For decades UNESCO has promoted culture and heritage as important sources of wellbeing and social cohesion in sustainable development. Despite the multifaceted nature of wellbeing underlying this claim, poverty reduction ...read more
Legacies of slavery tend to affect societies deeply, but in inland East Africa have remained little explored. This project aims [1] to establish what happened to the hundreds of thousands ...read more
Language patterns are more or less ‘productive’, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, ...read more
This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks ...read more
Time Machine is a FET-Flagship/LSRI CSA project in preparation of a full FET Flagship/LSRI proposal, funded by the EU through the H2020 programme. It wants to build the Big Data ...read more
There is general optimism and enthusiasm that the introduction of Big Data and related technologies will substantially change and improve delivery of medical care and healthcare decision making. In the ...read more
MATCH-eN is a TETRA research project funded by VLAIO. The aim of the project is to develop, test and evaluate an open, shared knowledge platform that allows Flemish social profit ...read more
Our knowledge about the early history of the novel is incomplete. Receptions of ancient novels have been studied for periods from the 11th and 12th cent. onwards but not systematically ...read more
This project will function as an incubator to develop a scientific approach in the field of India studies, which aims to provide more satisfying explanations for social, cultural and religious phenomena in both ...read more
The proposed project aims to deepen our understanding of the influence of Neo-Confucian ethics on the perception of the human body, particularly as seen in early modern Japanese popular vernacular ...read more