HOUSE OF SUSTAINABLE CONTACT TRANSITIONS - HOST
Pleinlaan 5 1050 Brussels (Elsene)
House of Sustainable Transitions (HOST) is a transdisciplinary research platform consisting of more than 200 researchers and 44 professors from 19 different VUB research groups all united around the mission to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable society. The expertise in HOST is clustered in 5 interdisciplinary domains (energy, mobility, economy, food and building) and 3 main drivers (climate, biodiversity and well-being). This interdisciplinary approach is complemented by 3 transversal axes focusing on methods and tools for analysing sustainability, mobilising people, and transformative learning.
EXPERTISE
With an inter- and transdisciplinary approach for a systemic view, a wide range of expertise is combined in HOST. In the energy sector, expertise spans multi-energy systems, positive energy districts, biomass, hydrogen and energy communities, covering feasibility and design studies, governance aspects and participatory approaches. In the field of mobility, HOST brings together expertise in urban mobility challenges, sustainable logistics and active mobility. In the building sector circular building practices, eco-design, and sustainable structural design and construction are combined. For the food sector, expertise from agriwilding and agroecology, the intersections of sustainable and healthy food consumption to marketing and communication around food is brought together. In the domain of economy, the expertise ranges from the circular economy, labour economics, just transitions to marketing and consumer behaviour. Next to domain specific expertise, HOST brings together expertise transversally on climate, biodiversity and well-being.
Cathy Macharis Coordinator Cathy.Macharis@vub.be Jonas Van Bockhaven Director Jonas.Van.Bockhaven@vub.be Igor Vervoort Connector Igor.Vervoort@vub.be
GROUP OF EXCELLENCE IN APPLIED RESEARCH - GEAR
ANALYSING SUSTAINABILITY, MOBILISING PEOPLE, TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING