Projects
Prevention of suicide in young people in Nigeria: Research towards an encultured training and prevention model for Nigerian chaplains KU Leuven
In Nigeria suicide is surrounded by taboos and hits the group of young people hard. Religion plays a major role in the lives of Nigerians, yet cultural research on the relationship between religion and suicide is lacking. Effective methods of training and prevention are consequently absent within the Nigerian Catholic Church. Within the Nigerian culture and Catholic religion research will be done on what it means to young people to have a ...
OBPWO 2022 - Building blocks for the training and professionalisation of (dual) VET teachers Ghent University
More knowledge related to the design of powerful learning environments within technical and vocational education that combines input from schools and workplaces is necessary. Investing in the continuing professional development of the diverse profiles of teachers in these context (e.g. second career teacher, dual teacher) and their specific needs is crucial. This is not a task of the individual, but a team effort for which many partners are ...
The effectiveness and generalisability of innovative taskspecific training of distinct fall-resisting skills in older adults Hasselt University
Preliminary NT2 training for fast learning non-native non-working job seekers Ghent University
Disadvantaged residents of the City of Ghent who want to follow an intensive NT2 program at UGent are screened by In-Gent, commissioned by the City of Ghent, and forwarded to UCT. These are highly educated people who on the one hand want to prepare themselves for academic studies in Dutch and on the other hand want to increase their chances on the labor market through a better command of Dutch.
Task-based, high intensity bilateral training programs on upper limb function in adults with early subacute stroke in West Africa. Hasselt University
European Training Network to Diagnose, Understand and Treat Stargardt Disease, a Frequent Inherited Blinding Disorder - StarT Ghent University
This project deals with the assessment of the non-coding morbid genome as a possible source of hidden variation in ABCA4-associated disease, and with the functional interrogation of non-coding variants located in cis-regulatory elements and non-coding RNAs to understand disease pathogenesis. Results from this project will provide novel insight into gene regulation and IRD pathogenesis, which may ultimately entail therapeutic perspectives.
Adaptive Behaviour Training for People with Intellectual Disabilities KU Leuven
European Training Network to Diagnose, Understand and Treat Stargardt Disease, a Frequent Inherited Blinding Disorder - StarT Ghent University
This project aims to map the cis-regulatory landscape of ABCA4 and to characterize ultraconserved non-coding elements in human retina and retinal pigment epithelium. This is achieved by highresolution chromatin interaction profiling (UMI-4C, HiChIP) and by the integration of multi-omics bulk
and single-cell datasets. Ultimately this may gain insight into missing heritability of inherited retinal diseases (IRD) such as ABCA4-associated ...