Projects
CitiesInFood: Cities and citizens innovate for sustainable food systems KU Leuven
CitiesInFood (CIF) is an innovation action which advances citizen-driven urban food innovations to foster the development of sustainable food systems through Living Labs in 15 European cities and beyond. The project design is informed by a comprehensive stakeholder survey, through which 4 urban food system challenges emerged: 1) Enhancing circular food economies; 2) Improving access to affordable and healthy food; 3) Reconnecting producers ...
Social-economic Impacts of Renewable Solar Mini-grids for rural Communities in Tanzania - Analysis and Policy Improvement. Hasselt University
QuadrupleP: Microbial protein for people, planet and profit. University of Antwerp
KU Leuven Institute for Energy and Society (KIES) KU Leuven
KIES's mission is twofold.
First, we aim to establish an interdisciplinary analysis and 'evidence-based' exchange of views on the technical and societal challenges linked to the energy transition. The KIES will be a 'central point of contact' and create an 'interaction atmosphere' between all (interested) energy-related academics of KU Leuven. The KIES will become a creative KU Leuven 'incubator' or 'breeding ground' for formulating ...
Transparency in processing health data for public and private funded scientific research Ghent University
Development of new diagnostics tools, therapeutic devices and drugs are increasingly supported by collection and access to clinical, research and so called Real World Data (RWD). Processing of personal data may fall under various lawful grounds such as consent, public interest or legitimate interest, and should be in compliance with the principles of data protection including “lawfulness, fairness and transparency”. Regardless of what is ...
Healthy Transitions between Preconception, Pregnancy & Parenthood (HTP3) KU Leuven
University of California, Berkeley - UGent Partnership Ghent University
This strategic institutional partnership brings together the research capacity and expertise at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and Ghent University to explore and test interdisciplinary responses to global challenges. This partnership builds on the legitimacy that all partners have demonstrated through their excellent research and technical collaboration with the public and private sector and international organizations. This ...
Sabbatical Peggy Valcke: SPARKLE+ KU Leuven
Echoing the statements made about the Internet thirty years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is today claimed to have transformative powers in all sectors of society. AI will pervade, and actually is already pervading, every part of business, government, human interaction and communication, changing the information that we receive, the choices that we make, and the ways in which our societies function. Even though it is absolutely essential ...
Mobile storage as for the network of the future Ghent University
The essence of this project proposal is to find out how mobile storage of EVs and charging infrastructure can offer an alternative to household batteries in the current context to reduce network congestion and increase the self-consumption of prosumers. The result should gain a better understanding of whether a private investment in an electric car and the current advanced ...