Annual report 2016

share your talent. move the world. 6

Contents

Preface 2

Strategic themes 5 - Energy 6 - Healthy Ageing 10 - Entrepreneurship 14

Excellent university of applied sciences 18

Top degree programmes 20

Key figures 22

The organisation 24

Key figures schools 28

Performance indicators 30

Award winners 57

Illustrations: Debora Westra, student Design (Illustration), Minerva Art Academy Preface

In the spring of 2016, we presented our new an economy that relies on renewable – green – raw materials strategic plan: ‘Innovating Together’. This plan rather than fossil fuel resources. Applied research leads to new biobased products, processes and industry. It is our way of focuses on our social mandate. We want to supporting the transition to a more sustainable world. prepare students for professional practice and In 2016, we also definitively concluded the previous strategic to support their development as independent, period. We have achieved many of our ambitions in the past critical and responsible citizens. few years. Our results with regard to the 2012 performance agreements we made with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science received a positive review in 2016. This is an We also respond to an increasing demand from society and the extremely satisfying outcome; we would like to express our professional field, asking us to transform knowledge acquired from compliments to everyone who contributed to making this 2 fundamental research into innovation in professional practice. To happen. Together, we have enhanced the quality of our teaching 3 achieve this aim, we are developing into a learning community: and research, providing us with a firm foundation for the years a place where students, lecturer-researchers and professionals to come. By continuing to work in connection with our social from the field can learn from each other and collaborate to find mandate, we are putting our motto into practice: ‘Share Your solutions to social issues. Talent. Move the World’.

We put the learning community into practice in our Living Labs (innovatiewerkplaatsen). In these labs, we study a wide range , April 2017 of subjects including healthcare, energy, digitisation, legal aid services and sport. Our efforts to connect these varying themes Mr drs. H.J. Pijlman, chairman with one another are finding increasing success. By doing so, we Mr drs. L.J.M. Verhofstad, board member realise new solutions to existing issues. Extensive involvement Mr dr. P. van der Wijk, board member from the professional field illustrates that there is great demand for this form of cooperation.

A new strategic period also means room for new developments. In 2016, for instance, we launched the Biobased Economy Centre of Applied Research. This Centre of Applied Research focuses on Strategic themes

The Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen offers full degree programmes in four domains: people and society, business & economics, science & engineering and the arts. Within these programmes, our major focus is on the themes of Energy, Healthy Ageing, and Entrepreneurship. This profile is 5 strengthened by special attention for Honours Talent Development and the exceptional position of Arts in education and research.

Strategic theme: Energy

‘Becoming aware of the dilemmas’

Researcher Frank Pierie has developed a board game to shed light on the choices involved in establishing a sustainable energy system, as well as the accompanying consequences.

Because the supply of energy from fossil fuels is finite, the players must work together to make their neighbourhood or – and the rest of the world – will be obliged to village energy-neutral. They do this by arranging cards with 8 transition to energy from renewable sources. But what should sources of energy, like a wind turbine, onto a map. Besides the 9 that sustainable system look like? Should everyone switch to common goal of achieving sufficient energy production, the wind energy? Or would solar panels be the better choice? Or players have individual interests as well. Four of the players must biomass? ‘Unfortunately, there’s simply not one system that’s the try to earn points for people, planet, profit or balance. The fifth best option’, researcher Frank Pierie says. ‘Wind turbines generate player is the chairperson; they lead the discussion and make sure a great deal of energy, but they also take up a lot of room. That the game is finished within the time limit. space doesn’t exist in the cities. You can fit solar panels into the urban setting, but only a limited number of roofs are suitable for Dilemmas them. And then there’s the additional issue involving security ‘The game increases knowledge of energy systems and promotes of supply, because you want to have energy even when the sun discussion. We have seen how this makes players more aware of the isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. You need to take the dilemmas and better able to identify with other interests. After the surrounding residents into account as well, of course: many game, we help them go further – for instance, by putting them in people object to having a wind turbine in their neighbourhood. contact with existing cooperatives. But the game is also an interesting And on top of that, everything has to be affordable, too.’ exercise for other parties, such as politicians and policymakers. We are now hoping to make a play-at-home version, too. It will be kind Board game of like Monopoly, where instead of cooperating, you compete with Bottom-up developments will be essential to this transition. one another. We’re thinking about an app as well.’ That’s why Pierie has created a board game called the We-Energy Game, which is intended primarily for people who are interested Frank Pierie developed the We-Energy Game as a spin-off of his PhD in beginning an energy cooperative of their own. In the game, research at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen.

