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Pioneer projects

Pioneer projects are particularly innovative projects, but relatively limited in terms of time and budget, and necessarily coordinated by a Federal Scientific Institution (FSI).

The pioneer projects enable the exploration of research paths that are beyond the state of the art and despite a higher risk of scientific failure give the prospect of significant impact on the long term. They promote the development of highly innovative concepts, unconventional methodologies or, to some extent, unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration, and the emergence of new research areas.

Projects:

 

Pioneer projects of the call 2016

NPSSAY
Development and implementation of a new psychoactive substances receptor activation assay

  • Projectduur: 15/12/2016 - 15/03/2019
  • Budget: 150.000 €
  • Coordinator: WILLE Sarah (INCC-NICC)
  • Promotor: STOVE Christophe (UGent)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

PMOLLUGENIX-V2
Strategy to evaluate health risks of air pollution episodes in vulnerable individuals

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2016 – 15/03/2019
  • Budget: 149.997 €
  • Coordinator: ROOSENS Nancy (ISP-WIV)
  • Coordinators: DE KEERSMAECKER Sigrid (ISP-WIV), DE CREMER Koen (ISP-WIV), TERSAGO Katrien (ISP-WIV), BERNARD Alfred (UCLouvain), NAWROT Tim (UHasselt)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

SACH4
Source attribution of methane using satellite observations, isotopic measurements and GEOS-Chem simulations

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2016 - 15/03/2019
  • Budget: 149.780 €
  • Coordinator: DILS Bart (IASB-BIRA)
  • Promotor: MAHIEU Emmanuel (ULiège)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

  • Reports
    • Final Report: Source attribution of methane using satellite observations, isotopic measurements and GEOS-Chem simulations (SACH4)

TEMAS
Thesaurus of Early Modern Archival Sources

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2016 - 15/03/2019
  • Budget: 136.500 €
  • Coordinator: PUT Eddy (AGR-ARA)
  • Promotor: AERTS Erik (KULeuven)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website KULeuven - Project website AGR-ARA
  • Fedra

  • Reports
  • Media
    • You tube:
      Les descriptions des archives de sources modernes ne sont pas toujours faciles à interpréter sans connaissances préalables. Seuls quelques-uns savent ce que sont une lettre de rémission ou un registre de jugements. Valérie entend remédier à cette situation, dans le cadre du projet TEMAS (Thesaurus of Early Modern Archival Sources). Depuis quelques mois, elle travaille aux Archives de l’État à Louvain au développement d’un thésaurus des formes rédactionnelles des temps modernes. À terme, ce thésaurus sera lié au moteur de recherche des Archives de l’État de façon à rendre ces sources accessibles au public.

      Archiefbeschrijvingen van vroegmoderne brontypes zijn vaak moeilijk te begrijpen zonder voorafgaande kennis. Welke informatie vind je terug in een remissiebrief of een vonnisboek? Enkel een selecte groep specialisten heeft het antwoord klaar. En daar wil Valerie verandering in brengen. Ze werkt nu enkele maanden in het Rijksarchief te Leuven en is volop bezig aan de uitbouw van een thesaurus van vroegmoderne redactionele vormen. Op termijn zal deze thesaurus aan de zoekrobot van het Rijksarchief worden gekoppeld, zodat vroegmoderne bronnen veel toegankelijker worden, voor een veel breder publiek.

 

TRAIL
TRojan snAILs: the role of gastropod snails in disease transmission revealed by state-of-the-art molecular techniques

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2016 - 15/03/2019
  • Budget: 149.730 €
  • Coordinator: HUYSE Tine (MRAC-KMMA)
  • Promotor: VAN BOCXLAER Bert (UGent)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

3DSPECTRAL
Revealing secrets: Multispectral 3D digitization of Cultural Heritage and Natural History Collections

  • Duration of the project: 15/01/2017 – 15/04/2019 
  • Budget: 150.000 €
  • Coordinator: VAN DEN SPIEGEL Didier (MRAC-KMMA)
  • Promotor: SEMAL Patrick (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

CARNAGES
Critical analysis of the CARNivoran mammal success during the early AGES

  • Duration of the project: 15/01/2017 – 15/04/2019
  • Budget: 150.000 €
  • Coordinator: SMITH Thierry (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • Promotor: SPEIJER Robert P. (KULeuven), FISCHER Valentin (ULiège)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

