Sustainable Entrepreneurship

As part of the EU's (green and digital) Twin Transitions, CenSE supports organizations to systematically translate contemporary trends and challenges into sustainable business practices. These practices align with the United Nations' sustainability agenda and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined in it.

Key projects in this area focus on supporting SMEs and family businesses in:
- Process innovation for sustainability, 
- Systemic transformation toward sustainability,
- Resilience in businesses,
- Change management for businesses and supply chains.

Duurzame bedrijfsvoering

Ongoing projects

Completed projects

  • Experiment Garden

    The Experiment Garden creates a healthy learning environment around food skills for children, students and local residents.

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  • Equbusiness

    Because gender diversity on boards would lead to more sustainable decision-making in the long term, an e-book and digital modules were created in this project.

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  • EntreMWB

    Development of practical and reflective learning materials that support and promote Mental Wellbeing (MWB) among entrepreneurs in Europe.

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  • ENTRnet

    The specific objective of ENTRnet is to promote European cooperation between different adult education providers and relevant stakeholders on specific adult education topics, such as entrepreneurship.

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  • >100-year-old family businesses

    What are the levers and factors that ensure the long-term survival and success of a family business? This research provides a new and unique model with 10 lessons for a long-term existence as a family business.

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  • Entrepreneurship after setbacks or bankruptcy

    This project looks at the potential impact of bankruptcy on ex-entrepreneurs. Does it affect their further options? Do they choose to restart as an entrepreneur? And what factors play a role in their decision?

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  • Entrepreneurship and the self-employed in the Brussels Capital Region

    This study provides an overview of entrepreneurship in the Brussels Capital Region.

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  • Transfer of business to employees

    This project focuses on SMEs whose manager is (has) reached retirement age or is thinking of taking over, so-called "aging SMEs".

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  • Successfully supporting change in family businesses

    With this project we wanted to investigate to what extent change processes can be more supported ('my' and/or 'our' change process) by the (non-)family employees in family firms and how psychological ownership can contribute to successful change processes in family firms.

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  • European crayfish in recirculating systems

    This project examined at what temperature, light regime, water quality, density and environment adult European lobsters should be reared to grow optimally and what nutrition is required to do so.

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  • Start-up and financial analysis of commercial freshwater cod farming in Belgium (LotaBEL)

    The Aqua-ERF started research on freshwater cod farming in 2009. From these AquaVlan and ERF studies, we gained a lot of knowledge and experience about this fish in its different life stages.

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  • Taste, welfare and cultivation of crayfish

    Within the first PWO project that focused on the cultivation of the European crayfish (Astacus astacus) in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS), a wide range of rearing parameters were investigated, with emphasis on the juvenile phase of rearing.

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  • Family businesses and the crisis

    The COVID crisis and subsequent measures have shaken the economic landscape considerably and severely tested the resilience of our companies. How resilient and flexible are Flemish (family) businesses?

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  • Boundless entrepreneurship

    'Grenzeloos ondernemen' examines the conditions and barriers to doing business across the border, specifically in the Flanders-Netherlands border region.

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  • Longevity of family businesses

    The determinants of long-lived family businesses are being investigated. The results will culminate in a research paper.

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  • Family Business Barometer

    The Family Business Barometer gauges the economic expectations of family businesses in Belgium.

     

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