Because understanding sustainability does not automatically lead to sustainable acting, we feel that additional awareness building should be necessary. Therefore a project is started in which a very old method, namely the Socratic dialogue, is borrowed from the founders and customized for the use in …

This report provides information about the commercial relations between three important European states: The Netherlands, Germany and Poland. The triangular relations of these states is researched with the next question in mind: What are the consequences of increasing German-Polish commercial relations, …

This thesis focuses on the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 and provides an analysis of ethics regarding the preparations. For the past few years, the situation of the preparations in Sochi has become more and more controversial. This thesis will provide an answer on the question whether the Russian …

This thesis focuses on the promotion of democracy by the European Union in Egypt with special regard to the differences before and after the so called 'Arab Spring'. More specific, the guiding question of this thesis is in what extent the EU's promotion of democracy in Egypt has changed after the Arab …

In 2007, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations initiated the program 'Veilige Publieke Taak'. It was designed to provide employers with guidelines and solutions for handling aggression and violence towards employees with a public task. One of the most important initiatives of this …

Corporate Social Responsibility is an emerging term often used in the globalizing world. The concept CSR has many definitions. The general idea is that companies involved in CSR improve their activities on economic, social and environmental level. This theory is called the Triple Bottom Line. Thus, a …

In the last few years, the phenomenon of piracy has grown tremendously, with special regards towards movies. In the past, a great number of film industries and other companies made huge losses or even went bankrupt. With the increasing interconnectedness of people, different networks have been developed …

Free newspapers may offer different news contents to different audiences, when compared with traditional, paid-for newspapers, but they, nevertheless, concentrate on news, and thereby provide society with information on current affairs. These papers have seen circulation rise until 2008; after that, …

Inleiding: fysieke activiteit en gezond leven wordt steeds belangrijker, ook voor kinderen met een lichamelijke beperking. In de literatuur is er niet veel bekend over de faciliterende en belemmerende factoren voor kinderen met een lichamelijke beperking om fysiek actief te zijn. Vraagstelling: Wat zijn …

Glucocorticoids (GCs) such as prednisolone are potent immunosuppressive drugs but suffer from severe adverse effects, including the induction of insulin resistance. Therefore, development of so-called Selective Glucocorticoid Receptor Modulators (SGRM) is highly desirable. Here we describe a non-steroidal …