Projects
What picture books do Flemish preschool teachers use in shaping mathematics instruction for what purpose and in what ways? HOGENT
Towards powerful early math instruction: Designing materials to improve (future) preschool teachers’ and preschoolers’ number and patterning competencies. KU Leuven
Trends in International Mathematics en Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 – grade 4 in Flanders. University of Antwerp
LEMMA - The role of Language in early MatheMatical Achievement KU Leuven
Recent research has shown that mathematical abilities are not only associated with general vocabulary knowledge, but also with specific vocabulary knowledge about the relevant mathematical domain. In this research project, we want to investigate the relation between general and domain specific language abilities on the one hand and mathematical abilities on the other hand. We do this at a moment where we can expect large interindividual ...
Non scholae sed vitae? An Empirical Study on the Cognitive Transfer Effects of Studying Classical Languages in Flemish Secondary Education Ghent University
Do smart pupils study classical languages (CLs), or does studying CLs make pupils smart? Anglo-Saxon research suggests that Latin pupils surpass their Latin-less peers in L1 ability c.q. English, and that studying Latin possibly has a positive effect on mathematical skills as well. However, it has not been settled whether these results are due to preselectivity (pupil influx) or cognitive transfer (one task affecting another). While a ...
Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 Ghent University
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis ant treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses ICT to integrate neuroscience data from around ...
Human Brain Project Ghent University
The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the FET Flagship Programma, Is to translate this vision into reality, using ICT as a catalyst for a global collaborative effort to understand the human brain and its diseases and ultimately to emulate its computational capabilities. the Human Brain Project will last ten years and will consist of a ramp-up phase. During this phase the strategic goals of the project will be to design, develop and ...
Distributed Supervisory Control of Large Plants Ghent University
Supervisory control is a formal approach for the control of discrete event systems that aims to solve logical problems of safety, resource allocation, liveness, and fault diagnosis that can be encountered in all systems with a high degree of automation. It provides a conceptual framework for developing methods and tools for system design.
An open issue is the application of this methodology to those control problems that arise in ...
Control for coordination of distributed systems Ghent University
Control for coordination of distributed systems is motivated by the case studies of control for underwater vehicles, for aerial vehicles, for a road control and communication network, for automated guided vehicles, and for complex machines. The research trust is in control design and control synthesis. In particular control synthesis of a global coordinator of a distributed system, in communication for control, in Informatics for control, and ...