Social work in the Netherlands is attracting an increasing number of Turkish and Moroccan Dutch professionals, mostly second-generation migrant women from a Muslim background. Inspired by Amartya Sen’s capability approach, this article presents the findings of a qualitative content analysis of 40 …

Fabrication Laboratories (Fab Labs) are publicly accessible workshops offering digital manufacturing technology and electronics tools to anyone. Fab Labs continue a tradition of places for do-it-yourself (DIY) with technology for tinkering and inventing. They stand at the beginning of what has become …

Institutions such as governmental and scientific organizations share information to gain the public trust. Information sharing, on the other hand, may cause privacy breaches and undermine the stakeholders' trust in such information sharing institutions. Thus, information sharing may work against the …

This study was inspired by the seemingly incorrect valuation of investments during equine auctions and the fact that the investments are not valued in a mathematical way. Equine auctions form a tremendous place for both, traders and buyers, to gather and trade equine assets in a most efficient way. Each …

Inspired by the recent terrorist attacks in Europe and France, this paper focuses on the consequences of the suspension of the full enjoyment of citizens’ rights and freedoms, as well as the administration of justice in a state of emergency. The research question is: What are the dangers for France when …

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the foreign policy changes that the EU experienced due to the Iraq crisis. The increasing complexity of the global security environment has played an important role in the EU foreign policy evolution by challenging the EU’s effective management of …

We finished USE2015 with a closing session inspired on the example of the successful closing session of USE2013 in Nelson, New Zealand. The session hosted a few different parts – you can, for instance, read about the PhD award the first newsletter we published after USE2015. Main element was that the …

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the iconic text of the first wave of Net criticism. The internet might have fundamentally changed in the last two decades, but their demolition of the neoliberal …

In the production of fermented foods, microbes play an important role. Optimization of fermentation processes or starter culture production traditionally was a trial-and-error approach inspired by expert knowledge of the fermentation process. Current developments in high-throughput 'omics' technologies …

Professional higher education is expected to educate large numbers of students to become innovative professionals within a time frame of three or four years. A mission impossible? Not necessarily, according to Henriëtta Joosten who is a philosopher as well as a teacher. She uses the experimental, liberating, …