Projects
Resilience of (fiber) reinforced and precast concrete components and structures – experimental investigation and numerical reliability assessment KU Leuven
Quantifying resilience of traditional smallholder farming systems and natural resources in the context of conflict and war: A case study of Northern Ethiopia Ghent University
This project focuses on the rural livelihoods in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, which heavily relies on small-scale subsistence farming. However, sustainable resource management is hindered by limited resources, capacity, climate disruptions, and change. This leads to low agricultural productivity and high food insecurity. Despite progress over three decades, these gains were disrupted by a two-year war (2020-2022). The project's ...
Resilience of (fiber) reinforced and precast concrete components and structures – experimental investigation and numerical reliability assessment KU Leuven
As the most widely used construction material, concrete is ever present in our built environment. Through advances in materials and constructions and with more emphasis being placed on circular construction, traditional in-situ cast reinforced concrete has been supplemented with precast elements connected with (high-performance) fiber reinforced concrete infills. Within this research project, the structural behavior of precast and fiber ...
Industry 4.0 Resilience and Security through Field Data Monitoring KU Leuven
SPARCCLE : Socioeconomic Pathways, Adaptation and Resilience to Changing CLimate in Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
comprehensive assessments. This requires an enhanced understanding of the interdependencies between climate impacts, adaptation and
mitigation measures at high sectoral and spatial granularity, and the temporal evolution and the capacity of the broader socioeconomic
context to cope with the ...
Linking soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in different land uses: from the identification of drivers, pressures and climate change resilience to their economic valuation Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In what precise ways are soil organisms involved in the functioning of certain ecosystem services? The BIOSERVICES project is working to further elucidate external influences that stimulate or suppress biodiversity, relationships between key soil organisms and soil structure and other ecosystem functions. The effect of climate change on soil life stability and adaptation is also a focus of the researchers. ...
Improving Bees' Resilience to Stressors by Restoring Harmony and Balance Ghent University
This project aims to improve the resilience of beekeeping to abiotic stresses such as climate change, habitat loss and hazardous chemicals, and to understand the processes and mechanisms that apply in nature and to adapt modern beekeeping practices and decision making accordingly.
Improving Bees' Resilience to Stressors by Restoring Harmony and Balance KU Leuven
The overall aim of this 4-year BETTER-B project is to improve the resilience of beekeeping to abiotic stresses such as climate change, habitat loss and hazardous chemicals. Honey bee colonies are often poorly adapted to cope with these stresses, in no small part due to modern beekeeping practices. The key to resilient beekeeping is to harness the power of nature to restore harmony and balance inside the honey bee colony and between the colony ...
Strengthening Mental health And Resilience Through Schools (SMARTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
anxiety). Moreover, up to 20% of school-going youth have engaged in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). These prevalence rates have doubled since the COVID-19 outbreak. This mental health burden is
considerably greater in Urban youth, compared ...