Every year, the VRT selects the 'Tienerwoord van het Jaar'. In 2024, the honor went to noncha ('chill, carefree'), while in 2023, heftig (used to emphasize something striking) was chosen. The ...read more
The aim of the NEMIC project is to generate region-specific insights into cultural variation among the first farming communities in what is now Belgium. This will be achieved through a ...read more
Practising and using a language outside the classroom plays a crucial role in second language development and social integration. Across Flanders and Brussels, newcomers can access a wide range of ...read more
This research project concerns the formation of Buddhist initiation ritual practices in medieval China, focusing primarily on images on murals and in manuscripts that have been discovered in the region ...read more
Over the course of a four-year research project, we will collaborate with the Belgian National Crisis Center to explore how Belgian citizens can be more effectively informed about emergency situations ...read more
This project is a collaborative effort of the Ancient History research group, the Royal Library of Belgium, and the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities. It aims to build a database of ...read more
This FWO senior research project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in ...read more
This five-year project proposes an innovative study of a neglected issue in religious studies: the production of comparative knowledge of Judaism in the early academic study of religion. In late ...read more
Low-educated learners make up a large, yet vulnerable population in the world today (Unesco, 2004). Little is known about the second language acquisition process of this group of learners, but there ...read more