Results
First VUB spin-off in Social Sciences
At the end of 2019, hbits was officially welcomed as a spin-off of VUB.
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Konligo raises €300k for its durable stands
In only a couple of days, the VUB spin-off Konligo that wants to revolutionise the event sector, has raised €300.000. The objective is to accelerate the development of its lightweight and transformable structures.
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Education program helps kids with chronic pain
Research by Prof. Kelly Ickmans and Roselien Pas shows that pain education works successfully with children who suffer from chronic pain.
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VUB invests in Smart Village Lab
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a partner in the Smart Village Lab project, the first physical realisation of innovative living lab Green Energy Park. The lab will investigate how living can become smart, sustainable and energy efficient in the future and will be inaugurated in autumn 2020.
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Smart materials indicate metal fatigue
Researchers from the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have succeeded in building metal parts that automatically indicate when they are overloaded or are causing damage.
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Healthier workplaces thanks to collaborative robotics
Across Europe, 40 million workers suffer from muscle, joint and nerve pain caused by physically demanding tasks. Moreover, such musculoskeletal disorders are the cause of as many as half of all absences in companies and therefore cost a great deal of money.
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Four VUB researchers receive prestigious ERC Starting Grants
No fewer than four Vrije Universiteit Brussel researchers are receiving the European Commission's prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant this year. Togtether, the four grants total more than €6,3 mil. in research funds.
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Seppe Terryn finalist of the Flemish PhD Cup 2020
Seppe is a PhD student at the VUB at the mechanical department in the Robotic & MultyBody (R&MM) research group, part of BruBotics .
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Improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine
Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are united by a vision of how to revolutionize healthcare.
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Mobility expert Cathy Macharis released new book
VUB Professor Cathy Macharis released her new book called ‘Met een factor 8 naar de mobiliteit van de toekomst’, in which she highlights the impact of the transport sector on climate change and that the emissions should be reduced with a factor 8.
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