News & Events

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is launching the photo exhibition “Zij is Wetenschap”, celebrating inspiring women in science. We are proud to share that Prof. Imke Baetens is among the featured researchers.

We are pleased to announce that Lisa Van Hove has been awarded funding from the Maurrange Fund (Koning Boudewijn Foundation) for her new project addressing self-harm in older adults.

On Friday, the PRISM network welcomed Dr. Jaroslaw R. Lelonkiewicz (University of Valencia) for an invited lecture exploring the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in cognitive science. In a talk titled “What Can We Learn from Stochastic Parrots?”, Dr.

Yesterday, our colleague Lisa Van Hove took the stage as a finalist in the PhD Cup 2025 — a Flemish competition that challenges young researchers to communicate their work to a broad audience.   Lisa’s topic?

Tijdens een spannende halve finale bij SciMingo vzw op 1 oktober sleepten acht onderzoekers een felbegeerd finaleticket in de wacht.    Ontdek hier welke wetenschappers op 21 oktober het podium van de Gentse Handelsbeurs bestormen in de strijd voor de Vlaamse PhD Cup 2025.

Research by Lisa Van Hove (VUB, PRISM network) reveals that nearly 1 in 4 older adults in Flanders have engaged in self-harm at some point in their lives — and almost 1 in 10 did so after the age of 60. These findings challenge the common belief that self-harm is limited to young people.

We are very proud to see that our own Lisa Van Hove is selected for the Flemish PhD cup 2025 with her research on self-harm in older adults in Flanders Her research shows that almost 1 in 4 older adults had engaged in self-harm at some point in their life, and nearly 1 in 10 did so at the age of 60

We had an inspiring 3-day kick-off event, as we officially launched our PRISM (Psychology, Research & Innovation in Mental Health) consortium on Wednesday 26th of March!