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Chaque semaine, découvrez un nouveau portrait d'un ou d'une membre de l'Earth and Life Institute.

ELI member of the week: Marnik Vanclooster

The EU is funding the SYNCHRONY project, involving 27 international partners (including the Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain), to carry out coordinated observations, to harmonise data, and to impro

MUDCAP (MUDdy flood mitigation through transnational action-oriented CAPacity building) is a three-year Interreg North-West Europe project running from 2026 to 2029. This transnational project ad

Cycling uptake isn't about bike lanes alone — it only occurs when at least 3 of 4 conditions are met at once. Applied to UCLouvain staff, this pinpoints a concrete, named group: 20.5% of car commuters could realistically switch to cycling — a real target for policy, as opposed to a vague aspiration.

What if the trees in our streets could reveal what we breathe every day?

La 25e édition du Printemps des Sciences s'est tenue du 23 au 29 mars 2026. Beaucoup d'ateliers affichaient complet, l'occasion pour de nombreux élèves du primaire et du secondaire d'en apprendre

 An international study conducted in part at UCLouvain highlights the role of agricultural terraces – these “step-like” crops arranged on slopes – in carbon storage.

Trois minutes pour comprendre un sujet de thèse, c’est trop peu ?

The energy transition represents one of the greatest challenges of our century.