Titel Promotor Affiliaties "Korte inhoud" "Exploring the Future of Global Food and Nutrition Security" "Jo Swinnen" "Onderzoeksgroep Ontwikkelingseconomie, Leuven" "One of the biggest challenges facing global society today is the widespread and growing presence of hunger and food insecurity. Foodsecure aims at improving the resilience of the food system, by providing a means to mitigate risks and uncertainties in the world food system caused by economic and climatic shocks while providing for sustainable economic growth." "Restorative justice, urban security and social inclusion: a new European approach." "Ivo Aertsen" "Leuvens Instituut voor Criminologie" "Het project 'Restorative justice, urban security and social inclusion' wordt uitgevoerd in het westen van Sicilië en wordt gecoördineerd door CRESM (Centro di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali, Gibellina). Het project richt zich op de volgende domeinen: (1) bewustmaking van lokale actoren voor het herstelrecht en slachtoffergerichte benaderingen van criminaliteit, (2) training in slachtofferhulp en herstelrechtelijke praktijken, (3) de implementatie van slachtofferhulp en bemiddelingsprogramma's, en (4) 'monitoring' en evaluatie. De rol van de KU Leuven betreft de wetenschappelijke ondersteuning en supervisie van het project, hoofdzakelijk op het vlak van de training, met inbegrip van de uitwerking van een handboek voor slachtofferhulp en het gebruik van herstelrechtelijke modellen." "Cyber Security Incident handling, waarschuwing en responssysteem voor de Europese kritieke infrastructuur" "Anton Vedder" "Onderzoekseenheid KU Leuven Centrum voor IT & IE Recht" "In the digital era, Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are operating under the premise of robust and reliable ICT components, complex ICT infrastructures and emerging technologies and are transforming into Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs) that can offer a high degree of flexibility, scalability, and efficiency in the communication and coordination of advanced services and processes. The increased usage of information technology in modern CIIs means that they are becoming more vulnerable to the activities of hackers and other perpetrators of cyber-related crime (cyber criminals). Several recent studies have shown that the landscape of cyber threats is changing continuously and the nature of attacks of this sort are evolving, involving a great degree of persistence and (technical) sophistication.In addition to this, barriers to entry for would-be cyber criminals are falling rapidly, and nowadays, the attackers have a range of (technical) capabilities and substantial resources at their disposal, since malware and malware-as-a service become more easily and cheaply available through various means and sources (such as Dark Web, Deep Web). Thus, a variety of advanced techniques and tools (e.g. social engineering techniques and zero-day exploits programs) are available and can be used by the cyber criminals to initiate advanced targeted attacks. These threats employ multiple technologies and malware, deployed in multiple stages, to bypass traditional security mechanisms in order to penetrate an organization’s defenses. The attack vectors vary significantly including Application-Layer, Social Engineering Unauthorized Access, Malicious Code, and Reconnaissance and Networking-based service attacks that target applications, host and client operating systems, and even networking equipment. In this vein, the attackers use these techniques to get valuable data assets, such as financial transaction information, user credentials, insider information etc." "Security engineering for lifelong evolvable systems (SecureChange)." "Wouter Joosen" "Afdeling Informatica" "Security Cloud voor voeding" "Liesbeth Jacxsens" "Vakgroep Levensmiddelentechnologie, Voedselveiligheid en Gezondheid, STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, The Hyve (Netherlands), NUTRITICS LIMITED, PREMOTEC GMBH, SCALE FOCUS AD, ISEKI-FOOD - EUROPAISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR DIE INTEGRATION DER LEBENSMITTELWISSINSCHAFT UND -TECHNOLGIE IN DIE LEBENSMITTELVERSORGUNGSKETTE, LIFELY SRL, DE LA CUEVA GONZALEZ COTERA JAVIER, RTDS - VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG DER KOMMUNIKATION UND VERMITTLUNG VON FORSCHUNG, TECHNOLOGIE UND INNOVATION, HYLOBATES CONSULTING SRL, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IN NUTRITION RESEARCH, ZAVOD ZA IDENTIFIKACIJO IN ELEKTRONSKO IZMENJAVO PODATKOV GS1 SLOVENIJA" "FNS-Cloud zal fragmentatieproblemen overwinnen door bestaande FNS-gegevens te integreren, wat essentieel is voor hoogwaardig, pan-Europees FNS-onderzoek, dat zich richt op FNS, voeding, gezondheid en consumentengedrag, alsook op duurzame landbouw en de bio-economie. De huidige gefragmenteerde FNS-middelen leiden niet alleen tot lacunes in de kennis die de volksgezondheid en het landbouwbeleid belemmeren, en de voedingsindustrie om effectieve oplossingen te ontwikkelen, de productie duurzamer te maken en de consumptie gezonder te maken, maar maken ook niet de exploitatie van FNS-kennis ten behoeve van de Europese burgers mogelijk. FNS-Cloud zal, door middel van drie Demonstrators; Agri-Food, Nutrition & Lifestyle en NCDs & the Microbiome om te vergemakkelijken: (1) Analyses van regionale en landspecifieke verschillen in voeding, waaronder voeding, (epi) genetica, microbiota, consumentengedrag, cultuur en levensstijl en hun effecten op de gezondheid ( obesitas, NCD's, etnische en traditionele voedingsmiddelen), die essentieel zijn voor de volksgezondheid en het agrovoedings- en gezondheidsbeleid; (2) beter begrip van landbouwverschillen binnen Europa en wat deze betekenen in termen van het creëren van een duurzaam, veerkrachtig voedselsysteem voor gezonde voeding; en (3) duidelijke definities van