This article provides a description of the emergence of the Spanish ‘Occupy’ movement, Democracia real ya. The aim is to analyse the innovative discursive features of this movement and to connect this analysis to what we consider the innovative potential of the critical sciences. The movement is the …

This article introduces the concept of alliance in youth care. The concept of (therapeutic) alliance originates in adult psychotherapy and related research. Alliance refers to the working relationship between youth care workers and their clients. Within this concept, personal (emotional) and task related …

Professional higher education is expected to educate large numbers of students to become innovative professionals within a time frame of three or four years. A mission impossible? Not necessarily, according to Henriëtta Joosten who is a philosopher as well as a teacher. She uses the experimental, liberating, …

Technology designed to sense behavior, often neglects to directly incorporate subjective input from (elderly) users. This paper presents experiences in deploying technology that considers the elderly user and their subjective input as a way to enrich sensor data systems and empower the user. For this …

Although culture has been discussed in quite some detail, it remains an elusive concept, whether on content or in terms of consequences. Indeed, culture does not exist in a physical form (although bumping your nose to culture may be a near physical experience) and may be rather considered as a label …

Veel ouderen met stabiliteitsproblemen kunnen niet meer fietsen op een gewone fiets. Om toch te kunnen blijven fietsen wordt een driewieler aangeraden. Vaak krijgen ouderen de besturing van de driewieler niet onder de knie waardoor er gevaarlijke situaties ontstaan en stoppen ze helemaal met fietsen …

Een universeel en afneembaar boodschappenmandje voor aan een rolstoel is een product dat nog steeds op de markt ontbreekt. Hierdoor ondervinden rolstoelgebruikers veel ongemakken tijdens het zelfstandig doen van boodschappen. Dit project is bedoeld om dat gat in de markt op te vullen met een product …

Kverneland Group Nieuw-Vennep is an agricultural machinery manufacturer located in the town of Nieuw-Vennep in the Netherlands. In the spring of 2015 the company will start the production of a new generation of trailed field sprayers and the desire is to assemble these machines as quickly and efficiently …

De informatieprofessional 3.0 moet niet bestaande dingen beter doen, hij moet betere dingen doen. Een van de essentiele vaardigheden is inhoudelijke verdieping: sleutelen aan kaders in plaats van binnen kaders te werken.

Europe in general and Romania specifically has been increasingly a target of foreign and domestic investors. Due to its cheap land prices and agricultural policies supporting largescale agricultural investments Romania has become a country with high risks concerning land grabbing. However, the academic …