Bodhgaya in eastern India is the site of the Mahabodhi temple and it has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree ...read more
The international scientific research network HiDo, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, brings scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds together. HiDo consists of 14 research groups from Flanders (UGent, KULeuven, and ...read more
Today’s ~550 Bantu languages constitute Africa’s largest family. The spread of Bantu speech communities from the Nigeria-Cameroon border area towards Eastern and Southern Africa, which is thought to have started ...read more
Several innovations in health care disrupt the traditional model of de doctor-patient relationship and exchange more specialized and qualitative medical care for more accessible or cheaper care. Examples include the ...read more
In 2006 vonden Gentse archeologen tijdens opgravingen onder het Sint-Pietersplein de resten van zeven vooraanstaande mensen terug. Historici poneerden voorzichtig dat één van hen wel eens de eerste gravin van ...read more
EGYCLASS is an international and interdisciplinary network of researchers dedicated to the study of social classes in Egypt. Its main partners are the Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques ...read more
This project aims to develop a validated professionalisation tool to further familiarize teachers and school leaders with the principles of strong evaluation practices and policies. We distinguish three goals in ...read more
CUNE-IIIF-ORM (Towards an Internationally Image Interoperable Corpus of Cuneiform Tablets) brings together an interdisciplinary consortium of ancient historians, museum curators, digital humanities and heritage experts, digitisation specialists and computer scientists from KU ...read more
This project aims to reveal the connections between linguistic patterns and text-historical developments in a corpus of metrical paratexts in Byzantine manuscripts, situating these connections in the historical context of ...read more
Throughout the history of mathematics, contemporary mathematics included, mathematicians have re-proved theorems by means of different proofs. The Pythagorean theorem is a clear example of this mathematical practice: more than ...read more