We studied 12 smart city projects in Amsterdam, and –among other things- analysed their upscaling potential and dynamics. Here are some of our findings: First, upscaling comes in various forms: rollout, expansion and replication. In roll-out, a technology or solution that was successfully tested and …

Discussions during International Honours Congress Utrecht, Utrecht. 2-3 June 2016. In this session we focused on honours students’ needs for autonomy. What do students want, expect and need from their teachers and what are the teachers’ views concerning this subject. The aim of this session is that both …

Panasonic’s nearly one hunderd-year history can be divided into several phases. The constant factor in Panasonic’s history was—and is—change. And this may also contain the simple answer to the question about Panasonic’s secret of success: the ability to transform as required by an ever-changing environment, …

The research studies informal learning in cooperative art practices. It describes the way artists and artistically skilled amateurs get together to produce culture and in that way give shape and meaning to their own public lives. In many ways the "cooperative art practices" of these "communities of creative …

Since concepts may have different meanings in different contexts, students have to learn to recontextualise them, i.e. to adapt their meanings to a new context. It is unclear, however, what characteristics a learning and teaching strategy for recontextualising should have. The study aims to develop such …

This report is the result of a study done at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. It is part of a bachelor thesis of the Forest- and Nature Management – Tropical Forestry Program at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. This study is the first in a series …

Being able to perform a press handstand is required to progress to more difficult techniques on almost every apparatus. Therefore it is recommended to learn this skill at an early age. The press handstand requires a combination of high strength, flexibility and motor skills all of which are valued abilities. …

In 2017 Volvo will deliver 100 self-driving cars as part of the Drive Me project. These cars will be able to drive autonomously on the ring road of Gothenburg, without requiring any driver supervision. To realize this vision, the cars need different algorithms to recognize, and be able to react to, different …

The world is changing due to the increasing prosperity and the large variety of products offered in the supermarkets. With the knowledge gained in the nutritional values of food, more and more information about healthy and unhealthy food became available. The lifestyle or healthy behaviour of people …

The cost price of premium beers for organizers of Dutch dance festivals is increasing every year. The people at Anyday Events / RAAK! Events actually think that visitors are not interested in the brand of beer due to the fact that they are at a dance festival. This led to the believe that, with the introduction …