Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce examines the shifting economic, cultural, and technological trends in the modern workplace that are taking place as a result of the aging global workforce. Taking an international perspective, contributors address workforce aging issues around the world, …

In this article we investigate the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s line of thinking for “interprofessional work”, i.e. when people of different professions collaborate. Arendt is well known for the distinctions she makes between labour, work and action within the active domain and between thinking, willing …

In deze lezing en in dit artikel wordt de hedendaagse problematiek van het fotografische beeld beschreven vanuit de theorie van Vilem Flusser: beelden zijn concepten geworden die ons het zicht op de werkelijkheid ontnemen. Het expertisecentrum PRICCAPractice brengt artistieke praktijken bij elkaar waarin …

Scanning tunneling microscopy is an important and enabling tool for condensed matter physics and surface science. The low temperature STM in Leiden (Prof. J. Van Ruitenbeek and Prof J. Aarts) is used for research in the field of atomic/molecular electronics and superconductivity. The current low temperature …

Social entrepreneurship has been defined until now by borrowing insights from commercial, Schumpeterian entrepreneurship as well as a new way of looking at non-profit work (Peredo and McLean, 2006; Short et al., 2009). Inspired by the use of a competence perspective to define entrepreneurship (European …

Positive Travels is an online company that organises trips for business companies and for people who want to go on a holiday for leisure purposes. It was developed from its parent company Positive Business Events. Positive Travels offers trips with different themes and trips are mostly tailor-made. Positive …

As anyone who has travelled the dissertation road knows the process dominates until the end of that road is reached. After the fireworks, it is time, high time, to share the outcomes outside of a small circle of experts. This monograph is part of the catalytic goals of a study undertaken between 2006 …

Like the professionals, design students tend to avoid the complexity of the user context, and moral issues are largely overlooked. This inspired us to explore whether we could engage design students in thinking about moral issues by exploring different ethical frameworks in their designing. As a case …

Inspire and be inspired, een concept dat is bedacht en uitgevoerd om ECI Cultuurfabriek meer naamsbekendheid te geven en te behouden.

In January 2013, a group of 6 professionals associated with the HvA Research and development Centre for society and Law made a study trip to the USA. Under the name "Krachtwerk on tour" they traveled three weeks through the USA, covering about 7000 km from Boston to San Francisco and Berkeley, through …