ESIX
Eyckian Works with Scientific Imagery and Macro X-Ray Fluorescence scan

  • Duration of the project:
  • Budget: 150.000 €
  • Coordinator: FRANSEN Bart (IRPA-KIK)
  • Promotor:
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

  • Events
    • 01.12.2020 till 14.02.2021 | Exhibition
      Facing Van Eyck. The Miracle of Detail
      Facing Van Eyck. The Miracle of Detail looks at Jan van Eyck's extraordinary works through a contemporary lens. Thanks to pioneering digital techniques and new scientific research at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), you can get closer to Van Eyck and his secrets than ever before. Take an immersive dive into Van Eyck's pictorial microcosmos by zooming in on landscapes, architecture, textiles, human figures and everyday objects, and unveil fascinating details hardly visible to the naked eye. Benjamin Glorieux composed a Van Eyck-inspired piece especially for the exhibition - a sensory experience that fascinates both the eye and the ear.
      A richly illustrated film focuses on Jan van Eyck's devotional images and links him to the Byzantine icon. By delving deeper into the reception and appropriation of Byzantine models in Van Eyck's work the film explores the religious and artistic exchanges between East and West in the 15th century.​​​​​​​
      A new way of looking at Jan van Eyck's oeuvre through 20 digitized works that show you the radicality and freshness of his fascinating visual language!
      This exhibition fits into the framework of the BELSPO BRAIN-be projects "VERONA" and "ESIX"

 

GEN-EX
Metagenomics of Extreme Wave Events

  • Duration of the project: 15/03/2017 – 15/10/2019
  • Budget: 149.979 €
  • Coordinator: HEYVAERT Vanessa, SCHÖN Isa (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • Promotor:
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

LARGE-MEM
Understanding groundwater effect on seismic velocities from a LargeN array using gravimetry

  • Duration of the project:
  • Budget: 149.950 €
  • Coordinator: LECOCQ Thomas (ORB-KSB)
  • Promotor:
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

 

PARAWINGS
Extending the genomic toolbox to decipher lineage-wide parallel wing evolution

  • Duration of the project: 15/1/2017-15/4/2019
  • Budget: 149.580 €
  • Coordinator: HENDRICKX Frederik (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • Promotor:
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

PIXEL+
Universal Web Interface for Interactive Pixel-Based File Formats

  • Duration of the project: 15/01/2017 - 15/04/2019
  • Budget: 144.550 €
  • Coordinator: VASTENHOUD Chris (MRAH-KMKG)
  • Promotoren: PROESMANS Marc (KULeuven), WATTEEUW Lieve (KULeuven), LEMMERS Frédéric (KBR)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

ROBOSWOP
The robotic space Weather operator

  • Duration of the project: 15/01/2017 – 15/04/2019
  • Budget: 149.800 €
  • Coordinator: BOURGOIGNIE Bram (ORB-KSB)
  • Promotor: -
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

 

Pioneer projects of the call 2015

DIGITRESTORE
Digital Analysis of Multispectral Images for the Restoration of Works of Art

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2015 - 15/03/2018
  • Budget: 149.975€
  • Coordinator: DESAIVE Pierre-Yves (MRBAB-KMSKB)
  • Promotor: MARÉE Raphaël (ULiège)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

 

IKARE
Improving Knowledge of the Amazon Rainforest Emissions

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2015 - 15/03/2018
  • Budget: 149 940€
  • Coordinator: VIGOUROUX Corinne (IASB-BIRA)
  • Promotoren: BAUER AQUINO Carlos Augusto (Instituto Federal de Educaçao (BR)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

MOLPLAN
New cradles of molecules in interstellar space: planetary nebulae

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2015 - 15/03/2018
  • Budget: 150.000€
  • Coordinator: VAN DE STEENE Griet (ORB-KSB)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

RAVEN
RAdar registrations of bird migration Validation through an interdisciplinary approach

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2015 - 15/03/2018
  • Budget: 136 025 €
  • Coordinator: DEGRAER Steven, BRABANT Robin (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • Promotor: REYNIERS Maarten (IRM-KMI)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

  • Reports
    • Final Report: RAdar registrations of bird migration Validation through an interdisciplinary approach

  • Media
    • 11-04-2021 - Bird migration across the Benelux
      Ten weather radars detect bird migration across the Benelux, and you can watch in real time!
      Every spring and autumn, millions of birds migrate over our country. They do this mainly at high altitudes and at night, which makes the phenomenon largely invisible to us. But not for weather radars!
      On a web application, anyone can view this migration in real time across the Benelux. It shows that bird migration started exceptionally early this year, and that has everything to do with the unusually warm weather in the second half of February.

