Of het nu om arbeidsmigratie gaat of om flexwerk, om de inzet van zzp’ers of om vaste contracten: ‘werk’ is een centraal onderwerp in het maatschappelijk en politiek debat. De ‘hardwerkende Nederlander’ lijkt maatgevend voor politieke besluitvorming te zijn geworden. Veel minder gaat het over de inhoud …

Het evenement From Cash to Code op 6 december 2024 verkende de impact van cryptoactiva en digitaal centrale bankgeld op de toekomst van het financiële systeem. De tweede sessie stond in het teken van de regulering van cryptoactiva binnen de EU. Aleksandra Asscheman, onderzoeker van het lectoraat New …

The SynergyS project aims to develop and assess a smart control system for multi-commodity energy systems (SMCES). The consortium, including a broad range of partners from different sectors, believes a SMCES is better able to incorporate new energy sources in the energy system. The partners are Hanze, …

Securing information systems and assets within smart shipping environments is of utmost importance. In practice, however, securing smart shipping is a difficult and tedious task because smart shipping environments are highly dynamic, distributed, and loosely coupled, which cause having large threat/attack …

Due to increasing flood risks, storm surge barriers become crucial for the socioeconomic continuity of coastal areas. They provide flood protection, especially against extreme events, by operating under specific circumstances. This imposes high-performance requirements for storm surge barriers and their …

The circular economy (CE) is heralded as reducing material use and emissions while providing more jobs and growth. We explored this narrative in a series of expert workshops, basing ourselves on theories, methods and findings from science fields such as global environmental input-output analysis, business …