Community Talks is a monthly webinar where experts from Flanders and abroad can meet and share their knowledge & academic research.
With this platform, we aim to build sustainable research connections and increase local (societal) impact through knowledge sharing on a global scale.
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11h00 - 12h00 (CET)
Up-scaling mass-rearing of edible grasshopper and edible cricket species for improving food security in Uganda.
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Wednesday 29 January 2025, 10h00 - 11h00 (CET)/16h-17h (DST)
Promoting Health Equality: Interprofessional Telerehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities in the Philippines
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The WHO recognizes rehabilitation as a top priority for managing chronic conditions, with 2.4 billion people needing access to these services. However, only a small fraction of patients, particularly in low-income countries, receive rehabilitation due to limited infrastructure and healthcare professionals.
We developed a center in Bujumbura, Burundi, where patients suffering from osteoarthritis—a highly prevalent and disabling condition—can access affordable rehabilitation services through technology.
This presentation will showcase how technology can assist clinicians in expanding rehabilitation services in areas facing severe healthcare professionals shortages, ultimately improving patients' function, autonomy, and quality of life.
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Mr. Jean Mapinduzi - Institut National de la Santé Publique - Bujumbura - Burundi
Prof. dr. Bruno Bonnechère - REVAL Rehabilitation Research Center - Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences - University of Hasselt - Belgium
The IT department at AP (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) is active in a multitude of projects in the Global South. It is a strategic decision, to enhance the quality of our own education, by cooperating in international projects, for the development of an international curriculum and internationally benchmarking our own courses with our European and African partners.
To ensure the most efficient use of our resources, it is our vision to align all our projects. These synergies in fact lead to more opportunities and increased quality of all outcomes, outputs, and events.
In this Community Talk, Tom Peeters and Dirk Van Merode will present ongoing and passed projects, both VLIRUOS and Erasmus+, and how they are interlinked.
From their experience, they would like to present the strengths and weaknesses, good practices, and challenges of different funding schemes. And obviously, they would like to emphasis the strength of the model of universities of applied sciences and arts in development cooperation.
For more information about this interesting community talk, see this video !
Food system activities are increasing putting pressure on planetary boundaries. Farmers are angry and consumers concerned. While we are far from the goal to reach zero hunger, over 2 billion people suffer from overweight and obesity. Healthier diets derived from more sustainable food systems are needed.
This community talk deals with some key challenges and opportunities of our food system, and builds up on the outcomes of the global food security conference that took place in Leuven in April 2024.
To get warmed up for the event, check out the Feed: a food systems podcast. It's a deep dive into exploring the evidence, worldviews, and values that people bring to global food system debates. Listen to the episode of June 27th here (or wherever you listen to Feed: a food systems podcast) or check this video.
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Olive Tengera, University of Rwanda
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Leo Van Audenhove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
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