De eerste ervaringen met maatschappelijke stages (MAS)laten zien dat deze succesvol verlopen. Toch is het de vraag of de MaS ook bijdraagt aan beter burgerschap. Of ontbreken hiervoor de noodzakelijke elementen (nog)? In het artikel wordt een antwoord gezocht vanuit het perspectief van duurzame ontwikkeling.De positie van zogenoemde 'groene' stages wordt beschreven en geanalyseerd evenals de competenties voor duurzame ontwikkeling die leerlingen in deze stages verwerven.
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Social entrepreneurs grow their enterprises while making do with what is at hand, which is the core principle of social bricolage. However, the extent to which social entrepreneurs enact social bricolage at different stages and how social bricolage is practiced in day-to-day operations in unexplored emerging economies have received little examination. Based on a thematic analysis of 19 interviews with social entrepreneurs in Kenya and Rwanda, we identified four types of social bricoleurs (i.e. social entrepreneurs who practice social bricolage): bootstrappers, hometown heroes, barrier breakers, and impact influencers. Each type reflects a social entrepreneurial stage, in which the dimensions of social bricolage are combined in different ways. Making do for social ends and social value creation are dominant for bootstrappers and hometown heroes. However, barrier breakers and impact influencers increasingly exercise refusal to be constrained, stakeholder participation, improvisation, and persuasion. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of social bricolage as a variable concept, thereby further refining social bricolage in social entrepreneurs’ daily operations across various stages and contexts of social enterprises.
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Background: The population ageing in most Western countries leads to a larger number of frail older people. These frail people are at an increased risk of negative health outcomes, such as functional decline, falls, institutionalisation and mortality. Many approaches are available for identifying frailty among older people. Researchers most often use Fried and colleagues’ description of the frailty phenotype. The authors describe five physical criteria. Other researchers prefer a combination of measurements in the social, psychological and/or physical domains. The aim of this study is to describe the levels of social, psychological and physical functioning according to Fried’s frailty stages using a large cohort of Dutch community-dwelling older people. Methods: There were 8,684 community-dwelling older people (65+) who participated in this cross-sectional study. Based on the five Fried frailty criteria (weight loss, exhaustion, low physical activity, slowness, weakness), the participants were divided into three stages: non-frail (score 0), pre-frail (score 1–2) and frail (score 3–5). These stages were related to scores in the social (social network type, informal care use, loneliness), psychological (psychological distress, mastery, self-management) and physical (chronic diseases, GARS IADL-disability, OECD disability) domains. Results: 63.2 % of the participants was non-frail, 28.1 % pre-frail and 8.7 % frail. When comparing the three stages of frailty, frail people appeared to be older, were more likely to be female, were more often unmarried or living alone, and had a lower level of education compared to their pre-frail and non-frail counterparts. The difference between the scores in the social, psychological and physical domains were statistically significant between the three frailty stages. The most preferable scores came from the non-frail group, and least preferable scores were from the frail group. For example use of informal care: non-frail 3.9 %, pre-frail 23.8 %, frail 60.6 %, and GARS IADL-disability mean scores: non-frail 9.2, pre-frail 13.0, frail 19.7. Conclusion: When older people were categorised according to the three frailty stages, as described by Fried and colleagues, there were statistically significant differences in the level of social, psychological and physical functioning between the non-frail, pre-frail and frail persons. Non-frail participants had consistently more preferable scores compared to the frail participants. This indicated that the Fried frailty criteria could help healthcare professionals identify and treat frail older people in an efficient way, and provide indications for problems in other domains.
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Energy transition is key to achieving a sustainable future. In this transition, an often neglected pillar is raising awareness and educating youth on the benefits, complexities, and urgency of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency. The Master Energy for Society, and particularly the course “Society in Transition”, aims at providing a first overview on the urgency and complexities of the energy transition. However, educating on the energy transition brings challenges: it is a complex topic to understand for students, especially when they have diverse backgrounds. In the last years we have seen a growing interest in the use of gamification approaches in higher institutions. While most practices have been related to digital gaming approaches, there is a new trend: escape rooms. The intended output and proposed innovation is therefore the development and application of an escape room on energy transition to increase knowledge and raise motivation among our students by addressing both hard and soft skills in an innovative and original way. This project is interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary due to the complexity of the topic; it consists of three different stages, including evaluation, and requires the involvement of students and colleagues from the master program. We are confident that this proposed innovation can lead to an improvement, based on relevant literature and previous experiences in other institutions, and has the potential to be successfully implemented in other higher education institutions in The Netherlands.
