Labs at ICHEC
Labs are workspaces that bring together certain IRL researchers organized around a specific expertise. These labs are places of experimentation, allowing researchers to practice and test their knowledge related to an expertise, as well as to share it with others. The IRL supports these labs so that, as elsewhere in the IRL, free and creative, rigorous and responsible research can develop. Several labs allow research to be structured in sub-groups around a field, within the IRL: QuaResMI, LADICHEC et SustainLab
QuaResMI
ICHEC's QuaResMI is a research lab that focuses its activities around quantitative methods.
This lab hosts monthly seminars, an annual conference, and a notebook dedicated to quantitative research, covering (but not limited to) statistics, graph theory, algorithms and data analysis.
SustainLab
SustainLab is ICHEC’s research laboratory dedicated to sustainability research in management.
ICHEC SustainLab is a collaborative workspace that brings together IRL researchers around their expertise in the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability. It was created in 2021 following the school-wide co-construction process aimed at advancing sustainability within ICHEC.
SustainLab researchers explore and develop new narratives to help imagine, design and manage resilient organisations that contribute to peaceful coexistence, social justice and ecological regeneration, both locally and globally. Through their research practices, they address the challenge of achieving a profound transformation towards a socio-economic system that respects planetary boundaries, while recognising themselves as conscious actors within the living world.
Research topics include, but are not limited to:
Doughnut Economics
Ecological Economics
Sustainable Business Models
Social Entrepreneurship
Sustainable Finance
Circular Economy
Circular Economy in Tourism
Bottom of the Pyramid
Sustainable Marketing
Sustainable Cultural Heritage Management
Responsible Management
Innovative Management Practices
LADICHEC
LADICHEC is a lab that conducts basic and applied research in mathematics didactics.
The ICHEC didactics lab studies phenomena related to the learning and teaching of mathematics, mainly, but not exclusively, at the level of the secondary to higher educaction transition. The research conducted is essentially based on the theory of didactic situations (TDS) and the anthropological theory of didactics (ATD).
The lab attracts national and international collaborations in this field.
At the national level, LADICHEC has privileged links with LADIMATH, the didactic lab of the University of Liege, with which it conducts research on teacher training.
At the international level, LADICHEC has taken an active part in the creation of GECEMS which brings together Brazilian and African researchers around the teaching and learning of fundamental concepts of mathematical analysis (limit, derivative,...).
LADICHEC is also concerned with linking fundamental research with the realities of the field and is also developing an applied dimension based on its fundamental research. It participates in the pedagogical dynamics of the institution by collaborating with the ICHEC student support service, by developing innovative teaching projects for the institution, but also by proposing conferences dedicated to the general public and to researchers of other disciplines.
BEERS
BEERS promotes research in economics at ICHEC through seminars and academic exchanges.
The Brussels Ecological Economics Research Seminar brings together ICHEC economists to foster research in economics within the institution.
It is organised around a monthly seminar dedicated to the presentation of ongoing research and the exploration of topics of shared interest.
The research group also embraces an outward-looking approach, notably by welcoming external speakers and contributing to the organisation of economics conferences at ICHEC.