This thesis is about volunteer motivation and engagement. The research elaborates on the motivation and engagement of volunteers in the project InduS. Nowadays, a world without volunteers cannot be imagined. They get more and more important in every aspect of social life, for example volunteers are …

In July 2013, the EU and the US began negotiating a comprehensive trade and investment treaty: TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). This was the beginning of a hefty public debate on the – supposed – contents of the agreement, such regulatory cooperation and ISDS. In the Netherlands, …

The purpose of this report is to document research conducted at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, commissioned by The Hague’s International Affairs Department, on the topic of the Bethel’s church asylum of the Tamrazyan family in The Hague. The specific case of the Tamrazyan family, who found …

The purpose of this dissertation is to document research conducted at The Hague University of Applied Sciences on the topic of environmental education in secondary schools in the Netherlands. As pointed out by the United Nations in 1977, environmental education is necessary to further sustainability. …

In 2014, the Dutch government agreed with the food sector to lower salt, sugar, saturated fat and energy in foods. To reformulate, an integrated approach of four disciplines (Nutrition & Health, Food Technology, Legislation, and Consumer Perspectives) is important for food companies (Framework for Reformulation). …

Large numbers of sport events are hosted every year, also in the Netherlands. These events all have some sort of impact on their host region, whether it is negative or positive. Multiple evaluation techniques such as the calculation of the economic impact are developed to determine this impact. However, …

This strategic marketing report is written for the 20Duurzaam20 foundation and bouAd Adviesgroep. The 20Duurzaam20 foundation is an initiative founded by entrepreneurs situated in the community of Katwijk. The foundation strives to accomplish the reduction of energy use by twenty percent or to replace …

Citizen science – the active participation of lay people in research – may yield crucial local knowledge and increase research capacity. Recently, there is growing interest to understand benefits for citizen scientists themselves. We studied the perceived impacts of participation in a public health citizen …

This report describes the results of the interviews that were held with professionals, policy makers, and researchers (working in the field of sexuality and/or residential and foster care) in three countries in order to answer the following question: ‘Which competencies (i.e. knowledge, skills, and attitude) …

At the end of the 20th century, hacking was bleeding edge. When the ideas, practices and pranks of this experimental niche of technophiles attracted the attention of a handful of activists in Italy, they understood that information and communication were what would give shape and voice to social, political, …