMe: making human-artificial intelligence interactions more entraining and engaging through biomonitoring of brain function Ghent University

Dick Botteldooren

Department of Art, music and theatre sciences, Department of Information technology

Interaction between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) is still lacking the degree of engagement and entrainment that characterizes interaction between humans The project WithMe aims at bridging this gap by investigating in detail the processes that happen in the human brain when engaged in an activity together with an other person: pursuing a common goal or simply enjoying a common activity The brain signals that will be explored are ...

Human biomonitoring of chemical exposure in the workplace: method development and application to chromates study. KU Leuven

Lode Godderis

Environment and Health, Division of Soil and Water Management

The most used biomarker for the biomonitoring of Cr(VI) exposure is the total amount of Cr in urine. This biomarker is not specific for Cr(VI), since it measures exposure both to trivalent chromium [Cr(III)] and Cr(VI). Therefore, it is important to test the correlation between Cr(VI) exposure and more specific biomarkers in different work tasks. Even if the total amount of Cr in urine will remain the gold standard for the routine ...

Concept, design and process guidance for bridging science and policy with regard to the Human Biomonitoring results 2012-2015 (3rd HBM campaign- - partim Flanders in general University of Antwerp

Ilse Loots

Society and Environment

Human biomonitoring, 'measuring environmental exposure and health effects in the human body', is a cornerstone in building scientific evidence for the Flemish environmental health policy. Since 2001, three large scale human biomonitoring studies (FLEHS I, II and III) were carried out in Flanders by the Center of Expertise on Environment and Health, commissioned by the Flemish government. This project, the 'phased plan for action', aims to ...

Performing an incremental policy effect (planning phase) of the results of the 2nd Flemish human biomonitoring campaign carried out in the framework of the 2nd generation keynote Environment and Health Hasselt University

Liesbeth BRUCKERS

Centre for Statistics

The second Flemish human biomonitoring campaign (2007-2011) generated an immense amount of data. Levels of all kinds of chemicals in blood and urine and their associated health effects were collected for Flanders and in two hotspots. The 'action plan' aims to translate these biomonitoring results and embed them in a targeted environment and health policy.

WithMe: making human-artificial intelligence interactions more entraining and engaging through biomonitoring of brain function. University of Antwerp

Steven Latré

Internet Data Lab (IDLab)

Interaction between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) is still lacking the degree of engagement and entrainment that characterizes interaction between humans. The project WithMe aims at bridging this gap by investigating in detail the processes that happen in the human brain when engaged in an activity together with an other person: pursuing a common goal or simply enjoying a common activity. The brain signals that will be explored are ...

Development of a biomonitoring tool to estimate risks of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) through consumption of self-cultivated food products. University of Antwerp

Lieven Bervoets

Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology, Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research (SPHERE)

Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are a diverse family of anthropogenic chemicals with unique physicochemical properties that have resulted in numerous industrial and commercial applications. Their broad application and bioaccumulation potential has led to their worldwide presence in the environment and detection in biota including humans. Over the last decade, consuming food products by humans from self-cultivation has become a remarkable trend in ...

Development of a biomonitoring tool to estimate health risks of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) through consumption of seld-cultivated and commercial food products. University of Antwerp