Projects
Campfires, Loops, and Oscillations in the Solar EUV atmosphere at Unprecedented Precision KU Leuven
The project is driven by three overarching science questions:
1. What is the physical nature of small-scale EUV brightenings?2. Can coronal wave seismology reveal the internal physics of EUV brightenings? 3. To which extent do EUV brightenings contribute to coronal heating?
These science questions translate to the following objectives of this project:
1. To study EUV brightenings systematically via a thorough analysis of the ...
Extensible Tools for Renewable ENergy Decision making KU Leuven
The main goal of E-TREND is the development and validation and demonstration of fast-engineering-based solutions to leverage weather forecasts and climate data for decision making purposes by Belgian stakeholders such as grid operators, renewable energy suppliers and balancing service providers. The aim is to consider the whole chain from weather forecasts and climate projections, enhanced with statistical post-processing techniques and ...
Transitioning to healthy diets from sustainable food systems in Belgium: Priority policy actions and their multiple sustainability impacts KU Leuven
In this project, novel tools and processes (food policy index, business impactassessment on nutrition and the environment) will be applied to evaluate in-depth, with strong stakeholder engagement and participation, the current policies of Belgian governments and the commitments and practices of major Belgian food businesses as well as to derive keypriority policies and their trajectory scenarios from farm to fork to create healthy diets from ...
Learning from the past: The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium - LEAP Ghent University
During the Early and Middle-Late Holocene at least eight abrupt centennial-scale Rapid Climate Change events (RCC) have occurred, which have been globally identified by recent climate records. However, still little is known about the effects and impact of these RCC’s on past societies and their ecosystems. This interdisciplinary LEAP project aims to document these rapid climate changes for Belgium in high resolution and assess the associated ...
Restoring carbon sinks in floodplains through different land use practices KU Leuven
Within this project, we aim to evaluate the potential of land use management practices within floodplains in general, and in Belgium in particular, as a climate mitigation tool through carbon capture and storage (CCS). This project combines a detailed insight in the present-day characteristics of carbon storage in floodplains with the dynamic nature of C in floodplain environments.
Closing the DAta gap to develop Land Surface MOdels for COngo Basin forests - DAMOCO Ghent University
The importance of accounting for ecosystem services was massively acknowledged on COP26. More than 100 World leaders promised to stop deforestation by 2030, and the EU specifically pledged to focus on protecting Congo Basin forests. This revealed an increasing global awareness that protecting climate-resistant, diverse, carbon-rich and CO2-absorbing areas such as the Congo Basin, is one of the most important nature-based solutions to halt ...
Deep learning based Extreme Rainfall and flood warnIngs through Seamless foreCasting KU Leuven
This project aims to use deep learning (DL) to generate rapidly updating, probabilistic seamless precipitation forecasts and reliable early warnings in a consistent framework.
COmbining Regional Downscaling EXpertise in Belgium II KU Leuven
National climate scenarios are the basis for climate policy, both for mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and for the design and implementation of adaptation measures. The former CORDEX.be produced Belgian climate scenarios based on three convection-permitting models (CPMs) run by four Belgian climate modeling groups. These scenarios formed the basis for several impact studies. For example, VITO studied the socio-economic ...
RE-BOrn: REturn to work after BurnOut Ghent University
Burn-out is an important public health issue, also in the Belgian federal administration. This co-funded project’s general and long-term aim is to reduce burn-out prevalence and improve re-integration after long-term absence within the Belgian federal administration. To realize this, the RE-BOrn project focuses on secondary and tertiary prevention of burn-out.