This paper aims to develop a tool for measuring the clients’ maturity in smart maintenance supply networks. The assessment tool is developed and validated for corporate facilities management organizations using case studies and expert consultation. Based on application of the assessment tool in five cases, conclusions are presented about the levels of maturity found and the strengths and limitations of the assessment tool itself. Also, implications for further research are proposed.
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Regenerative forms of higher education are emerging, and required, to connect with some of the grand transition challenges of our times. This paper explores the lived experience of 21 students learning to navigate a regenerative form of higher education in the Mission Impact course at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. This semester-length course ran for two iterations with the intention of connecting the students with local transitions towards a more circular society, one where products are lasting and have multiple lives when they are shared, refurbished, or become a source for a new product. At the end of each iteration, the students reflected on their experience using the Living Spiral Framework, which served as basis for an interpretative phenomenological analysis of their journey navigating this transformative course. The results of this study include four themes; (1) Opting in—Choosing RHE, (2) Learning in Regenerative Ways, (3) Navigating Resistance(s), and (4) Transformative Impacts of RHE. These themes can be used by practitioners to design and engage with regenerative forms of higher education, and by scholars to guide further inquiry. van den Berg B, Poldner KA, Sjoer E, Wals AEJ. ‘Sweet Acid’ An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Students’ Navigating Regenerative Higher Education. Education Sciences. 2022; 12(8):533. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12080533
Universities have the potential, and the responsibility, to take on more ecological and relational approaches to facilitating learning-based change in times of interconnected socioecological crises. Signs for a transition towards these more regenerative approaches of higher education (RHE) that include more place-based, ecological, and relational, ways of educating can already be found in niches across Europe (see for example the proliferation of education-based living labs, field labs, challenge labs). In this paper, the results of a podcast-based inquiry into the design practises and barriers to enacting such forms of RHE are shown. This study revealed seven educational practises that occurred across the innovation niches. It is important to note that these practises are enacted in different ways, or are locally nested in unique expressions; for example, while the ‘practise’ of cultivating personal transformations was represented across the included cases, the way these transformations were cultivated were unique expressions of each context. These RHE-design practises are derived from twenty-seven narrative-based podcasts as interviews recorded in the April through June 2021 period. The resulting podcast (The Regenerative Education Podcast) was published on all major streaming platforms in October 2021 and included 21 participants active in Dutch universities, 1 in Sweden, 1 in Germany, 1 in France, and 3 primarily online. Each episode engages with a leading practitioner, professor, teacher, and/or activist that is trying to connect their educational practice to making the world a more equitable, sustainable, and regenerative place. The episodes ranged from 30 to 70 min in total length and included both English (14) and Dutch (12) interviews. These episodes were analysed through transition mapping a method based on story analysis and transition design. The results include seven design practises such as cultivating personal transformations, nurturing ecosystems of support, and tackling relevant and urgent transition challenges, as well as a preliminary design tool that educational teams can use together with students and local agents in (re)designing their own RHE to connect their educational praxis with transition challenges. van den Berg B, Poldner K, Sjoer E, Wals A. Practises, Drivers and Barriers of an Emerging Regenerative Higher Education in The Netherlands—A Podcast-Based Inquiry. Sustainability. 2022; 14(15):9138. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159138
Het Nieuwe Telen (HNT) is een teeltmethode waarbij nieuwe inzichten op het gebied van kasklimaat en een verandering in het gedrag van de teler leiden tot een optimaal teeltresultaat in een (semi) gesloten kas, met als neveneffect het besparen van energie. Ondanks de mogelijke voordelen van HNT blijkt dit ‘omdenken’ in de praktijk niet vanzelf te landen en is een nieuwe impuls nodig. In de afgelopen jaren zijn al meerdere gesprekken gevoerd tussen het groene onderwijs en het programma Kas als Energiebron, waarbij de behoefte aan kennisverspreiding via het onderwijs aan de orde is geweest, maar niet in detail is uitgewerkt terwijl de behoefte aan deze detaillering aanwezig is bij zowel het programma, het onderwijs (HBO en MBO) als het bedrijfsleven. Die detaillering is in dit voorstel uitgewerkt in onder andere curriculumontwikkeling MBO en HBO, learning communities in de verschillende tuinbouwregio’s (met cursussen, demo’s, toegepast onderzoek). De consortiumpartners zijn de 4 agrarische hogescholen, het CIV-Tuinbouw, kennisinstellingen WUR, brancheorganisaties, toeleveranciers en agrarische bedrijven. De projectonderdelen bestaan uit een stappenplan transitie HNT, toolontwikkeling, kennisoverdracht via onderwijs en communicatie en valorisatie. In het project wordt HNT indringend met veel glastuinders besproken via een scan, waarin niet alleen de situatie op het bedrijf wordt gemonitord, maar ook kennisvragen worden opgehaald en advies gegeven wordt over laagdrempelige vervolgstappen op bedrijfsniveau. In de tuinbouwgebieden komen learning communities waar bestaande kennis en nieuwe kennis op verschillende manieren wordt gedeeld. Nieuwe tools en nieuwe vormen van kennisoverdracht/delen helpen tuinders bij het zetten van vervolgstappen.
