Projects
Housing firs Belgium. KU Leuven
Evaluation of the development of new methodologies for the process of social connection among the users of Housing First.
SDG Voice 2020. University of Antwerp
Smart Cultural Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development of European Regions KU Leuven
SmartCulTour aims to support regional development in European regions, with special attention to rural peripheries and the urban fringe, through sustainable cultural tourism. The project redefines cultural tourism through a contemporary lens and provides a comprehensive measurement framework for supply, demand and impacts. In order to support knowledge-led destination management, a decision-support system (DSS) will be developed for ...
Exposome project for health and occupational research KU Leuven
Exposures at the workplace contribute to many non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with a similar magnitude as urban air pollution or obesity. Given the associated societal and economic (2-6% GDP) pressure, ensuring a healthy work environment is a strategic goal for the European Commission. Demographic changes (aging workforce, female workers) and the rapidly changing nature of work with respect to secure employment and migration, are posing ...
GRAY – Ghent University Research for “Aging Young”. Ghent University
GRAY is an impact-focused interdisciplinary consortium aimed at boosting healthy aging by excellent translational research, societal outreach and valorization of novel solutions, interventions, products and services. GRAY brings together expertise in health promotion, environment and urbanism, adaptive technology and fundamental research in the scope of aging and closes the gap between science and society.
MAD² Futures for a Mad World/ Participatory Experiential Futures for Inclusive and Sustainable (So)Ci(e)ties KU Leuven
MAD² Futures for a Mad World
/Participatory Experiential Futures for Inclusive and Sustainable (So)Ci(e)ties
Today's societal, cultural, ecological challenges are characterized by accelerating change, increasing uncertainty, complexity, contradictions, and chaos. More than ever we need to explore new approaches for navigating the present and shaping the future. Several grassroots artivist initiatives experiment with ...
IOF mandate Faculty of Business Economics (BEW) 2019-2023 Hasselt University
Innovative governance systems for built cultural heritage, based on traditional Andean organisational principles in Ecuador. KU Leuven
The project seeks to deepen the understanding of and activate the traditional Andean knowledge on organisational principles / collective management in the South-Eastern Ecuadorian Highlands. Through a planned process of ca-pacity building among university partners and synergies with Belgian NGOs active in the region, evidence-based and partially validated guidelines for local collective governance of these threatened cultural heritage and ...
Mobility as the human face of climate change: Analysing heterogeneity in climate migration andpolicy frameworks Ghent University
The project first seeks to improve our understanding of the way climate (both sudden and slow onset hazards) influences migration behavior (both internally and internationally) differently across countries. Second, it will map the heterogeneous policy response to climate migration at various
levels (national, bilateral and regional) as well as differences in its effectiveness across countries.