The focus of the thesis is an exploration into students’ vocational knowledge in the context of Dutch vocational education and training (VET). The reason students’ vocational knowledge requires exploration is because there is no consensus among scholars in the field of VET about how to theorise the nature …

The BBI JU Stakeholder Forum 2017 brought together the bio-based industries community to facilitate discussion on the strategic direction for the BBI JU programme through constructive and open dialogue with stakeholders by encouraging cross-collaboration between them.The inaugural Stakeholder Forum took …

Abstract of a lecture that was held on the 12th Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in June 2017.

This document is a thesis based on research performed at the Hogeschool Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, for the master Project Management. Risk management is a tool to keep projects on track. The basic assumption is the connection between cause and effect. In a chaotic world this connection no longer …

In het najaar van 2014 is de motie Ruim baan voor Oost Groningen aangenomen, waarna de ‘Commissie van Zijl’ voor Oost Groningen is ingesteld. Om het hoofd te bieden aan de buitengewoon complexe maatschappelijke opgaven in de regio Oost-Groningen, voerde de commissie een tweeledige opdracht uit: het realiseren …

` In the Foodscapes research programme Wiskerke is emphasising three themes: the dynamics of urban and rural places and spaces and the way in which those urban and rural dynamics influence one another; the social and economic relations between the urban and rural within city regions; and the possibility …

Taste is a main driver in preferences and food choices. Humans are predispositioned to prefer sweet and salty tastes and reject bitter and sour tastes, therefore bitter taste is often thought to cause the rejection of vegetables by children. In our study we investigated the taste and fattiness intensity …

In a growing number of economic branches, citizens are becoming more active, as part-time producers, service providers, suppliers or even entrepreneurs. They compete with traditional companies, but often operate through new business models.