The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students’ participation …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the actors within, are a core factor in fostering entrepreneurial activity in regions (Brush et al., 2019). Business networks are one of the entrepreneurial ecosystems element and key in socially embedding entrepreneurs. The extent to which an entrepreneur is embedded …

Eenmaal per jaar brengen we, vanuit de netwerken Noorderlink, Werken in Friesland en Samenwerking Rijk Noord, HR-en loopbaanadviseurs uit het Noorden bijelkaar. Vandaag was het een mooie en energievolle bijeenkomst met aansprekende thema’s als de noordelijke arbeidsmarkt en skillsgerichte (loopbaan)begeleiding …

Stel je voor dat werkgevers, HR-professionals, studie-keuzeadviseurs, werkzoekenden, onderwijsinstellingen, arbeidsmarktadviseurs, beleidsmakers, lerenden, werkenden en loopbaanbegeleiders dezelfde taal zouden spreken…Wat zou dat handig zijn!Daarom legt CompetentNL de basis voor één gemeenschappelijke …

This article analyzis two Dutch experiments in which the government guarantees a job to tackle long-term unemployment. The experiment with the Melkert jobs was carried out in the 1990s. Recently the municipality of Groningen implemented a project in which long-term unemployed people are offered a so-called …

Internal displacement has been one of the major crises in Yemen since the escalation on of the war in 2015. The conflict has forced people to flee their homes and lands searching for safer places. Displacement has disrupted the livelihoods of these people, leaving them with severe shortagesof necessities …

In this abstract we describe a computational approach for detecting discursive patterns in social media. Newsrooms of municipalities and public organizations such as the police follow public debate on social media to be aware of and prepare for local and global issues and rumors. The onset of these issues …

‘Delta Dreamers’ is een project dat is mogelijk gemaakt vanuit de Regiodeal- thema aansluiting onderwijs-arbeidsmarkt - en waarin de eilanden Goeree-Overflakkee, Hoeksche Waard en Voorne-Putten samenwerken. Doel van het onderzoek is om bedrijven in de Zuid-Hollandse Delta te adviseren hoe zij hun bedrijf …