Massafabricage in de (MKB) maakindustrie is aan het veranderen in flexibele fabricage en assemblage van kleine series, klantspecifieke onderdelen en eindproducten. Hiervoor zijn nieuwe systemen voor het MKB nodig, waarin robots en mensen samen kunnen werken en die zich snel kunnen aanpassen aan nieuwe productieomstandigheden met lage opstartkosten. De ambitie van het project ?(G)een Moer Aan!? is om het herconfigureren van een robotsysteem voor een nieuwe taak in een productieomgeving net zo eenvoudig en snel te maken als het gebruik van een smartphone. Zo?n benadering biedt kansen om de skills van de operator te benutten. De operator kent immers zijn processen en de robot wordt zijn hulpje. Op vraag van betrokken mkb partners is de focus gelegd op een repeterende productiehandeling die in veel sectoren voorkomt en die relatief veel arbeidstijd kost: het indraaien van moeren en bouten in een object. De centrale onderzoeksvraag van het project luidt: Hoe kan een operator een robot eenvoudig, snel en veilig inleren om assemblage handelingen te verrichten voor het snel en robuust verbinden van bouten, moeren en ringen met objecten? Resultaat van dit praktijkgerichte onderzoeksproject is een algemeen bruikbare en gevalideerde ontwerpmethodiek voor de opzet van een gebruiksvriendelijke user interface van een boutmontagerobot op de werkvloer. Door slim gebruik van geïntegreerde inzet van CAD productinformatie, vision technologie en compliant (meegaand) gripping en placing wordt de robot zo veel als mogelijk vooraf automatisch geconfigureerd. Het projectconsortium dat het onderzoek gaat uitvoeren bestaat uit: " 13 bedrijven (12 mkb) actief als toeleverancier, system integrator of gebruiker op het terrein van industriële robotica (Yaskawa, ABB, Smart Robotics, Hupico, Festo, CSi, Demcon, Heemskerk Innovate, WWA, Van Schijndel Metaal, Van Beek, Tegema en Zest Innovate); " Hogescholen Fontys (penvoerder), Avans, Utrecht en NHL; " Kennisinstellingen TNO en DIFFER; " Coöperaties Brainport Industries, FEDA en Koninklijke Metaalunie; " De gemeente Eindhoven is betrokken als partner in de klankbordgroep. De gemeente ondersteunt het belang van dit project voor behoud en verbetering van arbeidsplaatsen in de maakindustrie. Er zullen circa 20 (docent)onderzoekers van de hogescholen en ongeveer 80 studenten betrokken worden bij dit project, die in de vorm van stages en afstudeeronderzoeken werken aan interessante vraagstukken direct afkomstig uit de beroepspraktijk. Naast genoemde meerwaarde voor het bedrijfsleven beoogt het project een verdere verankering van kennis en kunde in onderwijs en lectoraten en een vergroting van de kwaliteit van docenten en afstudeerders.
Horse riding falls under the “Sport for Life” disciplines, where a long-term equestrian development can provide a clear pathway of developmental stages to help individuals, inclusive of those with a disability, to pursue their goals in sport and physical activity, providing long-term health benefits. However, the biomechanical interaction between horse and (disabled) rider is not wholly understood, leaving challenges and opportunities for the horse riding sport. Therefore, the purpose of this KIEM project is to start an interdisciplinary collaboration between parties interested in integrating existing knowledge on horse and (disabled) rider interaction with any novel insights to be gained from analysing recently collected sensor data using the EquiMoves™ system. EquiMoves is based on the state-of-the-art inertial- and orientational-sensor system ProMove-mini from Inertia Technology B.V., a partner in this proposal. On the basis of analysing previously collected data, machine learning algorithms will be selected for implementation in existing or modified EquiMoves sensor hardware and software solutions. Target applications and follow-ups include: - Improving horse and (disabled) rider interaction for riders of all skill levels; - Objective evidence-based classification system for competitive grading of disabled riders in Para Dressage events; - Identifying biomechanical irregularities for detecting and/or preventing injuries of horses. Topic-wise, the project is connected to “Smart Technologies and Materials”, “High Tech Systems & Materials” and “Digital key technologies”. The core consortium of Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Rosmark Consultancy and Inertia Technology will receive feedback to project progress and outcomes from a panel of international experts (Utrecht University, Sport Horse Health Plan, University of Central Lancashire, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), combining a strong mix of expertise on horse and rider biomechanics, veterinary medicine, sensor hardware, data analysis and AI/machine learning algorithm development and implementation, all together presenting a solid collaborative base for derived RAAK-mkb, -publiek and/or -PRO follow-up projects.
