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EnerJettic

VUB begins EnerJettic energy-saving project

Monday 01/02/2021

Jette Student block is pioneer for an energy-efficient campus VUB research centre MOBI has begun an energy consumption study in the student accommodation on campus Jette. For 18 months, the students will receive various tips relating to energy consumption. Researchee Shary Heuninckx explains: "The goal of EnerJettic is to look at what is needed to reduce the consumption of gas and electricity.

nectar call for papers

NECTAR: Call for papers

Thursday 21/01/2021

eCharge4Drivers survey

eCharge4Drivers extends survey on electric vehicle charging

Tuesday 19/01/2021

eCharge4Drivers is calling for participants to complete a questionnaire on electric vehicle (EV) use and charging. The survey, which explores EV driving behaviours and opinions on charging infrastructure has been extended to 12 February 2021. The survey is open to Taxi drivers, private users (both EV users and non-EV users) and logistics services in Belgium and 8 other countries, seeking

Drive2theFuture Survey

Tuesday 12/01/2021

By participating in this survey you will help us understand your traveling preferences better! About the survey: This survey is part of an EU-funded project called Drive2theFuture. The purpose of the survey is to explore your opinions about an acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles for different transport modes. The survey is structured in a modular way: of four main areas corresponding

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MAMCA Survey

Tuesday 12/01/2021

MAMCA, together with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona School of Management is conducting research to better understand the users' needs of the MAMCA platform. It is composed of a few short questions that can be answered in less than 5 minutes. Your collaboration is highly appreciated, please answer as honestly as possible. Your participation in this project is voluntary and your answers

KVAB

Joeri Van Mierlo new member of The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium

Monday 21/12/2020

Joeri Van Mierlo is since 19 December 2020 officially a new member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium. The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium is an autonomous scientific-cultural society that promotes scholarship, science and the arts and contributes to their appeal. As an Academy, it is unique in that, apart from the sciences and the humanities, it also embraces the arts and the

New H2020 project: iSTORMY

Thursday 17/12/2020

iSTORMY stands for “Interoperable, modular and Smart hybrid energy STORage systeM for stationarY applications”. It is a H2020 project with 12 partners, coordinated by VUB-MOBI. It started on the 1st of December 2020 and will run for 42 months. The demand for electricity is increasing, the grid needs to accommodate various new assets and storage is one of the key enabling technologies in this

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Prof. dr. Cathy Macharis nominated for ‘Mobility Personality 2020’

Monday 14/12/2020

Cathy Macharis is one of the three nominees to become Mobility Personality 2020. For the sixth time, the ‘Netwerk Duurzame Mobiliteit’ is organizing the election of a Mobility Personality. An independent jury of professionals and midfield nominated Cathy Macharis as Mobility Personality 2020 candidate together with Hajo Beeckman and David Stevens. You can vote from December 15, 2020 until

Questionnaire eCharge4Drivers

eCharge4Drivers: Survey on electromobility

Monday 07/12/2020

Whether you own an electric vehicle or not, your opinion counts! The European project 'eCharge4Drivers' has launched a set of questionnaires to gather the input from taxi drivers, private users and logistics services to contribute to the research on smart mobility and help our project to design new, more convenient charging systems across Europe. This project aims to make the electric vehicles

EUTOPIA-SIF

Launch of the EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program

Thursday 26/11/2020

We are pleased to inform you of the upcoming launch of the MSCA COFUND “EUTOPIA SCIENCE AND INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM”(EUTOPIA-SIF), jointly supported by the European Union and the partner institutions of EUTOPIA University Alliance (the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the CY Cergy Paris Université, the University of Gothenburg, the University of Ljubljana, the University Pompeu Fabra and the

Survey mobility corona

Survey on autonomous vehicles

Friday 13/11/2020

In this online survey, we aim to understand and collect your opinion regarding autonomous vehicles. On the following pages, you will be presented with different scenarios. Each of them are followed by a set of questions. Be aware: these questions are very similar, but we ask you to answer them in the light of each scenarios you are being presented with. You don't know what an autonomous

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Improved impact assessments towards emission-free construction logistics: the data availability issue

Monday 09/11/2020

Today, we don’t have an accurate view of the actual share of construction transport in urban traffic. This has a profound impact on how we approach the sector and its environmental nuisances. Together with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Linköping University (Sweden) and SINTEF (Norway), we recently published a paper on this data availability issue in the sector, which was highlighted