Deze morgen vertelde mijn zoon dat over 100 jaar de mensheid is uitgestorven en hij maakte zich daar zorgen over. Onlangs kwamen wetenschappers met het bericht dat het ijs op de Noordpool nog nooit zo dun is geweest en dat er een toename is van Antarctisch zee-ijs. Dit zal binnen afzienbare tijd grote …

What are possibilities concerning the exchange of knowledge and information in the EDR-region when focussing on demographic transition and its consequences? Which lessons can be learned from best practices on 'the other side of the border'? Are the German and Dutch labour markets really complementary? …

Background: The number of people with multiple chronic conditions receiving primary care services is growing. To deal with their increasingly complex health care demands, professionals from different disciplines need to collaborate. Interprofessional team (IPT) meetings are becoming more popular. Several …

Food and the city has never been a more urgent theme than today, and The European Union’s priority to commit to innovation in this field will certainly enhance its economic and external strength and improve its competitive position in the world of food and life sciences. Europea Netherlands held a seminar …

This study explores how academics who expanded their teaching-only positions to include research view their (re)constructed academic identity. Participants worked in a higher professional education institution of applied research and teaching, comparable with so-called new universities. The aim is to …

Background: Increasingly, nurse practitioners (NPs) are deployed in teams along with general practitioners (GPs) to help meet the demand for out-of-hours care. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing collaboration between GPs and NPs in teams working out-of-hours. Methods: A descriptive …

This chapter analyses the way vocational education in the Netherlands deals with the issue of positioning the knowledge base of occupations in educational programmes. In: Bruijn, E., Billett, S., & Onstenk, J. (Eds.). (2017). Enhancing teaching and learning in the Dutch vocational education system : …

This article is about the effect of local tailored interventions to counter (violent) extremism, and therefore contributes to the academic and policy debates. It focusses on local, professional perspectives on person-specific interventions utilising a Dutch case study as the basis. The interventions …

Explicit language objectives are included in the Swedish national curriculum for mathematics. The curriculum states that students should be given opportunities to develop the ability to formulate problems, use and analyse mathematical concepts and relationships between concepts, show and follow mathematical …

Today’s military missions are often broad in scope and face a multitude of political, socio-economic, and security challenges. Enemy-centric intelligence is therefore no longer sufficient. Based on their experiences in Afghanistan, retired General Michael T. Flynn and his colleagues noted that U.S. …