Participatory event with plenary and parallel sessions, in which local professionals from Groningen Municipality, Lefier, Nijestee, WerkPro, Wender, Jimmy's, researchers from the Real Estate Professorship, the werkveldadviescommissie of the sociaalruimtelijk transitiemanagement master program of Hanze …

A guest lecture in IWP EDriT for students working on challenges in the municipality of Oldambt

This article analyzis two Dutch experiments in which the government guarantees a job to tackle long-term unemployment. The experiment with the Melkert jobs was carried out in the 1990s. Recently the municipality of Groningen implemented a project in which long-term unemployed people are offered a so-called …

This research is focused on the circumstances related to rainwater flooding in the Municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, located in the south of the Netherlands. The town has been dealing with flooding from rainwater for as long as its inhabitants can remember, but the situation became much more severe …

Given the urgency of global energy transition, small- and medium-sized cities often undergo rapid changes. What is often missing, however, is a better understanding of how residents of those places perceive, and relate to the various aspects of local energy transition process and spatial outcomes. This …

This study focuses on top-down and bottom-up processes within the field of energy transition. It aims at gaining insights into the ways that a more balanced approach can be achieved, by taking into consideration the (mutual) interests, barriers and expectations of the municipality and local citizen initiatives. …

Presentatie van het praktijkgericht onderzoek naar waardencreatie in Woldwijk, tijdens het Symposium onderzoeksresultaten NoorderRuimte.

If you, as a municipality or waste collector, you want to learn more about how residents view to the separation of organic waste and at the same time encourage them to separate their organic waste (better), then the infosurvey may be an interesting solution. This is a survey and behavioural intervention …

Hundreds of cities and communities in the world have joined the WHO’s Global Network for Age Friendly Cities and Communities since 2010. In order to do quantitative assessments of the age friendliness of cities, the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) was developed for the Dutch …