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On Sunday, 26 October 2018, Punch 2, the solar car single-handedly built by students of KU Leuven, was the first to cross the finish line in Arica, in the north of Chile. The victory is partly thanks to the battery technology of VITO/EnergyVille.
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TEESMAT brings a comprehensive response by leveraging European strengths from 11 Countries and facilitating access to physical facilities, capabilities and services implementing novel characterisation solutions with outstanding capability and performance.
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Flanders has serious ground to make up in the area of heating and cooling by district heating networks. However, the advantage of lagging behind is that we can optimally apply knowledge and experience from abroad in new networks here. A large-scale urban network will be rolled out in the south of Antwerp in the near future. VITO/EnergyVille has been showing its expertise in district heating networks for some time in the form of concept and feasibility studies.
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Over 1300 participants from more than 90 countries joined G-STIC 2018 in Brussels from 28 to 30 November to review, discuss and identify technological innovations that can lead the world on a more sustainable development path. G-STIC participants included policy makers, technology researchers, business and industry captains, as well as members of civil society.
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G-STIC – a three day event with a series of conferences aimed to accelerate the development of technological innovations in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reached close to 2000 participants and 150 speakers from 75 countries.
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Advanced Sustainability in High-Tech Research Centre
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Title: Storage via power-to-gas in future energy systems - The need for synthetic fuel storage in systems with high shares of intermittent renewables.
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As sea ice melts, Baltic Seals that give birth on sea ice may start risking their pups’ lives by delivering them on land where they are exposed to predators. As ocean temperatures rise, fish migrate poleward in search of cooler waters, impacting the livelihoods of fishermen. And as deforestation increases, we may find that some groups of golden-headed lion tamarin monkeys, separated into tree ‘islands’, adapt better to climate change than others.
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Boerenbond, Belgapom and VITO are teaming up to strengthen the future of the Belgian potato chain by further developing the online platform WatchITgrow.
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For the past decades now, remote sensing has been increasingly contributing to many agricultural monitoring services by providing worldwide systematic observations of e.g. optical vegetation indexes. These indexes are well established proxies for crop conditions and give us early insights into how well the crops are doing and if they are in need of water or nutrients. But what if clouds obscure the view from space?
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Smart cameras on drones or tractors can detect plant diseases in agricultural crops. By doing so, farmers will be able to detect local sources of diseases on their plots and treat them by using precision-agricultural technologies, what will lead to better protection of crops.
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Did you know that agriculture is responsible for up to 70% of all water withdrawals in the world? With water becoming more scarce, making every drop count will become even more important in the future. But how can we use water resources in a more sustainable way?
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Dredging companies increasingly have to ensure that they do not increase sedimentary concentrations too drastically with their dredging works. They have to do this in particular when they are working in the vicinity of valuable and vulnerable ecological areas. After having already developed a tool to monitor these sediment values using satellites, VITO is now working on a similar technique based on drones.
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In today’s world, governments, administrations and private companies rely more and more on geo-information. Critical situation management teams are fully discovering the potential and benefits of the use of geo-information during disasters such as flooding, fires, maritime pollution, etc.
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In support of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Belgium and the Emirates, VITO is participating in the Global Space Congress to strengthen its relationships.
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Youth for climate, sign for my future, claim the climate… several initiatives have been started all over the world to encourage our policy makers to take action and stop global warming. The debate is often very emotional and many opinions are sold as truths. Therefore it is of utmost importance to collect data about the state of the world’s climate.
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Whether you're active in agricultural monitoring, studying climate change impact or even modelling green energy installations, there’s an important element to determine the quality and success of your work. And that’s accurate and spatially detailed maps on land cover and land use.
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Nineteen years after the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, a framework to guarantee that there is enough good-quality water for its citizens and the environment, the European Waters Assessment 2018 report prepared by the European Environment Agency (EEA) states ‘European water getting cleaner but big challenges remain’.
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The students of the third year STEM of the Sint-Clara college (SCC) Arendonk have handed over an Augmented Reality Sandbox (ARS) to VITO. This ARS will now be transported to the exhibition area of the Volksterrenwacht MIRA in Grimbergen.
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VITO is an advocate of sustainability. In order to keep our healthcare affordable for everyone – including for the government – that must be sustainable too. Across the world, we are seeing that, while conditions are fortunately no longer fatal thanks to technological developments and better knowledge, they unfortunately often become chronic.