Projects
H2020: RIA : Search and Rescue : Emerging technologies for the Early location of Entrapped victims under Collapsed Structures and Advanced Wearables for risk assessment and First Responders Safety in SAR operations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
COncORDE and IMPRESS FP7 projects
Smart@Fire U+2013 Integrated ICT solutions for smart personal protective equipment for fire fighters and first responders Ghent University
The project tackles the challenge of how to increase the safety of fire fighters and first responders through combining innovative ICT solutions for smart monitoring with personal protective equipment (PPE).
Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) will enable procurers to integrate the newest not yet on the market technologies in the PPE of the future.
European Integrated Research Training Network on Advanced Cryptographic Technologies for the Internet of Things and the Cloud. KU Leuven
Summary
The goal of this ETN is to develop advanced cryptographic techniques for the Internet of Things and the Cloud and to create implementations that offer a high level of security and increased usability, for a wide range of physical computation platforms. The ITN will equip a group of 15 early stage researchers with a set of interdisciplinary skills combining mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering that will ...
A new state-of-the-art motion capturing system for testing new emerging offshore and coastal engineering technologies in the new "Coastal & Ocean wave Basin (COB)" in Ostend Ghent University
In view of the new EU Green Deal and the EU’s climate and clean energy ambition for 2030, we target the renewable ocean energy and offshore wind challenges. This is why the new Coastal & Ocean wave Basin (COB) in Belgium is integrated in MARINERG-i, a first step to an independent legal entity of internationally distributed testing infrastructures for Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE). MARINERG-i will strengthen scientific excellence, ...
Apps for cops: a realist evaluation of the impact of mobile information technology on police decision-making and on police-citizen interactions KU Leuven
Police services have increasingly embraced digitalization in recent years, and the offered technologies have become more sophisticated. The digitalization of the police is a frequently discussed topic in academic literature as well. While there is already a considerable amount of research on the impact of various technologies, this primarily focuses on their impact in terms of performance (e.g. effectiveness or efficiency). Much less is known ...
Biosensors and high-throughput engineering for the production of secondary plant metabolites with flavones as proof-of-concept product class in E.coli Ghent University
Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering are becoming increasingly vital to sustain as well as revolutionise our current ways of life regarding fossil fuel dependency, deteriorating biodiversity, environmental pollution, human and animal health and space exploration.
These biological engineering disciplines are propelled by the fast and efficient DNA readand-write technologies which are used to, e.g., generate immense libraries of ...
The search for biomarkers in systemic treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. KU Leuven
The combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors with anti-angiogenic agents has revolutionized the treatment landscape of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). As more therapies become available, each effective in a, yet undefined, subgroup of patients, managing advanced HCC well has become increasingly complex. With the fast pace at which the landscape evolves and the lack of data on head to head comparisons of novel regimens, an ...
The role of functional imaging and molecular profiling in image guided highly conformal radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: towards a patient tailored treatment. KU Leuven
Decision Framework for Assembly System Reconfiguration - Assembly-Recon_SBO Ghent University
In a context of customization, current assembly system configurations typically result in suboptimal use of space and capex, as (1) they are not continuously operating at full potential (e.g., volume changes due to product growth, market fluctuations or end-of-life) and (2) they need to be drastically and regularly redesigned (eg new products or volume changes). Although Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) were proposed in 1999, much ...