No Net Land Take - Zéro artificialisation is a tool to help in the decision-making process regarding the distribution of the efforts to be made in order to drastically reduce urban sprawl. This approach aims to provide recommendations and proposals for local actors in order to promote alternatives to the car and strengthen the attractiveness of urban and rural centres. FIND OUT MORE The UFA-REFOREST project aims to plant just over 240,000 trees in the Forest Management Units (FMUs) of four forestry companies in eastern Cameroon over the next four years. The project aims to contribute to the sustainable management of Cameroon’s timber production forests by mobilising private and public stakeholders around reforestation and future forest management strategies. FIND OUT MORE ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, is a European research infrastructure that provides longterm observations to better understand the carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions over Europe. ICOS is used to predict the future climate and to assess activities to mitigate climate change. In Gembloux, the systemmeasures gas exchanges between typical Walloon ecosystems (grasslands for grazing and field crops) and the atmosphere. FIND OUT MORE In the aftermath of the July 2021 floods, ULiège researchers joined forces to analyse the mapping of the submerged area in the Vesdre and Ourthe valleys. Through their skills and fields of research, the teamwishes to identify and rank the urbanisable areas at the bottom of the valleys, as well as provide land-use planning solutions in anticipation of the next floods. FIND OUT MORE The Mundec research project examines nuclear power plants, a type of infrastructure that is both expensive to maintain and extremely difficult to dismantle. Mundec proposes to study the material transformations, political decisions and socio-technical practices that are linked to nuclear power plants, ranging from maintenance when the infrastructure wears out and deteriorates to decommissioning it when the decision is made to scrap it. The project proposes an original perspective by focusing on a particular phenomenon in the life of infrastructures: their mundane decay and its management, or lack thereof. FIND OUT MORE 4.2 Research Scientists from the University of Liège are involved in numerous research projects that respond to the sustainable development objectives put forward by the United Nations. Migration, climate, health, environment, economy, energy, habitat, food, ... Let’s focus on some of the many projects carried out by ULiège researchers. Since 2018, the ULiège Smart City Institute has been carrying out an inventory of the dynamics of sustainable and intelligent transition in Wallonia. This Smart Cities barometer sheds light on how Belgian/ Walloon municipalities perceive the Smart City concept, their state of progress in this area, as well as the way in which they are setting up - or not - a Smart City approach/ projects on their territory. FIND OUT MORE 26 | ANNUAL REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT ULIÈGE | 2021 – 2022 27 | ANNUAL REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT ULIÈGE | 2021 – 2022
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