The community renewable energy is often seen as the way to address the societal challenge of energy transition. Many scholars foresee a key role for community energy in accelerating of the energy transition from fossil to renewable energy sources. For example, some authors investigated the transformative role of community renewable energy in the energy transition process (Seyfang and Smith, 2007; Seyfang and Haxeltine 2012; Seyfang et al. 2013; Seyfang et al. 2014; Smith et al. 2017; Martiskainen, 2017; Ruggiero et al. 2018; Hasanov and Zuidema, 2018; de Boer et al. 2018). Recognising the importance of community energy many scholars studied different internal and external conditions that contribute or hinder the success of local renewable energy initiatives (Walker et al. 2007; Bomberg and McEwen, 2012; Seyfang et al. 2013; Wirth, 2014; Hasanov and Zuidema, 2018; Ruggiero et al. 2018). One of such conditions contributing to the success of community energy initiatives is the capacity to adopt and utilize new technologies, for example, in the area of energy storage, which would increase flexibility and resilience of the communal energy supply systems.However, as noted by Ruggiero et al. (2018), the scholarship remains unclear on “how a very diverse and relatively small sector such as community energy could scale up and promote a change in the dominant way of energy production”. What is then the real transformative power of local renewable energy initiatives and whether community energy can offer an alternative to the existing energy system? This paper aims to answer these questions by confronting the critical review of theory with the recent practice of community energy in the Netherlands to build and scale up independent and self-sustaining renewable energy supply structures on the local and national scale and drafting perspectives on the possible role of community energy in the new energy system.
Research-based teacher education can be understood in different ways: as a call to understand teacher education institutions as research institutions, as the ambition to educate student teachers to have an inquiring attitude, as the basing of teacher education curricula on the latest research, or as a combination of all three.In this chapter we reflect on a method of connecting research, curriculum development and practice in teacher education, presenting a case study of a conversational community of teacher educators and researchers. The aim of the conversational community was to understand the process of curriculum design in teacher education as an inspiring and practical combination of design research, self-study, collaborative action research and curriculum study by teacher educators. This process was supported by a conversational framework in which curriculum development was understood as an ongoing dialogue between vision, intentions, design and practice in the teacher education curriculum. Using the conversational framework in this single case study of a conversational community, we have tried to connect teacher education research, curriculum development and practice in a meaningful way.
Hoofdstuk 20 Part II in Understanding Penal Practice van Ioan Durnescu en Fergus McNeill Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions and systems, but rather the changing nature of penal practice and practitioners The first part of the book focuses on understanding practice and practitioners, exploring how changing social, cultural, political, and organisational contexts influence practice, and how training, development, professional socialisation and other factors influence practitioners. The second part is concerned with how practitioners can be best supported to develop the skills and approaches that seem most likely to generate positive impacts. It contains accounts of new practice models and approaches, as well as reports of research projects seeking both to discover and to encourage effective practices
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Digital transformation has been recognized for its potential to contribute to sustainability goals. It requires companies to develop their Data Analytic Capability (DAC), defined as their ability to collect, manage and analyze data effectively. Despite the governmental efforts to promote digitalization, there seems to be a knowledge gap on how to proceed, with 37% of Dutch SMEs reporting a lack of knowledge, and 33% reporting a lack of support in developing DAC. Participants in the interviews that we organized preparing this proposal indicated a need for guidance on how to develop DAC within their organization given their unique context (e.g. age and experience of the workforce, presence of legacy systems, high daily workload, lack of knowledge of digitalization). While a lot of attention has been given to the technological aspects of DAC, the people, process, and organizational culture aspects are as important, requiring a comprehensive approach and thus a bundling of knowledge from different expertise. Therefore, the objective of this KIEM proposal is to identify organizational enablers and inhibitors of DAC through a series of interviews and case studies, and use these to formulate a preliminary roadmap to DAC. From a structure perspective, the objective of the KIEM proposal will be to explore and solidify the partnership between Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Avans University of Applied Sciences (Avans), Logistics Community Brabant (LCB), van Berkel Logistics BV, Smink Group BV, and iValueImprovement BV. This partnership will be used to develop the preliminary roadmap and pre-test it using action methodology. The action research protocol and preliminary roadmap thereby developed in this KIEM project will form the basis for a subsequent RAAK proposal.
Context Kernmotto van onze Ambitie 2025 is dat Avans naast een excellente en brede onderwijsinstelling ook kennispartner van de regio wil zijn. De komende jaren krijgt het praktijkgericht onderzoek een stevige boost. Tegelijkertijd is Avans tot nu toe nog maar beperkt zichtbaar geweest in Europese netwerken en programma’s, terwijl dit uitstekende bronnen zijn voor (maatschappelijke) meerwaarde van ons onderzoek, het onderwijs en voor de regio. Strategie De focus van de onderzoeksactiviteiten van Avans ligt op vier Centers of Expertise (CoE), twee expertisecentra en twee doorsnijdende thema’s. Hiermee spelen we in op de regionale, nationale en Europese vraagstukken. Belangrijkste doelstelling van dit project (Avans@EU) is om een strategie te ontwikkelen waarin onze CoE’s, lectoren, (docent-)onderzoekers en studenten op een gestructureerde manier aansluiting kunnen vinden bij de relevante Europese netwerken en programma’s. De lectoren en onderzoekers die beschikken over enige ervaring en een relevant netwerk gebruiken we als ‘lighthouse’ . Netwerken Het op- en uitbouwen van de Europese netwerken is een belangrijke doelstelling voor de CoE’s. De opgave in Avans@EU is daarom het identificeren van de netwerken, het valideren van de aanknopingspunten en het bepalen van de manier waarop aansluiting bij dit netwerk mogelijk is. Supportinfrastructuur Na afloop van het Avans@EU project hebben we een helder beeld van de inrichting van de supportinfrastructuur. Daarbij zetten we een Community of Practice op rondom de EU en een programma om de kennis over Europese programma’s en netwerken bij lectoren en (docent)onderzoekers te vergroten. Regionale Impact De impact die societal challenges (incl. SDG’s) en innovaties gaan hebben op de traditionele(re) industrie in het verzorgingsgebied van Avans is enorm. Door het ontsluiten van de kennis in de genoemde netwerken kan Avans als kennispartner voor het regionale partners dienen en studenten voorzien van actuele kennis.
