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The nation in the town: imagining the nation beyond Benedict Anderson. University of Antwerp

Power in History - Centre for Political History

This project wants to stimulate international cooperation between Oxford, Leiden and Antwerp universities. The objective is to fundamentally reframe our historic knowledge about nation building processes. Benedict Anderson's paradigm of imagined communities will be challenged through a comparative research into the imagining of the nation within different urban milieus in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Images of a nation. A multi-methodological historical research on policy and nation-building in Flemish feature films Ghent University

Department of Communication Sciences

This PhD proposal analyses practices of nation-building in Flemish feature films, with a special focus upon the role played by film policy since 1964. The research proposal is consistent with international research and literature on the role of media in the construction of U+2018nationsU+2019, and is innovative in this field by integrating film policy.

Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020) KU Leuven

Fredie Floré

History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture

In recent decades, architectural historians have increasingly scrutinised the embassy building program of state actors. Framing an embassy to be the physical manifestation of the state, scholars have examined if and to what extent state actors have approached the commissioning of a purpose-built embassy as an opportunity to radiate nationhood abroad and express foreign policy stands and, more importantly, what kind of architecture they saw ...

strength - Building a Strong European rural hub KU Leuven

Erik Mathijs

Bioeconomics

The ambition of STRENGTH is to build a long-lasting European rural society-science-policy hub. This hub will raise the natural, social, cultural, and economic potential and capacity of rural areas and their communities by building more effective policy coherence, improving the uptake of available knowledge, and empowering rural citizens to take part in policy-making. The approach is based on co-design and co-creation with rural actors in ...

Evaluation of the quasi-steady-state method for the assessment of energy use in school buildings KU Leuven

Dirk Saelens

Construction Technology, Ghent and Aalst Technology Campuses, Building Physics Section

Since the implementation of the European Directive 2002/91/EC on the Energy Performance of Buildings the number of very low energy and passive non-residential buildings has increased significantly. In Flanders (Belgium), the evolution towards more energy efficient schools in particular was encouraged by the approval and subsidizing of 24 passive pilot schools. Steady-state calculation tools source are generally used for the energy ...

Navigation assistance for wheelchair users based on implicit intention recognition. KU Leuven

Hendrik Van Brussel

Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA) Section

The MLR (Mobile Learning Robots) research group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division PMA has a several years' experience in the field of navigation assistance for electric-wheelchair users. This research has been performed during several national and international projects (STWW - IWT, ITEA project Ambience, EU Strep IST project Movement, EU Strep IST project Maia), each time with positive evaluations. In this research, several ...

Film, media and nation-building in Flanders. University of Antwerp

Gertjan Willems

Research Centre for Visual Poetics

This research project aims at investigating the relation between media and nation-building in Flanders. The project consists of two parts. First, the project focuses on film and nation-building in Flanders from 1945 until today. Through quantitative and qualitative textual film analyses, the project critically examines the cinematic representation of Flanders and Flemish identities. Second, the project places these findings in their broader ...

News media and multiple nation-building in post-war Flanders (1945-1960) Ghent University

Bruno De Wever, Daniël Biltereyst

Department of History, Department of Communication Sciences

This project investigates the role of news media in Flemish and Belgian nation-building processes in post-war Flanders (1945-1960). Through policy analysis, content analysis and critical discourse analysis of the press, radio and filmed news, the project contributes to nation-building studies (an interdisciplinary research field) in post-war Flanders (history) and the role of news media herein (communication sciences).

Data and tools for improving the environmental performance of buildings and cities KU Leuven

Karen Allacker

Design and Engineering of Construction and Architecture, University of Melbourne

Buildings and cities contribute significantly to global environmental issues, including greenhouse gas emissions, resource depletion, waste and pollution. Life cycle assessment (LCA) enables the assessment and optimisation of the environmental impact of buildings over their entire life cycle. In Belgium, various steps have been taken to integrate LCA in building practice: a national LCA method has been developed, a national database is ...

Historical Canons and Canonization in Belgium and Hungary: a comparative analysis with a European perspective from the late 18th century to the early 21st century (COMPAIR) KU Leuven

Tom Verschaffel

Cultural History since 1750, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest

The project’s objective is to prepare a comprehensive methodological framework for a comparative analysis of Belgian and Hungarian historical canons and canonization from the beginning of modern nation-building up to the 21st century. This comparison will follow the examples of national and bi- and multinational initiatives to create a historical canon through places of memory/remembrance, but it will also surpass them by (1) offering a small ...