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Supporting schools during the implementation of the health-promoting school approach

Introduction: The health-promoting school (HPS) approach was developed by the World Health Organization to create health promotion changes in the whole school system. Implementing the approach can be challenging for schools because schools are dynamic organizations with each a unique context. Many countries worldwide have a health promotion system in place in which healthy school (HS) advisors support schools in the process of implementing the HPS approach. Even though these HS advisors can take on various roles to provide support in an adaptive and context-oriented manner, these roles have not yet been described. The current study aims to identify and describe the key roles of the HS advisor when supporting schools during the dynamic process of implementing the HPS approach. Methods: The study was part of a project in which a capacity-building module was developed for and with HS advisors in the Netherlands. In the current study, a co-creation process enabled by participatory research was used in which researchers, HS advisors, national representatives, and coordinators of the Dutch HS program participated. Co-creation processes took place between October 2020 and November 2021 and consisted of four phases: (1) a narrative review of the literature, (2) interviews, (3) focus groups, and (4) a final check. Results: Five roles were identified. The role of “navigator” as a more central one and four other roles: “linking pin,” “expert in the field,” “critical friend,” and “ambassador of the HPS approach.” The (final) description of the five roles was recognizable for the HS advisors that participated in the study, and they indicated that it provided a comprehensive overview of the work of an HS advisor in the Netherlands. Discussion: The roles can provide guidance to all Dutch HS advisors and the regional public health organizations that employ them on what is needed to provide sufficient and context-oriented support to schools. These roles can inspire and guide people from other countries to adapt the roles to their own national context.

Van database naar erfgoedkaart, een geautomatiseerd proces

Met ingang van de Omgevingswet op 1 januari 2024 wordt de ruimtelijke ordening geregeld doormiddel van de omgevingsplannen. Gemeenten hebben tot 2032 om over te stappen op het Digitale Stelsel Omgevingswet (DSO) en om een definitief omgevingsplan op te stellen. Nu is Archeologie Deventer, net als andere gemeenten zoals Leiden en Amersfoort, bezig met het voorbereiden van alle data en kaartmateriaal met betrekking tot het culturele erfgoed. Deze zullen samen met de omgangsregels overgezet worden naar het definitieve omgevingsplan. Dit project betreft een data-analyse, van de benodigde data, en een onderzoek naar de Omgevingswet en de DSO met betrekking tot het gereedstellen van de data en wat de eisen hieraan zijn. Aan het hand van dit onderzoek kan er antwoord gegeven worden op de hoofdvraag “Wat is een efficiënte manier om het proces van database naar erfgoedkaart met FME in te richten binnen de kaders van de Omgevingswet?”. Aan de hand van deze resultaten is er een gegevensmodel opgesteld, in het programma FME, dat alle datatabellen automatisch kan inlezen en omzetten tot complete kaartlagen voor de erfgoedkaart waar alle kaarten worden voorbereid.

Monuments and Mental Maps

In 1960 Kevin Lynch analysed the ‘city-image’ in The Image of the City; seven years later American artist Robert Smithson surveyed the suburb of Passaic in ‘A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey’. Both approaches use narrativity as an instrument to connect urban space with the lived experience of its users. Where Kevin Lynch analyzes the visual perception and mental representation (‘imageability’) of the postwar American metropolis, Robert Smithson explores the temporality of its peripheral terrain vague. Where Kevin Lynch frames his inquiry within then-current conventions of perception and cognition, Robert Smithson rejects these conventions precisely because they do no justice to his experience of the suburb and offer him no method to analyze or describe it. In his analysis, there is no coherent map of the territory, no mental representation to consult. How does Smithson’s practice relate to the paradigm of ‘imageability’? What is being narrated, and how does narrativity operate? By juxtaposing the two approaches this text reflects on some ideas and issues that surround a narrative analysis of urban landscape.

Wind resource characteristics and energy yield for micro wind turbines integrated on noise barriers

This paper assesses wind resource characteristics and energy yield for micro wind turbines integrated on noise barriers. An experimental set-up with sonic anemometers placed on top of the barrier in reference positions is realized. The effect on wind speed magnitude, inflow angle and turbulence intensity is analysed. The annual energy yield of a micro wind turbine is estimated and compared using data from a micro-wind turbine wind tunnel experiment and field data. Electrical energy costs are discussed as well as structural integration cost reduction and the potential energy yield could decrease costs. It was found that instantaneous wind direction towards the barrier and the height of observation play an influential role for the results. Wind speed increases in perpendicular flows while decreases in parallel flow, by +35% down to −20% from the reference. The azimuth of the noise barrier expressed in wind field rotation angles was found to be influential resulted in 50%–130% changes with respect to annual energy yield. A micro wind turbine (0.375 kW) would produce between 100 and 600 kWh annually. Finally, cost analysis with cost reductions due to integration and the energy yield changes due to the barrier, show a LCOE reduction at 60%–90% of the reference value. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2020.104206

Verslag workshop: Inzichten in de carbon footprint van reiziger

‘Wij zijn Bonairianen en dat is belangrijk'

‘Je voelt de wind, je ruikt de geur van Bonaire: je bent terug!’ vertelt een leerling terwijl hij wijst naar een afbeelding van de luchthaven Flamingo. Deze uitspraak werd gedaan tijdens ons onderzoek naar een betekenisvol geschiedeniscurriculum met burgerschapsdoelen in het voortgezet onderwijs op Bonaire. Een jaar later, in 2024, keerden we naar het eiland terug en deden er onderzoek naar Bonairiaans burgerschapsonderwijs dat daar op vier basisscholen wordt ontwikkeld.