Organisations
Political Representation in Diverse Societies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Political representation is a crucial concept in political science. In essence, representation entails something or someone (the agent) standing for an absent thing or person (the principal). Political representation thus places an intermediary (agent) between citizens (principals) and political decision-making. These agents are called representatives. The fact that every society contains different interests and nodes that want to be ...
Accountancy, Auditing and Business Financing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The main research domains of the department ACCO are: 1. In the field of accounting: creative accounting, income smoothing, income manipulation; 2. In the field of auditing: audit switching, audit of small companies; 3. In the field of business finance: project analysis.
Behavioural Sciences - Governance Hasselt University
Beyaert Lab Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Biosystems Engineering Technology, Geel Campus KU Leuven
One of the most prominent challenges our society faces in the 21st century is to secure food provision to sustain our growing world population in a sustainable way without compromising our next generations. Both biotic (e.g. pests, deseases) and abiotic (e.g. drought, suboptimal temperatures, suboptimal light conditions, … ) factors can cause severe reductions in our global primary production. These stress conditions can seriously endanger ...
Cellular and Molecular Immunology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research unit CIMM, founded by Patrick De Baetselier in 1983, initially focused on cellular immunology, mainly in the context of tumour biology. The basic themes were the analysis of immune escape mechanisms as well as the mechanisms involved in the invasive and metastatic behaviour of cancer cells. Since several common points may exist in the ways either cancer cells or parasites evade immune surveillance, cellular interactions involved ...
Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings brings together researchers in the field of literary, theatre and performance studies. CLIC offers scholars an interdisciplinary network to stimulate research along three key concepts: media, genres and spaces. MEDIA Literature, theatre and performance traditionally belong to specific medial systems. However, these systems often interact in hybrid, intermedial ways. Definitions of ...
Centre for Metaphysics and Culture University of Antwerp
Computational Modelling Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Computational Modeling Lab, COMO, is headed by Prof. dr. Bernard Manderick and Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé, and has on average 10 PhD students. The research group focuses on the one hand on the modelling of natural phenomena, and on the other hand on developing algorithms for complex problem solving inspired by these natural phenomena. COMO has experience in a wide range of learning techniques such as Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms, ...