Research projects

FACTS stimulates citizenship by strengthening news literacy on sustainability and the environment within teacher education. The project provides students and lecturers with the tools to engage critically with news, counter misinformation, and understand the importance of reliable reporting in a democracy.

We study administrative processes in Public Social Welfare Centres (OCMWs). We examine how these processes affect the daily lives of beneficiaries and social workers. Our goal is to make OCMWs more administratively accessible, thereby improving access to social protection. This allows space to be reclaimed for the essence of social work: doing justice to every person’s human dignity. 

We are studying whether we can control the prey preference of the jellyfish so that these fish can be used to target non-native crayfish. Thus, we are developing a nature-based control method for these harmful exotic species.

In the research project WaardenVerkenner, research centre ExploRatio is developing a methodology to support teachers in making sensitive societal topics discussable in primary schools. This accessible methodology combines artistic approaches and philosophical dialogue techniques to encourage pupils to think critically about diverse perspectives within a safe classroom environment.
 

In the UlvaLaunch project, we are optimizing the cultivation of sea lettuce (Ulva) to reduce the ecological footprint and production costs, and we are identifying ways to develop a local seaweed supply chain in Flanders.

AEP-Pulse is building a circular future for aquaculture, insect and plant cultivation. The innovative Aqua-Entomo-Ponics (AEP) system intelligently reuses residual streams between sectors, leading to more sustainable and efficient production.