Projects
Leuven One Health – KU Leuven One Health Institute KU Leuven
Planet Earth and its inhabitants are facing major challenges that transcend the boundaries of classically defined scientific disciplines. These challenges are interconnected and mutually reinforcing each other, involving and affecting humans, animals and the environment. The One Health (OH)
approach, which is featured ever more prominently on the agenda of international bodies (WHO, FAO, UNEP, WHOA, EU) recognizes that the health of ...
Study of the effects and impact of the project Health for All 2002-2019 KU Leuven
This study combines three types of objectives:
evaluation objective on the effects and impact of the project on local actors (including beneficiaries) and on national actors
objective of understanding the dynamics of membership and recovery of contributions
prospective objective about the roles and functions of actors for mutual development
Assisted Living Technologies for the health tourism sector KU Leuven
The ALHTOUR project aims to strengthen and stimulate scientific excellence, and innovation capacity in technologies for independent living, applied to the health tourism at UL (Portugal) , by preparing for the set-up of a “Health Tourism Living Lab”, identified as a key driver for territorial development. The Twinning action will activate a process of knowledge transfer which leverages on academic excellence of KUL (Belgium), UM (Netherlands) ...
Human Centric Lighting: Exploiting opportunities or waiting passively? - HBC.2018.0018 KU Leuven
Actors
- KU Leuven (Department of Electrical Engineering/ESAT) - Light & Lighting Laboratory
- Howest - Applied Health Sciences
The shift to Human Centric Lighting (HCL)
LED lighting and new sensors make it possible to dynamically change the spectrum (and intensity) of the emitted light. In addition, recent scientific literature shows that light can have an influence (both positive and negative) ...
Archaeological Exploration of the Bronze Age Site of Sissi (Crete): towards a Study of Minoan social Organisation. KU Leuven
The Experience of Lying: designing architecture for a wholesome hospital environment. KU Leuven
Hospital buildings tend to be experienced by patients from a, for architects, atypical perspective, namely lying in a hospital bed. This altered perspective has a significant impact on patients’ spatial experience. Gaining insight into this experience is for most architects not trivial, but crucial if they are to design truly patient-centred hospitals.
This PhD research started from a twofold aim. The first aim was to gain insight into ...
Balancing Innovation With Optimization in Oncology: Avenues for Bridging the Cancer Clinical Research Gap KU Leuven
Cancer is an umbrella term referring to a group of debilitating and potentially fatal diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and eventual spread of cells that have undergone genetic mutations. Together, these diseases pose an enormous burden on healthcare systems worldwide, killing millions of people each year, and costing the global economy close to a trillion dollars annually. There are various therapeutic modalities available to ...
Strategic Institutional Partnership with University of the Western Cape: Pathways for South/North exchange in Research Capacity and Learning. Ghent University
The SIP programme with the University of the Western Cape continues on a path of reciprocity in exchange, focusing on research capacity and mutual learning. The focus continues to be on the initiation and support for joint doctoral projects which are shaped around discipline-anchored research themes and foster the relevance of strategic N/S-capacity in a context of globalisation. The envisaged programme is committed to continuing and ...
Responsive Spaces: towards a design practice of multipolar creative places KU Leuven
RESPONSIVE SPACES
towards a design practice of multipolar creative spaces
During the last decade there has been a noticeable increase in hybridisation within the arts. The mutual influence of disciplines such as performance, visual art, media art and social practices has led to the development of a wide variety of new artistic languages and formats. What characterises a significant part of this movement is a fundamental ...