This qualitative research assesses the European Union’s (EU) democracy promotion, through the analysis of eight milestone policies, implemented between 1995 and 2014 in Tunisia. The idea is that these policies should be analyzed over an extended period, rather than separately. This is because the international …

Increasingly, adding trees to the city is a new goal on the urban agenda in order to fight climate change. There is an interesting contrast when looking at the average lifespan of trees in the city: 30 years. The reason is that trees are still being seen from a utilitarian perspective and as urban furniture …

Rede van Lector Lilian Linders, Lectoraat Empowerment en Professionalisering Het is niet bepaald voor het eerst in de geschiedenis van sociaal georiënteerde opleidingen dat het gedachtegoed van empowerment op de agenda staat. Toen ik ongeveer 40 jaar geleden begon als student aan de ‘Sociale Academie’ …

De rol van de leerkracht verandert steeds meer van kennisoverdrager naar begeleider. Een belangrijke leerkrachtvaardigheid binnen deze begeleidersrol is het geven van effectieve feedback. Op basisschool YYY is afgelopen jaar bij het invoeren van een nieuwe methode voor Onderwijs op Jezelf en de Wereld …

​Het doel van dit onderzoek is om te achterhalen of de Zuid-Afrikaanse media op hetzelfde punt is gekomen als de politiek in het land met een hoge vertegenwoordiging van vrouwen. Om dit te onderzoeken wordt gekeken naar de berichtgeving over de twee mogelijke vrouwelijke presidentskandidaten rond de …

The European Commission’s Fitness Check exercise, as part of the Better Regulation agenda is a very hot topic at the moment and has already covered six policy areas since 2010. At the moment, a Fitness Check is being performed on the Birds & Habitats Directives, which can be seen as the most controversial …

In most European countries entrepreneurship is one of the top priorities on the national agenda, to stimulate individual and organizational innovativeness and (regional) economic growth. As a consequence, embedding entrepreneurship in education to achieve this goal has gained importance and momentum …

Sustainable development will be a major driving force for new developments in businesses. Most companies are very much aware of that but find it difficult to translate this insight into concrete actions. An often observed obstacle is that most, particularly SME's, find it difficult to evaluate how sustainability …

The Research Group for Governmental Communication has carried out a trend study of governmental communication within The Netherlands (1). Research topics were: the major tasks for communication, current issues, profiling the communication department, and policy plans for communication. Another study …