Research Tim Engels

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The mission of the Centre for Research and Development Monitoring (ECOOM) is to support the Science, Technology, Innovation and Economy (including Entrepreneurship) policy of the Flemish government (STIE). ECOOM pays special attention to the economic and social impact of the STIE policy, bundled in overarching themes such as the human capital on which Flanders can rely for the development and implementation of this policy, the industrial and technology policy that underpins Flemish prosperity and well-being, and the productivity and international competitiveness realized with the deployed STIE resources. ECOOM UAntwerpen is the coordinator of the work program for the Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the Social and Human Sciences (VABB-SHW), is responsible for the (data) deliveries to the Flemish government and the Authoritative Panel (GP), and carries out assignments and research activities on student entrepreneurship.

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• Promoter: Engels Tim
• Co-promoter: Blust Ronny
• Co-promoter: Kestemont Mike

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• Research Project

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YUFE4Postdocs (Y4P) is an an innovative training programme developed by the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance in the context of its R&I agenda. Two calls aim for the appointment of 51 researchers in nine YUFE universities. Postdocs can freely define their project connected to Urban opportunities and challenges, in one of the 4 focus areas: sustainability; digital societies; citizen's wellbeing; and European identities. As important components of community engagement, interaction with stakeholders runs as a red thread through the programme. Stakeholder interaction is manifested within the selection procedure, research execution and in the structured training. The selection process pilots a novel approach assessing applicants on a broader and qualitative set of selection criteria, including stakeholder representatives. Incoming postdocs in a YUFE Host University spend a flexible 6 months stay in a YUFE partner university with the objective to set up or develop research collaboration. Additionally they can undertake an intersectoral secondment in a public or business context: nineteen city and business organizations involved in the programme can assist with this through their network of members and partners. The Y4P Training programme contains a solid pillar on stakeholder development, and a varied offer of training sessions jointly offered by the partner universities, routed in the DIOSI and Inno4YUFE projects. As such Y4P aims to (1) empower future proof researchers, skilled to work in interdisciplinary environments, together with stakeholders; (2) set a standard for a next generation research training; (3) foster bilateral and multilateral collaboration across the Alliance and (4) support the development of a true European (research) University.

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• Promoter: Engels Tim
• Co-promoter: Adams Anne

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• Research Project

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The University of Antwerp receives this subsidy as co-funding of her research, innovation and valorisation activities in the frame of the European University YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe). The University puts the subsidy to use to further develop, execute and strengthen the research, innovation and valorisation agenda of YUFE, to share experiences and expertise in Flanders, and in view of incoming and outgoing mobility among the YUFE partners.

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• Promoter: Van Goethem Herman
• Co-promoter: Engels Tim

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• Research Project

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The Inno4YUFE consortium includes the 10 YUFE full partner universities and the Voka Chamber of Commerce Antwerpen- Waasland. The Inno4YUFE Vision 2030 is for YUFE to become a pioneering and truly entrepreneurial European University that unites innovation ecosystems across Europe and powers hundreds of student entrepreneurs and innovators that will generate breakthroughs to tackle global challenges. Building on the partners' HEInnovate self-assessments and YUFE's established pilot portfolio of educational & entrepreneurial initiatives, Inno4YUFE presents an ambitious yet achievable Innovation Vision Action Plan (IVAP) to bring its long-term vision into practice. Inno4YUFE aims at removing barriers to student entrepreneurship and reinforcing the role of HEIs as launchpads towards entrepreneurial career pathways.

