Begin 2020 is het project Start Me Up (SMU) begonnen. Het project omvat achtendertig studio’s op Campus de Bergerweg in Alkmaar. Twintig van deze studio’s zijn bedoeld voor jongvolwassenen met een ondersteuningsbehoefte, achttien studio’s zijn bedoeld voor jongvolwassenen zonder een ondersteuningsvraag. De vraag waarop dit onderzoek een antwoord wil formuleren is: Welke werkzame elementen zijn er te ontdekken in de aanpak van Start Me Up die gebruikt kunnen worden voor toekomstige ontwikkeling? We adviseren de ondersteuning meer te richten op bredere ontwikkelingsvaardigheden van de jongeren en meer bewustzijn te creëren over de rol van de begeleider. Probeer te verkennen welke mogelijkheden aan kennisuitwisseling er binnen de AVG zijn (daarvoor zijn hulpmiddelen beschikbaar). Formuleer een gezamenlijke visie op het project en de samenwerking. Ontwikkel samen een perspectief op een passende manier van begeleiden en op de waarde van community
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From start-up to scale-up to market domination in a European context. Companies planning to move into the next phase of their development must be able to finance their ambitions. Those that take the long-term view and a healthy focus on revenue generation stand the greatest chance of staying on course to success.
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Size measurement plays an essential role for micro-/nanoparticle characterization and property evaluation. Due to high costs, complex operation or resolution limit, conventional characterization techniques cannot satisfy the growing demand of routine size measurements in various industry sectors and research departments, e.g., pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and food industry etc. Together with start-up SeeNano and other partners, we will develop a portable compact device to measure particle size based on particle-impact electrochemical sensing technology. The main task in this project is to extend the measurement range for particles with diameters ranging from 20 nm to 20 um and to validate this technology with realistic samples from various application areas. In this project a new electrode chip will be designed and fabricated. It will result in a workable prototype including new UMEs (ultra-micro electrode), showing that particle sizing can be achieved on a compact portable device with full measuring range. Following experimental testing with calibrated particles, a reliable calibration model will be built up for full range measurement. In a further step, samples from partners or potential customers will be tested on the device to evaluate the application feasibility. The results will be validated by high-resolution and mainstream sizing techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS) and Coulter counter.
The denim industry faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been especially criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. Reducing resource use of water, chemicals and energy and changing denim production practices calls for collaboration between various stakeholders, including competing denim brands. There is great benefit in combining denim brands’ resources and knowledge so that commonly defined standards and benchmarks are developed and realized on a scale that matters. Collaboration however, and especially between competitors, is highly complex and prone to fail. This project brings leading denim brands together to collectively take initial steps towards improving the ecological sustainability impact of denim production, particularly by establishing measurements, benchmarks and standards for resource use (e.g. chemicals, water, energy) and creating best practices for effective collaboration. The central research question of our project is: How do denim brands effectively collaborate together to create common, industry standards on resource use and benchmarks for improved ecological sustainability in denim production? To answer this question, we will use a mixed-method, action research approach. The project’s research setting is the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA), which has a strong denim cluster and is home to many international denim brands and start-ups.