Professionals are increasingly involved in attempts to understand and address problems with wicked tendencies, which require crossing boundaries between disciplines, organizations and stakeholder perspectives. This multiple-case study investigated six higher professional education courses in order to …

International Conference “Groundwater, key to the Sustainable Development Goals”. Paris, May 18-20th, 2022ClimateCafé is a multi-, trans-, interdisciplinary and international event of several days in which young professionals, stakeholders and scientist come together to collect data and design (potential) …

Societal transitions require activities of multiple stakeholders on different systemic levels. Designers and design researchers are often involved in supporting specific interventions and sometimes in enabling and facilitating entire processes. Practices and literature in ‘co-creation ecosystems’ are …

Inter-organizational arrangements that aim to address social and environmental “grand challenges” often take the form of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) (also cross-sector partnerships or collaborations). Grand challenges -- problems characterized by knowledge uncertainty, dynamic complexity and …

Het Nationaal toekomstbeeld fiets 2040 beoogt een landelijk dekkend netwerk van fietsinfrastructuur te realiseren dat een effectief en vanzelfsprekend alternatief vormt naast de netwerken voor wegen en spoor. Snelfietsroutes spelen hier een cruciale rol in. De aanleiding voor dit onderzoek is dan ook …

This study analyses how the social construction of integrity takes place within the context of football in the Netherlands. Combining a contex tual approach to sports integrity with the analytic lens of sensemaking, this qualitative multi-method case study analyses – in one extreme case in Dutch youth …

Background: Rising healthcare costs, an increasing general practitioner shortage and an aging population have made healthcare organization transformation a priority. To meet these challenges, traditional roles of non-medical members have been reconsidered. Within the domain of physiotherapy, there has …

Vanuit de Walcherse gemeenten is besloten dat het werkleerbedrijf van Orionis rendabeler moet worden. De belangrijkste reden hiervoor, is het tekort binnen de Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning. Uit intern onderzoek bij Orionis is gebleken dat de afdeling verpakken, het meest verliesgevend is. Orionis …

Knowledge of how professional youth work might prevent individual and social problems in socially vulnerable youngsters is poorly developed. This article presents a conceptual framework that clarifies the implicit methodical process used by professional youth workers and focuses on what stakeholders …

Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success stories, European policies for marine conservation fall short …