The official launch of the Digital Future Lab (DFL) marks an exciting step forward for Hasselt University and for the ecosystem of digital innovation in Flanders. With over 80 researchers across various interdisciplinary groups, DFL focuses on creating well-designed, human-centered, trustworthy, and useful digital systems that address both industrial and societal challenges. We did an interview (in Dutch, with Ann T’Syen) that can be found here.
The launch event took place earlier this month and attracted a large and diverse audience of stakeholders from academia, industry, government, and the public. The day featured an interesting variety of talks from Noël Slangen (POM Limburg), dr. Sabine Demey (imec), dr. Koen Maertens (Flanders Make), Kim Smets (Telenet), Sally Trivino (EY), Eric Joris (CREW), and dr. Frederik De Bleser (Sint Lucas Antwerpen), prof. dr. Frank Van Reeth, prof. dr. Bernard Vanheusden, prof. dr. Mieke Jans and prof. dr. Benoît Depaire. In addition, we had about 20 live interactive demonstrations, and showcasing our research and real-world prototypes developed by our teams. Check out our YouTube channel to see these in action.
Watch the Digital Future Lab Movie
What is Digital Future Lab?
The Digital Future Lab is an academic research center designed to explore the digital technologies that will shape tomorrow’s society. Our mission is to combine science, engineering, and design to create breakthrough digital solutions that enhance human capabilities while ensuring transparency, fairness, safety and added value.
Some Press Coverage of the Launch Event:
- Flanders Make: UHasselt lanceert Digital Future Lab voor maatschappij weldoordachte en veilige digitale oplossingen
- Grafisch Nieuws: Digital Future Lab Launch Coverage
- TVL: 80 onderzoekers werken aan digitale toekomst in Digital Future Lab van UHasselt
- Het Belang van Limburg: UHasselt lanceert nieuw Digital Future Lab met 80 onderzoekers in 4 groepen
- POM coverage on Facebook: Nieuw `Digital Future Lab’ focust op mensgerichte digitale technologie
Strategic Partnerships and Impact
As part of the Flanders Make Core Lab network since 2018, we maintain strong connections with industry partners and focus on bridging academic research with real-world industry needs. Our state-of-the-art technology platforms include:
- A space to experiment with Digital Manufacturing
- Cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies
- Comprehensive Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality applications
Interested in working with us?
We are actively seeking partners across sectors who want to:
- Co-develop or validate digital technologies and prototypes
- Explore research collaboration in AI, human-AI interaction, cybersecurity, immersive environments, process- and data-mining, health analytics, human-information behavior, etc.
- Access to state-of-the-art infrastructure for immersive environments, digital manufacturing and AI
Contact us to start a conversation.
Learn more about our research areas, team, and ongoing projects at digitalfuturelab.uhasselt.be