Community Challenges

  1. BOOST

    The community foundation East Flanders supports various bottom up projects of social importance. We note that the majority of the projects applying for project support are driven by organisations and/or highly educated middle class citizens. Tags:...

  2. How can we shape our city into a powerful learning environment?

    Today, education is often locked up in a building. This is strange because there is a lot to learn outside of those specially designed buildings. So let's reframe this and see what opportunities there are to learn in the city. Where did we learn as a...

  3. How can we turn the city into a sponge?

    The objective: Ghent climate-robust by 2030 Climate change makes Ghent vulnerable to more and more intense heat waves, more extreme showers and longer droughts. That is also felt today. We must prepare our city for these change: keep them pleasant,...

  4. Mainstreaming sustainability challenges in EU trade agreements: from stand-alone chapters to mainstreamed sustainability

    For a long time, the debate on the sustainability of European Union Free Trade Agreements concentrated on the stand-alone ‘trade and sustainability’ chapter of these agreements. The critique centred around the fact that while the wording in these...