Name Responsible Activity "Public Governance Institute" "Annie Hondeghem" "Careers and public personnel systems; task profiles and function description of the employees in Belgian medium-sized cities : study and development of standards for personnel; state of the art of personnel and finance in Belgian municipalities. Auditing and organizational analysis in public agencies and non-profit organizations; personnel policy-personnel management and human resources (career development, career planning) ; the organization of the civil service. Productivity, efficiency and affectiveness in public services. Political decision making. Training and management development programmes for higher civil servants. Changing profile of top civil servants; the politicization of the civil service; motivation of civil servants : a condition for an efficient and effective administration; fiscality : a comparative study of efficiency and effectivity of tax collecting agencies. In the field of public management, policy analysis, evaluation methods or techniques, public personnel management, the use of human resources, organizational analysis, organizational design, financial management and budgetting methods, public productivity, organizational auditing." "History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture" "Filip Mattens" "The division ‘Architecture and Society’ stands at the crossroads between engineering and the architectural sciences on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other, and uses a broad variety of relevant methodologies from these fields in an interdisciplinary perspective. Its research ranges from theory to practice and experimentation, across all spatial scales from the building element to the territorial, and through time from the past (history) to the future (planning). Its main areas of interest are: architectural history and conservation; architectural theory; planning and development. " "Organisation, policy and social inequalities in health care" "Mark Leys" "to do multidisiciplinary fundamental and applied (evaluation) research in following domains international comparative health systems research comparative health services research (organisational models and interorganisational networking) the use of technologies in health care socio-economic inequalities in health patient participation knowlegde transfer methodologies between reserach and policymakers focus on innovations in health systems and health service models in health care, focus on the city" "Work and Organizational Psychology" "Joeri Hofmans" "Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multi-Level Politics (ACIM)" "Jan Beyers" "ACIM's main focus of study is the impact of multi-level institutional configurations on changes in government and governance, policies and politics, and state-society relations. Typical for contemporary politics is its 'multilevelness'. This concept refers to the fact that interest representation, policymaking processes and accountability relations are no longer primarily confined to one single jurisdiction, i.e. the nation-state, but that political issues increasingly belong to multiple venues and may shift from one venue to another. The overarching starting point for ACIM is that during the past decades, institutional arrangements have been in a state of flux, meaning that many policy areas and government sectors seem to be in a state of permanent reform trying to adapt to all sorts of external pressures. Terms such as Europeanization, federalization or devolution, governance, privatization, globalization and so on, all refer to the broad array of institutional changes contemporary politics is undergoing. The growing importance of the EU as a supranational layer of governance, the regionalization of Belgium and devolution elsewhere in Europe, the increasing importance of international policy regimes are all concrete manifestations of these trends. We thus conceive of the multi-layered institutional context as one with multiple actors who compete and cooperate in order to shape public policymaking and who may shift from one venue to another in order to realize their political objectives. How this institutional context affects the nature of politics will make up the core of our research program. With respect to its disciplinary focus, ACIM will pursue an agenda that bridges the sub-disciplines of comparative politics, international relations and international political economy, covering EU politics, multilevel decision-making, non-state actors and interest groups in European, US and international politics, the latter especially in the field of trade and regulatory politics. Institutions, political organizations and multi-levelness are the key concepts that drive the research plan. ACIM will structure its research projects in three research lines, namely the politics of multi-level government, the politics of interest representation, and regulatory and judicial politics." "Computer Science Technology, Bruges Campus" "Research topics of the unit are:Test driven development of embedded softwareTesting for Simultaneous software executionFunctional Security of Embedded SoftwareResilience of Embedded Software in Interference-Sensitive Environments" "Department of Comparative physiology and biometrics" "The research focuses on developing new statistical methodology with veterinary applications. The main research topic consists of modeling the infection dynamics of infectious diseases based on the frailty model." "Doctoral Schools" "Five Doctoral Schools support doctoral students during their research training at Ghent University. The Doctoral Schools organise specialist courses and transferable skills seminars for PhD students." "Earth System Sciences" "The research is essentially focused on the physical environment of the Earth, its evoluation through time, and the interactions between the biosfere and the geosphere; The group carries out active research on a variety of themes: global changes, geosciences, physical geography, hydrology, archeology, oceanography biogeochemistry, remote sensing, geophysics. The accent is on two scientific approaches modeling and isotopic analyses." "Financing, entrepreneurship and reporting" "The research activity is aimed at getting insight in a large database of financial statements of Belgian companies, by means of econometric methods as factor analysis, discriminant analysis, logit and probit and other multivariate techniques applied to financial statement information. Special attention is paid to SME's, credit policy of the firm as well as growth phenomena. In a first stage the program is rather descriptive and exploratory. In a later stage the activities are more oriented towards explanatory research whereby data are analysed in the light of modern financial theories and models. Something will be looked at in an international context. A list of other current research topics is the following: * initial public offerings (S. Vandemaele); * target costing and Interoranizational Cost Management (A. Limère); * Credit scoring (A. Limère); * Determinants of growth in Belgian Companies (A. Limère, E. Laveren, R. Mercken, K. Vanhoof); * Financial Structure of SME┌s (W. Voordeckers). Analysis and development of intelligent systems in business and finance. Regional economic development, computer auditing, business planning for SME's, SME cycle analysis, effectiveness of SME-consultancy, maintenance analysis for SME's, case-based reasoning, simulation for educational purposes."