Honorary doctorate for Lotte Brondum of the Global Alliance of NGO's for Road Safety
The School of Transportation Sciences has awarded an honorary doctorate to Lotte Brondum, director of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety, an alliance of more than 400 NGOs from over 100 different countries, all concerned with road safety. These NGOs are mainly locally based and often founded after a dramatic accident, with the aim of making traffic safer in their area.
"Lotte Brondum has a very strong vision for road safety. Under her leadership, the alliance grew into a strong organisation that turns vision into action and helps the many NGOs worldwide to have a real impact on road safety through training and tools. The Transportation Research Institute, IMOB UHasselt, has already cooperated with the Alliance in training the NGOs in the past, and we will expand this cooperation in the coming years. We are therefore very happy to welcome Lotte Brondum as our new honorary doctor. Together we want to help achieve the United Nations' ambition to reduce the number of fatal and injured road traffic victims worldwide by half by 2030 and to go to 0 traffic victims by 2050," says Prof Geert Wets, director of IMOB UHasselt and promoter of this honorary doctorate.
Four new honorary doctors of Hasselt University
On the occasion of its Dies Natalis, UHasselt has awarded 4 honorary doctorates. Next to Lotte Brondum, Hugo Bollen, spiritual father of the famous cycling route network, economist Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and designer Rosan Bosch are Hasselt University's new honorary doctorates.
‘Four inspiring people whom we honour for their gift of always daring to innovate, but never losing sight of the power of connection,’ says Rector Bernard Vanheusden.
