Projects
Improving resilience of farmers’ livelihoods to climate change through innovative, research proven climate-smart agroforestry and efficient use of tree resources in the Eastern Province and peri-urban areas of Kigali city Ghent University
Agroforestry is considered a potential restoration solution to degraded land, impacting multiple ecosystem services while providing essential farm resources such as a food, fodder, fruits, and fuel wood and construction materials. Higher farm productivity and food production diversification allows to capture more value from high commercial and nutritious agroforestry products, and therefore increase the economic and ecological resilience of ...
Enhancing the inclusiveness of smart cities: reinterpreting Data Protection Impact Assessment under the General Data Protection Regulation through intersectional gender lenses. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Coproduction in the Assessment of a Smart Mobility Service KU Leuven
Local governments around the globe are facing global issues, including financial retrenchment, declining trust of the public, increasing demand for a stronger focus on citizens' needs, and enhanced public service provision. Coproduction, which comprises the collaboration between public service providers and users in the design, delivery and assessment of public services, is presented as an attractive strategy to overcome these challenges. The ...
Water Management - Water Management through Smart Leak Detection in Non-Residential Buildings Ghent University
The objective of this IOF StarTT project is to prepare for the creation of a spin-off. The mission of the project team is to make a significant contribution to water and energy savings due to leak detection in water systems in buildings.
The ambition is for the spin-off to be: “A European expertise driven company that markets water leakage detection technology and provides case specific knowledge through consultancy on leak detection ...
Pilot Application in Urban Landscapes - Towards integrated city observatories for greenhouse gases (PAUL). University of Antwerp
Surveillance risks in IoT applied to Smart Cities KU Leuven
Nowadays, cities deal with unprecedented pollution and overpopulation problems, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are supporting them in facing these issues and becoming increasingly smart. IoT sensors embedded in public infrastructure can provide granular data on the urban environment, and help public authorities to make their cities more sustainable and efficient. Nonetheless, this pervasive data collection also raises high ...
Creating safe and inclusive smart cities. KU Leuven
A ‘smart city’ refers to various information technology solutions to make city a better place to live and work. Nevertheless, such technological advances are also rapidly changing public decision-making and functioning of societies, bringing both benefits and threats. The paradox of increasing efficiency and, at the same time, increasing potential harm to citizens occurs particularly in the domain of smart city safety solutions. This paper ...
CitCom.ai : European Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Testing and Experimentation Facility for Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Communities (SSCC). The CitCom.ai consortium brings together world-leading TEF capabilities around the three themes POWER,
MOVE and CONNECT, as three “super nodes” Nordic, Central and South with satellites and sub-nodes located across 11 countries the
European Union. Building on established ...