Projects
Future Flemish Pigs: Towards pork production and collaboration along the chain to satisfy consumers and society Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
How can we combine innovations in the pig sector in the domains of genetics, animal nutrition, slaughter and processing in Piétrain crossbred fattening pigs? This research question is central to the Future Flemish Pig research project. Through a multidisciplinary research approach, we are also looking for ways to contribute in the long term to the role of fattening pigs in circular agro-food ...
Scientific support center for youth and youth research platform JOP (2021-2025) KU Leuven
The Youth Research Platform was originally founded in 2003. The Youth Research Platform is an interdisciplinary and interuniversitary cooperation between the research groups of Social Welfare (University of Ghent), the department of Sociology (University of Brussels) and the Research Line Youth Criminology and Juvenile Justice (Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven).
We unlock Flemish youth research, both by constructing an online ...
Narrow Network Health Plans: Effects on Access, Cost, Quality, Selection and Bargaining KU Leuven
Health insurers are increasingly offering insurance plans with fewer in-network providers than before, or “narrow network plans.” This recent but rapid trend started in the United States and it is expanding to Europe. Narrow network plans can reduce costs, by leading patients to low cost providers and changing the bargaining power of insurers and providers. However, they could also be harmful for consumers if insurers use them to ...
Investment in public transport: a real options approach University of Antwerp
Modern Churches for the Campine Area. The Religious Architecture of René Van Steenbergen. KU Leuven
The architect René Van Steenbergen (° 1911 - 1995) was very active in the Campine area during the post-war period. His oeuvre counts not less than 800 items and covers in his diversity all programs of the post-war Welfare State. In addition to many single-family homes, he built dozens of schools, church buildings, offices, business buildings, sports complexes and hospitals. Where he used a rather traditional form of postwar after the Second ...
Development opportunities based on node value and level of facilities, situation 2019 Departement of spatial development, environment, energy, climate, green economy, animal welfare
Youth Care Research. University of Antwerp
The legal position of private care organisations in the residential care for the elderly. A comparative analysis of the freedom of functioning of private care organisations. KU Leuven
Towards tertiary micropollutants removal by bioaugmented moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs) and nanofiltration (NF) KU Leuven
Summary
Prevailing trends in global development, specifically the increases in population, urbanization, economic welfare, and use of chemicals, results in increased pressures on the quality of water. Today, when water supply intakes are downstream of wastewater treatment plants, most existing water quality standards are met while micropollutants (MPs) of the treated effluent are often seen as a serious problem. To reduce the release of ...