The ClimateCafe approach is a quick-scan method to monitor riverine and urban areas and discuss the impact of climate change. ClimateCafes consist of transdisciplinary fieldwork during which students, young professionals, stakeholders and scientist come together to collect data and design (potential) …

Hoe maak je een optimaal voedingsproduct dat betaalbaar en duurzaam is en van hoge kwaliteit? Die vraag staat centraal in het werk van dr. Peter de Jong, principal scientist food processing bij NIZO Food Research. Met zijn kennis en ervaring van modelleren berekent De Jong onder andere ecologische voetafdrukken …

It has been widely reported that around one-third of all the food produced globally is wasted. René Floris, NIZO Food Research Division Manager and member of the FoodNavigator expert advisory panel, asks Peter de Jong, NIZO's Principal Scientist in food processing, professor of dairy process technology …

Background A group of clinician-scientists and managers working within a Dutch academic network, experienced difficulties in clearly defining the knowledge broker role of the clinician-scientists. They found no role clarity in literature, nor did they find tools or methods suitable for clinician-scientists. …

This interview-based article about Hubert Hermans, founder of The Dialogical Self Theory (DST), was intended to determine the founder’s personal relationship to the construction and development of his theory and to provide a portrait of the engaged scientist and vulnerable researcher at work. DST lends …

ClimateCafé is a multi-, trans-, interdisciplinary and international event of several days in which young professionals, stakeholders and scientist come together to collect data and design (potential) solutions for climate change adaptation in rural or urban areas. ClimateCafé mainly aims to enhance …

Webinar workshop - NOC*NSF Embedded Scientist Dag - Keynote

Background: Adequate self-management skills are of great importance for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to reduce the impact of COPD exacerbations. Using mobile health (mHealth) to support exacerbation-related self-management could be promising in engaging patients in their …

Craftsmen and other practitioners have always been bitterly needed, theorists are only needed to a very small extent, just like managers, while nowadays we train almost everyone as to be a manager or (applied) scientist ("theoretician"). Of course, ICT can be interpreted as applied theory, but then again, …

Ter ere van twintig jaar NOVA – De Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool voor Astronomie – en 100 jaar Internationale Astronomische Unie organiseerde New Scientist in samenwerking met NOVA het Gala van de Sterrenkunde afgelopen december. De kosmische rariteitenquiz door Ans Hekkenberg en George van Hal over onder …