Past events

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.

Following the success of HELT 2023 and HELT 2024, VUB’s Health & Ageing Law Lab (HALL) is delighted to announce that HELT 2025 will take place in Brussels on April 24, 2025. This year’s theme is “One Health : Advancing Global Health through Law and Technology”.

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 a...

We are thrilled to announce the second edition of HELT Talks, with Erik Vollebregt, partner at Axon Lawyers and Sciences and IP lawyer, to discuss the current and upcoming challenges of the Medical Devices Regulations of the European Union.

Join us as we present the results of the EU-funded project ARC II - Awareness Raising Campaign for SMEs.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the first edition of HELT Talks, with Prof. Dr. Thomas Berlage and Prof. Dr.

The Health and Ageing Law Lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the EKFZ for Digital Health at Dresden University of Technology are joining forces to organize a summer school catering to law, health, and technology enthusiasts in Brussels, Belgium. The event will take place from June 3 to 7, 2024.

On 6th May at 14:00, Dr. Andrea Martani will visit the Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) and share his research titled "Opt-in vs opt-out for secondary health data usage in biomedical research: can the European Health Data Space learn from Switzerland?".

The Brussels Privacy Hub will organise a webinar on ‘The Future of Data Access and Portability: GDPR vs. Data Act, Health Data Space Regulation & Open Finance Initiative’. The webinar will take place on 28 November from 17:00 until 18:30 (CET).

On 28 November 2022, VUB HALL and LSTS visiting scholar Mikel Recuero Linares (researcher at the Chair in Law and the Human Genome Research Group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)) will present his research on 'Scientific research with sensitive personal data...

HALL and LSTS researcher Olga Gkotsopoulou will present her PhD research on ‘EU Data Protection (Legal) Language: Mainstreaming Accessibility for Enhanced Transparency’.  The Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) is organising a Doctoral Seminar series to give the opportunity to Ph.D.

The European Commission released its first proposal for a Regulation for the European Health Data Space (“EHDS”) in May 2022. The proposal has two broad aims.    Perhaps the most important is to boost research competitiveness of Europe.