The experiences with intercultural competence training at the Hanze International Business School Groningen may serve as a blueprint for augmenting professional intercultural behaviour at the SME work floor. The set-up of the training is based on current intercultural communication theory and models, …

Considerable attention has been paid to the reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and internationalization. However, despite research efforts in identifying if and how these two strategic processes influence each other, the literature is inundated with inconsistencies, contradictions …

The abstract concerns research work being conducted now about how a European university's (Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands) engagement activities with local communities in Mombasa area, Kenya. The paper will concentrate on the challenges and opportunities for such an …

Abstract: PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Recent reports in the literature have proposed that forced mandatory feeding should be avoided in the first week of critical illness to preserve autophagy, in order to maximize responses to oxidative stress, preserve organ function, and improve outcomes.

Within the project 'In Touch'; touch screen application for people with dementia, a concept happy game was designed for the iPad. The purpose of this happy game is to provide a meaningful individual activity for persons with dementia, to give pleasure, and to create a sense of self-achievement.

Clusters development takes place in an increasingly changing and complex context where global and local developments are interconnected. Various regional and innovation studies recognized the need for place-based studies to include the larger context in which clusters and regions are found. Interest …

Since independence in 1961, Tanzania’s political ideology (known as Ujamaa-familyhood) has gone hand in hand with the country’s education philosophy. The most important feature of this combination is that people should be educated to fit in Tanzania’s environment and culture. Education should emancipate …

The professional development of teaching staff in relation to the internationalisation of higher education institutions has not received the attention that it deserves from managers in higher education. This requires an HRM policy that explicitly addresses the issue of competence development of teaching …

Hoofdstuk 10 in Moresprudentie in de praktijk. In dit hoofdstuk maakt Ed de Jonge een onderscheid tussen de professionele identiteit van enerzijds beroepsbeoefenaren en anderzijds beroepen. Hij betoogt dat de professionele identiteit van beroepen primair is gelegen in het realiseren van humanitaire …