Strategic theme: Healthy Ageing

‘Getting students moving’

Professor Remo Mombarg and project leader Alien van der Sluis are working to promote a healthier lifestyle among pupils in pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) by appealing to teen sensibilities. Longboarding The project kicked off at three VMBO schools. First, the students Whereas primary school children enjoy playing sports, once they took stock of their own exercise habits, after which they got to choose go on to secondary school it’s often game over. This is particularly from a range of trendy sports including longboarding, trick biking, true of pupils in pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO in basketball and freerunning. According to Van der Sluis, ‘The kids 12 the Netherlands), who also smoke and drink alcoholic beverages were allowed to choose their own goals. Each one has a buddy who 13 more than their peers. ‘These kids often have trouble with self- gives them feedback and from whom they can learn.’ The second regulation’, explains project leader Alien van der Sluis. ‘They have part of the project focuses on healthy lifestyle. The mentor helps the a hard time steering their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours pupils to set healthy goals such as eating less junk food, biking to to achieve a particular goal. Sports offer a very effective means school more often and drinking water instead of soft drinks. to improve such self-regulation. By setting an athletic goal and working towards it one step at a time, young people discover Positive effects what it feels like to achieve success.’ The project is already bearing fruit. ‘We’re seeing differences in work mentalities between the pupils who are taking part and those who aren’t’, says Van der Sluis. ‘We’re measuring their self- “We note that the students who took part in the “Getting regulation by using questionnaires and carefully observing their VMBO students moving” project have developed a healthier behaviour in PE classes, as well as processing all of the feedback and more active lifestyle. They are a vulnerable target group, that the kids give each other. Our measurements reveal that the but this project has given them more control over their lifestyle, participating VMBO pupils have developed a healthier and more which means they can look forward to a healthy future. What’s active lifestyle. Their self-regulatory skills have increased and that more, our lecturers are adopting more of a coaching style of has given them more control over their lifestyle, which means they teaching. For us as a school, the tangible fruits of the project can look forward to a healthier future.’ – the guide, the workbook for lecturers and the digital lesson tools for students – are really very helpful indeed.” Remo Mombarg is professor of Physical Education and Youth Sport at the CSG Augustinus, Marieke Kuipers Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing. Alien van der Sluis is the project leader.

Strategic theme: Entrepreneurship

‘Education must take initiative in restoring the regional food chains’

Professor Willem Foorthuis promotes the establishment of regional cooperatives in order to restore regional food chains. cooperatives in which government, education and entrepreneurship all come together. Entrepreneurs want to keep their own businesses ‘The economy in the North of the Netherlands is a third-world economy’, afloat, while educators are looking for opportunities. That requires Foorthuis bluntly states. ‘There are exceptions, of course, but what I mean a different way of thinking about things. In our Living Lab, for to say is that we produce primarily bulk goods: potatoes, wheat, beets. instance, we’re investigating the possibility of setting up a food chain We make sugar from the beets and then export that sugar. They do the in the north, with a herd, slaughterhouse and caterer. The farmers 16 same in Angola. We also invest in machines to get the beets in from the say this can’t be done, because the herd will produce too much 17 fields more quickly, which only leads to less work for people. Which, in manure. So what we’re looking into now is whether we can have turn, we compensate for by producing more bulk. It’s a dead-end street.’ the animals graze in the national nature areas maintained by Staatsbosbeheer (National Forest Service).’ Adding value Foorthuis advocates ‘adding value’ to bulk in one’s own region. Interface ‘There’s not a single regional food chain left in all of western Europe. In To Foorthuis’s mind, a model in which Living Labs participate in Zuidwending, for instance, we produce the world’s most high-quality regional cooperatives represents the teaching method of the future. salt. But we don’t process it into an end product ourselves. They do that ‘The regional cooperative is the interface between entrepreneur in Vietnam. We’ve outsourced all of our value addition, even though and education. As part of that interaction, students are conducting its advantages are obvious: increased employment at the pre-secondary applied research in the Living Labs. Our goal is to see five to ten and secondary vocational level; less need for transport and therefore a thousand entrepreneurs in the North of the Netherlands establish reduction in CO2 emissions; less animal suffering and increased revenue.’ a direct connection to a Living Lab within the next five years. That would mean an entirely new role for education. The ‘school’ function Initiator needs to be taken out of the classroom, off of the campus and into According to Foorthuis, all the ingredients necessary to restore the the workplaces of entrepreneurs.’ regional food chains are present in Groningen. ‘We have the raw materials, the knowledge, the traditions and the money. What we’re missing is Willem Foorthuis is Professor of Sustainable Cooperative Entre­ cooperation. The food manufacturers aren’t doing anything about this preneurship at the School of Financial and Economic Management of issue. Fine – let’s have education act as initiator on this. We have set up Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen. Excellent University Thirteen Hanze of Applied UAS programmes Sciences Elsevier are the best in Degree programmes of Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen score highly at the national level. Thirteen of our programmes are the best in their field their field in the in the Netherlands, according to the Elsevier ranking of Dutch degree programmes in the magazine’s 19 Netherlands. September 2016 Best Programmes issue. National Student Survey As in previous years, the satisfaction of our students is higher than the national average for universities of applied sciences, according to the National Student Survey (NSE). We took fourth place in the rankings - Keuzegids HBO 2017 of the largest universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Top degree programmes

Keuzegids HBO 2017 Hanze UAS has risen to third place in the rankings of large Dutch universities of applied sciences, according to the Keuzegids HBO 2017 (the Higher Education Guide for Universities of Applied Sciences, issued in September 2016). In the Guide, 17 of our 50 programmes received the designation of ‘Top Degree Programme’. That works out to a score of 34 percent, well above the national average of 11 percent.

