Projects
International Round Table on Criticality in Business Practice Ghent University
International Round Table on Criticality in Business Practice Ghent University
Critical raw materials are materials that are needed for current and future products and technologies, but face now or soon a significant risk of not being sufficiently available. This can occur for a variety of reasons: e.g., because the materials are scarce in the Earth’s crust, because they are only available in specific regions, because their price is so volatile that there are periods when they are unaffordable, or because their mining ...
Agency and structure in practices of educational innovation. A description and analysis of implementation practices in primary and secondary schools. KU Leuven
Firstly, the diversity in implementation practices ...
Monitoring and optimizing the stable climate in pig barns Ghent University
This project aims to increase the awareness of the pig farmer of the importance of a good stable climate for animal health, performance, and antimicrobial use and to avoid antimicrobial use to compensate for an inappropriate stable climate. The project also aims to introduce simple methods to assess the stable climate, with emphasis on adaptations of technical settings of ventilation parameters.
To this end, there is need for ...
Self-oscillating Thermal-piezoresistive Coupled Resonators for Stable Mass and Stiffness Measurement in Air KU Leuven
Micro-ElectroMechanical Structure (MEMS) based resonators have been at the forefront of scientific advancements for several decades, widely recognized for their compact size, high precision, extensive dynamic range, energy efficiency, and cost-effective production. These attributes have led to their successful implementation in industries, especially in the development of timing oscillators and pressure sensors. However, despite their ...
Rethinking Roman Nutrition. Assessing the nutritional biochemistry and stable isotope chemistry of archaeobotanical cereals and pulses from Roman Egypt. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Optimal production of stable Class II hydrophobin powders with minimal loss of biospecific functionalities for use in cosmetics KU Leuven
Hydrophobins (HFB) are interesting microbial biosurfactants produced by filamentous fungi. These cysteine-rich proteins of low molecular weight exhibit exceptional surface active properties because they can change the polarity of surfaces. An important feature of Class II HFB is that adsorbed layers are formed with higher shear surface elasticity compared to other proteins. Class II HFB are therefore of great potential economic value in the ...
INnovations in plant VarIety Testing in Europe to foster the introduction of new varieties better adapted to varying biotic and abiotic conditions and to more sustainable crop management practices Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The INVITE project aims for higher relevance to the system of official European variety lists and previous variety testing. ILVO is one of the knowledge centres that organizes - and optimizes - variety testing. Breeding companies (which produce new varieties) often strive in their candidate-new-varieties for more resilience of the plant against biotic and abiotic stress factors and high "resource use ...
Rice remote monitoring: climate change resilience and agronomical management practices for regional adaptation Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
A quarter of all Colombian rice is grown in the Tolima region, where fields are irrigated with water from the Coello irrigation district. Local farmers don't know the actual crop water demand, and consequently they generally irrigate excessively. This results in water shortages during the growing season, but this excess of water also results in high methane emissions, which is an important greenhouse gas. ...