• The family of Bart Verbeeck (Flanders Today, 9 February), the young man who chose to end his life by palliative sedation and was featured in a VRT documentary, have set up a new fund to support research into Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer Bart was suffering from. The fund will work
together with professors Patrick Schöffski and Paul Clement of the Experimental Oncology  department of the Catholic University of Leuven.

• Tim Vangerven, a graduating student of the Xios university college in Diepenbeek, related to the university of Hasselt, was not only awarded an unprecedented 20 out of 20 for his master's thesis in industrial sciences, his thesis project was also awarded a European patent. Vangerven's project concerns LED lighting which can be printed on anything from postcards to billboards. “His work is immediately applicable for our company,” said Wouter Moons, CEO of Lumoza, a spin-off company from the university of Hasselt and nano-technology specialists Imec, where Vangerven spent an internship before preparing his thesis. “This thesis comes very close to the level of a doctorate,” said the school's director Dirk Franco. “An unbelievable performance, never before seen in our school.” Vangerven meanwhile intends to follow doctoral studies at Hasselt university, while continuing to work for Lumoza.