The main purpose of this research is to explore in what ways the gender gap could become smaller in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) field of higher education in the Netherlands. To gain insight into this issue, research has been conducted by the Swedish approach to attempt …

How can ST. by Olcay Gulsen become commercially successful in Hong Kong within two years? This question is the central research question in this final paper and reflects the ambition of ST. to become a big retail player in the fashion market of Hong Kong. ST. Studio (previously called Supertrash) is a …

Zizerones is a start-up company that currently develops a Software as a Service (SaaS) called Guidango for tour guides and companies that operate within Spain’s tourism sector. This report has been written to facilitate recommendations on the communication between Guidango and its clients on social media. …

Dutch households still appear to have no confidence in the financial sector. In the period of 2006 until 2009, public confidence in Dutch financial institutions fell sharply. In 2010, this somewhat rebounded, but since then remains substantially lower than before the start of the financial crisis. This …

The Hague University of Applied Sciences has high ambitions in the field of internationalisation. Two out of four priorities in the institutional policy touch this theme: global citizenship and internationalisation. In order to ensure that the curriculum of the new degree programme HBO ICT meets these …

Vincent de Waal (1951) promoveerde in 2014 aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek. Hij is werkzaam als docent- onderzoeker bij Hogeschool Utrecht (HU), Instituut Social Work. Sinds 2002 is hij onderzoeker binnen het Kenniscentrum Sociale Innovatie van de HU en vanaf 2012 betrokken bij de WMO-werkplaats …

Careers work is a very political business. Since the early 1990s, successive governments in England and the Netherlands have persistently challenged those working in the careers sector to demonstrate the educational, social and economic value and impact of their work. In this context, the marketisation …

This research paper has been conducted for X. It presents a new communication strategy for the fund in order to improve its information and increase its effect towards the target audience. Since the First Rutte cabinet (2010) the Dutch cultural sector has been increasingly under pressure from government …

In this paper we discuss the general approach and choices we made in developing a prototype of a social media monitor. The main goal of the museum monitor is to offer museum professionals and researchers better insight in the effects of their own social media usage and compare this with other actors …

Op papier biedt de nieuwe Aanbestedingswet meer kansen voor het mkb. In de praktijk hebben kleine bedrijven de grootste moeite deel te nemen aan aanbestedingen, vooral als social return daarbij een rol speelt. Lector Gert Walhof en docent Marius van der Woude vinden dat mkb-bedrijven met aantoonbare …