dr. Jeroen Bourgonjon (PhD)
UGent Delta (Interdisciplinary Research Consortium around 'Digital innovation for people and society')
Societal outreach
Keywords:
technology - digitization - impact - valorisation - outreach - games
Experience & expertise:
As former Coordinator of Societal Valorization for Ghent University at ‘De Krook’ and current impact coordinator, I can help you with questions like:
- How do we increase our societal impact?
- How do we reach the broad public?
- How do we bring researchers together with other stakeholders?
Current & future plans:
- Start-up of Comon: a citizens' participation platform of Ghent University, imec and the City of Ghent in which we search for solutions to societal challenges with Ghent citizens. We start with health as the central theme.
Relevant stakeholder connections:
Direct contact with the broad public via 'De Krook'/Experience with the Flemish educational landscape/Direct connection with a lot of tech companies, with focus on games, VR and AI/Close contacts with the City of Ghent ('Stad Gent') (especially on health, innovation, digitalization...)/Part of a network with the largest libraries in Flanders with focus on health literacy
Contact:
- +32 485 446 551
- jeroen.bourgonjon@ugent.be