Projects
Integration challenges in shipping and ports Antwerp Maritime Academy (AMA)
Southern African Container Port Dynamics. University of Antwerp
Land Management: Assessment, Research, Knowledge base (LANDMARK). University of Antwerp
Piracy and its control: assessing harms and appraising counterpiracy efforts across regional contexts KU Leuven
Piracy is a serious crime that not only causes harm to the physical and psychological integrity of the affected seafarers, but also constitutes a significant and direct threat to international trade and security. Yet piracy and its harms have hardly been studied within criminology—and the proposed project aims to address this gap. It focuses on the four regional contexts that have recently recorded the highest number of incidents: the Gulf of ...
Piracy and its control: assessing harms and appraising counterpiracy efforts across regional contexts KU Leuven
Piracy is a serious crime that not only causes harm to the physical
and psychological integrity of the affected seafarers, but also
constitutes a significant and direct threat to international trade and
security. Yet piracy and its harms have hardly been studied within
criminology—and the proposed project aims to address this gap. It
focuses on the four regional contexts that have recently recorded the
highest ...
Operational Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Methodology Supporting Decisions Towards a Circular Economy Ghent University
Sustainable development and circular economy require balancing between environmental, economic and social benefits and de-coupling the economic growth from resource use. The European New Green Deal highlights the need for reliable, comparable and verifiable sustainability information. Existing sustainability assessment approaches suffer from lack of comprehensiveness, consistency and practical tools for implementation. This results in ...
OPtimal strategies to retAIN and re-use water and nutrients in small agricultural catchments across different soil-climatic regions in Europe Ghent University
Transition towards a more carbon and nutrient efficient agriculture in Europe Ghent University
NUTRI2CYCLE will use an integrated approach to enable the transition from the current (suboptimal) nutrient household in European agriculture to the next-generation of agronomic practices, characterized by an improved upcycling of nutrients and organic carbon. This project is deeply rooted in previous national and European projects, in which the consortium members were actively involved. The underlying principle is that Nutrient Use ...
Integrated and innovative key actions for mycotoxin management in the food and feed chain Ghent University
MycoKey aims to generate innovative and integrated solutions that will support stakeholders in effective and sustainable mycotoxin management along food and feed chains. The projec will contribute to reduce mycotoxin contamination mainly in Europe and China, where frequent and severe mycotoxin contaminations occur in crops, and where international trade of commodities and contaminated batches are increasing. MycoKey will address the major ...