Projects
Mechanisms of local resource mobilisation: Study into contributory social protection schemes for informal workers as alternative mechanism of domestic resource mobilisation and critical review of decentralised cooperation in support of local taxation syst KU Leuven
The interaction between climate and the African great lakes: A study with a regional climate model. KU Leuven
In this PhD project, use will be made of the regional climate model CCLM, in which only very recently, the freshwater lake parameterisation scheme FLake has been implemented. The research will be build around three main axes: (i) improvement of the treatment of turbulent exchanges and lake dynamics in FLake, (ii) climate simulations –and evaluation– for Central and Eastern Africa using CCLM driven by Global Climate Model (GCM) output, and ...
Combatting bacterial resistance in Europe (COMBACTE-NET). University of Antwerp
Traveling practices in education for democratic citizenship KU Leuven
Man and Biospehere Reserved Network - MAB-Net Ghent University
The UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB), with 631 reserves in 119 countries, is an Intergovernmental Scientific Program to establish a scientific basis to improve relationships between people and their environments. Biosphere Reserves (BR) have 3 zones where scientists, NGOs, local communities work together (the core is mainly for long-term conservation and research, the buffer zone is for activities like environmental education, ...
Sustainable chemistry for the synthesis of fine chemicals Ghent University
The chemical industry in Flanders is of major importance at several levels. It provides 10% of all employment in Flanders, is home of the largest petrochemical cluster in Europe and is the main location of 10 out of the world’s top 20 chemical companies. The chemical industry stands for more or less 50% of all R&D expenditures in Flanders and for 30% of all industrial investments in Belgium. Flanders is located at the heart of the ...
Mapping urban composition and green infrastructure using remote sensing in support of urban ecosystem service assessment KU Leuven
Urbanization presents one of the major challenges to humankind in the current century. Our cities are true drivers of global environmental change, but at the same time also represent the most susceptible areas to be suffering from the local impacts of these ongoing changes (e.g. through heat waves, flooding and air pollution). Sustainable urban management and development therefore focuses on safeguarding the local quality of life by reducing ...
Winners and Losers from Globalization and Market Integration: Insights from Micro-Data (WLG-Micro). University of Antwerp
Valorization of Biomass-streams via Catalytic Reductive Amination: The challenge of Vicinal Aldehydes and Alcohols KU Leuven
The start of the industrial revolution has led to great economic welfare and population growth, with an increasing demand for energy and commodity goods largely fed by the exploitation of crude oil. Today, we see the first negative effects of this economic model: climate change, depletion of cheap oil reserves and environmental pollution as result of single-use consumer goods. General consensus is growing to switch to a circular economy with ...