Organisations
Institute for European Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The key elements for the focus of our research are the following: * Role of the EU as a global actor * Interaction between the internal and external dimensions of EU policies This focus can be described in the following terms: Since the early 1970s, in parallel with the ongoing processes of deepening European integration and enlargement, the EU has increasingly asserted its role as a global actor in the broader international arena. ...
Fundamental rights centre Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research Group Human Rights coordinates and centralizes the many human-rights linked research projects in the law faculty. Both theory of human rights, national human rights law (constitutional law, criminal law,civil law, ...) and international human rights law are brought together with the objective of engendering and stimulating integrated human rights research projects
Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven
The mission of LCIS is threefold. In the area of research, LCIS aims to foster, promote and disseminate research on Ireland in a European context. The manifold relations between Ireland and the rest of Europe are investigated by researchers from different disciplines: history, art, literature and translation studies; international economics and international business; psychology; political sciences; philosophy and theology. By bringing ...
Metajuridica Vrije Universiteit Brussel
De vakgroep JURI verstrekt onderwijs in de randgebieden van het positief recht en verrricht onderzoek in diverse wetenschappelijke domeinen zoals rechtsgeschiedenis, het Romeins recht, de rechtsfilosofie, Afrikaans recht... Bovendien worden verscheidene onderzoeksdomeinen aangeboord, die niet met het recht verbonden zijn zoals genderonderzoek, de taalkundige relaties in de Brusselse hoofdstedelijke regio, de overgang van secundair naar ...
Art History, Leuven KU Leuven
The Art History Department comprises three research groups: Medieval Art (Jan Van der Stock, Barbara Baert & Lieve Watteeuw); Early Modern Art (Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Leo De Ren & Koenraad Brosens) and Art of the 20th-Century and Contemporary Art (Hilde Van Gelder). All members of the Department develop empirical and/or theoretical approaches to Flemish and Belgian art in an international perspective
The Research ...
Voicing Youth Vrije Universiteit Brussel
During the last years, several VUB research groups have built up research expertise on children and adolescents at social risk in a parallel way. While these studies were conducted independently from each other within different disciplines, all research groups have moved from research about youngsters at social risk to research with children and adolescents, generating knowledge and insights from the perspectives of the children and ...
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 ...
International Relations and Mobility Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Leuven Language Institute (ILT) KU Leuven
- Conception of anonomasiological learner's dictionary of business french (a production dictionary) based on a systematic description of word combinations. This work is inspired by the most recent developments in lexicography and lexicology (e.g. lexical functions, corpus-based lexicography,...). - Conception and compilation in a relational database of a context oriented arabic-dutch/dutch-arabic productive learner's dictionary and frequency ...