Projects
Mitigating a fungal pandemic in amphibians by steering aquatic micropredator communities Ghent University
The fungal disease chytridiomycosis has globally caused massive declines and even extinctions of amphibian populations. To date, no measures to control chytridiomycosis in natural amphibian populations exist. We propose manipulation of the aquatic environment as a measure to increase the chances of amphibians to survive in nature in the presence of chytridiomycosis, by limiting the disease’s impact on the amphibian populations. This proposal ...
Coronavirus Pandemic Preparedness. KU Leuven
The Leuven Institute for the Future has set up a project to learn from the current pandemic in
order to better prepare for the future. This learning needs to be done with different disciplines, and
together with the society. We need to understand the complexity of the societal crisis caused by the
pandemic, and we need to co-create pandemic preparedness with all stakeholders. The team is
observing the gaps in this ...
Sabbatical Anne-Mieke Vandamme: Transdisciplinary approach to pandemic preparedness KU Leuven
In February 2020, the Institute for the Future launched the “pandemic preparedness” project, gathering a team of experts and societal actors to draw lessons for the future together (https://rega.kuleuven.be/if /coronavirus_challenge). We observed what went right and what went wrong during the pandemic. We noted several complex problems: failure to learn in time from the countries that preceded us in the pandemic; too late action which made it ...
Towards a Learning and Adaptive European pandemic Preparedness and emergency response System KU Leuven
The possibilities to steer and to coordinate health care-systems and health care-institutions, especially during a pandemic. Comparison of the legislation in six European countries and evaluation of the application of the legislation in Belgium in 2020 an Ghent University
During the Covid-pandemic it was necessary to take measures to raise or surge the capacity of the health care-system and to direct the means of treatment in a more selective way towards the treatment of patients affected with Covid-19. These measures include a reorientation of the healthcare-system, and especially of health care-institutions such as hospitals or elderly care-homes. The reorientation had important implications for patients and ...
Combating infectious diseases pandemic at the point-of-care with a next generation ultrasensitive and rapid DNA nanosensors KU Leuven
GRO-VID: What is the legal impact of federal pandemic measures on Flemish SMEs? AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
PARSIFAL: Pandemic Actions, Responses, Social Impacts for Future Adaptive Learning KU Leuven
PARSIFAL addresses behavioural, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak comparing outbreak responses across Europe and
impacts on human behaviour and social dynamics, mental health and health inequalities. PARSIFAL aims to inform the development of a holistic
response and adaptation to ongoing and future public health crises consequent of the COVID 19 pandemic. PARSIFAL utilises its multidisciplinary
consortium, ...
The eco-evolutionary drivers of the Wolbachia pandemic in garden spider mites Ghent University
Wolbachia are the most successful maternally transmitted bacteria and inhabit the cells of about half of all arthropod species. Wolbachia induce reproductive manipulations in its arthropod host to spread within species, but its interspecific spread remains poorly understood. Our understanding of how intra- and interspecific transmission feedback with Wolbachia evolution and arthropod ecology also remains severely limited. With this proposal, ...