Facilitate multidisciplinary e-textile development by enhancing collaboration and knowledge transfer across disciplines, ultimately leading to comprehensive requirements while keeping the user interaction in mind. presentation during E-textiles 2023
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Internationalizing curricula. Needs and wishes of alumni and employers with regard to international competencies. Internationalization has become of great importance for universities acrossthe globe. The labour market is becoming international, with internationalopportunities and international competition. Emerging markets such as India, China and Russia are gaining economic power. Global challenges demand world-wide solutions. Production and marketing networks span the globe and various forms of migration have resulted in a large cultural diversity within nations. As a result, societies and labour markets are changing as well. In order to deal with these societal changes adequately and to succeed in today’s labour market, graduates need to be equipped with international competencies. In a survey among 500 chief executives, ICM Research (on behalf of Think Global and The British Council, 2011) showed that employers strongly value staff members who are able to work in an international and multicultural environment. Similar results were found in Diamond et al. (2011), in which ‘multicultural teamwork’ was considered most important. The Hague University of Applied Sciences seeks to prepare its students adequately for the world of tomorrow. The University’s development plans (e.g. HogeschoolOntwikkelingsPlan, HOP 7, 2009-2013 and HOP 8, 2014-2017) indicate that its vision is to train students to be globally-minded professionals with an international and multicultural perspective, who are world-citizens, interested in global issues and able to deal with diversity in a constructive manner. They are to be professionals, who possess the competencies to function well in an international and intercultural environment. Internationalization is therefore high on the agenda of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) which is illustrated by the fact that, as of 2014, new students in all academies have to fill 12.5% (30 ECTS) of their four-year Bachelor program with international activities. These activities can range from an internship or semester abroad (student mobility) to participating in full programs of study or minors in which English is the medium of instruction, or an internationally themed minor (Internationalization at Home, IaH). And this is only the beginning. Internationalization is a means, not an end. All THUAS courses are looking into ways in which they can internationalize their curriculum. And in doing so, they need to be innovative (Leask, 2009) and keep in mind the specific needs and wishes of alumni and their employers with regard to international competences. The THUAS research group International Cooperation supports these internationalization policy objectives by investigating various aspects, such as: • The acquisition and development of international competencies among students. • The extent to which lecturers possess international competencies and what their needs and wishes are for further development. • The international competencies THUAS graduates have acquired as part of their degree and how THUAS has stimulated this development. • The international competencies that employers and alumni consider important. Although international competencies and employability have received growing attention in internationalization research, existing studies have mainly focused on: • The effects of study abroad on the development of international competence (cf. Hoven & Walenkamp, 2013). • The effects of an experience abroad (study, internship, voluntary work) on employability. • A more general analysis of the skills employers look for in prospective employees.
This publication follows and analysis the proces in the region Westerkwartier in the Netherlands in their effort to built a whole new regionale food chain. In this report there is a remarkeble role for the knowledge instutions on vocational and applied level.
De bouw is een conservatieve (risk-averse) en sterk gefragmenteerde markt. De bouw is echter tevens een grootgebruiker van materialen; 40% van de globale grondstoffen wordt gebruikt voor de realisatie van gebouwen (Ness & Xing, 2017). Ook is de gebouwde omgeving een grootgebruiker van energie met 40 % van het Nederlandse totale gebruik (Klimaatmonitor Rijksoverheid 2019). Meer kennisdeling en optimalisatie is cruciaal, met name ten aanzien van de naoorlogse woningbouwvoorraad. Daar ontstaat de komende jaren momentum in de vorm van de stedelijke vernieuwing, sloop-nieuwbouw, renovatie, verduurzaming en erfgoedbeleid. Kenmerkend van de naoorlogse woningbouw is dat ze destijds in hoog tempo zijn gerealiseerd en gebouwd op sterk gestandaardiseerde manieren. Vele ontwerpbureaus en bouwers hebben in die tijd op grote schaal identieke woningbouwcomplexen in alle delen van ons land neergezet. De kennis over wie wat waar heeft gebouwd is echter niet geregistreerd. Kennis daarover biedt de kans om veel sneller en optimaler opgaven en kansen rondom verduurzaming, circulaire waarde en erfgoedbeleid van deze naoorlogse woningbouw te ontdekken en delen. Een combinatie van AI, ruimtelijk onderzoek en co-research kan dit zoekproces automatiseren. In deze KIEM willen we dit verkennen. We bouwen voort op de AI-methodes en technieken die we in het RAAKmkb project Sensing Streetscapes hebben ontwikkeld. In deze Kiem willen we experimenteren wat de meest efficiënte AI-strategie is. Hierbij werken we met co-research. Ruimtelijk experts uit verschillende vakgebieden worden betrokken om de kenmerken van de woningbouwvooraard te duiden – en zo te helpen in wat AI moet gaan leren. Vak- en praktijk experts van woningbouw verduurzaming, circulaire bouw en erfgoedbeleid betrekken we in een co-researchsessie om potentiele use-cases te verkennen. Hoe kan deze kennis een versnelling voor hun opgaven betekenen? Voor de doorontwikkeling tot volwaardige tools beogen we een RAAKmkb of RAAKpubliek aan te vragen.
Treatment of crops with insecticides remains essential because globally more than 75 billion dollars is lost through crop destruction by invasive insects. However it is accompanied by severe disadvantages including i. increasing resistance of the target insects against insecticides and ii. the undesired lethality of beneficial insects such as bees and other pollinator species. The significant reduction of insect species during the last years, at least partly caused by the presently available insecticides has also effects on insect-eating species. Last but not least the presence of residual amount of insecticides in the environment (soil and plants), because of poor (bio)degradation, is another distinct disadvantage. Therefore, the overall aim of this proposal is to design and synthesize peptide based biopesticides. This should lead to Nature inspired green alternatives for insect control because "Peptides" are the small equivalents of "proteins", that are biomolecules, which are universally present in all organisms and subject to their natural biodegradation mechanisms, as well as also chemically degraded in the soil (water, heat, UV, oxygen). Design and synthesis of these environmentally benign compounds will eventually take place in a founded company called "INNOVAPEPLINE". Evaluation of candidate peptide based biopesticides can be carried out in collaboration with a recently founded company (spin-out of the University of Glasgow) called "SOLASTA BIO" (founders professors Shireen Davies, Julian Dow and Rob Liskamp) and/or with other (third) parties such as the University of Wageningen. Upon recent identification of promising candidate compounds ("leads"), chemical optimization studies of leads will take place, followed by evaluation in field trials. In this proposal design, synthesis and chemical optimization of the biological activity of new peptides and development of methods to monitor their biodegradation rate will take place. Thereby expanding the repertoire of peptide based biopesticides. (292 words)