SOL3CAM
Camera for 3D, along the line-of-sight, simultaneous, imaging of the Sun

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2015 - 15/03/2018
  • Budget: 149 950€
  • Coordinator: KATZIYANNIS Athanassios (ORB-KSB)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

SYMDIV
Symbiont Diversity and Feeding Strategies in Insect Agricultural Pests

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2015 - 15/03/2018
  • Budget: 146 956€
  • Coordinator: DE MEYER Marc, VIRGILIO Massimiliano (MRAC-KMMA)
  • Promotor: WILLEMS Anne, VANDAMME Peter (UGent)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

WINGS AND LINKS
Interdisciplinary Research on Sculpted Altarpieces and Painted Wings

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2015 - 15/03/2018
  • Budget: 148 900€
  • Coordinator: HENDERIKS Valentine (IRPA-KIK)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges 

Documentation

 

 

Projets pioniers de l'appel 2014

APTADRU
Finger-tip biosensor for the on-site selective detection of cocaine

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2014 - 15/03/2017
  • Budget: 150.000€
  • Coordinator: VAN DURME Filip (INCC-NICC)
  • Promotor: DE WAEL Karolien (UA)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

BELVIRMUS-WW2
Belgian Virtual Museum of World War II

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2014 - 15/03/2017
  • Budget: 148.815€
  • Coordinator: VELLE Karel (AGR-ARA)
  • Promotoren: DE WEVER Bruno (UGent); VAN DOORSLAER Rudi (GEGES-SOMA); ROUSSEAUX Xavier (UCLouvain);  BRULL Christoph (ULiège)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

  • Reports
  • Media
    • You tube: Margot nous présente - Margot vertelt over: BELVIRMUS/WW2
      Margot nous présente son projet : la réalisation d’un Musée virtuel sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Belgique - Margot vertelt over de realisatie van een virtueel Museum over de Tweede Wereldoorlog in België

 

LATTECO
Lateral gene transfer as a radically novel mechanism for ecological adaptations

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2014 - 15/03/2017
  • Budget: 149.601€
  • Coordinator: SCHON Isa (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • Promotor: DANCHIN Etienne G.J. (INRA)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

LOTIDE
Localized Tidal Heating on Enceladus

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2014 - 15/03/2017
  • Budget: 150.000 €
  • Coordinator: BEUTHE Michael (ORB-KSB)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

SPADE
SPADE, a fully digital prototype of a phased-array radio solar spectrograph

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2014 - 15/03/2017
  • Budget: 149.863€
  • Coordinator: MARQUE Christophe (ORB-KSB)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

SPIDER
Solar IrraDiation from the Energy Production of Residential PV systems

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2014 - 15/03/2017
  • Budget: 149.998€
  • Coordinator: BERTRAND Cédric (IRM-KMI)
  • Promotor: IELOUX Jonathan (IES-UPM)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

SYRPINTINE
The Study of Syrphidae-Plant Interactions Introducing Next- Generation Sequencing Technologies

  • Duration of the project: 15/12/2014 - 15/03/2017
  • Budget: 149.326€
  • Coordinator: JORDAENS Kurt  (MRAC-KMMA)
  • Promotor: JANSSENS Steven (JBB-NPB)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges 

Documentation

 

 

Pioneer projects of the call 2013

SMEAIS
Seismic Monitoring of the East-Antarctic Ice Sheet

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 149.600€
  • Promotor: LOMBARDI Denis (ORB-KSB)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

TILAPIA
Tracing fish Introductions and LAteral Parasite transfer to Indigenous Aquatic fauna

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 149.100€
  • Promotor: HUYSE Tine (MRAC-KMMA)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

MELATIN-PRV
Mechanisms contributing to pseudorabies virus latency induction in domestic pigs in vivo.