20 Our Top Programmes are: Dance – Amsterdam Dance in Education – Amsterdam Dance – Groningen Dance in Education – Groningen Dental Hygiene Speech and Language Therapy Health Care Management (part-time/work-based) Bio-informatics Fine Arts and Design in Education Music in Education Electrical & Electronic Engineering – Assen Chemical Engineering Human Resource Management Music – Groningen Design Biology & Medical Laboratory Research Physiotherapy Students 2016

2016 2015 2014 Hanze UAS key figures

27,886 26,824 26,566 Financial results all amounts x €1.000 enrolments

2016 2015 2014

income 247,580 241,738 236,046 7,174 6,428 6,908

intake expenditure 253,660 249,674 233,591 22 23 4,136 4,118 4,066 result -6,080 -7,936 2,455 graduates

Staff 2,262 2,024 2,049 international students

2016 2015 2014 665 609 637 incoming international students

664 564 622 outgoing exchange students

3,280 2,252 3,131 2,187 3,113 2,182 in numbers in FTEs in numbers in FTEs in numbers in FTEs 2,467 2,312 2,313

part-time and dual programmes The organisation The organisation Composition of Boards, Staff Offices and Schools List of schools and degree programmes as of 31 December 2016 at Hanze UAS AD = Associate degree; B = Bachelor’s; M = Master’s

Supervisory Board Executive Board School Degree programme

Mr drs. G.J. Lankhorst (chair) Mr drs. H.J. Pijlman, chairman School of Architecture, B Construction Mr drs. A.A. Rietveld Mr drs. L.J.M. Verhofstad, board member Built Environment & Civil Engineering B Built Environment Mr drs. R. Bakker Mr Dr P. van der Wijk, board member B Civil Engineering Mrs J.M. Hiddema M Architecture Mr drs. H. van den Burg Mr drs. L.P. Middel School of Fine Arts, Design & M Education in Arts (joint degree) Mrs prof. dr. S.G.L. Schruijer Popular Culture (Minerva) - Fine Arts & Design B Fine Arts Staff Offices and Facilities Unit Directors B Fine Art and Design in Education B Design Facilities Unit Mr P. van der Wel - Minerva Academy of Popular Culture B Music Staff Office Financial Affairs Mr J.P. Tuil RC B Popular Culture Staff Office Marketing & Communication Mr dr. L.H. Hajema - FMI Masters B Design Staff Office Education & Applied Research Mrs dr. A. Luijten M Media, Art, Design & Technology 24 25 Staff Office Personnel and Organisation Mrs drs. J.C. Meins M MFA Painting Staff Office Computing & Inform. Mrs drs. C. Joosse School of Health Care Studies AD Health Care Management Schools Deans B Physiotherapy B Speech and Language Therapy School of Architecture, Built Environment Mr drs. M. Hacking B Health Care Management & Civil Engineering School of Fine Arts, Design & Popular Mrs D.F.L. van der Meulen B Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Culture (Minerva) B Dental Hygiene School of Health Care Studies Mr drs. A. Nimis B Nutrition & Dietetics School of Social Studies Mrs drs. M.A.M. Garnier M Healthy Ageing Professional School of Nursing Mrs A.H. Hannink MHA M Physician Assistant School of Business Management Mrs drs. L.J.M. Hobert School of Communication, Media & IT Mrs mr. T. Faber-Remmelts School of Social Studies D Expert by Experience in Health & Welfare Institute of Engineering Mrs drs. P. de Vries B Social Work and Social Services School of Facility Management Mr drs. R. J. van Linschoten B Social Educational Care School of Financial and Economic Mr J.W.M. Gomashie B Applied Psychology Management M European Master in Social Work Institute for Life Science & Technology Mrs dr. V.B. de Graaf-Peters M Rehabilitation Counsellor School of Marketing Management Mr drs. P.N. Ganzeboom M Social Work (joint degree) School of Law Mr G.R. van Lingen School of Sports Studies Mr drs. J.R. Janssens School of Nursing AD Practitioner in Care International Business School Mr drs. B.A. ten Kate B Nursing School of Education Mrs drs. M. Muhonen (since 1-2-2017) M Advanced Nursing Practice School of Performing Arts Mr H. van den Elsen Hanze Honours College Mrs drs. P. de Vries Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing Mr dr. J.H. de Ruiter MBA Centre of Expertise Energy Mr dr. ir. J. Aué continues on page 26 Marian van Os Centre for Entrepreneurship Mr drs. F.M.A.A. Donders

The organisation List of schools and degree programmes at Hanze UAS

AD = Associate degree; B = Bachelor’s; M = Master’s

School Degree programme School Degree programme

School of Business Management AD Human Resource Management School of Marketing Management B Marketing B Business Management Studies B International Business & Languages B Human Resource Management B Small Business and Retail Management B Real Estate Management M Leadership School of Law B Laws M Real Estate B Social Legal Services

School of Communication, Media & IT B Communication School of Sports Studies AD Sports, Health & Management B Communication and Multimedia Design B Teacher Education in Physical Education B Information and Communication B Sports, Health & Management Technology B Information Services & Management International Business School B International Business & Management M International Communication Studies 26 M Business Administration 27 Institute of Engineering AD Project Leader Technology M International Business & Management B Sensor Technology B Electrical & Electronic Engineering School of Education B Education in Primary Schools B Human Technology M Talent Development & Diversity B Industrial Product Design B Industrial Engineering & Management School of Performing Arts B Mechanical Engineering - Dance Academy Lucia Marthas AD Dance M European Master in Renewable Energy (WO) B Dance in Education M European Master in Sustainable Energy B Dance System Management (WO) - Prince Claus Conservatoire AD Music (conductor Hafabra) M Sensor System Engineering B Music in Education B Music School of Facility Management B Facility Management M Music

