News
MAGENDA Consortium Meets in Mymensingh, Bangladesh
On 6-7 October 2026, the consortium of MAGENDA, a three-year Erasmus+ project, gathered in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, for its annual meeting at the end of the project’s second year.
HALL Member Cong Yao Wins Top Policy Provocation Award at PLSC Europe 2026
HALL Member Cong Yao presented the working paper Opt-Out as Conditional Privilege: The EHDS Secondary Use Architecture, Architectural Discrimination, and the Fourth Level Digital Divide at Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) Europe 2026, held at KU Leuven on 29–30 October 2026, and received the c...
Comparing the Declaration of Taipei and the EHDS Regulation
On 15 September, Sara Roda, the HALL affiliated researcher and EU Senior Policy Adviser at CPME – Standing Committee of European Doctors, gave a presentation at the 4th Open Expert Meeting on the revision of the Declaration of Taipei (DoT), co-organised by the World Medical Association, the Norwegia...
Prof. Paul Quinn to Address Legal and Ethical AI Challenges at AISym4MED Final Event
Prof. Paul Quinn will be a featured speaker at the upcoming AISym4MED final event, "Trustworthy AI for Healthcare: From Research to Policy", scheduled for October 15, 2026, at TownHall Europe in Brussels.
EU Project DIGINEXUS: VUB-HALL Joins Horizon Europe Initiative to Tackle Criminal Digital Infrastructure
VUB-HALL is proud to announce its involvement in DIGINEXUS, a new Horizon Europe project transforming how law enforcement tackles organized crime. Prof. Paul Quinn and Alp Berkay Soyfidan represented HALL at the project's Kick-off Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 6 October 2026.
The MIREYA Project Officially Launches to Advance Youth Cancer Research and Prevention Across Europe
The MIREYA project has officially launched, bringing together European partners to investigate how environmental, lifestyle, genetic, and social factors contribute to cancer in children, adolescents, and young adults.
FACILITATE Project concludes with final General Assembly
The FACILITATE project concluded on 4–5 June 2026 with its final General Assembly, “Looking to the Future,” held at the Fondazione Collegio San Carlo in Modena, Italy.
HALL Researcher Ruoxin Su Selected for Prestigious EDPB Expert Programme
Doctoral researcher Ruoxin Su of the VUB’s Health & Ageing Law Lab (HALL) has been selected to join the European Data Protection Board’s Support Pool of Experts (SPE) Programme as a legal expert in new technologies.
HALL-EKFZ Summer School 2026 on Digital Health at the Crossroads
Building on the success of the 2024 Brussels and the 2025 Dresden editions, we are thrilled to bring the Summer School back to Brussels for its third iteration.
Professor Paul Quinn Spoke on Shaping the Future of AI in Healthcare at the Parliament Health Summit 2025
Professor Paul Quinn of the VUB’s Health & Ageing Law Lab (HALL) participated as a panelist at the Parliament Health Summit 2025, a key European policy forum on 4th November.
Events
Practical info10/11/2026 - 14:00 - 10/11/2026 - 16:00HELT TALKS 2026/27 | Session 02
Session Title
Patient empowerment and health data reuse: What changes in the age of AI?
Speakers
Teodora Lalova-Spinks (KU Leuven, Centre for IT & IP law)
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Practical info26/10/2026 - 13:00 - 26/10/2026 - 15:00
HELT TALKS 2026/27 | Session 01
Session Title
Are Belgian hospitals ready for EHDS?
Speakers
Justin Ansotte (HDA Belgium), Marie Casier (HDA Belgium)
Moderator
Paul Quinn (VUB Health & Ageing Law Lab)
Practical info27/03/2026 - 12:00 - 27/03/2026 - 14:00HELT TALKS 2025/2026 Session 5 - AI and Data Governance in Work Capacity Assessments: Safeguarding Citizens in Times of Hardships
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly entering work capacity assessment (WCA) systems across Europe, where decisions directly affect individuals facing illness, disability, or unemployment.
Practical info01/06/2026 - 09:00 - 05/06/2026 - 17:00HALL-EKFZ Summer School 2026 on Digital Health at the Crossroads
Building on the success of the 2024 Brussels and the 2025 Dresden editions, we are thrilled to bring the Summer School back to Brussels for its third iteration.
Practical info26/02/2026 - 13:00 - 26/02/2026 - 15:00HELT TALKS 2025/2026 Session 4 - From Data to Decisions: AI, Health Data Governance and Patient-Centred Innovation in European Healthcare
The reuse of health data and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) hold significant promise for advancing personalised and precision medicine, yet their implementation in clinical practice and research remains constrained by technical, legal, ethical, and organisational barriers.
Practical info30/01/2026 - 13:00 - 30/01/2026 - 15:00HELT TALKS 2025/2026 Session 3 - AI and Medical Ethics: Declaration of Helsinki, AI Act and EU policy developments
Since its adoption in 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) continues to be a reference for conducting medical research involving human beings.
Practical info04/11/2025 - 11:00 - 04/11/2025 - 13:30PROGENDERING Event - International Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in Academia on November 4
We are delighted to invite you to the International Workshop “Gender Mainstreaming in Academia: Students’ Small-Scale Projects”, taking place online on 4 November 2025 (Tuesday), from 11:00 to 13:30 CET.
Practical info24/04/2025 - 08:30 - 24/04/2025 - 18:003rd Health, Law, and Technology Symposium (HELT 2025)
Following the success of HELT 2023 and HELT 2024, VUB’s Health & Ageing Law Lab (HALL) is delighted to announce tha
Practical info21/01/2025 - 14:30 - 21/01/2025 - 17:30Public PhD defence of Anastasiya Kiseleva
Anastasiya Kiseleva will defend her PhD in Law and Computer Science on Tuesday 21st January at 14:30, titled 'Transparent Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Multilayered Accountability Framework Integrating Law and Computer Science to Address Technological and
Practical info28/10/2024 - 10:00 - 28/10/2024 - 13:00ARC II final event- presenting Olivia GDPR compliance assistant
Join us as we present the results of the EU-funded project ARC II - Awareness Raising Campaign for SMEs.
