The Urban Studies Institute is a platform for urban sociologists, ecologists, economic geographers and transport economists, urban historians, literary scientists and city planners who firmly believe in the added value of interdisciplinary collaboration and an integrated and generalised approach. Several research groups at the University of Antwerp are involved.
Research projects are otherwise initiated by member research groups, often in collaboration. Examples include:
- Soligion: investigates religious and philosophical solidarity in the welfare state.
- Tracks4Crafts: aims to safeguard the traditional crafts knowledge by analysing and promoting its transfer, and at the same time to create new possibilities for the future.
- TOD-IS-RUR: sets up an interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral network to make significant research contributions to the scientific and societal challenge of countering sprawl in Europe.
- SOLiDi: envisioned to provide a specialised training to 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in a range of different approaches to generate solidarity in diversity and be able to apply these in different geographical, policy and organisational contexts.
