Democratizing the energy system - The emergence of local energy communities.The REGWA symposium was organized for the 30th time. There was a strong focus on Hydrogen and energy technologies. I presented the Coöperatief in Balans research, and specifically the multi-disciplinary research approach for …

Overzicht van manieren om door bewoners zelf geproduceerde energie (met name PV stroom) op te slaan, plus richtinggevende overwegingen. Gericht op belangstellende bewoners. 68 aanwezigen.

This paper introduces the open-source Urban Belonging (UB) toolkit, designed to study place attachments through a combined digital, visual and participatory methodology that foregrounds lived experience. The core of the toolkit is the photovoice UB App, which prompts participants to document urban experiences …

In maart 2022 startte het project City&Co: Older Adults Co-Creating a Sustainable Age-friendly City. Met een consortium wordt gewerkt aan een gedegen meetinstrument voor seniorvriendelijkheid – waarin we ouderen volop betrekken. Hiermee leggen we een basis waarop veel andere steden voort kunnen borduren. …

Social workers focus on changes and improvements in people’s social functioning and the social quality of society. To do so, they intervene at different levels: individuals and households (micro), groups, neighbourhoods and communities (meso), and organisations and policies (macro). Opportunities for …

This study adopts an exploratory and inductive approach, employing grounded theory and multiple-case study methodology to examine how FinTech companies contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Two main categories of findings emerge, with theoretical and practical implications. First, …

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This article explores the establishment of new commons initiatives from an integrated design perspective. Such a deeper understanding of the initial phase of becoming a commons -i.e. becommoning- and its design is crucial as members embark on a laborious, time-consuming and uncertain process in which …