Projects

Conflict-related sexual violence is a complex phenomenon affecting lives of millions of people around the world, who either became its direct victims or whose communities suffered from its consequences. However, unlike many other international crimes, as of now conflict-related sexual violence did not receive proper recognition at the international level, be it a special international treaty or comprehensive caselaw of international courts ...

Belgian municipalities can obtain a financial allowance from the Minister of the Interior for the implementation of their local prevention policy if they submit a strategic safety and prevention plan (hereinafter: SVPP) that meets a number of predetermined legal conditions. The current legal conditions are set out in the Royal Decree of 7 November 2013 on strategic safety and prevention plans and the Community Guards instructions. The ...

The world barely recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, when in May 2022, it was again caught off

guard by an unprecedented outbreak of mpox, caused by subclade IIb of the mpox virus (MPXV).

However, for researchers active in Central or West Africa, the emergence of MPVX did not come as a

surprise. Indeed, over the last decades, clade I MPXV has been spreading increasingly in Africa,

leading to several large ...

CIRMET will lead to a new approach to hydrometallurgy, called “circular hydrometallurgy”, with a focus on the design of energy-efficient flowsheets or unit processes that consume a minimum amount of reagents and produce virtually no waste. CIRMET has the ambitious goal to replace the traditional, linear hydrometallurgical flowsheets for extraction and refining of the “energy-transition” metals cobalt and nickel into a next-generation, ...

Stroke is the number 1 cause of disability in the United States and a global public health problem. Globally, approximately 15 million people suffer a stroke each year, leading to 5 million deaths and another 5 million patients who suffer permanent disability from their stroke. Strokes that are caused by blockage of large blood vessels supplying blood to the brain are typically the most disabling.  Over the last 5 ...

The main goal of this project is to gather empirical data to further support and nurture both university-wide and local research policies in stimulating an integer research environment. For this purpose, an instrument will be developed to measure how researchers themselves evaluate the research culture at KU Leuven. On the basis thereof, well-founded improvement strategies can - where necessary - be developed bottom-up and at the various ...

With the rapid increase in technological means for personal information capture and surveillance and the use of Artificial Intelligence, there is growing challenge to establishing and maintaining individual privacy. One important factor contributing to the erosion of privacy is the growth in biometric person recognition technologies. Another is the increasing possibility for extensive data mining, allowing for the aggregation, linkage and ...