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DINAMUS: Digital Innovation for Audience Engagement in Museums. University of Antwerp

Annick Schramme
Management
Museums have been hit both financially and socially by the COVID-19 crisis and by the global decrease of tourism. Concurrently, this has accelerated digital transformation of the sector. This proposal asserts that digital technologies can offer solutions across all museum activities, including the collection of artefacts, their conservation and study, interpretation and exhibition of museum collections, and marketing/managing online and onsite ...

UNA, citizens and civil society engagement towards a more inclusive and successful circular economy (CE). KU Leuven

Karel Van Acker
Sustainable Materials Processing and Recycling (SeMPeR), Centre for Sociological Research

Cities are complex systems which still rely on linear economic models. Given their importance in shaping the global
economy, they are key in the transition to a circular economy (CE). To monitor and support such transition at urban
level, a decisive move beyond the state-of-the-art of techno-economic indicators and data is required. In particular,
the involvement of citizens in supporting and advancing the transition to a CE is ...

ÉMIGRÉ EUROPE. Civil Engagement Transfers between Eastern Europe and the Low Countries, 1933-1989 KU Leuven

Kim Christiaens
KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Charles University (Univerzita Karlova)

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, ...

Rethinking International Investment Law and Regional Human Rights Adjudication: A New Frontier for Transnational Judicial Engagement Ghent University

Clara Burbano Herrera
Department of European, Public and International Law

The research aims to identify, map, and understand in depth the new interactions and tensions that have emerged between the regional human rights courts on the one hand (i.e., the European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights and African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights) and international investment adjudication bodies on the other hand, in order to provide a methodological tool to foster constructive judicial ...

Nurturing cognitive talent: Understanding the role of classroom social experiences in high-ability students’ academic engagement KU Leuven

Karine Verschueren
School Psychology and Development in Context
To secure a society’s innovative capacity, it is key to foster talents of all youth, including students with outstanding cognitive abilities. However, research suggests a loss of academic engagement among high-ability youth, increasing their risk for underachievement. Integrating giftedness models with general developmental and motivational models on student engagement, this project aims to shed light on the role of classroom social experiences ...

Investigating water and climate-related conflicts and migration towards engagement and equity focused solutions for adaptation, human security and policy integration in Africa. Ghent University

Ilse Ruyssen
Department of Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics

The project aims to enhance our knowledge on water- and climate-related conflicts and migration in some of the most vulnerable countries in Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Senegal. Using a comparative context approach, it will propose engagement and equity-oriented
solutions to outline a policy and decision framework for regional integration of migration and human development in these regions.

Promoting girls’ engagement and performance in blended STEM courses KU Leuven

Katie Goeman
Research Centre for Information Systems Engineering (LIRIS), Brussels Campus
Despite the growing importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, girls and women are still underrepresented in STEM courses and professional careers. Though claims are made about the positive impact of particular instructional interventions such as blended learning, however, more empirical evidence is needed. This study investigates how blended learning can be integrated to improve secondary school girls’ ...

Sometimes fake news is more real than real news. A study of television news satire as an alternative form of journalism and a resource of public engagement. University of Antwerp

Pieter Maeseele
Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC)
In the current journalistic context, in which traditional conceptions of journalism are faltering, there is a strong need for research into alternative conceptions of journalism and news, which assesses the democratic potential of these new practices. This proposal provides a direct contribution in this respect by offering a comprehensive examination of satirical news in the Netherlands and Flanders, crossing disciplinary boundaries and ...

Enhancing engagement in digital physical activity interventions: a test of the effectiveness of online social interaction and gamification Ghent University

Lieven De Marez
Department of Communication Sciences

Healthy adults aged 18 to 64 should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity (PA) per week. In Flanders, a significant proportion of the population fails to meet this requirement. This puts a significant proportion of the population at risk of lifestyle related health
conditions. Interventions targeting sedentary behavior attempt to incite people to be more physically active and increasingly, digital behavior ...

Current Affairs Platform to Involve Adolescents Through Engagement KU Leuven

Bieke Zaman
Institute for Media Studies

The overall goal and vision of CAPTIVATE is on the one hand to support late adolescents and emerging adults to access balanced news and current affairs in an engaging way, increase their media literacy and offer them a voice in the debate; and on the other hand enable broadcasters and news publishers to re-establish trust with this target audience through simple and efficient tools that allow editors to connect and interact with a younger ...