Projects
The Societal Embedding of Geoparks: A Critical Research on Landscape Values in Geoparks KU Leuven
UNESCO Global Geoparks are set to implement holistic management of areas of international geological significance and to achieve endogenous regional development. The management of geoparks requires the involvement of all relevant stakeholders and authorities. However, the strategies when establishing geoparks are often based on the visions of scientists and policymakers, with limited opportunities for other stakeholders to collaborate in the ...
Validation of positioning tests for higher STEM education – an argument-based approach KU Leuven
Choosing a higher education study program is no small feat. In Flanders, prospective students have 602 initial Bachelor’s programs to choose from. It can be difficult for them to assess the match or mismatch between their interests and starting competencies on the one hand, and the content of the study programs and expected level of those starting competencies on the other hand. With few exceptions, admission to Flemish higher education is ...
Handling technology with care: The introduction of next-generation sequencing in diagnostic clinical practice KU Leuven
When the human genome was first mapped at the beginning of the 2000s, the expectations for its impact on our understanding of human health and clinical care were high. The gained knowledge and related enthusiasm for future achievements propelled the development of faster and more cost-effective DNA sequencing techniques. This Next Generation of Sequencing (NGS) allows big components, or even the whole human genome, to be mapped in a rapid, ...
PRECISION FERTILIZER: precision fertilization with animal manure KU Leuven
Problem statement
After several manure action plans the Flemish manure problem remains urgent. The percentage of red MAP measurement points where the threshold limit of 50 mg nitrate per liter surface water was exceeded in the winter year 2015-2016 remained at 20%. The norm for phosphate was exceeded in 77% of the measurement points. In 2015, als 33% of the measurement points for freatic ground water exceeded the nitrate limits. So, ...
Modeling complex business perceptions using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Hasselt University
Blue BALANCE: Sustainable Economic Development of Flemish Coastal Areas For All Ghent University
General goal
The BLUE BALANCE project aims to create support among citizens and tourists for sustainable economic activities along the coast (including coastal protection, blue food, renewable energy, ports and tourism).
As the coastal region has already gone through numerous communication and citizen participation processes regarding the sustainable transition we are facing, the project aims to gain a good insight into the ...
Putting specificational there-clefts on the map: a data-based investigation of their grammar, semantics, prosody and pragmatics KU Leuven
In the mainstream literature on English, there-clefts have been very much neglected. Only presentational-eventive there-clefts, which introduce a whole new event, have been recognized, e.g.
"there’s a family of brush turkeys have moved in."
In this project, we will develop grammatical, prosodic and semantic-pragmatic arguments, grounded in a strongly data-based approach, for recognizing specificational there-clefts, i.e. ...
Correlation between objective and subjective descriptors of a lit indoor environnment KU Leuven
Lost in interpretation? Multilingualism and school-based language policies in primary education KU Leuven
Educational innovation is omnipresent. Schools and teachers are frequently faced with new policies and projects that aim to set the bar high and close the gap between low and high achievers. How are these educational innovations interpreted and translated to local school contexts by various stakeholders? This question is central to this research, which looks into the educational innovation project “Validiv” (Valorising Linguistic Diversity). ...