Participatory data collection relies on the commitment of the participants to report data continuously, which makes providing incentives to people crucial. In this case study, we describe how we designed a web app by using different incentive mechanisms to collect participatory data for monitoring community …

De auteurs doen in deze bijdrage verslag van de ontwikkeling van een instrument en methode die werkgevers een beter zicht geven op huidige en toekomstige personeelsbehoefte. De eerste ervaringen met instrument en methode onder negen werkgevers in Eemsdelta-regio zijn positief: de informatie over personeel …

Het verslag beschrijft hoe een Smart Grid voor vier elektrische laadpalen is ontworpen en geprogrammeerd. Een tweede systeem beschrijft hoe de verlichting in een bedrijfshal geautomatiseerd kan worden door middel van domotica. Het derde onderdeel beschrijft hoe de systeemwaarde van 189 PV zonnepanelen …

Statelessness is a global issue that affects more than 12 million people around the world. Based on the United Nations (UN) estimates, the Council of Europe (CoE) has identified the number of stateless persons in Europe to be at least 680,000. Despite the above figures, statelessness remains a relatively …

Biodiversity, including entire habitats and ecosystems, is recognized to be of great social and economic value. Conserving biodiversity has therefore become a task of international NGO’s as well as grass-roots organisations. The ‘classical’ model of conservation has been characterised by creation of …

Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) provide re-integrating sex offenders with a group of trained volunteers who support this rehabilitation process. Effect studies show promising results in reduction of recidivism. This study provides a theoretical underpinning and empirical validation of the …

Learning teams in higher education executing a collaborative assignment are not always effective. To remedy this, there is a need to determine and understand the variables that influence team effectiveness. This study aimed at developing a conceptual framework, based on research in various contexts on …

This dissertation aims to answer the question: Can human rights monitoring contribute to foreseeing and preventing genocide? Genocide prevention has become an important issue, both in the scientific world as well as in international politics. Models of genocide prediction have been established by several …