From the article: The higher educational environment in Europe is changing and for the Netherlands this means that the dual educational system (universities and insti-tutes for higher professional education) will disappear. However this is not the only driver of change. Many European countries face …

In the current market, the focus is more and more on building long-term relationships with clients in which value is created, communicated and delivered. This also means developing a new customer relationship focus that goes beyond the consumer orientation that has thus far dominated the practice of …

Full Text via Link. Programmes to address non- or pre -violent radicalisation can be justified if the programmes focus on helping adolescents in their quest for a good life. At this moment research is necessary to evaluate what types of programmes work in this regard. Research in this sensitive topic …

Viafrica foundation was established with the aim of stimulating development through ICT. The foundation provides ICT solutions to schools in Kenya, Tanzania and Sierra Leone. Viafrica has been in operation in Africa since 2003 and has managed to equip more than 170 schools through its CLASSworks program. …

The European music profession is rapidly changing and suggests more flexible career patterns and a need for transferable skills and lifelong learning strategies. Musicians collaborate increasingly with practitioners in other arts and societal cross-sector settings. This reality holds challenges and implications …

These are hard days for companies: they have to survive in a market that has been hit by a financial crisis. Many countries in Europe have severe problems trying to overcome this financial crisis. The main remedy applied by governments is to cut back on expenditure, but on the other hand it is said that …

These are hard days for companies: they have to survive in a market that has been hit by a financial crisis. Many countries in Europe have severe problems trying to overcome this financial crisis. The main remedy applied by governments is to cut back on expenditure, but on the other hand it is said that …

This study proposes a systematic value chain approach to helping businesses identify and eliminate inefficiencies. The authors have developed a robust framework, which food-sector entrepreneurs can use to increase profitability of an existing business or to create new profitable opportunities. The value …

Software based systems are getting more important. Complexity is growing and complete testing is impossible. Philips Research wants to have a test environment that can do testing in a fully automated way using a test strategy to find important problems as soon as possible and as many of these problems …

The Business and Marketing Communication Plan for the QualityTourism Awards aims to understand the current market situation in the tourism industry, along with finding the most appropriate marketing and communication tools to introduce the new QualityTourism Awards to the tourism market. Furthermore, …