Nursing Leadership is an important competence to develop in order to provide quality of care and prevent attrition of nurses. This research program looked into the perceptions and experiences of nurses on practising leadership. Next to that supporting the development of nursing leadership was addressed. The program has a mixed-method, action research design in which 75 in-depth interviews and 24 focus group interviews and quantitative data of 435 nurses form the backbone. According to hospital nurses, nursing leadership is related to proactiveness and voicing expertise in order to deliver good nursing care. Nevertheless, they do not feel fully competent and knowledge deficits were detected on aspects of the bachelor nursing profile, such as evidence based practice. Working-culture factors can either inhibit or encourage nursing leadership. The further awareness of unconsciously using expertise and knowledge deficits as well as team development towards a continuous safe learning environment are necessary steps for the enhancement of nursing leadership. A Nursing Leadership model was developed in which generic personal leadership competencies combined with expertise of the nurses' level of education and degrees form the essence of shared leadership in teams focussed on the realisation of good nursing care.
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In today’s city environments, extreme weather conditions are a fact oflife. Amsterdam, Mumbai, Nairobi or Sydney… climate change issuesneed to be tackled all around the world.In the last couple of decades, Amsterdam has dealt with largeramounts of rainwater, severe heat stress and a decreased biodiversity.In order to strengthen urban resilience to climate change, blue-green(BG) roofs are increasingly being introduced. BG roofs placean additional water layer underneath the green layer. The idea is thatthese roofs reduce runoff after rainfall by retaining precipitation andmitigate heat stress, caused by increased evapotranspiration (the sumof evaporation from the land surface and transpiration from plants)and a higher albedo effect (the ability of surfaces to reflect sunlight).
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The Dutch biogas industry is developing slowly and in many instances still unviable. Insights in the drivers of value creation may help to create viable biogas business networks. This research explores these related drivers and accordingly, proposes a new and comprehensive definition of a driver of value creation. This definition focuses on the enabling and inhibiting factors of value creation in a business network and forms the backbone of three case studies. The results suggest the presence of four specific drivers as necessary for a viable biogas business network: stability and certainty, partner alignment, local opportunities and economies of scale.
Nederland wil in 2050 een circulaire economie zijn. Een economie zonder afval, waarbij alles draait op herbruikbare grondstoffen. Het zuiniger en slimmer omgaan met grondstoffen is ook voor de textielbranche van belang. De meest gebruikte en bekende hernieuwbare plantaardige grondstof voor de textielindustrie is katoen. De huidige niet-circulaire productie en toepassingen van katoen hebben vergaande negatieve impact op mens en milieu. De gebruikersduur van kleding wordt steeds korter en afgedankte kleding wordt laagwaardig verwerkt om uiteindelijk alsnog te worden verbrand. Zowel het economische als duurzame verbeterpotentieel voor circulair textiel is dan ook enorm. De kwaliteit van katoen vermindert met iedere (mechanische) recyclingstap omdat de vezellengte steeds korter wordt. De uitdaging is om meermaals te recycling waarbij in iedere recyclestap waarde wordt behouden en gecreëerd. Als uiteindelijke stap wordt nagestreefd de grondstof veilig terug te laten keren naar de biosfeer als voedingsmiddel waarna een nieuwe cascade kan beginnen: een kringloop in de vorm van regeneratieve cascades. Om dit te realiseren moet de hele keten samenwerken in een transparant systeem waarbij stakeholders meervoudige waarde in balans ontwikkelen, zodat geen partij in de keten wordt benadeeld. Organisaties worstelen met deze veranderende rollen en zoeken nieuwe bedrijfsmodellen, waarin herstel en volhoudbaarheid boven oneindige groei en uitputting staan. In dit project werken Nederlandse bedrijven (met name MKB) uit de gehele textielketen samen met Indiase bedrijven om de werking van een katoencascade -een regeneratief, circulair systeem van katoenzaad tot worteldoek- te onderzoeken en op te tekenen. Een interdisciplinaire benadering is hierbij cruciaal. De nadruk ligt zowel op onderzoek naar de technische haalbaarheid van de katoenvezel als op de ontwikkeling van collaboratieve bedrijfsmodellen. De geformuleerde onderzoeksvraag luidt: Welke collaboratieve bedrijfsmodellen ontstaan tijdens het ontwerponderzoek die geschikt zijn voor meervoudige waardecreatie in een katoencascade en hoe kunnen die bijdragen aan de verdere ontwikkeling van regeneratieve cascadeprincipes?
In 2030 high amount H2 will come from the offshore wind production, and Noord-Holland Noord would be the backbone between that production and rest of the Netherlands. Therefore we intent to study the possibilities of the H2 economy in the region.
Tango is among the most widespread world music genres nowadays. However, only partial information about the elements and techniques of composing, arranging and performing tango has been documented and made available so far. This research project aims at investigating tango’s main aspects in the oeuvre of relevant tango musicians, promoting its creative practice and expanding its artistic community. By making the implicit knowledge in scores and recordings explicit and ready for creative use by the greater artistic community, tango can be preserved, on one side; and musicians can experiment and reach new artistic horizons, securing its continuation and development as vivid, contemporary music, on the other. The project has two research questions: 1. What are the main features and techniques of tango music composition, arrangement and performance? 2. How can musicians nowadays integrate these features and techniques into their practice to deepen their understanding and enhance their artistic creations and performances? This research uses a mixed method design, including the analysis of scores and recordings, literature review, interviews, observational studies and experimentation. It expands the artistic community on the topic and bridges two top-notch institutions devoted to tango learning: Codarts and UNSAM (Argentina). The research also endeavours improvements in the Codarts curriculum as it complements and expands its educational programme by providing students with research tools to enhance their creative practice. Theoretical and artistic outcomes will be documented and disseminated in concerts, concert-lectures, papers, articles and a tailor-made website containing compositions, arrangements, videos, text, musical examples and annotated scores, so as to record: a) the musical materials and techniques found in the analysed scores and recordings, together with their applications in practice and performance; b) the artistic processes, reflections and production of the participants; c) information on how to create, arrange and perform tangos.
