To facilitate energy transition, in several countries regulators have devised ‘regulatory sandboxes’ to create a participatory experimentation environment for exploring revision of energy law. These sandboxes allow for a two-way regulatory dialogue between an experimenter and an approachable regulator …

Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC) is a bottom-up exploratory research project with the goal of developing a contextually well-informed artistic participatory music practice for professional musicians seeking to work in hospitals. The joint research brings together qualitative researchers, musicians …

Key-note presentatie in Geldermalsen over het bereiken van meer burgerparticipatie in de weg naar een duurzamere samenleving.

Amsterdam strives to combat a shortage of homes by launching an ambitious housing development scheme for 32 designated most deprived neighborhoods. After decades of urban renewal projects, the local communities still suffer from difficult to resolve socioeconomic problems. Aside from a minimum of 40% …

Rural areas in the northern parts of the Netherlands have lots of potentials to provide a healthy environment for their residents. However, population changes (ageing, outmigration) have a negative impact on the quality of life of residents. The GO!-Method that has been developed by the National Institute …

The municipality of Bergen op Zoom is assuming to overlook climate change problems and possibilities. They are missing knowledge on how to deal with a dry period. This is the reason of the requested for a research on the drought problematic. They want to know how different departments and inhabitants …

De mkb-ers die deelnemen aan Re-StORe willen naast het inzichtelijk maken van het circulaire waardesysteem en de daarbij behorende mogelijke financiële, sociale en ecologische impact - ook weten op welke wijze zij kunnen handelen om de beoogde impact te bereiken en te handhaven. Daarnaast blijkt uit …

This paper focuses on the specifics of the relationships between social entrepreneurs and local civil servants and politicians in The Netherlands. Policy frameworks for social enterprises (SE) are relatively underdeveloped here, as the central government took little initiative in policy development, …

Een groot deel van de Nederlandse kinderen voldoet niet aan de richtlijnen met betrekking tot de hoeveelheid beweging en gezonde voeding. De bottom-up-aanpak van het KEIGAAF-project moet dit veranderen.

In het Boekman themanummer Kunst en het maatschappelijk experiment wordt de actuele relatie tussen kunst en maatschappelijk experiment onderzocht. In dit inleidende artikel wordt de maatschappelijke context beschreven. De wereld veranderd razendsnel. Zaken als klimaatverandering, en migratiestromen vormen …