Report on student well being using a MVC methodology
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In the aftermath of the systemic financial crises of 2007-9, several scholars argued that the problem of systemic financial crises is not well understood. At the same time, the introduction of digital technologies led to new threats and opportunities for the design of the monetary and financial system. For example, thousands of private cryptocurrencies have been implemented and hundreds of research papers on the (possible) introduction of public digital currencies have been published. It is often not explained why these new forms of digital money are needed and which (systemic) problems they (can) solve. In addition, the literature does not provide requirements nor guidelines to shape the development of the monetary and financial system in the digital age. This thesis applies design science to the monetary and financial system as a whole. The application of this novel methodology offers new possibilities to examine this complex system. The contribution of this thesis is threefold. First, different theories on money, banking and systemic financial crises have been researched through an extensive literature review and balance sheets. Second, those theories have been used to develop design requirements and guidelines. Finally, the consensus and pivotal dissensions about the systemic problem(s) of the current monetary and financial system, requirements and guidelines among experts have been identified through semistructured interviews. This research process results in widely supported requirements that demarcate the design space and widely supported guidelines that aim to give direction within the design space, that is, to the future development of the monetary and financial system.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.14261/postit/2B827A9F-E9C0-4A75-B45C19B59DD1E5AAIn 2015 and 2016, Saxion University of Applied Sciences organized the 2nd and 3rd edition of the Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (RIEC).The term entrepreneurialism doesn’t exist. In this paper it is coined to distinguish entrepreneurship from entrepreneurial behaviour by employees. In an serious gaming experiment among Physical Therapy students, we tried to design a learning intervention to advance entrepreneurial behaviour in a non-business setting.
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The transition towards an economy of wellbeing is complex, systemic, dynamic and uncertain. Individuals and organizations struggle to connect with and embrace their changing context. They need to create a mindset for the emergence of a culture of economic well-being. This requires a paradigm shift in the way reality is constructed. This emergence begins with the mindset of each individual, starting bottom-up. A mindset of economic well-being is built using agency, freedom, and responsibility to understand personal values, the multi-identity self, the mental models, and the individual context. A culture is created by waving individual mindsets together and allowing shared values, and new stories for their joint context to emerge. It is from this place of connection with the self and the other, that individuals' intrinsic motivation to act is found to engage in the transitions towards an economy of well-being. This project explores this theoretical framework further. Businesses play a key role in the transition toward an economy of well-being; they are instrumental in generating multiple types of value and redefining growth. They are key in the creation of the resilient world needed to respond to the complex and uncertain of our era. Varta-Valorisatielab, De-Kleine-Aarde, and Het Groene Brein are frontrunner organizations that understand their impact and influence. They are making bold strategic choices to lead their organizations towards an economy of well-being. Unfortunately, they often experience resistance from stakeholders. To address this resistance, the consortium in the proposal seeks to answer the research question: How can individuals who connect with their multi-identity-self, (via personal values, mental models, and personal context) develop a mindset of well-being that enables them to better connect with their stakeholders (the other) and together address the transitional needs of their collective context for the emergence of a culture of the economy of wellbeing?
The energy transition is a highly complex technical and societal challenge, coping with e.g. existing ownership situations, intrusive retrofit measures, slow decision-making processes and uneven value distribution. Large scale retrofitting activities insulating multiple buildings at once is urgently needed to reach the climate targets but the decision-making of retrofitting in buildings with shared ownership is challenging. Each owner is accountable for his own energy bill (and footprint), giving a limited action scope. This has led to a fragmented response to the energy retrofitting challenge with negligible levels of building energy efficiency improvements conducted by multiple actors. Aggregating the energy design process on a building level would allow more systemic decisions to happen and offer the access to alternative types of funding for owners. “Collect Your Retrofits” intends to design a generic and collective retrofit approach in the challenging context of monumental areas. As there are no standardised approaches to conduct historical building energy retrofits, solutions are tailor-made, making the process expensive and unattractive for owners. The project will develop this approach under real conditions of two communities: a self-organised “woongroep” and a “VvE” in the historic centre of Amsterdam. Retrofit designs will be identified based on energy performance, carbon emissions, comfort and costs so that a prioritisation strategy can be drawn. Instead of each owner investing into their own energy retrofitting, the neighbourhood will invest into the most impactful measures and ensure that the generated economic value is retained locally in order to make further sustainable investments and thus accelerating the transition of the area to a CO2-neutral environment.
Aanleiding De Wet passend onderwijs (augustus 2014) beoogt het aantal leerlingen in speciale onderwijsvoorzieningen terug te dringen door leerlingen met speciale onderwijs- en zorgbehoeften goede arrangementen te bieden in het reguliere onderwijs. Kinderen met autismespectrumproblemen bezoeken nu vaak reguliere scholen. Maar de stap naar het voortgezet onderwijs betekent voor hen vaak een ernstige ontregeling. Door de verandering functioneren ze minder goed, presteren ze slechter en neemt de kans op schoolverzuim en voortijdig schoolverlaten toe. De onderwijssector heeft grote behoefte aan een preventieprogramma dat de samenwerking tussen de betrokkenen bij een kind in deze fase verfijnt, structureert en differentieert. Doelstelling Hoofddoel van het project is het ontwikkelen van een training voor docenten en jeugdprofessionals in het optimaliseren van de transitieperiode voor leerlingen met autismespectrumproblemen. Het programma bestaat uit 2 fasen: 1) het bruikbaar maken van het goed onderzochte Engelse 'Transition Pack' voor het Nederlandse onderwijssysteem; 2) een quasi-experiment naar de effectiviteit en gebruikersvriendelijkheid van deze Nederlandse versie (TP-NL) t.o.v. de huidige ondersteuning in de betrokken scholen. Het team meet de klinische kenmerken van de deelnemende kinderen, de problemen die zij ervaren en de stress die ouders ervaren. De ervaringen van ouders en leerkrachten met de transitie worden in kaart gebracht met interviews. De kundigheid van leerkrachten in het omgaan met kinderen met autismespectrumproblemen worden onderzocht met behulp van enquêtes. Beoogde resultaten Het project beoogt 2 resultaten: 1) een preventieprogramma dat de samenwerking tussen de betrokkenen bij een kind in de periode voor, tijdens en na de overgang naar het voortgezet onderwijs verfijnt, structureert en differentieert; 2) een adequaat beschreven, werkzame opleidingsmodule die studenten van de deelnemende hogescholen leert het maatwerk voor leerlingen te verfijnen. Naast 2 promovendi participeren in het onderzoek lectoren en bachelor- en masterstudenten van de betrokken hogescholen. Bij positieve resultaten zal het consortium een TP-NL-opleidingsmodule ontwikkelen voor de opleidingen van de hogescholen en breder gebruik van TP-NL begeleiden in het Rotterdamse en Rijnlandse onderwijs. Landelijke kennisverspreiding vindt plaats via de academische werkplaatsen autisme en jeugd, met wetenschappelijke publicaties, vakpublicaties, presentaties, workshops en een slotcongres. In totaal 50 tot 90 studenten dragen bij aan de dataverzameling (door het schrijven van scripties), en aan de implementatie en het eindsymposium.
