There is a pressing need to align energy curricula in vocational and higher education to the challenges of the energy transition. Therefor this paper aims at drafting up to date skills profiles for jobs in the Dutch energy sector. Skills profiles were drafted by mapping (transversal) skills mentioned …

CoVE SEED is an EU-funded ERASMUS+ project aiming at developing regional centres of vocational excellence (CoVE) on sustainable energy education. In the project, collaborative design practices (codesign) were employed to engage partners and regional stakeholders in the development of regional strategies, …

This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of three living labs within the Healthy and Sustainable Living Environment Utrecht Knowledge Consortium (GeLUK): KTC Zegveld, Hoefkwartier, and Utrecht Science Park (USP). These living labs play a central role in advancing energy transition and energy education …

In Germany, public transport organizations are mainly owned by public authorities. Procurement in Hamburg involves the buses and infrastructure instead of transport services. The procurement process for buses and infrastructure is performed by the transport companies. Such processes must meet German …

Circularity and recycling are gaining increased attention, yet the amount of recycled plastic applied in new products remains low. To accelerate its uptake by businesses, it will be useful to empirically investigate the barriers, enablers, needs and, ultimately, requirements to increase uptake of recycled …

This document combines four reports on existing regional business support programmes for inclusion or understanding of circular economy (CE) objectives, deliverable DT3.1.2 from the transform-CE project. Besides a general overview on national and regional level, the focus is on a selection of national …

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Energiebeheer gericht aanpakken, Het analyseren van doelstellingen, resultaten en impacts van energie- en broeikasgasbeheersprogramma’s in bedrijven (met een samenvatting in het Nederlands): De wereldwijde uitstoot van broeikasgassen moet drastisch worden teruggebracht om de mondiale stijging van de …

Dit rapport focust op het kiezen, ontwerpen, realiseren en uiteindelijk testen van een analysemethode die de verspreiding van houtskool in een cold flow wervelbed (verbrandingskamer) kan bepalen. Deze coldflow opstelling is een simulatie van MILENA met 22MW thermische input. Tijdens dit afstudeerproject …

The article evaluates the effectiveness of implementing a Dutch certifiable scheme for carbon reporting. This CO2 Performance Ladder is described as a energy management schemes and focuses on CO2 emission reduction in the construction industry sector. A literature study was combined with interviews.