School of Financial and Economic B Accountancy Management B Finance & Control B Financial Services Management B Fiscal Economics

Institute for Life Science & Technology B Bio-informatics B Biology & Medical Laboratory Research B Chemistry B Chemical Engineering Key figures for schools 2016 School of Facility Management (41 1,149 international students students) 139 graduates / 207 intake

School of Architecture, Built Environment & Civil Engineering School of Financial and Economic Management (18 (14 720 international 1,441 international students students) students students) 107 graduates / 202 intake 213 graduates / 281 intake

School of Fine Arts, Design & Popular Culture (Minerva) Institute for Life Science & Technology (196 (24 898 international 1,034 international students students) students students) 187 graduates / 222 intake 119 graduates / 297 intake

School of Health Care Studies School of Marketing Management (145 (53 2,862 international 2,080 international students students) students students) 588 graduates / 750 intake 292 graduates / 417 intake 28 29 School of Social Studies School of Law (34 (18 2,582 international 1,936 international students students) students students) 503 graduates / 644 intake 227 graduates / 483 intake

School of Nursing School of Sport Studies (13 (41 1,986 international 1,527 international students students) students students) 337 graduates / 642 intake 178 graduates / 329 intake

School of Business Management International Business School (12 (947 2,128 international 1,452 international students students) students students) 294 graduates / 498 intake 194 graduates / 444 intake

School of Communication, Media & IT School of Education (431 (5 2,924 international 796 international students students) students students) 308 graduates / 876 intake 106 graduates / 222 intake

Institute of Engineering School of Performing Arts (124 (152 1,913 international 458 international students students) students students) 257 graduates / 516 intake 113 graduates / 142 intake Applied Results in 2016

research Project External partners Impact

Let's Talk Energy Various provinces and Today, the dialogue on the energy coordinator municipalities in the transition has been disentangled on the Centre of Expertise North of the Nether- Internet and social media. This will allow lands, RUG, HU, government bodies and communications Energy Communicipals, TNO, agencies to communicate more NMF, Logeion, Van effectively on the topic of energy der Glas Milieuadvies, transition. Lieftink Advies Professorships - Energy transition, leading professor dr. ir. Wim van Gemert Second heat TU Delft, TU Twenthe, The possibility of installing a heat retainer - Communication & Sustainable Society, dr. Annette Klarenbeek revolution TU Eindhoven, in a residential neighbourhood was - Sustainable LNG Technology, prof. dr. ir. Jacques van Dam MJP CCO Utrecht University explored in cooperation with TNO. Which - Energy & Management, dr. Koos Lok EUR ING, MBA of Applied Scien- materials and models could be applied? - Energy & Law, mr. Bert de Jonge ces, Alliander, BJW, This led to a subsequent application - Energy and Networks (Network Integration), dr. Martien Visser Cornelissen Consul- and a discussion about the scale of heat ting Services, Itho storage in a residential neighbourhood. - Life Sciences & Renewable Energy, dr. ir. Jan-Peter Nap Daalderop, Nedmag, Liveliness, Oxycom, De Beijer, Wendelin 30 31 Lab

Results in 2016 FlexP2G Frames Energy The project is geared to the development Systems, Hydron of a flexible and modular power-to- Energy, ECN gas process installation, which should Project External partners Impact feature extensive integration of efficient hydrogen production and methanisation Flexiheat Attero, Hak, Holland A model for bringing together heat technology. This will allow surplus Malt, ENgie, TNO, supply and demand was developed, to electricity to be transformed, in a small- Verkley, EnergyValley, serve as a basis for further elaboration scale yet durable fashion, into methane Fudura, RUG, of business models. Companies can use using hydrogen. The resulting material DNVGL, Water­ this model to analyse their own energy will be cheaper and more energy-dense company Groningen, flows and offer them to other parties. for storage purposes. Rendo, Attero in Wijster plans to utilise the Groningen Seaports resulting model for this purpose Smart Power CeDel, In this project, an energy management Systems ES Technologies, system was developed in cooperation Frames with EMMA, Participants in this project will be more I-NRG with Cedel. Its purpose is to maximise Energy Us Kooperaesje deeply involved in energy transition the share of sustainably-generated coordinator and will learn skills for more effective energy consumed, in part through the communication on the subject between use of solar panels and batteries. This government, market, knowledge system will subsequently be brought to institutions and society. This will help market as a product. open and maintain a dialogue over energy. Centre of Expertise Energy Results in 2016

