Primary school teachers can enhance their teaching and provide inclusive education by using their students’ cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge, however, is a broad term and is often used as an abstract concept. To make this more concrete, we identified, organized, and categorized the concept of cultural …

Background: Most studies on older adults' vitality focus on linear connections between determinants and outcomes. To design more comprehensive and impactful approaches to support the vitality of older adults, a better understanding of the interplay among elements that shape their vitality is necessary. …

Nederland streeft naar een volledig circulaire bouweconomie om grondstoffen, klimaat en afval te beheersen. Dit wordt ondersteund door de invoering van de Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). De Europese Commissie verplicht met de CSRD dat bedrijven rapporteren over hun prestaties op …

Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and materials. Demands are rising, with a growing attention for re-use and upcycling, opening up opportunities for new business models, empowered by the use of digital design and technologies. A KPI framework …

Across cities and urban regions in The Netherlands unusual collaborations emerge which aim to develop new circular business models that facilitate product and resource longevity through various upcycling strategies, such as reuse, repair, refurbish, repurpose and/or remanufacture. Municipalities, social …

Hoe komt het toch dat gezondheidsverschillen zo hardnekkig zijn en waarom lukt het ons niet om daar verandering in aan te brengen? Daar gaat het proefschrift ‘rechtvaardige preventie’ van Carla Kolner over en ze geeft zelfs hoop door een richting aan te geven die meer kansen heeft.

‘International Hub Center, a connective student village in Maastricht.’ Can a university city like Maastricht do better in getting international students involved in the local community and making them prolong their stay to the benefit of the city? From his own experience as a foreign student the designer …

De afgelopen twee jaar hebben de Hanze en Hogeschool Rotterdam samen met een groot aantal partijen in Groningen, Assen en Rotterdam onderzocht hoe pleinen aantrekkelijk en tegelijkertijd klimaatadaptief kunnen worden ingericht. Ook is onderzoek gedaan naar het betrekken van allerlei groepen bewoners …

Throughout this thesis, a competitive durable reinforcement design for the Mastenbroek-IJssel reinforcement project is developed and modeled. In 2024 the Drents Overijsselse Delta Water Board began with the exploration phase of the Mastenbroek-IJssel reinforcement project as 10.8 km of the IJssel dike …