Research groups
Key experts
Selected projects
TransformAr: Accelerating and upscaling transformational adaptation in Europe: demonstration of water-related innovation packages
INNOFINS studies the utilisation potential of innovative financing models in the Flemish context by developing real life business cases of Nature-Based Solutions, using new instruments such as impact financing, value capturing and ICO-crowd funding.
TURQUOISE: Blue-Green Strategies for climate change adaptation. Persistent droughts between 2017 and 2021 have made it clear that Flanders is insufficiently prepared for water scarcity and droughts. The TURQUOISE project aims at a proactive approach to increase water availability.
Organic Carbon Dynamics in Coastal Marches: Local to global variability in organic carbon dynamics in coastal marsh sediments subject to submergence by sea level rise.
PATTERN: Providing operational economic appraisal methods and practices for informed decision-making in among others water related climate and environmental policies.
Curieuzeneuzen in de tuin: Curieuzeneuzen in de Tuin explores how we can better cope with the effects of increasingly hot and dry summers. How do we ensure that our gardens remain a cooling place during a heat wave? And how do we better armour our gardens, as well as our parks, fields and natural areas, against drought? This citizen science project collaborates with 5000 citizens and organisations to conduct the research.
VLIR-IUC with Bahir Dar University Ethiopia: Institutional Cooperation program with Bahir Dar University with PhDs on e.g. irrigation water impacts on Ethiopian Agriculture
Nature Smart Cities: During the Nature Smart Cities project, the partners developed an easy-to-use Business Model. The model is designed to quantify the benefits of green infrastructure across a wide range of ecosystem services. Carbon sequestration for example, but also rain water infiltration, air quality, biodiversity, social cohesion or the effect on the temperature.
Upsurge: to help European cities enter the regenerative transition pathway, UPSURGE will provide an EU Urban Regenerative Lighthouse to serve as a reference framework and a reference network to accelerate, transfer and upscale the use of nature based solutions and mainstream them into the agenda of urban policies through co-creation and co-design processes with citizens and other stakeholders.
Ecocities: investigates the use of green walls and roofs as source for ecosystem services in future cities.