Projects
Blue-Cloud: Piloting innovative services for Marine Research & the Blue Economy Flanders Marine Institute
Access and Benefit Sharing for Digital Sequence Information in the Context of the Convention on Biodiversity in preparation for COP15. University of Antwerp
Niche-specification of aerobic pesticide biodegradation in the rice paddy ecosystem KU Leuven
Paddy rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the main agricultural crops worldwide. In Vietnam, paddy rice is a staple food and one of the top agricultural export products; the Mekong delta is the biggest rice production area in the country, where rice monoculture and intensification is being practiced. Intensive cultivation leads to increasing pesticide application as a primary method to control pests and weeds in rice paddies, resulting in ...
Optimizing Bio-Based Fertilisers in Agriculture - Knowledgebase for New Policies Ghent University
Digitalisation: Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas Ghent University
DESIRA will develop the concept of Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems to advance understanding of the impact of digitisation in rural areas, linking analysis directly to the United NationU+2019 Sustainable Development Goals. Operationalising the Responsible Research and Innovation approach, DESIRA will enrol agriculture, forestry and rural stakeholders in co-developing scenarios and policies in Living Labs established in 20 European Regions, and a ...
Giving Beekeeping Guidance by computational-assisted Decision making Ghent University
A key to healthy beekeeping is the Health Status Index (HIS) inspired by EFSA’s Healthy-B toolbox which we will make fully operational, with the active collaboration of beekeepers, by facilitating the coordinated and harmonised flow of data from various sources and by testing and validating each component thoroughly. We envisage a step-by-step expansion of participating apiaries, and will eventually cover all EU biogeographic regions. The ...
Sino-EU Soil Observatory for intelligent Land Use Management Ghent University
SIEUSOIL will design, implement and test a shared China-EU Web Observatory platform that will provide Open Linked Data to monitor status and threats of soil and assist in decision making for sustainable support of agroecosystem functions, in view of the projected climate change. The Observatory platform will through customizable modules support the wise management of soil at field level and will provide showcase of good practices on soil ...
Development of multiplexed bioassays with oriented patterning of bioreceptors on FO-SPR platform KU Leuven
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) remains a gold standard for real-time monitoring of biomolecular interactions among many different types of biosensors that are available to date and have been widely used in the fields of clinical diagnostics, biological and pharmaceutical analysis, next to food quality and safety evaluation. With the rapid progress over the past several years, smart layers design and in particular oriented immobilization of ...
Fueling a Just Transition Towards Low Carbon Societies KU Leuven
The transition of the energy sector towards higher shares of renewable energies (RE) addressing issues like climate change and energy security has caught political attention in many countries. Biofuels have emerged in the context of RE with the potential to increase efficiency in transport and agriculture sectors towards a low carbon society. However, representing a typical case of decision making under complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty, ...