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 139.063€
  • Promotor: DE REGGE Nick (CODA-CERVA)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

VERONA
Van Eyck Research in OpeN Acces

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 150.000€
  • Promotor: FRANSEN Bart (IRPA-KIK)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

  • Reports
  • Events
    • 01.12.2020 till 14.03.2021 | Exhibition
      Facing Van Eyck. The Miracle of Detail
      Facing Van Eyck. The Miracle of Detail looks at Jan van Eyck's extraordinary works through a contemporary lens. Thanks to pioneering digital techniques and new scientific research at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), you can get closer to Van Eyck and his secrets than ever before. Take an immersive dive into Van Eyck's pictorial microcosmos by zooming in on landscapes, architecture, textiles, human figures and everyday objects, and unveil fascinating details hardly visible to the naked eye. Benjamin Glorieux composed a Van Eyck-inspired piece especially for the exhibition - a sensory experience that fascinates both the eye and the ear.
      A richly illustrated film focuses on Jan van Eyck's devotional images and links him to the Byzantine icon. By delving deeper into the reception and appropriation of Byzantine models in Van Eyck's work the film explores the religious and artistic exchanges between East and West in the 15th century.​​​​​​​
      A new way of looking at Jan van Eyck's oeuvre through 20 digitized works that show you the radicality and freshness of his fascinating visual language!
      This exhibition fits into the framework of the BELSPO BRAIN-be projects "VERONA" and "ESIX"

PASTREE
New Plant Architectural Strategies and TerrestRialisation patterns in the Early Eifelian.

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 150.000€
  • Promotor: GODEFROIT Pascal (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

MAGICS
Mars Atmosphere Global Interactive Chemistry Simulator

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 150.000€
  • Promotor: DAERDEN Frank (IASB-BIRA)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

 

Pioneer projects of the call 2012

GENESORT
Is evolution repeatable? Introducing novel tools to unravel the genetics of parallel radiations

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 149.978€
  • Promotor: HENDRICKX Frederik (IRSNB-KBIN)
  • BELSPO programme manager: VAN DER WERF Aline

Documentation

 

BELPHG-21
Belgium Public Health Genomics: Methodology development linking ‘Health Survey’ and ‘Genomics’ data

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 150.000€
  • Coordinator : VAN DEN BULCKE Marc (ISP-WIV)
  • Promotoren: VERMEESCH Joris (KULeuven); GOETGHEBEUR Els (UGent)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website
  • Fedra

  • Reports
    • Abstract: The genetic structure of the Belgian population
      Van den Eynden et al. Human Genomics (2018) 12:6
      DOI 10.1186/s40246-018-0136-8

 

NeoMI
NeoMI. A new environment for the organization of musical instruments

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 149.906 €
  • Coordinator : WEISSER Stéphanie (MRAH-KMKG)
  • Promotoren: MELOT Hadrien (UMONS); SIEBERT Xavier (UMONS)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

EES
Conservation, IF, UV and 3D-Imaging: the Egyptian Execration Statuettes of the RMAH

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 149.500€
  • Coordinator :
  • Promotor: DELVAUX Luc (MRAH-KMKG)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

GuilleMets
Disentangling the Masters of Guillebert de Mets: An Interdisciplinary Approach

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 74.907 €
  • Promotor: VANWIJNSBERGHE Dominique (IRPA-KIK)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

UAV_Reunion
UAV Deployment at Reunion Island for TCCON Calibration and Shipping Emissions Mapping

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 149.973€
  • Promotor: DESMET Filip (IASB-BIRA)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

  • Project description
  • Project website SWING
    Project website Reunion Island (Île de La Réunion)
  • Fedra

  • Reports
    • Final Report: UAV Deployment at Reunion Island for TCCON Validation and Shipping Emission Mapping
      • Annex 1: Technical report of the first test campaign to perform aircore flights onboard a telecommanded parafoil system at Sodankyla.
      • Annex 2: Technical report of the second campaign to perform aircore flights onboard a telecommanded flying wing system at Sodankyla.
      • Annex 3: Technical report of the Transnational Access (TNA) campaign to perform EM27/SUN measurements and testing of a telecommanded flying wing system at Sodankyla.
      • Annex 4: Technical report on the first EM27/SUN measurement campaign at Ile de La Réunion.

PREDISOL
Characterization of active regions' time evolution in view of solar flare prediction

  • Duration of the project: 01/10/2013 - 31/12/2015
  • Budget: 148.920 €
  • Coordinator : DELOUILLE Véronique (ORB-KSB)
  • Promotoren: HERO Alfred O. (University of Michigan, USA)
  • BELSPO programme manager: JAMART Georges

Documentation

 

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