"Birzeit university as Palestine’s leading academic institution with aim of education and research excellence, as well as community interaction and services is committed to achieve sustainable development. Greening its campus through water efficiency, use of renewable energy, and wide greener areas. …

Sound Soils is a practice-oriented research initiative aimed at exploring opportunities for musicians to contribute to rural life in the Northern Netherlands, with a specific emphasis on participatory music practices. Grounded in Participatory Action Research methodology and ethnographic forms of data …

Education plays a major role in this paradox: the cultural diversity that is increased by immigration is eliminated by successful education: education aims to maximise the opportunities for every child within the emerging global culture and thus reduce cultural diversity. The road from the Enlightenment …

This paper seeks to understand the role of valuing in urban live music ecologies. It explains how multiple actors (e.g. directors of music venues, musicians, policy-makers, and real estate experts) in Dutch live music ecologies negotiate the different values of live music. To examine this dynamic, we …

Behind the thick doors of the club forms a fantasy world. A democratic society for a night, obeying it’s own rules and challenging all that’s considered normal during the day. It’s inhabitants, although undeniably displaying escapist tendencies, explore and challenge themselves in the sanctuary of freedom. …

Intelligent internationalization, as outlined by Laura Rumbley in 2015, is a relevant notion to explore in specific institutional settings. The setting in this contribution is that of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) and in order to understand intelligent internationalization in practice, …

Background: Globalisation trends such as increased migration to and within European countries have led to even greater cultural diversity in European societies. Cultural diversity increases the demand of cultural competency amongst professionals entering their work field. In particular, healthcare professionals …

The COHEHRE Academy organized the following capacity building workshop(s) in 2018: Ethics in Community based Student Projects: Exploring the possibility of a win-win situation: Time and venue: November 2018 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Coordinating institution: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences …

Today the role of the museum institution is often questioned and consumed by crises of meaning, funding, and relevance. Within the European context the economic crisis resulted in major budget-cuts in the public spending, which also affected artistic and cultural public funds. It has been thus increasingly …

This final project assesses the supervision and guidance provided by Smiling Faces in order to achieve the best possible fulfillment of the duty to care. The main question that will be answered in this final project is: how could Smiling Faces improve its position in the au pair business by achieving …