Espon-Interstrat. Espon in Integrated Territorial Strategies.

The INTERSTRAT project’s overall aim is “to encourage and facilitate the use of ESPON 2013 Programme findings in the creation and monitoring of Integrated Territorial Development Strategies (ITDS) and to support transnational learning about the actual and potential contribution of ESPON to integrated policy-making.” We defined integrated territorial development as ‘the process of shaping economic, social and environmental change through spatially sensitive policies and programmes’

The opposite of Dante's hell? The transfer of ideas for social housing at international congresses in the 1850s–1860s

With the advent of industrialization, the question of developing adequate housing for the emergent working classes became more pressing than before. Moreover, the problem of unhygienic houses in industrial cities did not stop at the borders of a particular nation-state; sometimes literally as pandemic diseases spread out 'transnationally'. It is not a coincidence that in the nineteenth century the number of international congresses on hygiene and social topics expanded substantially. However, the historiography about social policy in general and social housing in particular, has often focused on individual cases because of the different pace of industrial and urban development and is thus dominated by national perspectives. In this paper, I elaborate on transnational exchange processes and local adaptations and transformations. I focus on the transfer of the housing model of SOMCO in Mulhouse, (a French house building association) during social international congresses. I examine whether cross-national networking enabled and facilitated the implementation of ideas on the local scale. I will elaborate on the transmission and the local adaptation of the Mulhouse-model in Belgium. Convergences, divergences, and different factors that influenced the local transformations (personal choice, political situation, socioeconomic circumstances) will be taken into accoun

SILVER - Statistical Independence and Leakage Verification

Implementing cryptographic functions securely in the presence of physical adversaries is still a challenge although a lion\u27s share of research in the physical security domain has been put in development of countermeasures. Among several protection schemes, masking has absorbed the most attention of research in both academic and industrial communities, due to its theoretical foundation allowing to provide proofs or model the achieved security level. In return, masking schemes are difficult to implement as the implementation process often is manual, complex, and error-prone. This motivated the need for formal verification tools that allow the designers and engineers to analyze and verify the designs before manufacturing. In this work, we present a new framework to analyze and verify masked implementations against various security notions using different security models as reference. In particular, our framework - which directly processes the resulting gate-level netlist of a hardware synthesis - particularly relies on Reduced Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (ROBDDs) and the concept of statistical independence of probability distributions. Compared to existing tools, our framework captivates due to its simplicity, accuracy, and functionality while still having a reasonable efficiency for many applications and common use-cases

“Politics… or just Work” ? On the role of territoriality in policy networks. The case of transportation policies in the cross-border metropolitan regions of Brussels and Luxembourg

Since long, practitioners as well as academics have searched for the key on how to best steer or manage the metropolitan area. Boundaries are more often than not at the heart of the conundrum, and have opposed consolidators and free choice adepts, as well as relationalists and territorialists. After years of intense debates, it is time to reconcile positions, and explore the value of all contributions. Building on the TSPN framework from Jessop et al., this PhD dissertation explores the role of territoriality in policy networks. By studying this in cross-border metropolitan areas, I demonstrate how a sufficiently rich reading nurtured by the insights from border studies on the nature of boundaries and the production and reproduction processes of territory, can advance our understanding of the metropolitan region. In the empirical part we assess transportation policy networks in both Brussels and Luxembourg. Through Social Network Analysis and Discourse Network Analysis, I show how territoriality is indeed structuring the networks. I reveal how the institutional and meaning-giving frames that are projected upon the presence of the border are mobilised and define but not limit the playing field for the actors. I thus argue for a constructive reading of the metropolitan policy process, taking seriously both agency and territoriality. Keywords: Territoriality, Cross-Border Metropolitan Regions, Policy Networks, SNA, DNAstatus: publishe

ESPON in integrated territorial strategies: Engagement strategies for Belgium

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Qualité de l’air, savoir pour agir / Luchtkwaliteit, weten om te ageren

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