Research projects

European member states are allowed to include a compensation for transaction costs in their payments for agri-environment-climate measures. In this study focus groups and interviews were done with experts (from home and abroad), farmers and consultancy firms to assess whether the current compensation given in Flanders is still accurate.

Verborgen thuisloosheid verwijst naar mensen die geen eigen en/of geschikte woning hebben maar die ook niet op straat leven of gebruik maken van erkende opvangstructuren. Er is nog weinig geweten over hun levensstijl maar het thema wint aan aandacht. De hypothese van het onderzoek is dat informele sociaalwerkpraktijken (bv. burgerinitiatieven, zelforganisaties en religieuze organisaties) een belangrijke rol spelen in de ondersteuning van (verborgen) thuislozen.

How can you learn to 'read' a city and understand its dynamics? What role should you play as a social worker in the interplay of forces between all those actors active in the city? We looked into it.

The determinants of long-lived family businesses are being investigated. The results will culminate in a research paper.

'Grenzeloos ondernemen' examines the conditions and barriers to doing business across the border, specifically in the Flanders-Netherlands border region.

The project 'Entrepreneurial Aalst' concerns a bridge project education-business, financed by the Flemish Government within the Strategic Plan STEM 2012-2020. It wants to build a bridge between education and business by organizing an Entrepreneur Award, Ideacafé's and other activities.

This project examines what digital competencies are required for the future workforce, for leading players in IT and for colleges.

Through this service project, trainings are organized that bring together international students, business managers and NGO executives to promote their sustainable thinking, increase their awareness of sustainable business opportunities and provide them with knowledge and skills to translate sustainable ideas into relevant and viable business initiatives.

This project examines what sustainability competencies are required to meet the challenges of the future.

The study probes the antecedents and consequences of collective psychological ownership - the sense that something belongs to "me" or "us" - in the context of family businesses.

Activities in standardisation committees of CEN, ISO and IEC regarding the development of standards for different types of light electric vehicles (electric scooters, electric bicycles, cargo bikes, series hybrids, etc.).

With NeoParent 2.0, we are extending the previously developed NeoParent app to support parents with a baby in neonatology to the wider family. Indeed, in addition to the support the app now provides during the hospital stay, a need for a broader context emerged.