Key takeaways from the project underscore the importance of fostering long-term collaborations between technical experts, communities, and institutional partners. By integrating technical innovation with human-centred design, the SUSTENANCE project has not only advanced renewable energy adoption but …

This graduation project, led by the Smart Industry research group at Saxion together with the Ambient Intelligence research group (AmI), aims to create an energy analysis tool for the SERENE/SUSTENANCE projects in the Dutch sustainable communities of Vriendenerf and Aardehuis. The goal of the project …

This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality. Grounded on an ethnographic study of a dairy CBE in rural Malawi, findings reveal that …