Infrastructure
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Ghent University
The ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) research infrastructure studies long-term (> 20 years) changes in greenhouse gas balances of terrestrial and marine ecosystems through a network of 140 monitoring stations across Europe and some far beyond. In addition to greenhouse gases, ICOS measures a number of other variables that are useful for relating changes (trends and anomalies) in greenhouse gas balances to climate change (including climate extremes) such as pollution, changing land use or policies. ICOS data are also of great value for validating satellite and satellite ...
Seahorse platform: the Agilent Seahorse Flux Analyser with integrated normalization system (FAFY) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
phenotype of a cell is not only adapting to changes in the environment or the energetic needs; it can in turn also be a determinant of the cell’s fate. Given that mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis ...
Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo-Vlaanderen) Ghent University
DiSSCo is a new world-class research infrastructure for the physical and digital management of European natural science collections with an overarching management and access policy. To make collections more visible and usable, associated data and media must become more findable, accessible, exchangeable and reusable (FAIR). DiSSCo represents the largest formal agreement ever between natural history museums, botanical gardens, zoos, universities and other institutions with collections, and enables the transformation of a fragmented landscape into an integrated knowledge base. DiSSCo ...
A new state-of-the-art motion capturing system for testing new emerging offshore and coastal engineering technologies in the new "Coastal & Ocean wave Basin (COB)" in Ostend (MARINERGI) KU Leuven
In view of the new EU Green Deal and the EU’s climate and clean energy ambition for 2030, we target the renewable ocean energy and offshore wind challenges. This is why the new Coastal & Ocean wave Basin (COB) in Belgium is integrated in MARINERG-i, a first step to an independent legal entity of internationally distributed testing infrastructures for Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE). MARINERG-i will strengthen scientific excellence, engineering expertise, investment and access to infrastructures in the field of ORE. Its combined facilities will foster innovation across offshore wind, ...
Distributed System of Scientific Collections Flanders (DiSSCo Flanders) Meise Botanic Garden
TOPTRANS: a micro-transfer printing instrument with sub-micron alignment accuracy on a large scale for the electronic/photonic microsystems of the future (TOPTRANS) Ghent University
TOPTRANS: a micro-transfer printing instrument with sub-micron alignment accuracy on a large scale for the electronic/photonic microsystems of the future
The instrument allows the integration of so-called 'chiplets' on a substrate with very high alignment accuracy (+/- 0.5micron 3 sigma). This fits into the trend of heterogeneous integration where bringing together components implemented in different material systems allows to increase the performance of the resulting system. In the first place, we look here at photonic systems on chip where, for example, III-V semiconductor ...
Necropolis United (Necropolis United) Ghent University
NECROPOLIS UNITED is developing an integrated, sustainable, non-extractive and open-source database that inventories reported dead refugees in Europe. It is integrating and updating source data from three different databases, each providing a fragmented dataset, with specific metadata: the list compiled by UNITED Against Racism (data from 44,764 reported deaths, period 1993-2021), the Missing Migrants Project (MMP) of the IOM (International Organization for Migration) (more than 35,000 reported deaths, as of 2013) and the Deaths at the Border Database (DBD) developed within a completed ...
ELIXIR Infrastructure for Data and Services to strengthen Life-Sciences Research in Flanders (ELIXIR) KU Leuven
Life-science is a data science; it relies on the generation, sharing and integrated analysis of vast quantities of digital data. ELIXIR is a European Research Infrastructure that brings together international resources in life-sciences to form a single infrastructure enabling scientists to find and share data, exchange expertise and access advanced tools and large scale computational facilities, across borders and disciplines. The Belgian ELIXIR Node offers a portfolio of services in data management and analysis to help researchers adopt best practices of Open Science and perform their ...
MARINERG-i Offshore Renewable Energy Research (MARINERG-i) Ghent University
MARINERG-i will produce a scientific and business plan for an integrated European Research Infrastructure, designed to facilitate the future growth and development of the Offshore Renewable Energy sector. This plan will ensure that the MARINERG-i Research Infrastructure model attains the criteria necessary for being successful in an application to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap in 2020.
The MARINERG-i project is a first step in forming an independent legal entity of distributed testing infrastructures, united to create an integrated ...