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
This interdisciplinary and multiresearcher project focuses on the transcultural dynamics in the creation, transmission, and reconfiguration of knowledge on childbirth, pregnancy, and women's health in premodern China, Korea, and Japan, ...read more
Stad Oostende investeert de komende vijf jaar in het instrument 'DISCO' van de Universiteit Gent om de Oostendse scholen te ondersteunen met de steeds meer uiteenlopende leerlingen. Het voorkomen van ...read more
Stad Sint Niklaas investeert de komende drie jaar in het instrument 'DISCO' van de Universiteit Gent om de Sint Niklase scholen te ondersteunen met de steeds meer uiteenlopende leerlingen. Het voorkomen van ...read more
Since the turn of the millennium, a number of European countries have introduced language and knowledge of society requirements for citizenship. In 2017, Norway followed the lead of other countries, ...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