Digital game-based learning (DGBL) can be regarded as a promising teaching pedagogy to prepare students for challenges of the 21st century. However, the incorporation of digital games into K-12 curricula remains limited. Research suggests that a comprehensive understanding of barriers and motivational …

Creative arts engagement has been shown to be related to maintaining wellbeing in older adulthood (Tymoszuk et al., 2019). For people living with dementia, music can be engaging and rewarding (Baird & Thompson, 2018), and is often presented as a therapeutic activity. It is theorised that music’s capacity …

Since 2013, mortgage advisory has become an independent profession in the Netherlands. Initially working for mortgage providers, the newly nonpartisan advisers now work for standard advisory fees, thereby reducing conflicts of interest. In this article, I provide an ethical analysis of the different …

Education at high educational institutes in Belgium, Austria, Finland, and the Netherlands and regional rehabilitation centres experienced a gap between the education of future professionals and the practical needs in rehabilitation field. An Erasmus+ Programme funded team of rehabilitation professionals …

Sustainability transitions are not hindered by technological barriers but above all by the lack of well-qualified people. Educating the next generation of engineers and product designers is therefore more important than ever. However, a traditional widely used model of instruction and evaluation is not …

During a meeting in our Innovation Workload I presented the relation between the different elements composing livebility and the different research-projects of our junior-researchers and our field partners.

Overusing non-degradable plastics causes a series of environmental issues, inferring a switch to biodegradable plastics. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are promising biodegradable plastics that can be produced by many microbes using various substrates from waste feedstock. However, the cost of PHAs production …

Sierra Leone faces significant challenges in providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care and rights (SRHR) due to cultural norms, poverty and limited health care resources. These issues disproportionately affect low-income women, who face multiple barriers to accessing essential SRHR …