Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The third and last winning text of 2023, written by Julia Di Stefano (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences), is about recreating a whole brain.
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Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The first winning text of 2023, written by Ilenia Serra (Faculty of Science), is about electrons.
Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The first winning text of 2023, written by Hosna Ghaderi (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences), is about a revolution in eye surgery.
Your research has something special that you want to share with a large audience. That little corner of knowledge that you fully immerse yourself in, to break it open and make it understandable for people outside your domain. Clarifying without simplifying. You choose which details to mention or not, and you engage your audience in a story that invites them to search for more information. Sounds challenging? Definitely, but it’s increasingly necessary for any researcher.
Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The third winning text, written in Dutch by Karen Verheyen (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences), is about the obstacles which children with Dravet syndrome face.
Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The second winning text, written by Jonas Lescroart (Faculty of Science), is about the mountain cat, an extremely rare and almost mystical cat species.
Disposable is out, reusable is in. People are buying cloth vegetable bags, metal drinking bottles and glass containers to reduce their carbon footprint. But just buying new products will not get us there. Our behaviour has to change as well, and that appears to be easier said than done. According to research by ‘The Reuse Lab’ at the University of Antwerp, implementing smart design can help.
Nowadays there’s a lot of talk about isolation and loneliness. Yet no matter your age, it’s not easy to admit that you’re lonely. We think it’s only normal that elderly people are lonely. In her research, Haike searches for the human stories behind the statistics, hoping to do away with the stereotypical view of the solitary senior citizen.
It’s an increasingly common sight in cities: walls that are overgrown with plants. If you look closely, you’ll see black dust on the leaves of these green façades. That’s because these plants filter particulate matter from the air, improving air quality. But which type of green façade makes the best air filter? Scientists at the University of Antwerp are using a wind tunnel to investigate.
As the first winner of the PRESS>SPEAK writing competition, we present you Anthe Foubert’s article on haemophilia, one of the world’s best-known rare diseases.
PRESS > SPEAK is the University of Antwerp’s annual presentation and writing competition. The presentations are often the first experiences of science communication for young researchers. See the results of the writing contest 2020.