Vlissingen is turning into an unattractive student city with an increasing student outflow due to several factors like the ‘Wet Internationalisering in Balans’ (a national policy affecting international education), few educational institutions, limited variety of study programs, limited nightlife and …

This research report presents the development of a 5- to 7-day incentive program in Bulgaria for World Synergy Travel (WST), a leading tour operator and a provider of leisure travel programs in the country. It also underscores the growing interest in incentive travel and the potential for Bulgaria, an …

Innovation Proposal for Jewelry brand Joaquin Berao. The innovation proposal is about implementing an innovative strategy for their e-commerce. A senior-friendly e-commerce using 3D visualisers of the pieces and immersive VR space, to give the same personal experience of in person shopping but online, …

The study compares the market potential of innovative goat-milk products in Canada and the Netherlands. Using both desk and field research, it maps out the factors that motivate—or deter—consumers from purchasing goat dairy. Elements such as taste perception, health beliefs, sustainability, and price …

FIELD is een organisatie waar werkgeluk centraal staat. Vanuit deze overtuiging speelt de werkomgeving een belangrijke rol in het welzijn van de medewerkers, de zogenoemde Fielders. Dit afstudeeronderzoek richtte zich op de vraag hoe FIELD een toekomstbestendig huisvestingsbeleid kan ontwikkelen dat …

Executive Summary This report presents an impact analysis of the co-creation methodology used in the CommuniCity project to adapt technological solutions to local community needs during the pilot phases. Integrating insights from the first and second rounds of pilots, it examines how the uptake of the …

A large, recently published, inter-laboratory study by the ReAct group has shown that there is considerable variability in DNA recovery that exists between forensic laboratories. The presence of this inter-laboratory variability presents issues when one laboratory wishes to carry out an evaluation and …

In het snel evoluerende domein van machine learning is het cruciaal om het meest geschikte model voor een bepaalde dataset te selecteren. Inzicht in de kenmerken van een dataset kan een aanzienlijke invloed hebben op de resultaten van voorspellende modellen, waardoor de studie van de eigenschappen van …

In 2024, the Civic Interaction Design research group, in collaboration with the Centre of Expertise Economic Transformation (CET), organized a research residency titled “What happens when the Civic Economy meets the Protocol Economy?” This initiative, led by researcher, curator, and technology strategist …

Manual crack inspection is labor-intensive and impractical at scale, prompting a shift toward AI-based segmentation methods. We present a novel crack segmentation model that leverages the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) through transfer learning to detect cracks on masonry surfaces. Unlike prior approaches …