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• Promoter: Engels Tim

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• Research Project

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As part of the European Research Area vision, the European Commission is aiming to see the necessary transformations in R&I that will include the promotion of citizen science and societal engagement, the mainstreaming of Open Science practices, the fostering of brain and knowledge circulation, strengthening of academia-business collaboration and embodiment in a glocal Research and Innovation (R&I) ecosystem. The YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) alliance embraces in YUFERING this challenge by effectively contributing to pilot these needed transformations to improve and harmonise the conditions for R&I in Europe. Focusing on key elements of the ERA and in full alignment with the relevant SwafS call for proposals, YUFERING proposes ground-breaking transformation actions that will bring the partners one step closer to creating and realising a shared robust R&I vision. These transformations comprise community engaged R&I, flipped knowledge transfer to the enterprise sector and the society at large, shared R&I agendas, support structures and research infrastructures, as well as common open science strategies and new incentive and reward schemes for researchers based on the new open science era. The European cooperation and transformation in R&I (next to education) that is objective of the European Universities Initiative is unavoidably dependent on multilateralism, synergy and support from the EU as well as Member States. In YUFERING, the YUFE partners will also work towards assessing the legal, regulatory and financial conditions that are relevant towards the creation of a stronger ERA and will identify recommendations towards transformation needed to make sharing of capacity and resources possible and attractive for academics and institutional/private funders. Within YUFERING, the alliance will explore synergies with other 'European Universities' to facilitate collaboration in relevant activities and towards addressing shared challenges and barriers.

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• Promoter: Van Goethem Herman
• Co-promoter: Engels Tim

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• Research Project

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This project aims to enhance the capacity of partner institutions to produce research by: 1. Stimulating the development of environments that provide exposure to research and are rich in support for research. This would include enhancing the capacity to manage research; 2. Increasing the capacity of academic staff members to supervise at postgraduate levels through the provision of courses that are tailored to specific contexts.

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• Promoter: Spooren Pieter
• Co-promoter: Engels Tim

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• Research Project
• Education Project

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The mission of the Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) is to develop and consolidate a consistent and performing system of R&D and Innovation (RD&I) indicators which provides the Flemish Governement with actual and relevant statistic data for mapping and monitoring the RD&I efforts in the Flemish region. At the same time ECOOM develops a portfolio of relevant scientific research activities to support this mission. Therefore, ECOOM (1) has a series of targeted, long term task packages to map, measure and analyze the Flemish R&D and innovation potential; (2) ensures that a data management infrastructure is available to the Flemish Government containing bibliometric and technometric data and data on innovation and PhDs; (3) provides qualified staffing; (4) builds the necessary and appropriate IT-infrastructure and (5) is able to conduct ad-hoc task or projects at request of the Flemish Government. ECOOM acts as an inter-association center.

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• Promoter: Engels Tim
• Co-promoter: Blust Ronny

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• Research Project

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This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand the Flemish Public Service. UA provides the Flemish Public Service research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Engels Tim

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• Research Project

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The mission of the Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) is to develop and consolidate a consistent and performing system of R&D and Innovation (RD&I) indicators which provides the Flemish Governement with actual and relevant statistic data for mapping and monitoring the RD&I efforts in the Flemish region. At the same time ECOOM develops a portfolio of relevant scientific research activities to support this mission. Therefore, ECOOM (1) has a series of targeted, long term task packages to map, measure and analyze the Flemish R&D and innovation potential; (2) ensures that a data management infrastructure is available to the Flemish Government containing bibliometric and technometric data and data on innovation and PhDs; (3) provides qualified staffing; (4) builds the necessary and appropriate IT-infrastructure and (5) is able to conduct ad-hoc task or projects at request of the Flemish Government. ECOOM acts as an inter-association center.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Engels Tim
• Co-promoter: Blust Ronny
• Co-promoter: Timmermans Jean-Pierre

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• Research Project

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This project contributes to measuring the impact academic monographs from the field of History have on wider society outside of academia. It stems from the notion that the publication output from the Social Sciences and Humanities can have an 'enlightenment' role for a broad, not strictly academic readership. We analyse this using a novel, 'altmetric' data source from the internet, namely ratings (a numerical score) and reviews (written text) from Goodreads.com, a non-academic and non-commercial social platform specifically devoted to the posting of reader's evaluations of books from all genres and disciplines, thus including History. This data is enriched by bibliographic descriptions from OCLC Worldcat, and combined with citation data from academic journals indexed in Scopus. The methodology consists of calculating correlations: 1° between academic (citation) impact and a societal impact (ratings and reviews), and 2° between high societal impact and various book characteristics such as publisher, year and country of publication, author profile and subject matter. In addition, we perform a qualitative analysis of written reader reviews.

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• Promoter: Engels Tim

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• Research Project

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This project represents a research contract awarded by the University of Antwerp. The supervisor provides the Antwerp University research mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions stipulated by the university.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Engels Tim

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• Research Project