Recent blogs
Research Rally 2019
Read moreTEDxGhent invites you to our 2019 “Research Rally”. An opportunity to present your bright research ideas to a wider audience. Sign up for the rally NOW! Why? Because your research is nothing… until it’s shared and spread! Date and location? 20 November 2019 at 19h00 at De Krook. What to do? Each of the selected speakers will give a short talk and
TEDxGhent PhD Contest 2018
Read moreAre you tired of presenting your research to the same people over and over? Does your research show potential solutions to pressing issues in your field? Want to spread your ideas to a larger audience? Well then, you’re in luck! It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 6th annual TEDxGhent PhD/post-doc contest where you will have
Kasun Gunasooriya: Hacking the carbon cycle using computers
Read moreImagine a world where we can turn the exhaled CO2 into high-value products. From waste we can produce petrol or diesel, plastics, diapers for babies, or even a world-famous beer. As a chemical engineer, Kasun works to make this possible and break the vicious circle of using fossil fuels to run our society. To cite an alarming fact: a typical
Jan De Cock: Tea party with perpetrators and victims
Read moreDo you think human beings are “makeable”? Is a terrorist born a terrorist? Can you change people’s minds, and is this the task of the individual or of the community? By spending one year in prisons voluntarily, Jan De Cock went on a search for the human face of detainees. His stories tell about the man that saved the life
Gert De Geyter: Understanding the universe by recreating nature’s intelligent composition
Read moreWherever we look in nature, we always find some sort of intelligence. Think of the way ants optimize their route from the nest to food source, how large groups of birds fly together without ever colliding with no communication, how evolution shapes animals to adapt to their environment, and so much more. Gert De Geyter explains in a powerful talk
Abre: Stay open
Read more“Absolute truth – the one thing we all have in common, yet a few things divide us more. To create constructively, we need to combine as many perceptions as we can. We need to speak up and we need to listen. That is why we make music. To open up and share, so the world will open up to you.
Hassan Al Hilou: From radicalisation to talent development
Read moreHassan, born in 1999, stood in front of the audience not as the youngest consultant of Belgium, but a young, driven changemaker. In his childhood, images of war and terror were put into perspective by his loving family, yet he still got radicalized. Attacks darkening the days of Brussels prompted him to act, to understand how people of his age
Maarten Boudry: What if false beliefs make you happy?
Read moreWhen given the choice between a comforting lie and the unpleasant truth, most of us believe that we need some degree of illusion to cope with the harshness of reality. However, these false beliefs often come with side effects and eventually cause more harm than good when they collide with reality. As part of Flanders’ skeptics movement Maarten dissects these
