Overview
Joeri Minnen is Managing Director of hbits, based in Brussels. He joined hbits in January 2015 as a researcher-entrepreneur, a role he continues to hold, and took up the position of Managing Director in November 2018. Since January 2004 he has been a member of the HETUS task force at EUROSTAT-HETUS.
Between October 2002 and December 2014 he was a senior researcher with Research Group TOR-VUB, and from January 2008 to December 2012 he worked as a researcher on an FWO project at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He returned to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as an expert for the European Commission through SOGETI from October 2017 to June 2021. He was treasurer of the International Association for Time-Use Research from August 2013 to October 2023, carried out expert missions at ONS Algers in mid-2013, and was a member of TUS2013 at FOD Economie / SPF Economie / FPS Economy from July 2012 to December 2016.
He completed a Master in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp between 1997 and 2002, and studied sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2002.
Career history
In the news
- You say? #Time and #Money? ⏰💶 Time and money are two fundamental resources that shape people’s lives, opportunities, and social position. But how can we understand how people live, what they do, what they buy, and what they consume — all in one view? This is where #MOTUS comes in. MOTUS is not only a platform for collecting Time Use Survey (#TUS) data. It can also be used to collect Household Budget Survey (#HBS) data, aligned with international statistical frameworks from Eurostat and the United Nations Statistics Division. 📌
- timeuse 🚀 Time for poster number two! 📌 Poster 2: Connecting Hägerstrand’s legacy with contemporary mobility data In this poster, I explore how #MOTUS uses high-resolution geotracking data to complement and enhance traditional time diary data. Hägerstrand provides the theoretical foundation. MOTUS brings new data and possibilities. Together, they help us advance our understanding of how people use and move through time and space. And there’s more to come… 👀 Stay tuned for poster number 3 — and the presentations! Looking
- TimeUse #IATURLisbon26 ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management Elsa Fontainha Next week, the IATUR26 conference kicks off in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 I’m excited to bring 3 presentations and 3 posters to the conference. Let’s start with the posters. 🎓 📌 Poster 1: From prompts to triggers. From scheduled to meaningful insights. This poster explores how the #MOTUS data collection platform modernises the Experience Sampling Method (#ESM) — as well as the Ecological Momentary Assessment (#EMA) — by moving beyond scheduled prompts
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- HBS #Receiptscanning #OfficialStatistics See 👇 . Interesting insights from the WISTA Wirtschaft und Statistik article on Destatis’ experience with AI-powered receipt scanning in the 2026 Household Budget Survey. The results show how receipt scanning can reduce respondent burden while capturing more detailed expenditure data. A great example of combining AI automation with human validation to strengthen Official Statistics. 🧾📊 #AI #OCR #SurveyResearch #DataQuality #Digitalisation #SmartSurveys #HouseholdBudgetSurvey
- TimeUse + Space = Time Geography! Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 6th International Time Geography Conference in #Toronto, where around 80 presentations explored the many ways time and space interact to shape our daily lives. I was delighted to present our WinWin4WorkLife project and demonstrate how the #MOTUS data collection platform captured insights into #RemoteWork across Europe. Using the MOTUS app, participants completed detailed time diaries for both a remote workday and an office workday. Simultaneously,
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