Project External partners Impact Project External partners Impact

Kracht van Fudura, RUG How could working together to conserve MariGreen LNG Astron, Dirks LNG can be used to produce electricity de buurt energy contribute to promoting Plug&Play Elektrotechniek, needed for ships on the quay. This is much (Neighbourhood energy-conscious behaviour? Based on DST, ESF, Mariko, cleaner than using diesel. The mobile power) fundamental research from the University Shipco, Scheepswerf, installation will, however, need to be easy of Groningen (RUG), behavioural Conoship to connect. During this project, the form of interventions are being developed and this installation will be determined, along tested to determine their effects. One with the applicable safety standards. example is the ‘Neighbourhood Power Case’, which residents can use to record Greendeal Power & Gasunie, the Province This Green Deal is studying the integration their energy consumption based on Distribution of , various of energy grids, including behaviour. It individual appliances and to exchange municipalities appears that a shared, accessible and not that data with one another. in Drenthe, the overly-technical means of approaching the municipality of energy issue is generally well-received. FlexiGrow EnergyQ, Enexis, In the newly developed area of Meerstad, Groningen, There is a high degree of willingness to coordinator Gasterra the effect of heat pumps on the energy Enexis Alliander, take part in follow-up campaigns. Both grid in an all-electrical neighbourhood are various educational governments and schools are eager being studied. This will provide a better institutions, Fudura, for support in the form of campaigns idea of the requirements an electricity Netbeheer Nederland and lesson materials in connection with grid in similar neighbourhoods will need (the Association raising energy awareness. Local initiatives 32 33 to meet, and yields insight into the of Energy Grid are being monitored in order to provide effectiveness of heat pumps. Operators in the policy recommendations and to help Netherlands professionalise bottom-up initiatives. FlexiForFuture RUG, Gasunie, The energy system of the future will require In addition, a cabin has been set up at RoofTop Energy, services that are fundamentally geared EnTranCe where the exchange with the WestlandInfra toward flexibility. How can we define these local grid is being minimised using gas, PV services? And how can people pay for cells and batteries. these services? The theoretical exercise has yielded a wide array of such services, Greendeal Gasterra, the munici- This Green Deal contributes to which are currently undergoing further Communication pality of Eemsmond, strengthening communication surrounding elaboration and testing. & Sustainable the municipality of sustainable behaviour, whether in a society Loppersum research portfolio, classroom or research ZoGrunn / Sunfloat, EnAble,Mi This project was aimed at the durable and lab. Businesses are advised on their Floating PV profitable development of floating solar public statements concerning energy. panels. Today, these panels are in use in It is evident that approaching energy Westpoort, on the outskirts of Groningen from a new perspective, rather than by and they are currently being rolled out at relying on a traditional communication an even larger scale in Rotterdam. department, is of vital importance. Two films about research have been made for Bio P2G Gasterra, ENKI, WUR, Bacteria are capable of producing the Communication students, who were penvoerder Gasunie, RUG, Bio- sustainable energy in the form of very enthusiastic. clear, DMT, Enexis, hydrogen. What conditions are required Proces Groningen and how can this means of production be Greendeal Small Clean Tech Aviation, A test set-up was constructed at integrated into an energy system? Such Scale LNG Energy Academy EnTranCe, which was then used to study a system offers an alternative that could Europe, Gasunie, how a jet engine functions when using compensate for the lack of wind and sun TU EIndhoven LNG as fuel. at certain times. Centre of Expertise Energy Results in 2016

Project External partners Impact Project External partners Impact

Power2fleX: OLEC, the Province of Converting electricity into hydrogen Energy Start-ups Coordinator The 2016 winner, Clean Tech Aviation, Using CO2 to make Groningen, Blue Ham- at a residential scale, for mobile and has set up shop at EnTranCe and is CH4 ster, Nordwest Gruppe, small-business application. The final step exploring the question of whether an Holthausen, Cedel, includes methanisation, which makes use aircraft engine can run on LNG. Oosterhof Holman, the and transport easier. At this scale, the Province of Drenthe, process can be attractive for supplying KnowRES Centre: EUREC, CIRCE, In this project, the necessary competen- Hochschule / households in the energy chain. The Human Factor: EGEC, ESTELA, ces and new jobs in connection with the Leer, Desios, Jaske & competences and OEE Aebiom, field of sustainable energy were identified. Wolf, INTIS, 3N Dienst- new jobs in the Greenfish, ESHA The idea is that, while not all emerging leistungen, etc. field of renewable professions can be predicted, the com- energy petences can. By cataloguing these at a Monitoring daily On behalf of SER Energieopwek.nl lists the amount of European level, a much broader picture of production of Energy Agreement, renewable energy currently being the employment opportunities (including renewable energy Gasunie generated in the Netherlands. This allows jobs in the Netherlands) is gained. progress towards achieving the goals in the Energy Agreement to be monitored Drenthe in Province of Drenthe The province of Drenthe is implementing quite closely. What this data shows is Transition a programme involving renewable energy that, although (so far) the targets are not and promoting local initiatives. We are being met, the amount of sustainably supporting this project by providing as- 34 35 produced energy is increasing. sessments and policy recommendations.

