Projects
The European Union as a Global Actor and its Impact on the International Legal Order. KU Leuven
As the European Union ('EU') seeks to play a greater role as an actor at the international level, this not only gives rise to legal questions for EU law, but also increasingly for public international law. Public international law scholarship focusing on the EU as an actor in international law suffers from numerous conceptual problems, most notably questions regarding how international law should conceive of unique legal entities such as the ...
The capacity of the Council of Europe and the European Union to safeguard the independence of domestic judiciaries. The Hungarian case. KU Leuven
The thesis will look at the capacity of European Union and Council of Europe mechanisms to prevent and address rule of law backsliding in their member states.
Strategic Research Programme: Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
EU project VECTOR Vrije Universiteit Brussel
High speed internet requires access to optical ...
Towards Virtual NVH Performance Assessment of Tires: Prediction of Dynamic Tire/Road Contact and Hub Forces Using a Fully Predictive Efficient Simulation Approach KU Leuven
Since it is reported that environmental noise has negative effects on the public health in the European Union, the European Commission has set a road traffic noise reduction target of 10 dB(A) by 2020. As a result, vehicle manufacturers are continuously working towards refining their car designs to help reduce traffic noise. Tire/road noise is an important contributor to the overall road traffic noise and can be divided into two categories: ...
Development of novel fast screening methods to predict cadmium concentrations in cacao beans KU Leuven
The cacao from South-America contains high concentrations of cadmium (Cd) that originates from the high natural Cd background concentration in soils of that region. The 2019 regulations by the European Union have set a stringent limit for Cd in chocolate. Nearly half of the South-American production exceeds this limit. Farmers are currently faced with lower prices for their products. The low quality of the local laboratories also brings a ...
EU FP7 project: MID-FRAIL-STUDY (FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Type 2 diabetes is a highly prevalent metabolic disorder in ageing populations, affecting approximately 20% of people aged 65 years and over. Diabetes is associated with ...
Hormones and neuroplasticity: image guided discoveries of molecular mechanisms in neuroplasticity KU Leuven
During juvenile development, male songbirds exhibit a high amount of neuroplasticity in the brain regions responsible for song learning and production, called the 'song control nuclei'. Additionally, seasonal learners display a cycle of song control nucleus growth and regression throughout a year: song control nuclei increase in volume when the days get longer in early spring and regress again when days get shorter. Both neuroplastic ...