Projects
CitiesInFood: Cities and citizens innovate for sustainable food systems KU Leuven
CitiesInFood (CIF) is an innovation action which advances citizen-driven urban food innovations to foster the development of sustainable food systems through Living Labs in 15 European cities and beyond. The project design is informed by a comprehensive stakeholder survey, through which 4 urban food system challenges emerged: 1) Enhancing circular food economies; 2) Improving access to affordable and healthy food; 3) Reconnecting producers ...
Mobilising citizens for vital cities Ljubljana-Gent-Zagreb-Brno-Porto Ghent University
The project consists of supportive actions and objectives to achieve a more substainable, clean and energy efficient urben transport system in the cities Ljubljana, Ghent, Zagreb, Brno and Porto. Ghent University is the responsible partner for the implementation of B30 (mixture of 30% biodiesel) in the captive fleets of public organisations in Ghent region. This measure covers: preparatory work on the removal of the financial tax-barrier for ...
Citizen journalism as a challenge to traditional media. In pursuit of a typology for citizen media and their influence on traditional journalistic models Ghent University
In the past years new possibilities have emerged for ordinary citizen to act as journalists, particularly on the internet. The goal of our research is on the one hand to map those technologies and to discover their journalistic surplus. On the other hand, the organizational reaction of traditional media to those technologies is studied.
Citizen Science - Citizen Talk Ghent University
Citizen Participation in e-Government: Management Tools Development KU Leuven
Governments around the world now use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the delivery of services and information to their users (citizens, businesses or other governmental bodies). In literature, the application of ICT in this context has been labelled as “e(lectronic)-government”. Similarly than with other industries, the governance model in government has also evolved: ICT empowered the citizens, often relegated to ...
Electronic governance as a conductor for citizen engagement in public administration KU Leuven
Problem definition Electronic governance (e-governance) is considered one of the most critical and rapidly changing components of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) strategy in countries around the world. Government administrations have clearly acknowledged the importance of e-governance to successfully convey information and provide services to citizens, organizations, and policymakers in an effective and efficient manner. (1) At ...
Citizen Science: VLINDER Ghent University
Land use (e.g. buildings, forests,...) has a significant impact on the atmosphere. Given the increasing spatial resolution of atmospheric models, understanding the land-atmosphere interaction gains importance. But reliable weather observations are mostly limited to rural and open landscapes.The VLINDER project, operational since December 2019, aims at filling this gap by building a regionwide climate monitoring network measuring in all ...