Projects
“PHUTURE 2030”: B-PHOT’s roadmap for cutting-edge photonics research and disruptive technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
SEATAMIN: local, healthy and sustainable food from land-based seaweed cultivation in Belgium Ghent University
SEATAMIN aims to prepare the establishment of a spin-off company (mid 2024). SEATAMIN tackles the rising demand for sustainable and healthy food through locally produced seaweed in a closed land-based system, enabling year-round production and ensuring the highest quality. SEATAMIN builds on the results of the IOF-ConcepTT SEACROPS which demonstrated the technical feasibility of year-round production of red seaweed Palmaria on a ...
The accessability of social protection systems in Flanders for people of no fixed abode. KU Leuven
Homeless people are a vulnerable group, whose fundamental social rights are not always realized, even though the right to a dignified life is enshrined in law both at an international level and within Belgium. This right includes the right to housing, social assistance, social security, and health care. The homeless find it more difficult to access these fundamental social rights, for reasons among others related to legislation and ...
Post-market mesh surveillance and automated prediction of outcome of ventral hernia surgery in 3 European countries KU Leuven
The shared neighbourhood between the EU and Russia: from conflictual towards cooperative regional orders? Ghent University
The proposed research will examine under which conditions the two competing regional projects – the Eastern Partnership developed by the EU, and the Eurasian Economic Union promoted by Russia – could evolve towards a state of peaceful coexistence and even cooperation in the post-Soviet space, in a world order shifting from the hegemony of the Western liberal order towards a multi-order system.
METICOS, SEARCH AND RESCUE (OZR EU BONUS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Decoding China's behavior in international organizations: a poststructuralist inquiry into the domestic, organization-specific and international discourse which constitutes Chinese diplomatic practices. KU Leuven
China's 'rise' on the stage of international politics and organization represents one of the most frequently examined phenomenons in International Relations. The dicussion of this phenomenen in the Western literature (as well as the discussion of the 'rise of the rest') has thus far remained structured around traditional theoretical paradigms. Surprisingly, while encounters in recent years with a more confident and ideologically oriented ...
The quest for climate-smart bananas: screening the banana diversity from plant to cell level KU Leuven
The rise in global mean temperature, frequency of hot temperature extremes, and geographic and temporal shifts in precipitation, increasingly exert pressure on agricultural systems, thereby altering the distribution of highly productive agricultural areas. Approximately 60 % of the area currently under banana cultivation has been predicted to become unsuitable by 2060. To enhance the resilience of our agricultural systems, increased crop and ...