There are current pressures to seek innovative solutions to problems associated with environmental sustainability, and in this context, it is likely that SMEs will have to collaborate with a wider variety of specialist partners. In 2009 three Dutch Universities joined with an Australian and Swedish University …

HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (HU) initiated a sustainability program in 2010. A compelling vision, collaboration with external partners, interdisciplinary research and interweavement of research and education are important elements in this program. The scope of this paper is sustainability …

In de schooljaren 2010-2011 en 2011-2012 hebben 20 scholen , mee gedaan aan het Orion Programma van het Wetenschapsknooppunt Noord-Nederland . De doelstelling van het Orion Programma is kort gezegd: het aanbieden van stimulerende leeromgevingen waarin Wetenschap &Techniek (W&T)-talenten van kinderen …

De pilot met een brugfunctionaris op twee Groningse basisscholen in een achterstandswijk laat zien dat investeren in de betrokkenheid van ouders en een persoonlijke benadering richting ouders werkt. Ouders zien graag dat er vanuit de school een objectief persoon is die de tijd neemt om ze te ondersteunen …

Companies are on the verge to think about retention of older workers (workers above 50) in their company. Thus organisations, more specifically small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs), are busy with the development of concepts how to make the time between 50 and retirement age of 65 or 67 for employees …

Small and medium-sized enterprises have found their way into multi-cultural relations to outsource or offshore their business processes. Relationships are built either from an economic or emotional point of view. Our study particularly focused on how SMEs owner/managers build, maintain, and –when necessary– …

Explanation of the Master Class programme. You can learn about: the objective, the target groups, the nature of the programme, the topics, the didactics and the duration. Proposal to the Opening Up partners to offer a Master Class in relation to the cluster Development.

Biomimicry fascineert. En wel op een manier die totaal verschillend en veel sterker is dan andere gebieden van onderzoek en ontwikkeling. Dit komt ondermeer tot uiting in het aantal publicaties en artikelen in wetenschappelijke en semiwetenschappelijke uitgaven, die vrijwel altijd gepaard gaan met prachtige …

The Saxion University of Applied Sciences has recently started the project “Safety at Work”. The objective of the project is to increase safety at the workplace by applying and combining state of the art artifacts from the three disciplines: 1) Ambient Intelligence 2) Industrial & Product Design and …

This field report examines initiatives in music lifelong learning through the research network Lifelong Learning in Music (LLM) of the Prince Claus Conservatoire in the Netherlands. LLM collaborates with other schools on various projects. As well, there is an innovative masters programme ‘New audiences …