Projects
Challenges to the Global Financial System: Covid-19 and Climate Change KU Leuven
The world is facing two dramatic challenges: Covid-19 and Climate Change. The global financial system needs to deal with these challenges. Its design and functioning is key in determining how we adjust to these shocks and determines social welfare for the generations to come. The objective of this research proposal is to provide academic guidance in the design of a financial system that allows to address these fundamental challenges.
University as a Facilitator for Community Based Sustainable Solutions to Demographic Challenges in South Western Uganda (UCoBS) - Phase I partnership project for the Institutional University Cooperation with Mbarara University of Science and Technology (M Vrije Universiteit Brussel
From bit to business: Addressing managerial and practical challenges of analytics adoption KU Leuven
In this work, we address four research questions in order to offer an answer to our general premise: “Addressing challenges of data analytics adoption”. Namely, [RQ1] How do companies organize their analytics?; [RQ2] How mature are companies with regards to each of the DELTA dimensions?; [RQ3] Can automated analytics form a solution for the predicted shortages of data scientists?; and [RQ4] Can we leverage new ways of representing data to ...
Transcending Boundaries: Internationalizing the Institute for the Future's Transdisciplinary Education Framework for Tackling One Health Challenges KU Leuven
The increasing prevalence of complex global challenges related to human, animal, and environmental health demands innovative and collaborative approaches to understanding and addressing these issues. One Health, an interdisciplinary approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of these domains, has emerged as a promising framework for tackling such challenges. As the need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration grows, it ...
Emerging challenges Concerning the Widening Scope of Prenatal Screening: A Guiding Ethical Framework KU Leuven
This project will focus on the ethical and societal challenges that arise in light of the widening scope of prenatal screening. How broad do we, as a society or individual, want prenatal screening panels to be? Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) comprises a set of different technologies and techniques by which cell-free fetal DNA can be analyzed from a maternal blood sample in early pregnancy. Initially, NIPT was used to detect trisomies ...
Contrasting Challenges Facing Catholic Schools: Essays on sub-Saharan Africa and the United States KU Leuven
Ensuring that by 2030, all children complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education is one of the goals adopted by the international community under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Agenda 2030. While the Millennium Development Goals emphasized the completion of primary education, a stronger emphasis has been placed on learning apart from schooling under the SDGs, starting from preschools and going up to ...
Should we trust our own eyes? Epistemic challenges from cognitive penetration and implicit bias. KU Leuven
We usually think that ‘seeing for ourselves’ is a proper way to decide a question. But how proper is this if what we see is biased by what we already (implicitly) believe? Our common sense conception of perception as one of our fundamental sources of knowledge and justification thus appears threatened by the empirical phenomena of cognitive penetration and implicit bias. In the worst case, perception simply reinforces our beliefs and biases ...
INSOTEC - (International) Socio-Technical Challenges for implementing geological disposal. University of Antwerp
Terminology use during interpreter-mediated interactions in pre-trial settings: a comparative study of terminological needs, challenges and interpreting strategies KU Leuven
This research project will focus on interpreter-mediated pre-trial encounters – in particular, pre-trial hearings led by an examining magistrate (a.k.a. an investigating judge) – in which both legal professionals and other primary participants – i.e. suspects, witnesses, victims – rely on the legal interpreter's words to communicate with one another. The legal interpreter, however, often does not master the specialised knowledge and related ...