Projects
Employment rights and labour protection in the on-demand economy KU Leuven
This research proposals investigates the impact of the so-called "on-demand","gig" or "platform" economy on labour protection. This includes forms of work executed online via platforms such as the Amazon Mechanical Turk and Clickworker or working activities channelled by companies such as Uber or Deliveroo. These forms of work are rapidly spreading in many countries, affecting both developing and developed economies. They provide firms and ...
Global subscription-Video on Demand services in Europe, and how they re-shape sustainability and content of small television markets. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Amazon Prime are said to be reshaping existing practices of audiovisual production and distribution. These players allow new forms of revenue and outlets, yet they also put pressure on existing forms of financing, most notably from broadcasters. Especially small markets seem to take the hardest hit: players like Netflix compete head-on with local broadcasters and ...
3D printing point-of-care diagnostics driven by capillary flow KU Leuven
Healthcare takes a central role in society, as it promotes general physical and mental wellbeing of people, next to contributing to a country’s economy, development, and industrialization. Over the last centuries, healthcare has evolved from home remedies towards providing health services from central places like hospitals, which serve both as a treatment facilities and research centers. Nonetheless, this is not affordable nor accessible to ...
Scalable and Secure Data Sharing (MOZAIK). University of Antwerp
MOZAIK: Scalable and Secure Data Sharing KU Leuven
We aim to build a scalable and secure data platform for privacy-aware analytics methods for
sharing of personal and proprietary/commercial/industrial data which enables a dynamic data
market and economy.
We will develop:
• a software implementation of a secure and privacy-friendly distributed IoT-data collection and
analytics system for the whole data cycle, from data generation up to data sharing, filling ...
Capacities for Resilient and Inclusive Urban Public Transport Infrastructure and Built Environment Vrije Universiteit Brussel
benefits and enhancing economic viability. It remains unclear how socially just these attempts and their outcomes are in terms of
who benefits (distribution), whose needs are considered (recognition), who decides and how (participation). The close relationship
between the built environment and ...
Credit Supply Shocks and the Effect on Labour Force Composition. Ghent University
The goal of this project is to analyse the effect of banks’credit supply on employment and
workforce composition; i.e., on firms’decisions to employ blue vs. white collar workers, to train
their staff, or to offer long- vs. short-term contracts. We propose to estimate this effect for the
Belgian economy, and to characterise heterogeneity across a variety of bank, firm, and job
characteristics. ...