Intergovernmental Partnership, Assemble Together

Today, here in Flanders and all over the world, hierarchical approaches are making way for network approaches. Processes are being redesigned, relationships are being redefined and local administrations are being given more autonomy. In Flanders, this means that new expectations are being created between the Government of Flanders, the 5 provinces and the 308 cities and municipalities. The purpose of this paper is to show how ‘Ruimte Vlaanderen’, the Spatial Policy Department for the Government of Flanders, is taking a pole position in this shifting approach and how intergovernmental partnership is currently taking shape in urban planning

Copolymères amphiphiles biodégradables pour la vectorisation

The development of controlled drug delivery systems is today a topic of an intense research activity. In this field, biocompatible and (bio)degradable polymers are particularly studied. The production of nanosized particles (polymer micelles, nanoparticles,...) generally requires the elaboration of functional amphiphilic copolymers able to stabilize efficiently these colloidal dispersions. Various strategies to synthesize such copolymers keeping their (bio)degradability are described here. The complexity of these amphiphilic materials will be gradually increased in parallel to the improvement of the nanocarriers properties