In cities worldwide, tools for citizen-centric local initiatives to facilitate collaboration and joint decision-making are deployed as alternatives to the use of large corporate social media platforms such as Facebook. These community platforms often aim to empower users and enable civic participation …

COIL virtual exchange (VE) links instructors and their students, usually based in higher education institutions in different countries, in collaborative practice and exchange. However, each country and region has its own somewhat localized approaches and structures for supporting higher education that …

This Powerpoint is part of the project Twomes. This deliverable contains a description of the digital twin, i.e. the inverse grey-box analysis model and of the tools used to analyze home heating data in order to derive building model parameters, installation model parameters and comfort need model parameters. This …

This dataset is part of the project Twomes. Dataset containing anonymized energy and temperature data from homes in the Assendorp neighbourhood in Zwolle, the Netherlands. This project is supported by TechForFuture (https://techforfuture.nl), the Centre of Expertise HTSM Oost, an initiative of Saxion …

Invited guest lecture at department of social work

This article focuses on the innovation partnership (IP) model. This model opens new avenues for public bodies, including cities, to co-create solutions together with private companies or other innovators. It was introduced in 2014, but so far public bodies have been hesitant to adopt it: it is only scarcely …

Designed, organized and facilitated a co-creation (online) event with the members of the local citizen initiative "GroeneBruggenBouwers" of Hoogkerk. The main focus of the event was exchanging feedback with the participants on the preliminary results of a Q subjectivity analysis conducted in Hoogkerk, …

As part of an 8-week intervention study in Dutch nursing homes, we used video-analysis to observe the interaction of psychogeriatric participants with either the handler, the stimulus (dog or robot) or other clients during weekly dog, robot (RAI, robot assisted interventions) and control (human facilitator …

In the last decade, the number of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has increased in western European countries. Although several success factors and barriers in the development of LEIs have been studied by other scholars, there has been limited scholarly interest in the overall impact of LEIs so far. …

Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein is een van de twee Nederlandse hogescholen die zijn geselecteerd voor het European Universities Initiative. Volgens directeur Onderwijs Ruth van der Beek biedt deelnemen aan een alliantie een enorme meerwaarde.