With only one in five secondary-school aged children attending secondary school, a quarter of teenaged girls being pregnant or already having a child (Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2012), and one out of every five people living below the poverty line in Uganda (CIA, 2013) statistics show the ever prevalent …

Schuldhulpverlening: Knelpunten en dilemma’s van coördinatoren die vrijwilligers aansturen De afgelopen jaren is het aantal huishoudens in Nederland met schulden toegenomen. Ook de hoogte van de gemiddelde schuld nam toe. Gemeenten hebben te maken met een groeiende schuldenproblematiek in omvang, maar …

We are now faced with numerous examples of the use of the word ‘open’ in the context of education. There are open schools, open universities, open participatory learning infrastructures (OPLI), open courseware (OCW), massive open online courses (MOOCs), open educational resources (OER), open educational …

The twenty first century is characterised by the ubiquitous rise of developments throughout the globe’s industries. With accelerating changes in the fields of technology, energy and computing, the automotive industry is home to a wide range of developments. Through research, the main trends giving rise …

Annapurna dairy producer cooperative limited (ADPCL) is a small dairy cooperative located in Chitwan, Nepal. The cooperative is doing the function of collecting milk from its member farmers, processing the milk into dairy products and finally distributing the products to the market. The problem faced …

In 2015 a high number of refugees came into Europe illegally. The European Union faced remarkable pressure at its external borders. The refugee crisis has revealed that Frontex, the current European external border management agency, was not capable of effectively controlling the external borders of …

In this article I will address the changes and innovations in the music profession in Europe which are faced by our students and graduates, as well as new developments in their music careers. We will look into the question of what musicians’ changing needs are and will then show how conservatoires in …

Progetto Ustica is an experiment in "civically-engaged game design" and addresses the Ustica Massacre ("Strage di Ustica"), where 81 people lost their lives as an air-to-air missile hit a civilian aircraft in 1980. Progetto Ustica has been developed as part of an Action Research effort with the objective …

The challenges faced by business and society in the rapidly-changing 21st century require skills and capabilities that our education system, essentially fit-for-purpose in the 19th Century, struggles to provide. In this brief paper, presented at the Rotterdam TEDX-Rotterdam Clean Tech Delta forum on …

To gain insight into the success and possible bottlenecks in the criminal justice domain, good and trustworthy management information is required. This paper presents a case study of a data space system that facilitates the monitoring of data flows within as well as between organizations involved in …