Projects
ÉMIGRÉ EUROPE. Civil Engagement Transfers between Eastern Europe and the Low Countries, 1933-1989 KU Leuven
The research project investigates Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian émigré communities in the Low Countries from the 1930s to 1989. The focus of research concerns cross-cultural impacts among the communities involved and exchanges with the host civil societies. Based on archival and desk research that maps the diversity and size of migrant communities (from political exiles to labour migrants), and identifies their institutions, ...
Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, The Caucasus and Central Asia KU Leuven
In the past ten years, diplomatic and economic relations between the EU and a number of post-USSR republics have steadily improved. Initially concerned primarily with internal political stability, countries like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan have since come to realize that availability of oil, gas and minerals is not a guarantee for a stable and shock-resistant economic environment. Efforts to diversify domestic economies and to ...
UNFPA Regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECARO) Work Plan with Ghent University/ANSER (Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy) - 2023 Ghent University
UNFPA Regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECARO) Work Plan with Ghent University/ANSER (Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy) Ghent University
UNFPA - Reimbursable Loan Agreement: "strengthen the capacities of governments and civil society networks of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region in the development and implementation of high quality and impact oriented national plans and str Ghent University
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe (Poland case) after accession (2004-2010): an illustration of the European Union as a civil power? Ghent University
Nox ut dies inluminabitur. The Sacramental Meaning of Easter Night – and Its Illumination –in the Ancient and Early Medieval Latin Liturgies of Western Europe. KU Leuven
The human experience of the night has been of immense importance in the history of religions. Symbolic associations came to be connected with darkness and light, with the natural transition between day and night and with the turn of the seasons at the nights of the solstices and equinoxes. Because of this, one moonlit night just after the vernal equinox came to be associated in the Christian tradition with the victory of the light of Christ ...
Anti-Islamism and Rejection of Public Religion in Western Europe. A Comparative Study of Anti-Religiosity in 21 Western European Countries, 1990-2008 KU Leuven
This study comprises of a series of theoretically informed empirical analyses of anti-religiosity in Western Europe. In the West, atheism, secularism and anti-religiosity gain more and more attention in the media and in scientific literature. Mostly, this intense debate is being held between popular-scientists, theologians, philosophers, politicians and journalists. What scarcely attracts attention is a more empirical understanding of these ...
Connectivity in Merovingian time: mobility and kinship by ancient DNA in the Early Middle Ages in Western Europe KU Leuven
The Merovingian period was a time of extensive state formation in Western Europe led by Frankish rulers. Because of the scarcity of historical records and the prevalence of cremation practice until the mid-seventh century, it is still poorly understood what effect changes in the political landscape had on people living in the Frankish kingdom and how extensive mobility and gene flow were among the communities on the coast of the North Sea. ...