UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN

Forschungsprojekte

• Exploring Life narratives of Violence Among Refugees from Africa’s Great Lakes Region (AGLR) This project aims to map and examine to what extent, and under what conditions, the life narratives of the Af…
• Implementing a patient-centred and evidence-based intervention to reduce BEnzodiazepine and sedative-hypnotic use to improve patient SAFEty and quality of care Benzodiazepine and sedative hypnotics (BSHs) incur significant adverse effects and costs, especially in older…
• The Formalist Tradition in Late Scholastic Philosophy: a Renaissance Forerunner of Formal Ontology In this UCLouvain-based project, Claus A. Andersen will demonstrate the philosophical and historical importan…
• Roles of maize PIP2 aquaporins in the structural organization of the cell Plasma membrane (PM) Intrinsic Proteins (PIPs) are aquaporins that facilitate the diffusion of water through…
• FOODCoST: FOOD Costing and Internalisation of Externalities for System Transition Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing its environmental and health costs while making he…
• REWiring the ComposItional Security VeRification and AssurancE of Systems of Systems Lifecycle REWIRE envisions a holistic framework for continuous security assessment of open-source and open-specificatio…
• Molecular Quantum Heat Engines Heat engines are an integral part of our daily lives. They power cars or produce electricity by converting he…
• The Plant Water Pump With global warming, climate zones are projected to shift poleward, and the frequency and intensity of drough…
• Innovative Mechanochemical Processes to synthesize green ACTIVE pharmaceutical ingredients. The environmental impact of the pharmaceutical industry is a huge problem. The production and use of pharmace…
• Seismic performance and residual displacements of reinforced concrete walls detailed with iron-based shape memory alloys The current seismic design philosophy of reinforced concrete (RC) walls typically requires large inelastic st…
• Oxygen-mediated (self-)rechargeable organic batteries Climate change and energy crisis are the main societal challenges of modern times, and are expected to plague…
• Preparatory Phase for the Einstein Telescope Gravitational Wave Observatory Einstein Telescope (ET) will be the European Third-Generation (3G) Gravitational Wave (GW) Observatory, desig…