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Recent news

kenniscentrum dama
Tuesday 10 December

Knowledge Center Data & Society

The Flemish government has established the Knowledge Center Data & Society (Kenniscentrum Data & Maatschappij). It focuses on the interplay between data, artificial intelligence and society...

freight
Friday 6 December

Innovative computer model to optimise freight traffic

VUB scientist Tomas Ambra developed a new computer model that maps the currently fragmented freight transport process in real time and proposes better solutions using information such as weather...

Gert Demset
Friday 6 December

The Analytical Scientist Power List 2019

Gert Desmet, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering (CHIS) at VUB, was ranked at the prestigious 7th place in the top 100 of the Power List. The Power List celebrates the tremendous range of...

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AI
Monday 18 November

VUB opens AI Experience Center

The new VUB AI Experience Center is a space to experiment with AI and robotics and to produce technological solutions, and allows participants to strengthen their digital skills. It’s aimed at...

Herman Terryn

Chromium-6 to prevent corrosion

Herman Terryn is professor at the Faculty of Engineering of VUB with a chair in Surface Science and Engineering and part time professor in the group Corrosion and Electrochemical of Tu Delft. He was...

Axiles Bionics

New VUB spin-off Axiles Bionics

In September 2019 VUB added a new spin-off to its portfolio, called Axiles Bionics. Later that month the company announced that it has successfully completed a €2.4M Series A financing round, led by...

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Upcoming events

VUB campus
From 2 December 2019 at 12:00 to 5 December 2019 at 14:00

Ethics Week 2019

Ethics Week 2019 Ethics Week 2019 offers the VUB research community a unique chance to respond to changes in research ethics – changes that are themselves a result of our changing world. Ethics Week...

BioFIT
From 10 December 2019 at 9:00 to 11 December 2019 at 17:30

BioFIT 2019

BIOFIT 2019 With more than 1,300 international actors from 35+ countries, such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech, diagnostic companies, pre-seed / seed / Series A investors, as well as...

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19 December 2019 from 12:30 to 12:30

FWO TBM 2020 - information and lunch session

FWO TBM 2020 - information and lunch session The TBM programme has two possible aims: the development of a new therapy, diagnosis and/or specific prevention of a particular human disease/medical...

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