FabLearn Netherlands invited submissions to the first FabLearn conference in the Netherlands that was held September 28, 2018, preceding Maker Faire Eindhoven September 29 and 30. This publication contains the accepted papers that were presented at the conference.

Over the next 10 years, the City of Amsterdam plans to develop major housing schemes provide 90,000 new homes within the existing urban fabric. At the same time, an urban renewal program is being launched to revitalize the most deprived neighbourhoods. Together, these challenges call for more evidence …

We are proud to organize the first FabLearn conference in the Netherlands where many maker education initiatives are shared in masterclasses and on a fair. As early as 2007, the first maker initiatives started in the Netherlands and making keeps gaining momentum in education. As new parties are embracing …

eel gemeenten werken samen met winkeliers, vastgoedontwikkelaars en beleggers aan een gezamenlijke lokale aanpak om het winkelgebied aantrekkelijk te maken. In vrijwel alle Nederlandse binnensteden zijn dan ook collectieven die via interventies de consumententrekkracht en de verblijfswaarde van het winkelgebied …

This chapter presents a conversation with Henk Ovink, first Dutch special envoy for international water affairs. Ovink works with governments, knowledge institutions, organizations such as the World Bank and the UN, the global business community as well as the civil society representatives. 'Building' …

Teachers can play an important role in students’ healthy relational and sexual development. They can pay attention to this subject with specifically designed lessons. But it’s even more important to address relational and sexual development within the general curriculum, whenever the topic comes up in …

According to myth, Rome was created more than 2,500 years ago on two hills. Romulus climbed the Palantine Hill and Remus took up position on a nearby hill, the Aventine Hill. From here, the city grew over seven hills into an unprecedented metropolis. Two millennia later, its inhabitants have barely …

Background A valuable opportunity for reducing the fall incidence in hospitals, is alerting nurses when a patient is about to fall. For such a fall prevention system, more knowledge is needed on what occurs right before a fall. This can be achieved with a stereo camera that automatically detects (and …

In the Netherlands, a growing number of vocational education and training institutions have recently implemented new vocational career guidance practices in their competence-based approaches to learning. Vocational career guidance refers to services intended to assist people, of any age and at any point …