When learning must contribute to resilience, and community cocreative learning ismore effective than direct instruction. This position paper draws on Hannah Arendt’s VitaActiva: Labor, Work, and Speech and Action. Labor is about meeting basic needs and creating a ‘home’ where life is good. Work concerns …

This fourth edition of the conference, co-hosted by the Sports Union of Slovenia and the National Institute of Public Health, will bring together around 250 participants, including ISCA members, project partners, and other stakeholders. Aimed at building capacities within the sector, the event focuses …

Citizen science can be a powerful approach to foster the successful implementation of technological innovations in health, care or well-being. Involving experience experts as co-researchers or co-designers of technological innovations facilitates mutual learning, community building, and empowerment. …

Flooding continues to be a major problem for informal urban settlements like Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya. The recent heavy rains in early 2024 in Kenya indicate the vulnerability level of individuals living in informal settlements. This thesis explores how effective the current flood prevention, preparedness, …

Restoration engineering measures, such as managed realignments or building groins, modify the environmental characteristics of coastal intertidal ecosystems. Creating physical modifications that are beneficial to an intertidal system's ecology necessitates an in-depth understanding of the relationships …

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenic obesity significantly burdens health and autonomy. Strategies to intervene in or prevent sarcopenic obesity generally focus on losing body fat and building or maintaining muscle mass and function. For a lifestyle intervention, it is important to consider psychological aspects such …

· As a platform for interdisciplinary applied research in the community setting, the living lab model offers a unique environment for the imagination of tourism interventions that can recast the activity as a force for good. Mandating a quadruple helix ecosystem, living labs encourage participation …

As part of honors education, there are two dominant ways in which talented students in Dutch secondary vocational education get extracurricular opportunities: (1) participation in honors programs in which a community with peers is central and (2) participation in professional competitions. There is evidence …

Efforts to create age-friendly cities progressively intersect with goals for environmental sustainability. The older people’s beliefs, behaviours and financial aspects regarding environmental sustainability in their lives are an understudied topic and not well understood. Therefore, a representative …

De klimaatcrisis raakt iedereen – maar mensen in een kwetsbare positie in het bijzonder. Het is een dure plicht voor sociaal werkers en anderen in het sociaal domein om ervoor te zorgen dat deze ‘kwetsbare groep’ gelijkwaardig onderdeel wordt van de oplossingen voor klimaatverandering. En dat de lasten …