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Globally, we face the urgent task of the transition to a climate neutral and circular society. Biobased materials are regenerative and add considerably less to the carbon stock in the atmosphere. Therefore they get high priority in several missions ...
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The Netherlands is facing great challenges to achieve (inter)national climate mitigation objectives in limited time, budget and space. Drastic innovative measures such as floating solar parks are high on political agendas and are entering our water ...
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Our country contains a very dense and challenging transport and mobility system. National research agendas and roadmaps of multiple sectors such as HTSM, Logistics and Agri&food, promote vehicle automation as a means to increase transport safety and ...
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The composition of diets and supplements given to bovine cattle are constantly evolving. These changes are driven by the social call for a more sustainable beef and dairy production, interests to influence the nutritional value of bovine products for ...
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Even though considerable amounts of valuable wood are collected at waste collection sites, most of it remains unused and is burned: it is too labor-intensive to sort, process and upcycle useable parts. Valuable wood thus becomes worthless waste, ...
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In the Netherlands, the Agri-Food and Water Top Sectors aim at climate neutral food systems that close loops in the food value chains from farm to fork, based on efficiency of natural resource management, optimum use of food, a reduced use of natural ...
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This PD project aims to gather new knowledge through artistic and participatory design research within neighbourhoods for possible ways of addressing and understanding the avoidance and numbness caused by feelings of vulnerability, discomfort and ...
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This project aims to contribute to the transition from proprietary smart city software to the design & employment of ‘public software’ that can be deployed by cities in their operational and policy processes, in order to better safeguard public ...
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As climate change accelerates land degradation, vast areas are turning into semi-arid landscapes where rainwater rapidly runs off instead of nourishing the soil. This process drives erosion, lowers groundwater levels, and promotes desertification. A ...
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In recent years, frequent earthquakes have been reported in the Groningen region due to gas extraction. The building stock of the region mainly consists of brick masonry structures which were built without any seismic design taken into consideration. ...
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In Europe we consume 50 million tonnes of plastic a year. The use of plastic has increased fiftyfold in fifty years and the growth continues. Collecting and recycling plastic is thus essential to avoid the pollution of the land and sea. However, ...
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The goal of UPIN is to develop and evaluate a scalable distributed system that enables users to cryptographically verify and easily control the paths through which their data travels through an inter-domain network like the Internet, both in terms of ...
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Zeefier uses seaweed as a sustainable source of colour. Preferably seaweed that is washed up on the shore or seaweed that is cultivated for consumers. Zeefier intends to produce seaweed dye for the textile market. The knowledge of the Centre of ...
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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), the ability of micro-organisms to resist antibiotics, is associated with ~4.9 million deaths globally, reported in 2022. In the EU alone, more than 35.000 people die from antimicrobial-resistant infections annually, ...
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The SMEs participating in the NUTSHELL-project approached Avans to assist them in evaluating the pyrolytic extraction of valuable oils from Cashew Nut Shell (CNS). CNS is waste generated in the production of edible cashew nut. For the 2017 the ...
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Agricultural/horticultural products account for 9% of Dutch gross domestic product. Yearly expansion of production involves major challenges concerning labour costs and plant health control. For growers, one of the most urgent problems is pest ...
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Water quality is under pressure worldwide and requires urgent attention according to recent reports, calling for technological development and more cost-effective solutions. One such development is the use of nanobubbels (NBs). NBs have been gaining ...
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The increasing concentration of people in urban environments in an era of globalisation means that social, economic, and environmental resources for living and working are under pressure. Urban communities experience increased stress levels due to ...
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Currently, many novel innovative materials and manufacturing methods are developed in order to help businesses for improving their performance, developing new products, and also implement more sustainability into their current processes. For this ...
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Service SMEs, particularly independent hotels and camper rental companies, face a structural productivity challenge driven by persistent labour shortages. Owner-managers must combine operational responsibilities with customer-facing activities such ...
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Granular materials (GMs) are simply a collection of individual particles, e.g., rice, coffee, iron-ore. Although straightforward in appearance, GMs are key to several processes in chemical-pharmaceutical, high-tech, agri-food and energy industry. ...
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