grenzen en hoe deze de samenstelling van voedingsmiddelen en consumentenkeuzes en, uiteindelijk, persoonlijke en volksgezondheid in de toekomst beïnvloeden. De duurzaamheid op lange termijn van de FNS-Cloud zal worden gebaseerd op Services die de capaciteit hebben om te linken met nieuwe bronnen en onderlinge overspraak mogelijk te maken; toegang tot FNS-Cloud-gegevens zal open access zijn, ondersteund door FAIR-principes (vindbaar, toegankelijk, interoperabel en herbruikbaar). FNS-Cloud zal nauw samenwerken met de voorgestelde onderzoeksinfrastructuur voor voeding, voeding en gezondheid (FNHRI), evenals METROFOOD-RI en andere bestaande ESFRI-RI's (bijv. ELIXIR, ECRIN) waarbij verschillende FNS-Cloud-begunstigden rechtstreeks betrokken zijn." "Preparatory action to Boost Global Crop Yield for Food & Nutrition Security and fueling a Bioeconomy" "Hilde Nelissen, Inze Dirk" "Inzé and Nelissen Lab" "Understanding of the molecular networks regulating plant organ growth and crop productivity, detailed analysis of genes and networks underlying organ growth of Arabidopsis and maize as well as a functional analysis of perturbation of these genes." "Changing Multilateralism: The EU as a Global-regional Actor in Security and Peace." "Jan Wouters" "Instituut voor Internationaal Recht" "Investigating if recuperating hepatic macrophage numbers and functions in chronic fibrosis can limit the incidence and severity of infections." "Charlotte Scott" "Scott Lab" "Unravelling heterogeneity and function within myeloid cells particularly in the context of tissue damage and Inflammation in mice and humans, research in myeloid cells in the liver and intestine and the potential links between these two organs." "Antropologie van menselijke veiligheid in Afrika." "Filip De Boeck" "Sociale en Culturele Antropologie (OE)" "ANTHUSIA is a multi-disciplinary EJD in the Anthropology of Human Security in Africa proposed by a consortium of four universities in Aarhus, Edinburgh, Leuven and Oslo. Combining competences from Anthropology, Human Security and African Studies It aims to foster talent relevant to current challenges and potentials of developing safe societies in Africa. By exploring different areas from a human security perspective, the research will provide insights into problems such as expanding young populations, accelerated urbanisation, unequally distributed growth, recurring conflicts, persistent health problems, and refugee insecurity. A human security perspective shifts the focus from the security of nation states to the safety and well-being of humans in their everyday lives. Human security problems, as well as growth rates in Africa have obvious ramifications for European home security and economy. Refugee crises due to human insecurity in the African continent are likely to continue evolving in the future.We propose 15 ESR projects converging in a comprehensive understanding of human security. These address epidemics, borderlands, infrastructure, economic/livelihood security, environmental/climate change, land and resource issues, and political security – and the inter-linkages between them.To enhance the research findings’ policy impact, ANTHUSIA has partnered with organizations offering secondments, and will train them to do innovative dissemination. ANTHUSIA’s central African hub is the British Institute of East Africa, which will host workshops and summer schools.Each ESR is supervised by two senior researchers from two universities, will do one year of empirical research in Africa, including 3-5 months of secondment, participate in PhD courses and disseminate research in a thesis as well as articles, presentations, and policy briefs using visual media. The ESRs will be awarded a joint doctoral degree from the two universities, where the supervisors are based." "Beveiliging In vertrouwde SCADA en smart-gids" "Mia Hubert" "Statistiek en Datawetenschappen" "In traditional industrial control systems and critical infrastructures, security was implicitly assumed by the reliance on proprietary technologies (security by obscurity), physical access protection and disconnection from the Internet. The massive move, in the last decade, towards open standards and IP connectivity, the growing integration of Internet of Things technologies, and the disruptiveness of targeted cyber-attacks, calls for novel, designed-in, cyber security means. Taking an holistic approach, SCISSOR designs a new generation SCADA security monitoring framework, comprising four layers:a monitoring layer supporting traffic probes providing programmable traffic analyses up to layer 7, new ultra low cost/energy pervasive sensing technologies, system and software integrity verification, and smart camera surveillance solutions for automatic detection and object classificationa control and coordination layer adaptively orchestrating remote probes/sensors, providing a uniform representation of monitoring data gathered from heterogeneous sources, and enforcing cryptographic data protection, including certificate-less identity/attribute-based encryption schemesa decision and analysis layer in the form of an innovative SIEM fed by both highly heterogeneous monitoring events as well as the native control processes’ signals, and supporting advanced correlation and detection methodologiesa human-machine layer devised to present in real time the system behavior to the human end user in a simple and usable manner.SCISSOR’s framework will leverage easy-to-deploy cloud-based development and integration, and will be designed with resilience and reliability in mind (no single point of failure). SCISSOR will be assessed via i) an off-field SCADA platform, to highlight its ability to detect and thwart targeted threats, and ii) an on-field, real world deployment within a running operational smart grid, to showcase usability, viability and deployability."