Wat kunnen we doen tegen de toename in hevige neerslag, droogte en hitte? Tijdens deze lezing neemt Floris Boogaard van het Global Centre on Adaptation je mee in de wereld van klimaatadaptatie. Internationaal gezien zijn er inspirerende voorbeelden te vinden in hoe men omgaat met veranderend klimaat …

Kick of Meeting : Innovative Measurement Tool towards Urban Environmental Awareness (project IMPETUS).

- The Panel Discussion will explore the need, solutions and stakeholder participation within climate change adaptation. - The discussion will explore that through three main aspects – Cause (highlighting the need for adaptation), Case (real life problem attributed to climate change) and Action (adaptation …

Closer Look: Poster exhibition on climate adaptation studies1. Institutional design for the transition to flood resilience in developing countries, Naim Laeni, Doctoral student, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen2. Living with floods: The rise of civil society in local flood resilience …

ClimateCafé Rotterdam

The threat of climate change and the Paris agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2?C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5?C has stimulated research on and broad commitment to community energy. We investigate this research. We assess how nine different approaches study community …

The relevance of an internationalised home curriculum for all students is generally acknowledged. Other than study abroad, the home curriculum gives programs of study full control over the way students learn international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary perspectives. However, misconceptions, lack …

10 en 11 mei was er een bijeenkomst van Duitse studenten die met een fonds van een politieke partij in Nederland zijn gaan studeren, thema van deze bijeenkomst was duurzaamheid en klimaat. Studenten waren afkomstig van een breed spectrum aan sociale en politieke studies. Namens het lectoraat RT - Water …

Closed loop or ‘circular’ production systems known as Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle represent a unique opportunity to radically revise the currently wasteful system of production. One of the challenges of such systems is that circular products need to be both produced locally with minimum environmental …

Globalised labour markets require the young graduates of today to be mobile and culturally sensitive. Higher Education institutions increasingly bear the responsibility to both train their graduates for these global markets and to consider the varies needs of companies and the job market to compete internationally. …