Medium-sized cities across Europe are increasingly and actively attracting skilled migrants. How can these cities best manage the challenges of internationalisation? That is to say: How can they attract, facilitate and integrate skilled migrants, enabling them to contribute to the regional culture and economy, while still serving their local populations and maintaining social cohesion?In this volume, we combine academic findings with policy reflections to provide a uniquely interdisciplinary guide for academics, policy makers and professionals in local governments, universities, HRM departments, for successfully co-ordinated international talent management.
Verslag van het wteede jaar van het Centre of Expertise Smart Sustainable Cities.
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The potential of technological innovation to address urban sustainability has been widely acknowledged over the last decade. Across cities globally, local governments have engaged in partnership arrangements with the private sector to initiate pilot projects for urban innovation, typically co-funded by innovation subsidies. A recurring challenge however is how to scale up successful projects and generate more impact. Drawing on the business and management literature, we introduce the concept of organizational ambidexterity to provide a novel theoretical perspective on sustainable urban innovations. We examine how to align exploration (i.e., test and experiment with digital technologies, products, platforms, and services) with exploitation (i.e., reaping the financial benefits from digital technologies by bringing products, platforms, and services to the market), rooted in the literature on smart cities. We conclude that the concept of ambidexterity, as elaborated in the business and management literature and practiced by firms, can be translated to the city policy domain, provided that upscaling or exploitation in a smart city context also includes the translation of insights from urban experiments, successful or not, into new routines, regulations, protocols, and stakeholder/citizen engagement methods.
MUSE supports the CIVITAS Community to increase its impact on urban mobility policy making and advance it to a higher level of knowledge, exchange, and sustainability.As the current Coordination and Support Action for the CIVITAS Initiative, MUSE primarily engages in support activities to boost the impact of CIVITAS Community activities on sustainable urban mobility policy. Its main objectives are to:- Act as a destination for knowledge developed by the CIVITAS Community over the past twenty years.- Expand and strengthen relationships between cities and stakeholders at all levels.- Support the enrichment of the wider urban mobility community by providing learning opportunities.Through these goals, the CIVITAS Initiative strives to support the mobility and transport goals of the European Commission, and in turn those in the European Green Deal.Breda University of Applied Sciences is the task leader of Task 7.3: Exploitation of the Mobility Educational Network and Task 7.4: Mobility Powered by Youth Facilitation.
Designing cities that are socially sustainable has been a significant challenge until today. Lately, European Commission’s research agenda of Industy 5.0 has prioritised a sustainable, human-centric and resilient development over merely pursuing efficiency and productivity in societal transitions. The focus has been on searching for sustainable solutions to societal challenges, engaging part of the design industry. In architecture and urban design, whose common goal is to create a condition for human life, much effort was put into elevating the engineering process of physical space, making it more efficient. However, the natural process of social evolution has not been given priority in urban and architectural research on sustainable design. STEPS stems from the common interest of the project partners in accessible, diverse, and progressive public spaces, which is vital to socially sustainable urban development. The primary challenge lies in how to synthesise the standardised sustainable design techniques with unique social values of public space, propelling a transition from technical sustainability to social sustainability. Although a large number of social-oriented studies in urban design have been published in the academic domain, principles and guidelines that can be applied to practice are large missing. How can we generate operative principles guiding public space analysis and design to explore and achieve the social condition of sustainability, developing transferable ways of utilising research knowledge in design? STEPS will develop a design catalogue with operative principles guiding public space analysis and design. This will help designers apply cross-domain knowledge of social sustainability in practice.
De installatiebranche staat voor een aantal grote uitdagingen. Het personeel vergrijst en minder jongeren kiezen voor een baan in de installatiebranche. Tegelijkertijd vindt er een inhoudelijke transitie plaats, mede gedreven door technologische innovaties van prestatiegericht installeren naar mensgericht installeren. Het betekent dat installaties in gebouwen niet alleen energiezuinig behoren te zijn maar ook behoren zij bij te dragen aan het welzijn en de gezondheid van de gebruikers. Ook het huidige personeel zal op een andere manier moeten gaan werken dan gewend te zijn. Grotere bedrijven zetten meer en meer opkomende technologieën in, maar hoe snel kan het MKB hierin meebewegen? En zullen deze ontwikkelingen meer jongeren naar de branche trekken? Doel Het OMTECH_IDGB project onderzoekt in hoeverre het MKB in de installatiebranche gereed is om te kunnen werken met opkomende technologieën, zoals bijvoorbeeld AI en AR. Vragen zijn: Hoe opereert het MKB in de installatiebranche bij het gebruik van AI en AR? Wat zijn aantrekkelijke use cases voor het gebruik van opkomende technologieën? Hoe krijgen wij onze mensen, maar ook jongeren gereed om te werken in een digitale werkomgeving? Resultaten Overzicht van use cases, animatie over werken met AI en AR in de installatiebranche en een RAAKpro vooraanmelding over inzet van AI en AR in de installatiebranche. Looptijd 01 november 2020 - 31 mei 2021 Aanpak Literatuurstudie/deskresearch naar opkomende technologieën, AI en AR, zowel binnen als buiten de installatiebranche. Inventariseren van het gebruik en inzet van opkomende technologieën in de installatiebranche. Ophalen van ‘use cases’ in de praktijk d.m.v. interviews. Bijeenkomsten met de praktijk. In een samenstelling van professionals, ontwikkelaars, branche organisaties, MKB partijen en groot bedrijven op dit thema. Met als doel om het verder uitwerken en scherp stellen van de vraag te bewerkstelligen. In dit project wordt tevens samengewerkt met het Centre of Expertise Smart Sustainable Cities.
