Older adults living in deprived areas are at risk of developing frailty and becoming care dependent. The aim of this qualitative study is to explore how community-dwelling, older adults living in deprived neighbourhoods address ageing issues. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 participants who …

Een artikel over een vastgoedapplicatie waarbij beschikbare gegevens en data zo gecombineerd kunnen worden dat er meer betrouwbare inzichten ontstaan over de krimp én groei in een gemeente. Dit artikel is verschenen het kader van de Noorderbreedte-special over het Kansen in Krimp-project. Dit project …

De Noorderlingen is een TopProgramma Ondernemerschap, voor ambitieuze en ondernemende studenten uit Noord-Nederland. Het is een uitdagend onderwijsprogramma voor studenten die hun ondernemersidee willen omzetten naar een eigen bedrijf, of hun bestaande bedrijf willen laten groeien. Hierbij worden ze …

Presentation Eurashe conference Lisbon 17-04-2015 For institutional management, head of programmes, teaching staff, researchers, quality assurance managers, business representatives from all over Europe. Regional cooperation: Healthy Ageing in the Northern Netherlands: applied research and regional …

This book examines the much-debated question of how to unleash the potential of young people with promising intellectual abilities and motivation. It looks at the increasingly important topic of excellence in education, and the shift in focus towards the provision of programs to support talented students …

This thesis focuses on the effectiveness of a family-centered approach (in Dutch “DMOprotocol”, further referred to as the family-centered approach), designed for monitoring and enhancing children’s social-emotional development in Preventive Child Healthcare (PCH). The effectiveness study took place …

Abstract for European Association for Sport Management conference 2015 in Dublin. The aim of this research is to gain more insight in the vitality of voluntary sport clubs in the northern part of the Netherlands, where their vitality was based on the right to exist, orientation on the future and social …

Community forestry is a way to combine forest conservation with economic development of forest depending communities. In the Pacific zone of northern Peru, the rural population heavily relies on the endemic dry forest ecosystem as a source of firewood, timber and as grazing area. Bad management, overuse …

Active and Healthy Ageing in EU and the regional approach in the Northern Netherlands. Presentatie Joost Degenaar, gegeven op ELLAN werkconferentie d.d. 10 en 11 november 2014. Inhoud: HA in Europa, Europees onderzoek, ontwikkelingen in Nederland, het netwerk in Noord-Nederland, het Centre of Expertise, …

There have been few assessments of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education programmes in sub-Saharan Africa from the students’ and educators’ perspective. This study examined students’ opinions on an SRH programme in northern Ghana and explored the facilitators and barriers for educators regarding …