Projects
Click it! A multilingual health aid for for foreign-speaking parents with young children. Ghent University
The project focuses on the valorisation and dissemination of a multilingual app that allows primary care providers to communicate accessibly with foreign-speaking parents who understand little or no Dutch. The app provides health information in 6 different languages (Dutch, English, French, Farsi, Turkish and Arabic) and supports caregivers in demand-driven consultations. The app improves access to quality health information and ensures that ...
From press release to news report: what's translating got to do with it? University of Antwerp
SABeD: The development of a Spoken Academic Belgian Dutch Corpus KU Leuven
Migration & Equal Opportunity in Education – a human rights law analysis KU Leuven
Belgium is a country of immigration. Labor migration, colonial migration, the arrival of different international institutions and membership of the EU, have brought a growing amount of non-Belgians into the country. Their influence on Belgian demographics is significant, most importantly so among children. Almost thirty percent of Flemish children have a foreign background, with ten percent having no Belgian nationality. However, the Flemish ...
China’s Maritime Commerce and Naval Activities in Northeast Asia During the “Yuan-Ming Rupture” (late 14th century) Ghent University
The Penglai port (north China) has been used as a strategic commercial and military base for maritime enterprises since ancient times. A comparative analysis of written and archaeological sources will shed new light on China’s maritime policy and the interaction of official (naval) authorities and private commerce in a much understudied geographical space during a period of a fundamental dynastic shift.