Organisations
Department of International Economics, International Management and Diplomacy University of Antwerp
Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
HOST is a research group from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel that conducts innovative research in the field of urban history. As one of the spearhead research teams within the university, it aims to contribute to insights into contemporary societal challenges. HOST’s research mission is to study the interactions between social inequality, migration and social relations in a long-term and comparative perspective. Our team draws on expertise in ...
Vesalius College Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Vesalius College, an undergraduate division of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, educates students in a multi-cultural, humanistic and interactive environment. Located in Brussels, the capital of Europe, and with a focus on international business and international affairs, it is an English-language college modeled after American liberal arts programs, featuring selective admissions, small classes and interactive teaching. The College's faculty ...
Health Systems and Health Policy Research Group Institute of Tropical Medicine
Objectives
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 ...
Contextual Research in Law Vrije Universiteit Brussel
CORE's research agenda is directed towards the exploration of the notion of law, of legal concepts and ideas, and the relation between society and law, from different and combined intra-disciplinary angles (historical, comparative, theoretical, …). The main approach is bottom-up and detailed analysis, with a view on context and operational aspects of law. Research themes concern the relation between the economy and law (D. De ruysscher), ...
International Politics University of Antwerp
Location and Distribution Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The interest of the research unit is in optimal location problems, i.e. any question calling for the determination of the position of some objects in an optimal way with respect to the position of other fixed objects they will interact with. Such problems arise in regional and urban planning, private and public sector management, facility layout, production planning, supply chain management, statistics, data analysis, etc. The main emphasis ...
Centre for EU Studies Ghent University
Japanese Studies, Leuven KU Leuven
Research topics of this team are:
- The massive repatriation to North Korea by the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi)
- The issue of Japanese wives residing in North Korea
- Japanese-North Korean relations and parliamentary diplomacy
- The attitude of Japanese and Zainichi intellectuals towards the Korean peninsula
- The concepts tenkō 転 向 ("ideological conversion") and parrhesia παρρησία ("truth")