What is Comon

A collective of scientists, technologists, and creatives from the City of Ghent, imec, Ghent University, and Library De Krook. The goal? To make Ghent an even better city. With solutions supported by technology. How? By collecting challenges, brainstorming solutions, and testing them. Together with all citizens of Ghent.

Comon-team

Your points of contact

Jeroen Bourgonjon
Jeroen Bourgonjon
Jeroen is our impact coordinator and expert in digital innovation for people and society. He brings together people inside and outside Ghent University to approach challenges from different perspectives.
Stéphanie
Stephanie Van Hove
Stephanie is our structure-maker. As a coordinator, she arranges plans and collaborations into a harmonious whole. She maintains the overview, brings structure, and ensures that every idea reaches its full potential. This allows Comon to thrive to the fullest.
Margot Bulcke
Margot is our project officer. She ensures that activities run smoothly and that the administration is in order. Above all, she pampers everyone involved at Comon.
Line Windey
Line Windey
Line is our communication boost. She invites all Ghent enthusiasts to join in, because at Comon, everyone is an inventor. Together, we make Ghent even smarter, better, and healthier.

Comon team

Jeroen Bourgonjon
Jeroen Bourgonjon
Jeroen is our impact coordinator and expert in digital innovation for people and society. He brings together people inside and outside Ghent University to approach challenges from different perspectives.
Stéphanie
Stephanie Van Hove
Stephanie is our structure-maker. As a coordinator, she arranges plans and collaborations into a harmonious whole. She maintains the overview, brings structure, and ensures that every idea reaches its full potential. This allows Comon to thrive to the fullest.
Margot Bulcke
Margot is our project officer. She ensures that activities run smoothly and that the administration is in order. Above all, she pampers everyone involved at Comon.
Line Windey
Line Windey
Line is our communication boost. She invites all Ghent enthusiasts to join in, because at Comon, everyone is an inventor. Together, we make Ghent even smarter, better, and healthier.
Bas Baccarne
Bas Baccarne
Bas is our methodological architect. He guides us from problem to solution and from making to thinking (and vice versa), with a passion for prototyping, testing, and learning. From the Industrial Design Engineering program (imec-MICT-UGent), Bas serves as our guide on this journey.
Nell Van hansewyck
Nell Van hansewyck
Nell supports us in designing and executing creative activities that lead to valuable innovation. She does this with her methodological expertise as an innovation manager at imec.
Diederik Van Eetvelde
Diederik Van Eetvelde
Diederik juggles our social media, visual design, and everything related to public events. As a Ghent University member, he helps with online content creation through text and visuals, as well as setting up microphones at De Krook – and everything in between.
Dorien Goubert
Dorien Goubert
Dorien combines her expertise as an R&D team lead Health at imec with her practical and research-based clinical experience. She supports our creative thinking processes with expertise and strategic advice .
Tim Deschaumes
Tim Deschaumes
As a digital media and film staff member at Avansa, Tim supports our public activities. He is fascinated by the question of how to use digital technology in socially meaningful ways.
Eva Rousselle
Eva Rousselle
Eva supports our creative thinking processes and public activities. She loves meeting different people and hearing what is meaningful and challenging to them. At Avansa, she organizes and facilitates various dialogue formats, from Dialogue Tables to philosophy cafés.
Maike Somers
Maike Somers
A delightful mix of imagination and wisdom, with a generous splash of technology: that’s how Maike sees Bibliotheek De Krook and Comon. As the coordinator of the adult section, she searches for opportunities to link the work of both organizations.
Sam Van de Wiele
Sam Van de Wiele
As a library staff member with a catalog of young adult and contemporary fiction in mind, Sam supports our public activities. He loves to broaden his horizons and is in the right place at Comon to do just that.

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