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This proposal addresses a growing European challenge caused by population ageing, housing shortages, and a lack of care professionals. It highlights the need for integrated approaches combining housing, care, welfare, and community support to enable ...
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Across Europe, agricultural regions face increasing challenges related to water availability, water quality, and biodiversity loss. These challenges are largely driven by agricultural intensification and are further exacerbated by climate change, ...
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Every year the police are confronted with an ever increasing number of complex cases involving missing persons. About 100 people are reported missing every year in the Netherlands, of which, an unknown number become victims of crime, and presumed ...
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- MOTIVE: This project (NoSI) constitutes a first step towards a broader research aiming at counteracting the compartmentalization of Dutch education: WO-HBO-MBO. This first step focuses on vocational education and training (VET) in the creative ...
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The expanding world’s population challenges the way we produce and supply food. The ever-increasing production of food and its subsequent generated biomass forms immense risks to the environment and, eventually, public health. Aside from developing ...
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The objective of DIGIREAL-XL is to build a Research, Development & Innovation (RD&I) Center (SPRONG GROUP, level 4) on Digital Realities (DR) for Societal-Economic Impact. DR are intelligent, interactive, and immersive digital environments that ...
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It is known that several bacteria in sewage treatment plants can produce attractive quantities of biodegradable polymers within their cell walls (up to 80% of the cell weight). These polymers may consist of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), a bioplastic ...
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The postdoc candidate, Sondos Saad, will strengthen connections between research groups Asset Management(AM), Data Science(DS) and Civil Engineering bachelor programme(CE) of HZ. The proposed research aims at deepening the knowledge about the complex ...
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Epoxy thermosets are extensively used as coatings, adhesives and in structural applications as they typically impart outstanding mechanical and electrical properties as well as chemical resistance. The currently used epoxy thermosets are produced ...
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In my PD research, I want to focus on how collectivity is practiced in the arts, by learning from the Indonesian multidisciplinary art collective ruangrupa’s use of [the international art exhibition] ‘documenta’ as a tool, and the potential of ...
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The precarity in the cultural sector became exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the lockdowns, the sources of income for cultural venues and cultural workers vanished overnight, intensifying an already challenging labour market. Particularly ...
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Social enterprises (SEs) can play an important role in addressing societal problems. SEs are businesses whose primary objective is to generate social impact (e.g. well-being, social wealth and cohesion, and ecology) through a market-based model. SEs ...
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To reach the European Green Deal by 2050, the target for the road transport sector is set at 30% less CO2 emissions by 2030. Given the fact that heavy-duty commercial vehicles throughout Europe are driven nowadays almost exclusively on fossil fuels ...
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The global market for the industrial manufacturing of recombinant proteins (RPS) is steadily increasing and demand will keep rising in years to come. Currently, RPs are already an integral part of disease therapeutics, agriculture and the chemical ...
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Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology is necessary to help achieve the EU's 2050 climate goals, since it allows for net-negative emissions. This will be needed to offset historic emissions while working alongside with other CCU technologies. To make ...
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Fontys University of Applied Science’s Institute of Engineering, and the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) are proposing to set up a professorship to develop novel sensors for fusion reactors. Sensors are a critical component ...
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The CARTS (Collaborative Aerial Robotic Team for Safety and Security) project aims to improve autonomous firefighting operations through an collaborative drone system. The system combines a sensing drone optimized for patrolling and fire detection ...
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The Mitoplicator is a high-tech platform that delivers ultra-short, high-intensity nanosecond-pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) inductively through a loop antenna surrounding a standard culture vessel. By enabling non-invasive energy transfer, it ...
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How the availability of residential parking facilities affects travel behaviour has received little attention. Some studies show that longer distances between home and the residential parking facility reduce the car’s modal share. However, no insight ...
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Post-earthquake structural damage shows that wall collapse is one of the most common failure mechanisms in unreinforced masonry buildings. It is expected to be a critical issue also in Groningen, located in the northern part of the Netherlands, where ...
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A huge amount of data are being generated, collected, analysed and distributed in a fast pace in our daily life. This data growth requires efficient techniques for analysing and processing high volumes of data, for which preserving privacy ...
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