Projects
Strategic analysis and support for enhanced research cooperation in agriculture and food Ghent University
The purpose of the project is to provide strategic analysis and support for enhanced research cooperation in agriculture and food to the Contracting Authority (here the European Commission – DG RTD and AGRI), with in-depth input on the variety of topics dealt with by the Working Groups of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR). The overall assistance to be provided is directly linked to the activities of the SCAR Working ...
2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe Ghent University
OpenAIREplus will build a 2nd-Generation Open Access infrastructure by signifucantly expanding in several directions the outcomes of the OpenAIRE project, which implements the EC Open Access (OA) pilot. Capitalizing on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, built for managing FP7 and ERC funded articles, and the associated supporting mechanism of the European Helpdesk System, OpenAIREplus will "develop an open access, participatory infrastructure for ...
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 ...
Integrating Research Infrastructure for European expertise on Inclusive Growth from data to policy KU Leuven
Referring to the increasingly challenging EU2020-ambitions of Inclusive Growth , the objectives of the InGRID-2 project are to advance the integration and innovation of distributed social sciences research infrastructures (RI) on ‘povety, living conditions and social policies’ as well as ‘working conditions, vulnerability and labour policies’. InGRID-2 will extend transnational on-site and virtual access, organize mutual learning and ...
ECO-Life: Sustainable Zero Carbon ECO-Town Developments Improving Quality of Life across EU Ghent University
In three European countries (Belgium, Denmark and Lithuania), urban areas are transformed into sustainable zero-carbon communities. Innovative energy efficiency measures and technologies with 100% renewable energy sources are demonstrated and integrated in an overall sustainable neighbourhood design. The building physics section of Ghent University leads the energy monitoring and performance assessment of the communities, buildings and ...
One Stop Shop towards competitive SMEs, focusing on the first line service system AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Performance standards for wood in construction-delivering customer service life needs Ghent University
The project objective is to kick-start the development of new standards to enable the service life specification of wood and wood based materials for construction. This is critical to ensure the future sustainable use of European forests, to ensure customers of wood products get satisfactory and reliable products and to provide supplementary evidence for life cycle evaluations of construction products. This supporting actions will utilise the ...
Situation-aware OrchestratioN of AdapTive Architecture KU Leuven
The majority of workers express dissatisfaction with their shared workplace design, which harms their health, wellbeing, productivity and social relations. So-called ‘adaptive’ workplace technologies try to manage these health risks by automating a wide range of architectural building services. However, there is severe lack of concrete evidence on how the short- and longer-term impact of such adaptive architectural technologies on health and ...
High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation Ghent University
HiPEAC is a support action that aims to structure and strengthen the European academic and industrial communities in computing systems: (i) by increasing innovation awareness and by encouraging researchers to engage in innovation activities; (ii) by professionally disseminating program achievements beyond the traditional scientific venues; (iii) by producing a vision document including recommendations on how to improve the innovation ...