Confronted by more and more global sustainabilityrelated challenges, society is increasingly aiming for a circular economy. Wouldn’t it be ideal if we could contribute to an economic model with closed loops, where products and materials that are at the end of their functional life are reused in new products …

A lot of industries in the world use water and produce waste, and with limited water resources and an increasing population, industrial development has grown, putting even more stress on resources. This issue of concern has been recognized and efforts into conserving these precious resources has been …

For the transition to a more circular economy,it is important to know how the cycling of resources will affect value creation of businesses (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2013). Key business model strategies that are identified by Bocken et al. (2016) that fit the approach of slowing and closing resource …

For creating sports innovations we need tools to collect data on physical activity behaviour. Collecting data is time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, sharing data and using it to answer multiple research questions is desirable. Especially in larger multidisciplinary research projects, it is beneficial …

In the fall of 2015 the Research Group Open Educational Resources of Fontys University of Applied Sciences - School of ICT has conducted a survey into the production and/or reuse of OER and MOOCs by Dutch publicly financed Higher Education (HE) institutions: 15 research universities, 38 university of …

Reduction of virgin materials use by the construction industry has high priority and can be achieved by reusing structural and non-structural building components from existing buildings. The high value reuse of building components has not been adopted yet on a large scale because of several reasons, …

During experimental research for the RINEW project at the pilot location of Evides Industriewater in Rotterdam, the utilization of tubular ceramic nano- and microfiltration membranes in a municipal wastewater treatment system was analyzed with regard to specific aspects of membrane technology. These …

From a circular standpoint it is interesting to reuse as much as possible construction and demolition waste (CDW) into new building projects. In most cases CDW will not be directly reusable and will need to be processed and stored first. In order to turn this into a successful business case CDW will …

This chaptes proposes a methodology for the section monitoring locations for wastewater quality monitoring, based on (pre-) screening, a quick scan monitoring campaign, and final selection of location and design of the monitoring setup.