For the needs analysis, an assessment of the national (and local) status quo in the area of Healthy Ageing, specifically towards Active and Healthy Lifestyles. This status quo will serve as important starting point for the exploration of a potential shared goal of the local community of practice. This needs analysis report includes generic sections towards definitions and methodologies, and an introduction towards the topics assessed. Secondly, national/ local chapters will outline the situation in the communities of Groningen (the Netherlands), Odense (Denmark), Malaga (Spain), Kaunas (Lithuania) and Cascais (Portugal). Within each local COP chapter the partners taking part of the COP are described and the shared goals illustrated. These shared goals are: COP Groningen: “stimulating a Healthy environment (physical & social) with focus on physical activity”. COP Odense: “further develop and educate professionals who work on stimulating physical activity in community dwelling older adult”’. COP Malaga: “developing, implementing and evaluating outdoor fitness” COP Kaunas: “to provide opportunities for primary school children and Kaunas district community members older than 50 more opportunities for exercising and physical activity” COP Cascais: “develop, organize for and together with the stakeholders and end users (youngsters from 12-24 years old) activities focused on healthy lifestyle (e.g., healthy cooking workshops, parent-child physical activities etc.) embedded in approach GERAÇÃO S+ “.
The energy transition requires the transformation of communities and neighbourhoods. It will have huge ramifications throughout society. Many cities, towns and villages have put together ambitious visions about how to achieve e.g. energy neutrality, zero-emission or zero-impact. What is happening at the local level towards realizing these ambitions? In a set of case study’s we investigate the following questions: How are self-organized local energy initiatives performing their self-set tasks? What obstacles are present in the current societal set-up that can hinder decentralized energy production? In our cases local leadership, vision, level of communication and type of organisation are important factors of the strength of the ‘local network’. (Inter)national energy policy and existing energy companies largely determine the ‘global’ or outside network. Stronger regional and national support structures, as well as an enabling environment for decentralized energy production, are needed to make decentralized sustainable energy production a success.
Developing and realizing an innovative concept for the Active Aging campus in two years, where students, teachers, companies, residents of surrounding Campus neighborhoods will be invited to do exercise, sports, play, meet and participate. This includes, on the one hand, providing input with regard to a mobility-friendly design from an infrastructural perspective and, on the other hand, organizing activities that contribute to Healthy Aeging of the Zernike site and the city of Groningen. It is not only about having an Active Aging campus with an iconic image, but also about the process. In the process of realization, students, teachers, researchers, companies and residents from surrounding districts will be explicitly involved. This includes hardware (physical environment / infrastructure), software (social environment) and orgware (interaction between the two).
The IMPULS-2020 project DIGIREAL (BUas, 2021) aims to significantly strengthen BUAS’ Research and Development (R&D) on Digital Realities for the benefit of innovation in our sectoral industries. The project will furthermore help BUas to position itself in the emerging innovation ecosystems on Human Interaction, AI and Interactive Technologies. The pandemic has had a tremendous negative impact on BUas industrial sectors of research: Tourism, Leisure and Events, Hospitality and Facility, Built Environment and Logistics. Our partner industries are in great need of innovative responses to the crises. Data, AI combined with Interactive and Immersive Technologies (Games, VR/AR) can provide a partial solution, in line with the key-enabling technologies of the Smart Industry agenda. DIGIREAL builds upon our well-established expertise and capacity in entertainment and serious games and digital media (VR/AR). It furthermore strengthens our initial plans to venture into Data and Applied AI. Digital Realities offer great opportunities for sectoral industry research and innovation, such as experience measurement in Leisure and Hospitality, data-driven decision-making for (sustainable) tourism, geo-data simulations for Logistics and Digital Twins for Spatial Planning. Although BUas already has successful R&D projects in these areas, the synergy can and should significantly be improved. We propose a coherent one-year Impuls funded package to develop (in 2021): 1. A multi-year R&D program on Digital Realities, that leads to, 2. Strategic R&D proposals, in particular a SPRONG/sleuteltechnologie proposal; 3. Partnerships in the regional and national innovation ecosystem, in particular Mind Labs and Data Development Lab (DDL); 4. A shared Digital Realities Lab infrastructure, in particular hardware/software/peopleware for Augmented and Mixed Reality; 5. Leadership, support and operational capacity to achieve and support the above. The proposal presents a work program and management structure, with external partners in an advisory role.
In Montfoort, een kleine kern in het Groene Hart, is in het najaar van 2021 een fitroute aangelegd. Tijdens de aanleg van de fitroute zijn vragen naar voren gekomen over het duurzaam gebruik van de route; deels was dat het gevolg van het feit dat Montfoort een regiegemeente is en samenwerkt met diverse partners. Hoe kan een fitroute het beste juridisch en beleidsmatig ingebed worden? Wie is eigenaar en verantwoordelijk voor beheer en onderhoud? En hoe kan naar de toekomst toe het gebruik van de route geoptimaliseerd worden? Daarmee richt dit project zich op orgware- en softwarematige vragen, waar specifiek in een niet-stedelijke context weinig over bekend is. In dit project worden deze vragen onderzocht en gedocumenteerd in een praktisch stappenplan en een video. Daarvoor wordt in drie fasen onderzoek gedaan. In Fase 1 wordt in gesprek gegaan met gemeenten waar fitroutes liggen. In een Realist-Evaluation Framework wordt ingegaan op de manier waarop zij juridisch en beleidsmatig de fitroute hebben ingebed en de manier waarop zij gebruik van de fitroute stimuleren. In Fase 2 wordt middels walk-along interviews met bewoners de route gelopen om te achterhalen wat motivatoren en barrières zijn voor het gebruik van de fitroute. Daarnaast wordt een groepsgesprek gehouden met professionals uit Montfoort om de mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden voor verbetering van de route te verkennen. In Fase 3 wordt vervolgens één mogelijkheid voor optimalisatie van gebruik van de fitroute geïmplementeerd en getest. De uitkomsten van dit project worden gedeeld met gemeenten uit de regio die zijn aangesloten bij het netwerk van FC Utrecht. Daarbij worden professionals uit verschillende disciplines uitgenodigd, zodat de beweegvriendelijke omgeving in de regio van Utrecht breder dan sport op de kaart wordt gezet. Het stappenplan en een training of video worden beschikbaar gesteld via de website Beweegvriendelijke Buurt.
