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Air Quality Matters#68 - Jelle Laverge, Gaëlle Guyotte and Marc Abadie - Clean Air, Smart Buildings and Annex 86Send us a textWhat happens when 46 research institutes from 21 countries join forces to tackle one of our most pressing indoor environmental challenges? A groundbreaking framework that's already changing how we approach air quality in our homes.The Annex 86 project represents a fascinating convergence of engineering, chemistry, and public health expertise focused on creating energy-efficient indoor air quality management strategies for residential buildings. Over five years, this international team has developed innovative approaches to understanding, measuring, and improving the air we breathe at home without compromising energy efficiency.During our conversation with project...2025-04-141h 29
The Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 3 - Episode 3 - Interview with Lieve van HoofIn this episode, my guest is my colleague Lieve Van Hoof, former president of the UGhent PostDoc community, former co-president of the Young Academy and professor in late antiquity at Ghent university. Is a revolution in academic assessment unfolding? That was the theme of a recent forum by the University Foundation, in which Lieve was a panelist. In this episode we try to unpack this very enticing subject for you!2025-01-0151 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 3 - Episode 2 - Interview with Michaël MichelsIn this second episode of the 3rd semester, my guest is Michaël Michiels, an alumnus of what would later become the International Institute of Restorative Practices Graduate School in PennSylvania and coach supporting teams to find more soul in their joint goals. We talk about learning, successful decision making processes and about the tension between selection and growth. 2024-11-2051 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 3 - Episode 1 - Interview with Bram Van OostveldtWelcome to the 3rd semester of ‘the core curriculum’, a podcast in which we explore the core tasks that we ascribe to the often age old institutions called ‘universities’. After having talked at length about education and research, the 2 traditional pilars in the mission statement of universities:, in this semester, we zoom out and shift the focus to the institutional context around these core tasks.
This episode is episode 1 of this semester, and in it, I’m interviewing Bram Van Oostveldt. He is a professor in Theater Studies and a colleague housed in the same building as the group th...2024-10-3050 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 2 - Episode 5 - interview with Rik Van de WalleIn this episode, we’re talking to Rik Van de Walle, our rector, about ‘basic research funding’; a new policy introducing non-competitive research funding for all professors at Ghent University. And of course, this is just a starting point for a broader conversation about research and the core tasks of a University. 2024-09-0453 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 2 - IOUAs sometimes happens in an academic setting, things did not go entirely as planned for the final episode of this semester and we will have to try again during summer. So stay tuned for an interview with our Ghent University rector Rik Vandewalle on the recently introduced move towards ‘basic research funding’ as a summer snack before the start of the fall semester that will focus on organizational structures that support the core tasks of the university.2024-05-1500 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 2 - Episode 4 - Interview with Els StuyvenIn this 4th episode of the second semester of The Core Curriculum, I’m interviewing someone who has been a constant source of inspiration for the development of my personal views on research policy: Els Stuyven, director of research affairs at HOGent University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and above all chief architect of their pioneering move towards non-competitive internal funding. 2024-04-1748 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 2 - Episode 3 - Interview with Dries Bostyn and Femke De BackereIn this third episode of the second semester of The Core Curriculum, I’m joined by 2 of the 3 junior researcher staff members in our board of governors at Ghent University. We discuss their successful campaign for more postdoc funding and we dream about an ideal university for young researchers. 2024-03-2749 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 2 - Episode 2 - Interview with Karel VolckaertIn this second episode of the second semester of The Core Curriculum, we continue to look at the role of research as a core task of the university. This time we zoom out and look at the fit of academic research within the broader innovation ecosystem of our society in an interview with Karel Volckaert, COO at Itinera. 2024-03-0650 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Semester 2 - Episode 1 - Interview with Erik MeersWelcome back to the second semester of 'the core curriculum'. As announced last time, in this semester we will focus on research as one of the core tasks of the university. In this first episode of the new semester, I'm interviewing Erik Meers, a colleague from the school of bioscience-engineering with a rather successful and diverse research group. 2024-02-1454 min
Everyday AnarchismRerun: Anarchism is...Mardi Gras with Meredith KingHappy Mardi Gras! The show should be back publishing new episodes in March. In the meantime, here's a rerun, and a link to a couple of interview I did late last year:https://pod.link/1705765872/episode/716e36494d7eff56dc142642d55c7c3bhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jelle-laverge/episodes/The-Core-Curriculum---Episode-1---Interview-with-Graham-Culbertson-e2aeujb2024-02-1357 minThe Core CurriculumThe Core Curriculum - Episode 5 - Interview with Pieter DhondtIn this final episode of the first semester of ‘the core curriculum’, we pause to look back at what lies behind. With Pieter Dhondt, a historian studying the modern Western-European university, we dive into the genesis and development of the narrative on the core tasks of the institution, focusing on the shift between the early-modern and the modern period. 2023-12-271h 00Air Quality Matters#8.1 Jelle Laverge: Navigating the Challenges and Innovations of Belgium's Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation SystemsSend us a textPart 1Jelle Laverge - is an associate professor of the building physics research group of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University with a research focus on residential ventilation and teaches amongst other things construction law.An operating agent of IEA-EBC Annex 86 a multi-national project looking at Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings, He is a practicing attorney-at-law a member of ISIAQ, and ASHRAE. Jelle holds an MSc in architectural engineering (2007), an ML in...2023-12-1856 minAir Quality Matters#8.2 - Jelle Laverge: Exploring the Intersection of Law, Construction, and Indoor Air Quality, the Annexe 86 Program and the Revolution of Smart MaterialsSend us a textPart 2Jelle Laverge - is an associate professor of the building physics research group of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University with a research focus on residential ventilation and teaches amongst other things construction law.An operating agent of IEA-EBC Annex 86 a multi-national project looking at Energy Efficient Indoor Air Quality Management in Residential Buildings,He is a practicing attorney-at-law a member of ISIAQ, and ASHRAE.Jelle holds an MSc in architectural engineering (2007), an ML in...2023-12-1855 min