CIVIS achievements, obstacles and future challenges: an interview with Annemie Schaus, Rector of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the current President of CIVIS. Q: CIVIS is now well into the third and final year of its first funding period. What would you say are the most significant achievements […]
Month: February 2022
By Dr Dimitar Bechev, Acting Programme Director for Events at the Europaeum On 24-26 January, the Europaeum held its annual policy seminar, Policy-Making Inside Europe. The event was co-hosted with the European Parliamentary Research Service, with Joanna Apap (EPRS) and Dimitar Bechev as co-convenors. Although COVID-19 restrictions prompted a switch to […]
Una Europa is delighted to announce the launch of its first joint Bachelor’s programme: the Una Europa Bachelor in European Studies, a unique programme co-developed by eight Una Europa partner universities. This programme is a result of the commitment of the partner universities to a new level of in-depth transnational collaboration […]
As part of the Open Innovation Challenge, EUTOPIA is hosting the EUTOPIA Placemaking Challenge Program Hackathon. It takes place from the 23rd to the 25th of February, and the theme of the challenge is innovative procurements within coordinated goods distribution. Every year, over 250 000 government agencies within the EU procure products and […]
An excellent indicator of solar activity and the effects of space weather on the Earth’s atmosphere, the solar radio flux is a highly relevant quantity for space operations. In this work, a new methodology based on the use of deep learning methods has been developed for forecasting how it will […]
MS patients who want to have children are faced with a difficult decision. The active substance natalizumab is effective in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and is well-tolerated. However, doctors know that the disease may return if the drug is discontinued, as is often the case when a pregnancy is planned […]
There are twenty applicants for each place in the integrated smart systems engineering programme implemented under the Erasmus Mundus programme with BME’s engagement. “Our unique master’s programme, which involves three European universities, including BME, trains engineers to design and develop smart systems integrated solutions,” Ferenc Ender, associate professor at the Department […]
Fears over job security and quality of work for a new class of disaffected citizens – the ‘precariat’ – could explain the rise of popular extremist parties across Europe, according to a new study. Studying the 2017 national elections in France and the Netherlands, researchers discovered a link between electoral […]
In 2021/22, the World Brand Design Society (WBDS) announced the results of their competition programme. According to the selection and voting results on the award website, HSE Art and Design School has topped the Global Ranking and become the educational institution of the year. In total, students from the HSE […]
The Flemish Government has reaffirmed its commitment to the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) as a Second Memorandum of Understanding between the Flemish Community (Kingdom of Belgium), the United Nations University, Ghent University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel was approved by the Council of Ministers […]
