Research projects

ABC BlendEd is an EU-funded initiative designed to improve employability, innovation, and socioeconomic prosperity in Africa through challenging blended learning. The project adapts a successful European blended mobility course to the realities of African universities, particularly in the field of agriculture, and creates a global learning community that connects students, faculty, researchers, and industry professionals.

In a complex Brussels neighbourhood, we are working from Primary School Balder to build a strong alliance of education, welfare, and leisure partners to offer all learning and life opportunities to children and their families. We support and coach the network that is collectively building a warm school, and we conduct action-research into the organisation of an ‘extended learning day’.

How can the targeted implementation of olfactory enrichment affect the well-being of pet species in different contexts?

Supporting people without legal residence – especially families – presents numerous challenges for both formal and informal social work organisations, as well as for various government bodies. This research is based on six specific cases of (in)formal social work practices, in which both social workers and families without legal residence are followed over a period of one and a half years.
 

The ongoing crisis in Brussels’ Public Centres for Social Welfare (OCMWs) is increasing tensions between beneficiaries and social workers. What is currently missing are calm, ritualised practices in which the fractured dignity of both beneficiaries and social workers can be acknowledged and processed in a connecting way. Building on the previous research project “Turning the vulnerability of Brussels residents on social assistance”, and the methodology developed therein—digital storytelling, reading workshops, and expo-dialogues—this project aims to address that gap.

Eco Insights is a research project that aims to promote the transition to a sustainable food system by using citizen science as a driver.

In the COntent project, we explore the opportunities that generative AI offers content marketers and guide Flemish SMEs in applying it to their content marketing activities.

Motivated, confident, and insightful work with fraction operations? It’s possible! Through this effective didactic approach, we guide primary school pupils into the fascinating world of fraction operations. With our ready-to-use materials, you can get started immediately—independently of any existing textbook or method.

The Teach4SD project aims to lead the development, testing and validation of best and next practices of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

The Experiment Garden creates a healthy learning environment around food skills for children, students and community residents.

Sustainable intrapreneurs are employees and managers who are pulling the cart for sustainable change in their organizations. However, this does not always go smoothly.

With Art-Ie, Artificial Intelligence Inspiration, we offer companies the opportunity to engage in various forms of collaboration with a knowledge institution in the field of AI, enabling them to take important steps in their digitalisation process.