Energy Barn The municipali- At EnTranCe, the cradle-to-cradle Ten Post energy NCG, Energy After considering the location and ty of Groningen, principle is put into practice. Events scan Academy Europe possibilities of the village, as the EAE, we Gasunie, Gasterra, are organised in the Energy Barn to issued a recommendation on how Ten EnergyValley, Het facilitate the public function of EnTranCe. Post might move a step closer to energy Ondernemersfonds The demand for all kinds of events is neutrality. While solar panels and small (entrepreneurial fund) remarkably high – everything from policy wind turbines show promise, geothermal sessions for businesses to ‘pressure energy is also an option. cooker’ weeks for students. With EnTranCe, an introduction to sustainable Speur de Various businesses Teams from businesses and government energy is easily made and plenty of Energieslurper and government compared the electricity consumption people, belonging to extremely diverse [Tracking down bodies, including of different appliances. The study groups, are taking advantage of this fact. energy guzzlers] Province of Drenthe, provided insight into the campaign’s municipality of Assen, impact on people’s awareness of energy Zonneboot Centre SDOG, EnTranCe In 2016, SDOG Racing team was Gasunie, Hanze consumption in homes and on sustainable of Expertise unable to beat the ‘sun boat’ with University of Applied behaviour. In addition to a decision to lever mechanism from Delft University Sciences Groningen expand the campaign, this has also led to of Technology; the SDOG boat was, a series of follow-up campaigns, in which however, able to attain speeds of 30 Buurkracht and EnergySense will be km per hour. EnTranCe facilitated involved as well. the construction of this boat and its photovoltaic equipment. Centre of Expertise Energy Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing Project External partners Impact

Check je Warmtelek Various businesses This campaign is intended to help [Checking for heat and government residents gain insight into heat loss Professorships with full Healthy Ageing portfolio loss] bodies, including areas in their homes. That knowledge - Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing, prof. dr. Cees van der Schans Province of Drenthe, raises energy awareness and prompts - Statistical Techniques for Applied Research, dr. Wim Krijnen municipality of Assen, the residents to take active measures Gasunie, Hanze to remedy the problem. Research into - Physical Education and Youth Sport, dr. Remo Mombarg University of Applied the impact of this instrument shows that - Clinical Malnutrition and Healthy Ageing, dr. Harriët Jager-Wittenaar Sciences Groningen the campaign effectively motivates and - Healthy Lifestyle, Ageing and Health Care, dr. Hans Hobbelen encourages residents to make further - Healthy Lifestyle, Sports and Physical Activity, dr. Johan de Jong efforts when it comes to energy-saving - Integral Youth Policy, dr. Jeannette Doornenbal measures. Within companies, this - Child, Language and Development, dr. Margreet Luinge campaign creates a base of support for - Learning and Behaviour, dr. Henderien Steenbeek the energy transition while also promoting - Social Participation of People with Mental Disabilities, dr. Charlotte de Heer interaction between employees in very - Participation and Health of People with a Mental and Visual Disability, different job positions and departments. dr. Aly Waninge - Rehabilitation, dr. Lies Korevaar - Rehabilitation & Recovery, prof. dr. Marian Farkas 36 - Nursing Diagnostics, dr. Wolter Paans 37 - Nursing, prof. dr Petrie Roodbol - Addiction Studies, dr. Eric Blaauw - Self-management of Somatic Patients in Hospitals, dr. Joost Keers

Professorships with partial Healthy Ageing portfolio see page 38 Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing Results in 2016

Professorships with partial Healthy Ageing portfolio Project External partners Impact - Work Organisation and Productivity, dr. Jac Christis Cooperation with Noorderbreedte primary The project developed a self- - Labour participation, dr. Louis Polstra parents: how do you school, De Eskampen assessment tool for schools, - Computer Science & Sensor Technology, dr. C.M. Vos do it? primary school, De along with a process approach for - Sustainable Financial Management & Entrepreneurship, The competences and Vlonder primary school, developing vision. This yielded insight dr. Margreet Boersma reluctance to intervene Marenland Public School into the phenomenon of reluctance - Sustainable HRM, dr. Leni Beukema primary school Foundation, OPO to intervene and it also leading to the - Facilities Management, dr. Mark Mobach teachers as they Noordenveld, Oost- creation of school visions for parental - Human Capital, dr. Harm van Lieshout relate to encouraging Groningen Public School involvement and to sustainable - Image in Context, dr. Anke Coumans parental involvement Foundation, Expertise cooperation between parents and - International Business, dr. Diederich Bakker (RAAK-Publiek) point for Parental schools. Involvement, Cedin - Demographic Change, dr. Elles Bulder - Life Sciences & Renewable Energy, dr. ir. Jan-Peter Nap Project Sûne Mûle The project is The Sûne Mûle project (the name - Lifelong Learning in Music – Innovative practices, dr. Rineke Smilde (The conducted in is Frisian for ‘healthy mouth’) is - Public Real Estate, ing. Jan Veuger Foundation) cooperation with aimed at improving the day-to-day - Marketing & Entrepreneurship, dr. Karel Jan Alsem De Friesland oral hygiene of vulnerable elderly - Lifelong learning in Music - New Audiences, dr. Evert Bisschop Boele Zorgverzekeraar people in de province of Friesland. - New Business & IT, dr. Hugo Velthuijsen (healthcare insurer), Consisting of two dental hygienists, 38 - User-Centered Design, dr. Nick Degens ZuidOostZorg Drachten, the Sûne Mûle Team is responsible 39 Thuiszorg Het Friese for both implementing the educational - Personalised Digital Health, vacancy Land, Thuiszorggroep programme and ensuring the Zuidwest Friesland and dissemi­nation and application of Visiting Professor Dio Design Rotterdam aids during the project. Researchers - Malnutrition Research and Education, Faith Ottery, MD, PhD collect data on the general health, quality of life and vulnerability of the participating seniors. The effects of the interventions on daily dental care and oral health are being measured as well. Results in 2016 WMO workshop Noord Various municipalities, The project improved the social (implementation) care and welfare participation of citizens with Project External partners Impact Innovation and imple­ institutions and other disabilities. Concrete results were mentation projects knowledge institutions WMO training modules and an Supported Education: Accare, Promens Care, This foundation provides young under the Social implementation manual. See also the new interventions Elker, ROC Menso Alting, people with mental disabilities with Support Act (WMO) projects’ websites (in Dutch): for the professional GGZ Friesland, ROC information and support in choosing by the Rehabilitation www.wmowerkplaatsennoord.nl and (RAAK-publiek) Menso Alting, UMCG / a degree programme, applying professorship, funded www.wmowerkplaatsen.nl Rob Giel research centre, successfully and in staying enrolled. by the Ministry of Altrecht / ABC, Stichting Professionals are best equipped to Health, Welfare and Rehabilitatie ‘92 serve this target group. Sport Marian van Os Centre for Results in 2016

