Projects
Quantifying ageing related cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment KU Leuven
University of Ljubljana, located in a low R&I performing country, will partner with two internationally-leading organisations, the Medical University of Graz and KU Leuven, to expand the support and coordination capacity for national and European research in ageing-related decrease in brain functions leading to dementia. By 2025 more than 25% of European population will be over 60 years old, with people over 80 increasing most rapidly. ...
AMAZALERT Ghent University
The AMAZALERT project will: (1) identify ecosystem services of the AMAZON basin forests, (2) integrate modelling of the interactions between societal and natural contributors to land use, (3) improve modeling and undersranding of the complex interactions between natural systems and anthropogenic impacts, and (4)develop a tool to warn for immminent, irreversible loss of ecosystem services.
Towards a comprehensive European strategy against tech-facilitated grooming and missing. KU Leuven
This project aims to enhance the understanding of the process of grooming, and more particulary how it is facilitated by technology and how it can lead to child sexual abuse and missing, in order to, based on this better understanding: ensure that grooming for sexual abuse and potentially leading to going missing is prevented.
Cooperative and Interconnected Green delivery solutions towards an era of optimized zero emission last-mile Logistics (GREEN-LOG). University of Antwerp
My yogurt KU Leuven
Consumers appreciate yogurt as healthy product. While yogurt is an ancient food “invented” to increase stability and health benefits of milk, product innovations are on the horizon addressing the following consumer needs: 1) Improving sustainability: GHG emission saving by reducing milk use in new processes, repl. milk by plant proteins and lower eco-footprint of milk using novel feed ingredients. 2) Improving health & nutrition: new ...
MSCA4Ukraine Grant - Andrii Galkin University of Antwerp
Innovative down-scaled FOod processing in a boX KU Leuven
The unique FOX approach will research and develop innovative, small scale technologies in mobile or flexible processing units for different applications for small and medium enterprises and farmers in the fruit and vegetable sector in Europe. This will stimulate the transition from a centralised industry to regional hubs that employ innovative, flexible and sustainable technologies based on seasonality and demand. By this, FOX meets ...
An integrated biorefinery for the conversion of dairy side streams to high value bio-based chemicals KU Leuven
Whey Permeate (WP) and De-lactosed Whey Permeate (DLP) are major side-streams of dairy processing and represent a key challenge for the dairy industry due to a lack of reliability in current disposal routes and represent a sustainability bottleneck for the expansion of milk production in Europe in the “post-milk-quota era”. AgriChemWhey will build a first-of-a-kind, industrial-scale biorefinery with integrated symbiotic industrial and ...