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De Nationaal Coördinator Groningen (NCG) heeft als taak om onderzoek en kennisontwikkeling gerelateerd aan aardbevingen en de ontwikkelingen van een kansrijk Groningen te ontwikkelen.
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Om haar doelstellingen te behalen en op professionele wijze om te gaan met haar vastgoed wil het Vastgoedbedrijf van de gemeente Groningen op een innovatieve manier gaan sturen op de maatschappelijke vastgoedportefeuille. Het gebruik van data en informatietechnologieën, oftewel datagedreven werken en sturen geeft inzicht in de effectiviteit en efficiëntie van de portefeuille. Deze roadmap omvat, naast een theoretisch kader, een stappenplan waarmee het proces naar data-gedreven vastgoedsturing wordt beschreven. Uitgangspunt hierbij is stapsgewijs uitvinden aangezien datagedreven vastgoedsturing vraagt om een andere manier van denken en doen. Er worden actionable insights gecreëerd zodat strategisch sturen mogelijk wordt. Het te ontwikkelen datamodel vormt de basis voor het aangaan van de dialoog, het nemen van beslissingen en het opstellen van lange termijndoelen. De uitkomst is een datamodel voor een proactieve, wendbare, toekomstbestendige organisatie die in staat is in te spelen op een veranderende omgeving en stuurt op een zo hoog mogelijk maatschappelijk rendement.De opkomst van Big Data en vooral Smart Data stelt ons in staat om op een andere manier inzicht te verkrijgen in wat er in de toekomst gaat gebeuren en hierin te sturen. Smart Cities, slimme apparaten en andere voorbeelden van Internet of Things - niet alleen mensen zijn online, maar ook dingen - genereren waardevolle data en maken dat dit eenvoudig gedeeld kan worden. En de introductie van Blockchain in het vastgoed zorgt bijvoorbeeld voor een andere manier van waardeoverdracht (Veuger, 2017). Het zijn voorbeelden van de inzet van data en technologische mogelijkheden die zorgen voor grote veranderingen en invloed hebben op en potentiële waarde - transparanter, professioneler, objectiever - hebben voor de vastgoedwereld. Maar hoe kan de gemeente Groningen nieuwe data en informatietechnologieën gebruiken om strategisch te sturen op de maatschappelijke vastgoedportefeuille?
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This study focuses on the uses and functions of music in the life of individuals in the province of Groningen at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The study is an ethnomusicological study representing the sub-discipline of ethnomusicology-at-home. It uses Andreas Reckwitz’ formulation of practice theory as a theoretical starting point and introduces methodological principles from the field of qualitative sociology. Central in the study is the individual. 30 theoretically sampled individuals recounted their musical biographies in narrative-biographical interviews, which were analyzed in detail and eventually led to a sufficiently suggested grounded theory of the uses and functions of music in Groningen AD 2010. The theory consists o three interrelated compartments. The first compartment contains a description o the uses o music a expressed b the interviewees. ‘Use’ refers t the ‘customary exercise o music’ i concrete musical social situations. The result o this study i of this study. The study describes how three cultural codes seem to be shared amongst many (though not all) of the interviewees: the codes of playing an instrument, craftsmanship, and musicality, together forming the supercode of the music specialist. These three more general codes are combined with two further codes to form the highly specific and culturally hegemonic musical subject culture of art music, expressing that music is a specialism; it is the craft of playing an instrument by talented individuals; that this craftsmanship must be combined with expressivity; and that through this form of specialized expression musical objects come into being which represent the ideal realm of the artistic. By discussing this attempt at a grounded theory of the uses and functions of music in Groningen AD 2010, a picture is delivered of how individuals become musical individuals. Through their musicking in the context of concrete musical social situations they use music for the functions of affirmation, connection and regulation of the self; and they do this in the context of a web of cultural codes labeling shared and disputed – and sometimes hegemonic – ways of doing and talking. An evaluation of the theory and methodology used in this study shows that both assist in further developing the field of ethnomusicology(-at-home); an evaluation of the results in the light of existing research shows that they contribute to further insights into the uses and functions of music. Four areas for further research are mentioned: typologizing the uses and functions of music, musical discourses, musical subject cultures, and the place of the musical subject order of art music in contemporary society. The study ends with a description of the possible implications for conservatoires. Conservatoires are recommended to encourage students to think of their future audiences in the broadest possible terms, taking into account the wide variety of uses and functions of music figuring in the daily lives of musicking individuals. They are encouraged to make students look upon themselves (also) as service providers, and as such to be open and non-judgmental in their relationships towards the musical other. Conservatoires are recommended to translate this into their curricula by devising transformative projects in which students meet ‘musical others’, and by encouraging their students to take their possible audiences into account consciously in any musical social situation they devise or find themselves in.
Book on the project 'Musicscape Groningen - Live!' which shows the variety of public music performances in the city of Groningen and the municipality of Appingedam in a two week period in 2010.
The structure and financing of collective long-term care and support in the Netherlands changed dramatically with the introduction of the Social Support Act (WMO) the 1st of January 2015. This act arranged that municipalities assist people to live in their homes for as long as possible by providing various forms of aid and support. This aid and support however, is in addition to the help that people arrange for themselves and / or receive in the form of volunteer aid (mantelzorg) by family, friends and neighbours. Furthermore under this Act people only become eligible for state financed sheltered accommodation in the exceptional case of severe physical or mental illness. The fact that under the new regime of the Social Support Act municipal support is made additional to volunteer aid, it is important to understand what role family, friends and neighbours potentially can play and in fact do play. This is especially important in regions were unbalanced population decline through out-migration of young people, effectively changes social structures and accelerates the ageing of the population. For this reason we designed a limited pilot-study to test the possibilities and the necessity of a broader study focussing on potential and every day practice concerning volunteer aid for elderly in regions characterized by unbalanced population decline. In this pilot study we will focus on a rural municipality in the north of the Netherlands: Oldambt.Within the framework of this pilot-study we focussed on living arrangements and social network of two groups of senior citizens; one group of men and women aged 65-79 and one group aged 80 years and over. Based on demographic data kindly made available by the municipal office of Oldambt, in this paper we will draw a picture of these citizens living in the municipality. Going deeper into the material and the municipality’s structure we will than focus on one of the municipality’s communities, Finsterwolde, with its village, hamlets and surrounding rural area. For the purpose of this pilot-study we constructed a sample of 30 men and women aged 80+-elderly and asked them to fill in a questionnaire. Based on the outcomes of these questionnaires we than had five in-depth interviews with some of them. Finally, on the basis of the gathered material, we will draw some general conclusions while presenting some new questions for further research into the living conditions and social support systems for elderly in a region with unbalanced population decline and accelerated ageing.