Entrepreneurship Project External partners Impact

‘More-Sustainable’ Arnhem and • Through the handbook, SMEs receive Professorships Sustainable Nijmegen Universities assistance in initiating and integrating Manufacturing of Applied Sciences, improvements in their process and - Asian Business Strategies, dr. Rien Segers Koninklijke Metaal­ sustainability measures. - Sustainable Financial Management & Entrepreneurship, unie, department dr. Margreet Boersma Noord, MKB- - Purchasing Management, Gert Walhof MBA Neder­land Noord, - International Business, dr. Diederich Bakker Northern Netherlands - Leadership in Social Sourcing, Frank Willems Technology Centre, - Marketing & Entrepreneurship, dr. Karel Jan Alsem EnTranCe, the Lean - User-Centered Design, dr. Nick Degens Innovation Network - New Business & IT, dr. Hugo Velthuijsen and 15 manufacturing companies - Sustainable Cooperative Entrepreneurship, Willem Foorthuis - Transition in the Bio-economy, dr. Rob van Haren EEN Chamber of External: - Personalised Digital Health, vacancy Commerce (KvK), • Reinforced infrastructure supporting - Entrepreneurship in transition, joint professorship with the Alfa College, A. Grit Netherlands SMEs in the North of the Netherlands, - Human Capital, dr. Harm van Lieshout Enterprise Agency with KCO acting as a hub. (RVO), Northern • New leads on other projects, also 40 - Labour participation, dr. Louis Polstra 41 - Work Organisation and Productivity, dr. Jac. Christis Netherlands Alliance internationally. - Sustainable HRM, dr. Leni Beukema (SNN), Energy Valley, • Increased contributions from external Water Alliance sources of funding. - Legal Aspects of the Labour Market, dr. Petra Oden and Business • Effective cooperation with external Development partners (KvK, RvO, SNN). Friesland Internal: • Strengthens networks of people and Results in 2016 projects with SME contacts. • Increases EEN name recognition.

Project External partners Impact Hanze Invent • Two spin-offs, three valorisation processes in cooperation with Commercial Bouwend Nederland • The project has resulted in businesses or social stakeholders innovations in regio Noord, the Centre eight process-improvement • Contribution made to the economic Earthquake-proof of Expertise and 10 SME interventions within and social development of the Construction construction companies businesses and two collective northern region of the Netherlands. (BIAB) recommendations. • Smarter organisation for SME construction companies, which makes them more productive. Marian van Os Centre for Entrepreneurship Results in 2016

Project External partners Impact Project External partners Impact

International Province of Groningen, • Getting small and medium-sized 050-Hybrid The (non-exhaustive) list of • Bring hybrid systems to the Business Talent Participating SMEs enterprises, or SMEs, in the partner organisations includes: attention of homeowners (IBT) province of Groningen involved municipality of Groningen and and housing associations in in the lines of the research at the province of Groningen, RUG, Groningen. centre for Entrepreneurship. Energy Academy Europe, • Share experiences/knowledge • Increased revenue for Alfa College and Noorderpoort concerning installation and Groningen’s SMEs due to College. Noordelijk Lokaal maintenance (through UNETO- intensification of international Duurzaam, Gasterra, Gasunie, VNI, for example) in order to trade. Enexis, KUUB, Ecocert alleviate any hesitance installers • Retaining international and The Nijestee, Lefier and may have about recommending highly-educated young Patrimonium housing hybrids. professionals in the regional associations, plus multiple • Develop a methodology for labour market. property owners’ associations. return on investment that will • Increased employment with Regional organisations and yield insight into the expected internationally-operating initiatives: Groninger Energie decrease in gas consumption. businesses in Groningen. Koepel, the Environment This will be evaluated based Federation, Energie Loket, on real-world practice for each MKB@Work 26 SMEs and regional • A structural collaboration bet- Groningen woont SLIM, of the different products and partners, including 4 labour- ween SMEs and municipalities/ Buurkracht, Gasberaad situations. The methodology 42 43 market regions and Groningen UWV to help individuals with a (previously dialoogtafel) must be practicable for parties Purchasing Platform; functional disability find employ- Local suppliers of solar panels such as Grunneger Power and national partners, including ment, with a minimum of red tape and installation companies. other consultancy organisations Commissioner, 100,000 and the highest possible degree National parties in the in the context of their advisory jobs; knowledge institutions, of self-management on the part Netherlands: ODE Decentraal, role. such as professorships in of the SMEs. REScoopNL, HierOpgewekt, • The guided market launch should Labour participation and Natuur- en Milieufederatie lead to newly gained insight Marketing/Market-oriented (Nature and Environment into the relationship between Research; Professor of Federation) price and revenue, and how this Public Administration at the relationship might potentially be University of Groningen improved.

