As one of the most attractive Western European countries for refugees, Germany has experienced a large influx of migrants since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. It has the highest influx number of migrants in 2014 since 1992. Since Germany is not prepared to deal with this unexpected …

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies are embraced by designers, scholars and charities alike, some primarily for their entertaining properties, others also for the opportunities in education, motivation or persuasion. Applications with the latter objective, that of persuasion, are designed …

Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties …

The aim of the research-by-design project The Hackable City is to develop a research agenda and toolkit that explores the role of digital media technologies for new directions for urban planning and city-making. How can citizens, design professionals, local government institutions and others creatively …

Researching and implementing educational interventions is a challenge. Combining his experience as a teacher educator and PhD candidate in developmental psychology, Frank Assies explains how he is able to go from practice to theory to practice in shaping a Curious Minds based intervention in Teacher …

20 Nederlandse leraren hebben zich in 2015 samen met 20 schoolleiders uit Estland gebogen over de vraag hoe het onderwijs beïnvloed zal worden door trends en ontwikkelingen in de samenleving. Die uitwisseling bestond uit wederzijdse bezoeken in elkaars scholen, een analyse van trends die het onderwijs …

Over the past few years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the huge volume of data available in the cloud, and machines’ and software’s increasing capacity for learning have prompted an ever more widespread debate on the social consequences of these developments. Autonomous cars or the …

SAMENVATTING Achtergrond en doel Volgens meerdere onderzoekers is er momenteel weer een derde psychedelische golf gaande en in steeds meer buitenlandse publicaties van wetenschappers klinkt het pleidooi om psychedelica serieus te nemen in de medische en therapeutische praktijk. Hier komt in Nederland …

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In this article the authors will describe how certain non-traditional means and methods could be used to undermine a military’s capacity to respond effectively to an emerging threat. They will do so by focussing on the Netherlands and showing how some of its specific (non-military) vulnerabilities may …