(‘Co’-)Designing for healthy behaviour greatly benefits from integrating insights about individual behaviour and systemic influences. This study reports our experiences in using insights about individual and systemic determinants of behaviour to inform a large co-design project. To do so, we used two design tools that encourage focusing on individual determinants (Behavioural Lenses Approach) and social / systemic aspects of behaviour (Socionas). We performed a qualitative analysis to identify 1) when and how the team applied the design tools, and 2) how the tools supported or obstructed the design process. The results show that both tools had their distinctive uses during the process. Both tools improved the co-design process by deepening the conversations and underpinnings of the prototypes. Using the Behavioural Lenses under the guidance of a behavioural expert proved most beneficial. Furthermore, the Socionas showed the most potential when interacting with stakeholders, i.c. parents and PPTs.
In this paper we discuss the general approach and choices we made in developing a prototype of a social media monitor. The main goal of the museum monitor is to offer museum professionals and researchers better insight in the effects of their own social media usage and compare this with other actors in the cultural heritage sector. It gives researchers the opportunity to consider communication within the sector as whole. In the research project “Museum Compass” we have developed a prototype of a social media monitor, which contains data of current and historic online activities on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare and Flickr of all registered Dutch museums. We discuss – mostly in a practical sense – our approach for developing the monitor and give a few examples as a result of its usage.
For me the concept of the teacher educator as a agent of social change, implies that teacher educators should be focused on stimulating change and improvement in teacher education, schools and society. That focus should not only shape our teaching of student teachers, but also our research activities. This has implications for the research projects that we undertake. When research by teacher educators intends to contribute to change and improvement of practices in teacher education, schools and society, our research projects need to be understood as interventions. In the design of PhD or other research projects, not only academic requirements regarding validity should be taken into also account but also criteria that contribute to interventions and change in universities, schools and society.Effective change is a collective challenge, which requires likeminded colleagues.
Teachers have a crucial role in bringing about the extensive social changes that are needed in the building of a sustainable future. In the EduSTA project, we focus on sustainability competences of teachers. We strengthen the European dimension of teacher education via Digital Open Badges as means of performing, acknowledging, documenting, and transferring the competencies as micro-credentials. EduSTA starts by mapping the contextual possibilities and restrictions for transformative learning on sustainability and by operationalising skills. The development of competence-based learning modules and open digital badge-driven pathways will proceed hand in hand and will be realised as learning modules in the partnering Higher Education Institutes and badge applications open for all teachers in Europe.Societal Issue: Teachers’ capabilities to act as active facilitators of change in the ecological transition and to educate citizens and workforce to meet the future challenges is key to a profound transformation in the green transition.Teachers’ sustainability competences have been researched widely, but a gap remains between research and the teachers’ practise. There is a need to operationalise sustainability competences: to describe direct links with everyday tasks, such as curriculum development, pedagogical design, and assessment. This need calls for an urgent operationalisation of educators’ sustainability competences – to support the goals with sustainability actions and to transfer this understanding to their students.Benefit to society: EduSTA builds a community, “Academy of Educators for Sustainable Future”, and creates open digital badge-driven learning pathways for teachers’ sustainability competences supported by multimodal learning modules. The aim is to achieve close cooperation with training schools to actively engage in-service teachers.Our consortium is a catalyst for leading and empowering profound change in the present and for the future to educate teachers ready to meet the challenges and act as active change agents for sustainable future. Emphasizing teachers’ essential role as a part of the green transition also adds to the attractiveness of teachers’ work.
De ingezette brede welvaart als maatschappelijke opgave vraagt om een inclusieve arbeidsmarkt en dwingt arbeidsmarktactoren daarvan werk te maken. Een inclusieve arbeidsmarkt is nodig vanwege de alsmaar veranderende arbeidsmarkt die vraagt om flexibiliteit, adaptiviteit en wendbaarheid van iedereen die wil en kan werken. Toch laat onderzoek naar de implementatie van de Wet banenafspraak bij de overheid zien dat doelen niet worden gehaald, stelt het SCP vast dat de huidige Participatiewet onvoldoende aansluit bij wat bijstandsgerechtigden nodig hebben en laat UWV-onderzoek zien dat er nog te veel mensen aan de zijlijn staan. Om doelgroepen met een ondersteuningsbehoefte volwaardig te kunnen includeren op de arbeidsmarkt, is betere samenwerking nodig tussen (professionals van) arbeidsmarktactoren van gemeenten, UWV, arbeidsorganisaties/werkgevers, sociale partners, kennisinstellingen en ervaringsdeskundigen. Het SPRONG-programma All4Talent richt zich op arbeidsmarktprofessionals, arbeidsorganisaties en samenwerkingsverbanden die er alles aan willen doen om een inclusieve arbeidsmarkt te realiseren, in bijzonder voor doelgroepen met een - al dan niet specifieke - ondersteuningsbehoefte. Het consortium heeft de ambitie om een ‘All4Talent-toolbox’ te ontwikkelen, die bestaat uit nieuwe kennis, best practices, producten en diensten alsook andere vormen van samenwerking. Met die toolbox zijn zowel publiek als private arbeidsmarktprofessionals (changemakers) beter in staat om barrières weg te nemen die arbeidsinclusie in de weg staan. All4Talent wordt uitgevoerd door de SPRONG-groep Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen, Hogeschool Utrecht en Hogeschool Windesheim die al langjarig en stevig met elkaar zijn verbonden én consortiumpartners uit verschillende Arbeidsmarktregio’s die dezelfde ambities en doelen nastreven. All4Talent gaat in deze Arbeidsmarktregio’s fungeren als regisseur van alle inclusievraagstukken op de vier belangrijke transitiedomeinen van de arbeidsmarkt, namelijk: school-werk, arbeidsbeperkt-werk, werkloos-werk, niet-werkend naar werk en school-werk. De onderzoeksinfrastructuur wordt gevormd door leergemeenschappen: onbenut arbeidspotentieel, inclusieve organisaties, inclusieve arbeidsmarkt, wendbare professionals en inclusieve technologieën waarlangs nieuwe kennis in projecten wordt ontwikkeld. All4Talent-sluit aan bij de KIA Maatschappelijk Verdienvermogen.
Due to the existing pressure for a more rational use of the water, many public managers and industries have to re-think/adapt their processes towards a more circular approach. Such pressure is even more critical in the Rio Doce region, Minas Gerais, due to the large environmental accident occurred in 2015. Cenibra (pulp mill) is an example of such industries due to the fact that it is situated in the river basin and that it has a water demanding process. The current proposal is meant as an academic and engineering study to propose possible solutions to decrease the total water consumption of the mill and, thus, decrease the total stress on the Rio Doce basin. The work will be divided in three working packages, namely: (i) evaluation (modelling) of the mill process and water balance (ii) application and operation of a pilot scale wastewater treatment plant (iii) analysis of the impacts caused by the improvement of the process. The second work package will also be conducted (in parallel) with a lab scale setup in The Netherlands to allow fast adjustments and broaden evaluation of the setup/process performance. The actions will focus on reducing the mill total water consumption in 20%.
