News for p2
August 24, 2018
H2020 Calls
Secure societies
DL: 14 November 2018 - SECURE SOCIETIES- protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens call for proposals 2018 is opened.
The core of research in this area is the development of new products to meet the needs of security practitioners. Research is not just about developing...
Click to know more 
July 01, 2020
VIVES III: a new European inter-university fund of...
The UCLouvain created, through its technology transfer office Sopartec, a new European university fund of €32m, VIVES Inter-University Fund. Its ambition? Accelerate the transformation of research into a societal benefit. The fund offers a unique ecosystem with incubators and...
Click to know more 
June 22, 2020
Click… Resistant bacteria caught in the act !
As humanity fights against the coronavirus, the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria continues. Scientists at UCLouvain have succeeded in capturing unique images of protein soldiers that help bacteria resist drugs. This discovery is published in the prestigious scientific...
Click to know more 
June 22, 2020
When planting trees threatens the forest
Campaigns to plant huge numbers of trees could backfire, according to a new study by researchers of several universities including UCLouvain1 that is the first to rigorously analyze potential effects of subsidies in such schemes.
The analysis, published in Nature...
Click to know more 
January 23, 2020
Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from...
Olivier Feron, a UCLouvain researcher, studies how cancer spreads through the body via metastasis. His major discovery was that cancer cells multiply by using lipids as food. His latest discovery, published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, is that lipid storage promotes...
Click to know more