Purpose The aim of this study is to provide insights into how the purchasing function can increase the maturity of smart maintenance management (SMM) in construction clients by (1) assessing current SMM maturity and (2) developing an adapted service triad for purchasing's meaningful involvement in SMM. …

ENSURE is a project involving 9 partner organisations from the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The aim of ENSURE was to create a model of peer to peer support that can be implemented with different groups of people and that can be instrumental in enabling social inclusion for people …

Workpackage 8.1 van het IANOS-project is gewijd aan het ontwikkelen van een community engagement strategie die kan worden toegepast in de use cases op de vuurtoreneilanden (Ameland en Terceira) en de collega-eilanden (Lampedusa, Nisyros en Bora Bora). Dit rapport is de deliverable van WP8.1. In dit rapport …

Recalling that a majority of those who need assistive technology do not have access to it, and that this has a significant impact on the education, livelihood, health and well-being of individuals, and on families, communities and societies, Member States adopted a resolution on Improving access to assistive …

Safety and security are the two fundamental pillars of aviation operations. Safety and security issues stem not only from technical failures but mainly from human errors which are much more possible in a deteriorated work environment such as the one shaped in the last decades due to the air transport …

Extensive research has explored the role of perfectionism in individuals (Hewitt & Flett, 1991; Mackinnon & Sherry, 2012). Perfectionism is considered as a stable personality trait that is characterized by “high standards of performance which are accompanied by tendencies for overly critical evaluations …

A plea to reclaim the internet from addictive platform capitalism, from the author of Sad by Design. However often you delete apps from your phone, the seduction of the platform draws you back. There is a rising disaffection with "platform" culture--with megacorporations such as Google and Facebook that …

Promoting inclusive school cultures and, more specifically, addressing inequality of opportunity is high on the European education agenda. Equipping teachers to be able to identify and address inequality of opportunity requires them to develop sensitivity, multi-perspectivity and agency, and these are …

Cut, cooled, packed, transported and traded all over the world, flowers represent a showcase of a worldwide integrated trade-logistics system. As one of the most perishable, vulnerable and time-critical products, speed is everything in harvesting, moving and trading of flowers. In the international trade …

Although precarity in journalism is usually understood in terms of economic precarity, this chapter focuses on professional precarity. It critically interrogates how the independent nature of work in entrepreneurial journalism, and in particular the self-reliance in terms of funding for their work, go …