Background and Aim. Developing green campuses anticipates to contemporary environmental and health challenges by enhancing biodiversity with green spaces and promoting well-being through outdoor education and active pathways. Inspired by The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this paper highlights …

Facility management (FM) is pivotal in creating spaces and services that foster equitable and cohesive societies. A role that becomes even more critical as one in four adults in the European Union is disabled, with 52% experiencing discrimination (Eurostat, 2025). Despite the EU’s 2007 ratification of …

This research was made to determine how HZ University of Applied Sciences (further referred to as HZ) could change its catering options to be more sustainable and healthier while staying financially viable. Even though the catering has already implemented a number of sustainable measures, like sourcing …

This handbook offers specific tools for campuses and innovation districts to better connect them with the city. It is based on real-life examples and outreach interventions in Amsterdam, collected through interviews and a workshop. These examples show the many ways in which outreach by innovation districts …

The Make Hydrogen Work initiative by GroenvermogenNL focuses on training professionals for the hydrogen economy through seven regional campuses and collaborations between businesses, education, and government. These campuses offer flexible learning pathways with microcredentials, mentoring, and modular …

Campus as a living lab has emerged as a collaborative framework to advance sustainability challenges on university campuses. This paper provides a summary of the Campus Living Lab run at the University of British Columbia’s Sustainability Office. It documents two flagship projects and offers reflections …

As campuses wish to stimulate interactions among different campus users, we aim to identify why some locations are successful in fostering unplanned meetings while others are not. This can help campus managers, directors, and other practitioners to optimize their campus to facilitate unplanned meetings …

With campuses opening up and stimulating interactions among different campus users more and more, we aim to identify the characteristics of successful meeting places (locations) on campus. These can help practitioners such as campus managers and directors to further optimize their campus to facilitate …

In Amsterdam we have been working with a diversity of partners in the city for more than a decade now. Our study and research in our research group Cities & Visitors have been focused on the image and reputations of our cities, including the image and reputation of different areas of the city itself. …

The relation between the police and the public is under threat, one of the reasons being the closing down of police stations in the neighborhoods and city centers. At the city edges police campuses arise with a defensive character and restricted space for the public. A different approach is demonstrated …