Research projects

WaardenBurger consists of three educational tools aimed at strengthening teachers (religious education), educational therapists, and museum educators in facilitating value‑laden critical dialogue with young people about sensitive social issues. Topics such as identity, faith, or justice are increasingly causing tensions in the classroom and during extracurricular activities such as museum visits.

Each year, the European Social Innovation Campus (ESIC) contributes to the challenge of upskilling and retraining 5% of the workforce and entrepreneurs in the sector to address the green and digital transitions in the social economy by enhancing social innovation capacities.

CrossCare 2.0 is a large-scale European program in which eight Flemish and Dutch healthcare living labs provide financial and substantive support for the development of new healthcare innovations in Flanders and the Netherlands.

Working towards a safer MR environment supported by a European Curriculum for Safety Officers in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ECSO-MRI).

GrowthFundMe aims to develop a comprehensive approach to support entrepreneurs in exploring their community.

impaC³t helps cities and construction stakeholders renovate neighborhoods in a collective, affordable, and circular manner. In Ghent, Bruges, and Tienen, technical, social, legal, and financial solutions are being tested in real-world urban renewal projects. The lessons learned are being synthesized into a dynamic decision-making framework for circular neighborhood renovation.

Young carers are young people growing up in families where one or more members (a parent, sibling, etc.) have care or support needs. Students in higher education can also be young carers — they are referred to as student carers. While caregiving can be fulfilling, it can also place an additional burden on these young people. This project focuses on raising awareness about the needs of this target group.

For the next two years we offer the learning network 'Sustainable and professional facilities management in schools', which is open to all educational institutions in Flanders. Through a varied mix of theme days, school visits and do-sessions, we aim to inspire, discover and activate.

In this project we investigate the possibility of using digital work instructions to engage target group employees and workers (customization and day care) in more complex assembly and production processes, as well as in different sectors within the regular labor market to make them more accessible to these target groups.

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YOUNG-D is a European project (Erasmus+) on the prevention and management of anxiety, stress and sleep problems in people with early onset dementia (OED). The overall aim of this project is to increase awareness and knowledge of (future) health care providers in the included EU-partners on psychosocial and behavioral program YOUNG-D in people with early onset dementia in order to prevent and manage anxiety, stress and sleep problems, which in turn increases heart rate variability, wellbeing and quality of life.