Vandaag begint de week van het economie onderwijs. Een week waarin goede bedoelingen het onderwijs overvleugelen. Volgens lector Frank Jan de Graaf is er te weinig aandacht voor de sterkten en zwakten van het huidige onderwijs. Hogescholen en universiteiten kunnen elkaar goed aanvullen door samenwerking …

Online presentation in the context of the launch of the book 'Ecoart in Action', in which I have a chapter.

De EU verbiedt vanaf 2035 de verkoop van personenauto’s en bestelbusjes met een ouderwetse verbrandingsmotor. Deze maatregel is onderdeel van de ‘Fit-for-55’-afspraken waarmee de CO2-uitstoot met 55% naar beneden moet gaan, zo legt VVD-Europarlementariër Jan Huitema uit aan Brusselse Nieuwe. Over ruim …

One of our most distinctive powers is imagination, our capability to imagine or fantasize about possible futures. Systematic use of imagination can be a powerful method to analyze possible next steps in the present. In 2012, UNESCO coined the term Futures Literacy (plural: the future does not exist, …

Technology has always been a very distinctive feature of human existence. Technology is to humans what nature is to other organisms: our host. Man is nature, but through technology – humans came to stand against nature and its biodiversity; technology is now a global enterprise, advancing on a scale …

Despite continuous improvement, lifelong learning, and plan-do-check-act cycles, every new day the planet is a little worse off than the day before! In the first 10 months of this year alone, an area the size of the Netherlands has been deforested and twice that area has been added to desert! Technology …

Do we dare to explore the hypothesis that technology shouldn't necessarily play the main role in our human future? It's time to face this discrepancy. Technology became our faith, but it is certainly not a joyful faith. With every new "solution", comes the need for new "solutions" to mitigate the previously …

Research finds that the global market value of cargo bikes will hit 2.4 billion euros by 2031. Analysts with Future Market Insights assessing the growth of cargo bikes have placed the parcel courier industry as a key buyer of electric cargo bikes, forecasting that 43 per cent of sales could go to this …

In deze workshop gaan we zelf rekenen aan batterijen. Hoeveel opslagcapaciteit heb je eigenlijk nodig om pieken van zonnepaneelinstallaties op te vangen? En welk verschil maakt het als je daar windmolens aan toevoegt? Is het haalbaar om overdag voldoende elektriciteit op te slaan om 's nachts genoeg …

Intergroup contexts of classrooms have an influence on mainstream and ethnic belonging of youth of immigrant descent. Based on the normative reference group theory, a higher level of ethic identification is expected in classrooms with a higher proportion of co-ethnic youth and, based on constrict theory, …