The ‘wave’ of technology breaking over Higher Education continues to impact the interaction between lecturers and students. The increasing prevalence of video and the ease of its distribution offer lecturers the opportunity to use the medium of video to enhance their teaching in a variety of ways with …

Implementing the Cradle to Cradle principles in the design of an industrial park is a challenging and complex task and requires a great amount of dedication of all parties involved. Due to the fact that Cradle to Cradle is a relatively new concept, only few experiences have been made with the design …

In many countries the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) is extinct or numbers are declining; resulting in a classification as “near threatened” on the IUCN’s Red List. In one-third of the European countries, however, conservation efforts, enabled the return of the species or the improvement of weakened populations. …

The nation-state had a long history of success, but today it is failing its citizens on a global scale. Over the last hundred years, nation-states focussed on maximizing internal unity and jurisdictional sovereignty. Benjamin R. Barber’s ‘If Mayors Ruled The World’ is the central source of this thesis …

AFS Interculture Canada is a nonprofit organization that operates on a non-governmental basis. It is the Canadian branch of AFS Intercultural Programs. It enables adolescents to go on foreign student exchanges in order to develop intercultural awareness and skills. During a briefing in January of 2014, …

The purpose of this research is to find out if there is a whitewashing of the Dutch media and what effects, if any, it has on young females of colour. In order to answer this question desk research has been done about several studies regarding the representation of ethnic minorities. In addition to this, …

After the “Rose Revolution” in 2003, Georgia’s political elite announced its new policy direction to follow democratic and liberal beliefs norms, values and ideas. This has formed Georgia’s national identity, which, the country claims, has always been European. Georgia’s powerful neighbor country – Russia …

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), based in Hamburg, is one of six educational institutions of UNESCO. Expectations that more than 60% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2030 led to the initiation of the Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC), defined as a virtual community. …

The research ‘’Talent recruitment and internships according to students’’ has been conducted in assignment of the municipality of The Hague and in co-assignment of the International Community Platform (ICP) between June and November 2013. The research is part of the action program ‘’Geslaagd in het Vak’’ …

As an essential basic principle of the European Union, the free movement of workers has been on everyone’s lips with the European Enlargement of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007. With the complete abolishment of the restrictions on the free movement of workers for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens in Germany …