When an institution wishes to develop a Masters programme that combines relevance to the profession with preparation for possible 3rd cycle study, there are many things to consider: curriculum design and content, facilities, stakeholder opinion, assessment, likely student intake, etc. But at least as …

Long-term absenteeism is a persistent problem in the police organisation in the Netherlands. Around 4% of staff has been absent for over three months. For the National Police's Enhancing Professional Resilience programme, we conducted research into opportunities for increasing people's resilience when …

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 …

Following the successful 3rd European STAMP Workshop in Amsterdam (5-6 October 2015), organised by the Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, we are pleased to present to the academic and professional community this special issue including 11 out of the 22 contributions to …

This paper presents how the application of the STPA method might support the evaluation of fighter pilots training programs and trigger procedural and technological changes. We applied the STPA method by considering the safety constraints documented in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of a South …

Conference report ´The Musician as Creative Entrepreneur´, Polifonia 3, The Hague (NL), 19-20/9/2014.

A unique way of teaching practical aspects of renewable energy technologies has been experimented in the University of Oldenburg since 1987. An energy laboratory (Energielabor), built in 1982 and powered by renewable energy sources, has been used for practical training, lectures and office space for …

The aim of this study is to examine the inter-device reliability of an activity tracker on three different levels of aggregation: minute, hour and day.

This book contains five views and architectural proposals for Cape Town, South Africa. The design project is a 3rd year project (P5) at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Two lecturers and five students visited Cape Town in 2014, The metropolitan region of Cape Town has grown rampant for decades. …

Deze studie gaat over een instrument waarmee Expressed Pedagogical Content Knowledge (EPCK) binnen het onderwijs in Wetenschap en Technologie gemeten kan, door gebruik te maken van procesobservaties. Deze pilot case studie vond plaats in het Mobile Planetarium, een activiteit van het Wetenschapsknooppunt …