International learning community with the label of honours professional. Presentatie, Honours Conference, Hogeschool van Rotterdam. Rotterdam, 3 oktober
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Adaptive governance describes the purposeful collective actions to resist, adapt, or transform when faced with shocks. As governments are reluctant to intervene in informal settlements, community based organisations (CBOs) self-organize and take he lead. This study explores under what conditions CBOs in Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi initiate and sustain resilience activities during Covid-19. Study findings show that CBOs engage in multiple resilience activities, varying from maladaptive and unsustainable to adaptive, and transformative. Two conditions enable CBOs to initiate resilience activities: bonding within the community and coordination with other actors. To sustain these activities over 2.5 years of Covid-19, CBOs also require leadership, resources, organisational capacity, and network capacity. The same conditions appear to enable CBOs to engage in transformative activities. How-ever, CBOs cannot transform urban systems on their own. An additional condition, not met in Mathare, is that governments, NGOs, and donor agencies facilitate, support, and build community capacities. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Adaptive governance by community-based organisations: Community resilience initiatives during Covid‐19 in Mathare, Nairobi. which has been published in final form at doi/10.1002/sd.2682. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions
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This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality. Grounded on an ethnographic study of a dairy CBE in rural Malawi, findings reveal that intra-community tensions revolve around the occurrence of ‘bad events’ – mysterious tragedies that, among their multiple meanings, are also framed as witchcraft. Community members prepare for, frame, cope and build collective sustenance from ‘bad events’ by intertwining witchcraft and mundane socio-material practices. Together, these practices reflect the mystery and the ambiguity that surround ‘bad events’ and prevent intra-community tensions from overtly erupting. Through witchcraft, intra-community tensions are channelled, amplified and tamed cyclically as this process first destabilizes community social order and then restabilizes it after partial compensation for socio-economic inequality. Generalizing beyond witchcraft, this spiritual view of community entrepreneuring enriches our understanding of entrepreneuring – meant as organization-creation process in an already organized world – in the context of communities. Furthermore, it sheds light on the dynamics of socio-economic inequality surrounding CBEs, and on how spirituality helps community members to cope with inequality and its effects.
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De synergie tussen Robotica en AI biedt vele oplossingsmogelijkheden voor (internationale) maatschappelijke opgaven waarvoor we staan (SDG’s, de EU Grand-Challenges, KIA’s). Een consortium van thans 9 Hogescholen, TKI-HTSM en Holland Robotics (community >600 organisaties) slaan de handen ineen om de ontwikkeling van praktijkkennis te versnellen, kennis te delen en betekenisvolle oplossingen te realiseren voor allehande vraagstukken op het gebied van de zorg, het klimaat, onze veiligheid, duurzame energievoorziening, het verdienvermogen van de Nederlandse (maak)industrie en het onderwijs. Robotisering en AI biedt publiek/private organisaties nieuwe mogelijkheden om taken, diensten en processen meer efficiënt, veilig en (kosten)effectief uit te voeren. Robots werken (steeds meer) samen met mensen en kunnen gevaarlijke en/of moeilijke taken overnemen. Ze creëren ook nieuwe mogelijkheden, die anders niet mogelijk zijn. Dit platform, aansluitend bij de KIA-Sleuteltechnologieën, heeft ambities om praktijkkennis sneller te ontwikkelen, deze te bundelen en toe te passen in relevante applicatiedomeinen. Alle mooie ontwikkelingen ten spijt, is het lerende vermogen en/of het autonoom handelen van robots nog minder dan dat van mensen. Robots hebben bijvoorbeeld moeite met het omgaan met onvoorziene omstandigheden en werken in ongestructureerde omgevingen. Om robots te kunnen laten denken en doen als mensen, is er nog een lange weg te gaan. De echte synergie tussen Robotica & AI, waarop dit platform zich richt, heeft een veelbelovend potentieel om de volgende sprong te maken om de bovengenoemde uitdagingen aan te gaan. Platformdeelnemers willen, op basis van een gezamenlijk roadmap, nieuwe praktijkkennis delen, ontwikkelen en toepassen in relevante (applicatie)domeinen. Zo worden betekenisvolle bijdragen geleverd aan urgente maatschappelijk vraagstukken. Het platform heeft als doel om in de quintuple helix kennis duurzaam te laten circuleren, een wenkend perspectief te bieden voor alle stakeholders, Applied Smart Robotica & AI-onderzoek beter landelijk en internationaal te positioneren, te focussen op meervoudige waardecreatie en gezamenlijk te werken aan iconische projecten.
CIVITAS is a network of cities for cities dedicated to cleaner, better transport in Europe and beyond. Since it was launched by the European Commission in 2002, the CIVITAS Initiative has tested and implemented over 800 measures and urban transport solutions as a part of demonstration projects in more than 80 Living Lab cities across Europe.The ELEVATE project aims to increase the Europe-wide impact of Research and Innovation Actions on urban mobility policy-making, thereby advancing the CIVITAS community to a higher level of knowledge, exchange, impact and sustainability, while guaranteeing essential high-quality support. ELEVATE is committed to achieving the following objectives:1. Developing the CIVITAS knowledge base and transferring new knowledge.2. Enriching the current CIVITAS generation and feeding future EU initiatives.3. Building a European mobility community able to navigate transition.4. Representing CIVITAS on the international stage.Breda University of Applied Sciences is work package leader for a work package on incubation and CIVINETs.Main collaborating partners:Mobiel21 (project coordinator), DTV Consultants, INOVA, TRT, ICLEI
The Hanze Hogeschool Groningen, the Authoridad Nacional del Agua, and Waterschap Noorderzijlvest, together with several other Dutch and Peruvian universities, co-organise an annual ClimateCafé in the northern Peruvian areas Piura and Tumbes, as part of the Blue Deal project. The ClimateCafé methodology is a multiple-day participatory workshop composed by an international community and powered by individual, corporate, public, and academic climate change adaptation influencers. The aim is to educate and inspire tech and non-tech people, focusing on young professionals in a “learning by doing” interaction.
