Digital educational escape rooms (DEERs) can provide an engaging gamified learning experience for students that is easy to use and sustainable for teachers. Though well-established in the STEM fields, where escape rooms often call for students to apply procedural skills, escape rooms are also used across …

The SDGs provide an important framework for businesses to address sustainable development and grand challenges (Kolk, Kourula and Pisani, 2017; Montiel et al, 2021) and SMEs, as major contributors to economic and entrepreneurial activity, are key actors in achieving national SDG targets (Sonntag et al, …

Robotisation for Lean Assembly 8-6-2023 HLQCVerzorgd door Andras Ligetti SUMMARY During this workshop, we will work on the practical application of robotics and Lean to increase your production efficiency, particularly if you are producing a high variety of products. PROGRAM Businesses are scaling …

Research finds that the global market value of cargo bikes will hit 2.4 billion euros by 2031. Analysts with Future Market Insights assessing the growth of cargo bikes have placed the parcel courier industry as a key buyer of electric cargo bikes, forecasting that 43 per cent of sales could go to this …

The 21st century’s rapidly compounding crises – from climate and ecological breakdown to extreme social inequities of power and opportunity – make it irrefutably clear that the global economic system must be transformed if humanity and the rest of life on Earth are to thrive. Doughnut Economics provides …

WINNER 2022 took place from 18-20 October, in which attendees were able to participate in online sessions and be inspired by existing and future collaborations. The theme encompasses a multitude of collaborations and questions, in fundamental and applied sciences, in natural, social, technical and health …

In Ghana, starting a business has problems such as capital availability and accessibility, a lack of planning, trained labour and suitable managerial abilities, a legal framework and social norms, beliefs, and values. These challenges affect both men and women, but women are in the most disadvantaged …

With the approach of the zero-emission zone implementation in 30-40 cities mandated by the Dutch climate agreement in 2025, comes the need to determine whether the SMEs located within these zones are aware of the coming changes. The zero emission zones are set to change how city logistics is currently …

This thesis is written for Modint, the trade association that consults companies for the fashion- and textile industry in the Netherlands. Pursuing a circular economy is a worldwide priority and the EPR legislation also known as Extended Producer Responsibility, requires the fashion- and textile industry …

Circularity and recycling are gaining increased attention, yet the amount of recycled plastic applied in new products remains low. To accelerate its uptake by businesses, it will be useful to empirically investigate the barriers, enablers, needs and, ultimately, requirements to increase uptake of recycled …