A growing number of higher education programmes in the Netherlands has implemented programmatic assessment. Programmatic assessment is an assessment concept in which the formative and summative function of assessment is intertwined. Although there is consensus about the theoretical principles of programmatic assessment, programs make various specific design choices, fitting with their own context. In this factsheet we give insight into the design choices Dutch higher education programmes make when implementing programmatic assessment.
Aviation increasingly faces capacity challenges exposing inefficiencies and shortcomings of aviation related processes and systems. The European slot allocation system was designed in an era with little to no capacity constraints, now resulting in regulations not fitting in today’s developments.
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The pace of technology advancements continues to accelerate, and impacts the nature of systems solutions along with significant effects on involved stakeholders and society. Design and engineering practices with tools and perspectives, need therefore to evolve in accordance to the developments that complex, sociotechnical innovation challenges pose. There is a need for engineers and designers that can utilize fitting methods and tools to fulfill the role of a changemaker. Recognized successful practices include interdisciplinary methods that allow for effective and better contextualized participatory design approaches. However, preliminary research identified challenges in understanding what makes a specific method effective and successfully contextualized in practice, and what key competences are needed for involved designers and engineers to understand and adopt these interdisciplinary methods. In this proposal, case study research is proposed with practitioners to gain insight into what are the key enabling factors for effective interdisciplinary participatory design methods and tools in the specific context of sociotechnical innovation. The involved companies are operating at the intersection between design, technology and societal impact, employing experts who can be considered changemakers, since they are in the lead of creative processes that bring together diverse groups of stakeholders in the process of sociotechnical innovation. A methodology will be developed to capture best practices and understand what makes the deployed methods effective. This methodology and a set of design guidelines for effective interdisciplinary participatory design will be delivered. In turn this will serve as a starting point for a larger design science research project, in which an educational toolkit for effective participatory design for socio-technical innovation will be designed.
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.
Ongeveer één op de vijf vrouwen die borstkanker overleven, ontwikkelen (lymf)oedeem. Oedeem is een ophoping van vocht in een lichaamsdeel en kan zeer ingrijpende gevolgen hebben voor het dagelijks leven. Behandelingen van oedeem worden uitgevoerd door bijvoorbeeld huid -en oedeemtherapeuten, (mammacare)verpleegkundigen, fysiotherapeuten en bandagisten. Vaak bestaan deze behandelingen uit een combinatie van manuele lymfedrainage (massagetechniek), lymfetaping en compressietherapie. De behandelingen van odeem zijn voor patiënten zeer pijnlijk, langdurig, intensief en kostbaar. Tevens is het geven van massagetechnieken voor fysiotherapeuten en oedeemtherapeuten lichamelijk zeer zwaar, wat resulteert in eerder ziekteverzuim en hogere zorgkosten. Daarnaast zijn deze behandelingen vooral gericht op armen en benen, en niet op de borst. Speciale compressie bh’s of inleg-pads die in de markt verkrijgbaar zijn werken onvoldoende of zijn zo volumineus dat dagelijks gebruik eigenlijk onmogelijk is. De focus van dit KIEM project ligt op het ontwikkelen van een innovatieve bh die oedeem na borstkanker kan beperken en/of voorkomen. De specifieke samenwerking tussen Bratelle, ISKO, Vechtstreek Fysiotherapie, Witte Vlinder Fysiotherapie en de lectoraten Verpleegkunde en Sustainable & Functional Textiles biedt nieuwe mogelijkheden en inzichten. Dit project kan een doorbraak betekenen voor innovatieve textielmaterialen met medische toepassingen, specifiek oedeem. Door gebruik te maken van hightech apparatuur op Saxion, kunnen nieuwe concepten of materialen ontwikkeld worden, die ‘op-schaalbaar’ zijn. Ook kunnen ontwikkelingen van speciale materialen in combinatie met confectietechnieken, tot nieuwe inzichten leiden. Daarnaast zetten we een onderzoeksplan op gericht op het meten van de werking van de bh, waarbij de rol van verschillende zorgprofessionals essentieel is. Tevens is het streven om het consortium verder uit te breiden met praktijkprofessionals en leveranciers van textielmaterialen.
