This study explores the perspectives of teachers, parents, and teenage boys on pressing issues of absenteeism and dropout among boys in public secondary schools in North A district, Zanzibar. It exposes the underlying factors contributing to the high dropout rates, particularly among boys who are increasingly …

In the last few years, many organisations of public and private origin representing the ecosystem have joined forces to combat societal challenges by means of mission-driven innovation. Although the organisation and collaboration among such organisations and individuals are already extremely challenging, …

Presentatie op het Blue Zone Festival Zwolle over de rol van stedenbouw in gezondheid, met een focus op hoe ruimtelijke condities het dagelijks gedrag en welzijn beïnvloeden. De lezing benadrukt de verschuiving van individuele leefstijlkeuzes naar de leefomgeving als bepalende factor voor gezondheid, …

Charging infrastructure deployment has taken off in many cities with the rise of the number of electric vehicles on the road. Expansion of infrastructure is a matter of prioritisation of resources to optimise the infrastructure. This paper explores how to measure charging station performance, to address …

Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization and climate change are important drivers of biodiversity decline and ecosystem degradation (McKinney, 2002). Governmental inaction results in cascade effects, such as the extinction of species and the weakening of ecosystem services that citizens depend on. …

Efforts to reduce negative externalities of urban logistics vehicle movements often concentrate on two aspects; organizing logistics more efficiently in order to reduce the number of incoming vehicles in urban areas and reducing the emissions of vehicles within urban areas. The stopping practices are …

Co-creation in a quintuple helix, the art of including natural environments of society in a living lab that includes different types of stakeholders and monitoring the quality of this process of co-creation. In the last decade, co-creation has not only become a widely used concept in academic discourses …

As societal discussions around housing and immigration continue to heat up in the Netherlands, internationalisation has found itself caught in the crossfire. Against a backdrop of changing policies and public sentiment, Simone Hackett of The Hague University of Applied Sciences invited one domestic student …

In Germany, public transport organizations are mainly owned by public authorities. Procurement in Hamburg involves the buses and infrastructure instead of transport services. The procurement process for buses and infrastructure is performed by the transport companies. Such processes must meet German …

A Europe-wide revival of the idea of bildung as a goal for education has been gaining momentum for a couple of decades. The main idea is that bildung enables teachers, researchers and policy makers “… to explore the ways in which education might be about something more than simply the transmission of …