• Vision
  • Energy
    • Our Vision
    • Highlights
      • EnergyVille in sustainable headquarters
      • Intelligent appliances prevent blackouts
      • E-Hub: sustainable energy starts in the neighbourhood
      • Will hybrid vehicles make Chinese mining more sustainable?
      • Using electricity when it is available
      • Flemish renewable energy objectives studied
      • Flemish Living Lab Electric Vehicles
      • VITO contributing to European label for sustainable products
    • Projects
      • Will we soon be heating our houses with geothermal energy?
      • VITO is looking for geothermal energy in the Kempen region
      • Towards a more sustainable use of heat in the Province of Antwerp
      • Searching for better and cheaper batteries
      • European energy policy eliminates more than 300 megatonnes of CO2 emissions
      • VITO coaches Flemish cities in the smart use of energy
      • Innovative technologies for a smart city
      • Sustainable housing renovation tested in practice
    • Customers and industry
      • TEPPFA
      • ALBON
  • Land use
    • Our Vision
    • Highlights
      • China learns how to deal with air pollution in Europe
      • Smart atlas indicates space for renewable energy
      • Useful software tracks plant protection products
      • Emergency alarm warns of contamination with heavy metals
      • Microsatellite PROBA-V taking images at a resolution of 100 metres
      • Drones chart every detail of agricultural fields
      • Drones for sustainable increase of potato and pear cultivation
      • European satellites study Earth's surface worldwide
    • Projects
      • Spatial Model looks for best route for French train connection
      • Ozone damage to vegetation made clear thanks to computer model
      • New model closely monitors air quality in China
      • VITO takes water monitoring abroad
      • Hypersensitive camera measures nitrogen dioxide in Belgian cities
      • Do invasive exotic trees and plants affect our ecosystem?
      • Remote sensing helps African farmers with agricultural insurance
      • Working towards sustainable agricultural monitoring worldwide
      • MARS programme for agricultural monitoring gets extended
      • Accessible platform for remote sensing data in progress
      • Panorama and laser images chart Flemish inland waterways
      • Unmanned planes monitor coast and heathland
    • Customers and industry
      • IMDC
      • Ruimte Vlaanderen
      • Provincie Limburg
      • Syngenta
      • Tianjin EPB
  • Materials
    • OUR VISION
    • Highlights
      • VITO key partner in new European knowledge community on raw materials
      • VITO and OVAM coordinate new European knowledge centre for material management
      • Steel waste recycled into new construction materials
      • Industrial waste streams gain new life
      • Smart laser head makes repairs and production technology interesting for companies
      • Waste particles become valuable oxygen carriers
      • Building more sustainable with recycled aerated concrete
      • ReNEW helps companies to revalue waste
    • Projects
      • Can the Flemish food industry become environmentally neutral by 2030?
      • VITO puts guidelines for Flemish metal recycling in place
      • Nanofiltration allows waste streams to be reused for the production of drinking water
      • Iron-rich waste is recycled efficiently
      • High-quality recycling made possible by automatic separation of refractory material
      • Plasma technology in the biomedical sector
      • Sustainable carbon fibres put Europe on the map
    • Customers and industry
      • OVAM
      • Recmix
      • VMP
  • Health
    • Our Vision
    • Highlights
      • Seniors cycle virtually through their village on smart exercise bicycle
      • Saliva test detects effects of stress in children
      • Intelligent biomarkers gauge our exposure to substances
      • VITO accredited for emission tests
    • Projects
      • Biomarkers can increase success rate in kidney transplants
      • Biomarkers can detect intestinal cancer earlier
      • European project for more physical movement in our mobility patterns
      • Retinal photos help in faster detection of disease
    • Customers and industry
      • Adriaens Consulting
      • The Sniffers
      • QualityNano
  • Chemistry
    • Our Vision
    • Highlights
      • European research community brings bio-based economy a step closer
      • Solvic wins CEFIC Responsible Care Award with assistance from VITO
      • VITO and Qatar strengthen research ties
      • 3DFD-technology creates optimised structures for catalysis
    • Projects
      • Flemish algae farm used in European research
      • Sugars from high-fibre waste streams become chemical components
      • 'Semi-solid flow' battery combines best of two worlds
      • Innovative electrodes as model for sustainable electrochemistry
      • New tool helps assess innovative technology
      • Carbon dioxide as a component of valuable chemicals
      • New membrane filters bio-aromatics from sawdust
      • European biotechnology makes plastics from plants
    • Customers and industry
      • Corbion
      • DSM-Sitech
      • GOVA
      • PolyPeptideGroup (PPG)
  • Facts & figures
    • Financial results
    • Valorising and protecting knowledge
    • Projects
    • VITO collaborators
    • Scientific publications & PhD
  • People & Science
    • Research for a sustainable and prosperous society
    • Focusing on talent and excellence
    • Development of employees
    • 250 students experience "everyday life" at VITO
    • VITO organises Day of Science
    • How to speed up the transition to sustainable cities?
  • Expertise
    • VITO becomes key partner in new European knowledge community on raw materials
    • VITO winner at research symposium in Qatar
    • European RTOs inspire each other through EARTO
    • VITO and OVAM coordinate new European knowledge centre for material management
    • VITO helps chart quality of Belgian bodies of water
    • Flemish SMEs choose innovative water management
    • Powering Logistics 2020: How can cargo transport be made more sustainable?
  • Highlights
    • Sir Richard Branson opens sustainability congress i-SUP 2014
    • Researchers learn to valorise innovative ideas
    • Saliva test detects effects of stress in children
    • EnergyVille in sustainable headquarters
    • Steel waste recycled into new construction materials
    • Microsatellite PROBA-V zooms in to 100 metres
    • Smart atlas indicates space for renewable energy
    • European research community brings bio-based economy a step closer
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Annual report
2014

People & Science

  • Research for a sustainable and prosperous society
  • Focusing on talent and excellence
  • Development of employees
  • 250 students experience "everyday life" at VITO
  • VITO organises Day of Science
  • How to speed up the transition to sustainable cities?
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Research for a sustainable and prosperous society

At VITO, we are working every day on tomorrow’s society. Along with other companies, the government and end users, we design new technologies ...

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Focusing on talent and excellence

VITO wants to stand out as a research centre through technological innovation and excellence. We support that focus with a targeted ...

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Development of employees

Every employee at VITO is encouraged to develop and flourish. Gaining new skills, improving expertise or developing specific ...

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250 students experience "everyday life" at VITO

As part of 'Science in the picture', an initiative of the Flemish government, more than 250 secondary school students joined VITO ...

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VITO organises Day of Science

During the fourth edition of the Day of Science, on Sunday November 23, 2014, VITO offered the public a unique look behind the scenes at ...

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How to speed up the transition to sustainable cities?

How can we make the transition to sustainable cities work? The European research project Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions ...

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