Futures Literacy (FL), developed by UNESCO (2014), is a capability that provides insight into how we approach unforeseeable challenges by using the future to innovate the present (Miller, 2015). When we only use the past to predict the future, detecting novelty is difficult. By knowing how we are using …

Current practice regarding risk assessment contemplates the severity and likelihood of risks and employs the use of matrices where these factors are classified and cross-referenced to evaluate risk levels. Depending on the adequacy and reliability of data, the likelihood is estimated with quantitative …

This paper introduces the AVAC-SMS maturity metric and its accompanying tool which were developed in the frame of a research project with the aim to suggest new safety metrics, especially for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The metric is based on the ICAO Safety Management Manual, it was designed by …

Ethics by Design concerns the methods, algorithms and tools needed to endow autonomous agents with the capability to reason about the ethical aspects of their decisions, and the methods, tools and formalisms to guarantee that an agent’s behavior remains within given moral bounds. In this context some …

Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a major public health concern worldwide. The problem has been reported mainly in southern Asia and, especially, in Bangladesh. Slow-sand filters (SSF) augmented with iron were proven to be a simple, low-cost and decentralized technique for the treatment of arsenic-contaminated …

Het afstudeeronderzoek is uitgevoerd bij het project de vriendenkring van Tandem Welzijn in samenwerking met MEE Gelderse Poort. De vriendenkring is een project waarin mensen met een autisme spectrum stoornis (ASS) met een normale tot hoge intelligentie in contact komen met elkaar in groepen van 4 tot …

In de huidige samenleving wordt van mensen verwacht dat zij hun eigen mogelijkheden benutten om voor zichzelf en voor anderen te zorgen. Bij Pluspunt Welzijn in Zandvoort wordt gezien dat veel mensen met een beperking zich voornamelijk in de rol van zorgvrager bevinden, terwijl sommigen hun mogelijkheden …

This study examines the role the European Union Battlegroups can play in accomplishing EU security goals. In doing so, an assessment is made of the capabilities and shortcomings of the Battlegroups in light of EU defence ambitions. The security environment of the European Union is changing. Since the …