Global energy demand is undergoing a critical transition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen is essential for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, ammonia, plastics, and cement, yet most hydrogen production still relies on ... Bekijk project »
Economic and environmental sustainability are the two main drivers behind today’s logistics innovation. On the one hand, Industry 4.0 technologies are leading towards self-organizing logistics by enabling autonomous vehicles, which can significantly ... Bekijk project »
Point-of-Care devices are broadly viewed as an important contribution to reduce the costs in our healthcare system. Cheap, quick, and reliable testing close to the point of need, can help early detection and thus reduce treatment costs, while ... Bekijk project »
Lipids, proteins and biological active compounds that are present in insects can serve as nutrient source for poultry production. Because of the potential benefit effects of using insects as feed additives, we must consider the effects of gut ... Bekijk project »
This project assists architects and engineers to validate their strategies and methods, respectively, toward a sustainable design practice. The aim is to develop prototype intelligent tools to forecast the carbon footprint of a building in the ... Bekijk project »
Hotelschool The Hague (HTH) was founded and funded in 1929 by the hospitality industry to create a hub where industry partners could gain and share new insights, skills and knowledge. Since then, it has become a professional operation with a solid ... Bekijk project »
In recent years, ArtEZ has worked on a broadly supported strategic research agenda on the themes New Ecologies of Matter (ecological challenges), Social Equity (social-societal issues), (Un)Learning Practices (educational innovations) and (Non)... Bekijk project »
To optimize patient care, it is vital to prevent infections in healthcare facilities. In this respect, the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains threatens public healthcare. Current gold standard techniques are based on ... Bekijk project »
A healthier and more sustainable food environment in sports canteens is essential: canteens shape daily choices, influence social norms and provide a scalable setting to reach children, young people and families. More sustainable procurement reduces ... Bekijk project »
The Dutch main water systems face pressing environmental, economic and societal challenges due to climatic changes and increased human pressure. There is a growing awareness that nature-based solutions (NBS) provide cost-effective solutions that ... Bekijk project »
Approximately 25% of young people in the Netherlands speak a language other than Dutch at home . It is crucial that teachers draw upon learners’ full linguistic repertoire in the classroom to nurture a sense of belonging, identity development and ... Bekijk project »
On a yearly basis 120 million kg of spent coffee ground (SCG) is disposed as waste. Two partners in the project have the intension to refine the valuable compounds from this coffee residue. One of these compounds is the group of melanoidins. It is ... Bekijk project »
A Super Eco Combi (SEC) is a vehicle combination in which one tractor pulls two full size semitrailers through a converter dolly, reaching around 32 meters and 72 tones. Thus SEC can move as much cargo as two standard tractor semitrailers with a ... Bekijk project »
Electro Lab is a new supplementary teaching method using Live Electronics as a way to teach instrumental music lessons aimed for ages 6-11.... Bekijk project »
There are many digital tools and online agendas that try to help people in getting a clear overview of the cultural events and venues available in their city. They generate an overview which is quite suitable for finding commercial, mainstream ... Bekijk project »
Road freight transport contributes to 75% of the global logistics CO2 emissions. Various European initiatives are calling for a drastic cut-down of CO2 emissions in this sector [1]. This requires advanced and very expensive technological innovations; ... Bekijk project »
What if living organisms communicated signals from the environment to us and thereby offered a sustainable alternative to electronic sensors?
Within the field of biodesign, designers and scientists are collaborating with living organisms to produce ... Bekijk project »
The pace of technology advancements continues to accelerate, and impacts the nature of systems solutions along with significant effects on involved stakeholders and society. Design and engineering practices with tools and perspectives, need ... Bekijk project »
The application of sensors in water technology is a crucial step to provide broader, more effi-cient and more circular systems. Among the different technologies used in this filed, ultra-sound based systems are widely used in water technology, ... Bekijk project »
City labs are a promising form of smart governance, providing a ‘smart interface’ between public and private actors, including citizens, through co-creation. Recent scholarship sees ‘experimentation’ - implementing projects with the goal to learn ... Bekijk project »
Water treatment companies are more and more interested in chemical-free water treatment. This
is a solution that might not only decrease costs of chemicals, but also decrease possible formation
of by-products and contribute to decreasing the ... Bekijk project »