Proof of the 12 Small and medium-sized • Methodology which will allow pudding enterprises SMEs to more effectively involve the end consumer in their pro- duct development, as well as at an earlier stage.

ReFrame One thousand entrepreneurs, including a core group of 200. Active in seven regions and six countries. Marian van Os Centre for Entrepreneurship Results in 2016

Project External partners Impact Project External partners Impact

EBG Monitor Economic Board • In coming years, the EBG will be Intelligent Zestor • Using the new instruments, team Groningen, Faculty able to examine the economic organisation of leads are better able to design of Economics and effects of investments they have education measures that will reduce work Business at the made in the Groningen earthquake pressure while simultaneously University of Groningen zone. This is a major form of increasing efficiency. (RUG) accountability for the allocation of • Educational institutions are their 100-million-euro budget. better able to meet the stated requirements: to more efficiently Samen de Zorg Media pioneers from • Valorisation: collaboration deliver high-quality education dragen (Taking Sneek between healthcare partners and under acceptable working care together) IT businesses is leading to more conditions. effective implementation of new IT technology in the healthcare Desire and ability BvK, Divosa, Social • Fewer instances of sector. services: Maastricht, misappropriation of social welfare • Co-creation: by involving the Optimist (Veghel and benefits. target group of elderly persons surrounding area), De • Professionalisation of conduct and those with a mental disabi- Liemers (Zevenaar among client managers. lity in this project from the very and surrounding area), • Greater societal support for social beginning, the products being ISD Baanzicht (Assen welfare benefits. 44 45 developed can be tailored to their and surrounding area), specific needs. Groningen, Wageningen and Nijmegen, Institute Quantified Self @ Menzis, University of • Proven intervention consisting for Management Work Twente of a combination of self-tracking Research, Department devices and coaching, including of Public Administration e-coaching. at Radboud University • Sustainable employability for Nijmegen vulnerable employees. The future of De Onderlinge UA, • Adding depth and nuance to the IWP Labour & FSC Van • The organisations and networks the employer- Slotemaker de Bruine societal debate on the future of Healthy Ageing Mesdagkliniek, De involved are now better able employee Instituut/ Formaat employer-employee relations. Zijlen, FNV-Noord, to increase the sustainable relationship • Suggestions for social partners AssenvoorAssen employability of employees. and government with regard to policy and regulations concerning Job opening Province of Groningen, • The individual companies now have precarious working conditions in a monitor VNO-NCW Noord, FNV a concrete notion of their current socio-economic setting involving (Sectorplan) Noord-Oost needs in terms of labour and numerous sub-contexts staffing, as well of expected deve- lopments over the next five years. Mastery and Client Rotterdam University • More effective provision of • The data and analyses shed light managers of Applied Sciences, reintegration services through on imminent bottlenecks in the USBO Utrecht improved coordination of labour market, allowing business University organisational requirements owners, government and educa- for individual skills of client tional institutions to undertake managers. targeted steps to address these issues. Marian van Os Centre for Entrepreneurship Results in 2016

Project External partners Impact Project External partners Impact

Professionalisation BvK, Divosa • Greater and accessible knowledge Visit to Regio Municipality of Emmen • The recommendations will, for of the provision of reintegration into the workforce Emmen Marketing the most part, be adopted by of reintegration and service provision. Foundation the municipality of Emmen, services • A reduction in the number of including the advice to welfare recipients and an increase strengthen the marketing efforts in the number of employed in order to put Emmen more members of the workforce; firmly on the map. savings in social security costs. Creative HANNN, Game • Establishment of creative- Autism & Gaming NHL, Windesheim, • Insight into the role of digitisation Technology and Incubator Foundation industry networks in the North Accare, UMCG, 8D in supporting children with autism Health and Game companies of the Netherlands to support Games during the course of treatment. in the Northern these companies in bringing A number of proof-of-concepts Netherlands new games to market. The have additionally been developed project’s work will be continued and tested in schools and among in the eHealth testing ground. children with autism. Employee De Onderlinge • Anthology containing stories LudoVita Lerenophetweb, • The development of a proof- survey on labour UA, Werkbedrijf on individual cases and a Impuls, Ergoenzo of-concept platform that can agreements RPA Haaglanden symposium. 46 be used by care organisations Haaglanden 47 and healthcare professionals to combat work pressure and Leadership in Forensic Psychiatric excessive workload. development Center (FPC) van Mesdagkliniek IWP Exergaming Beatrixoord, UMCG, • The development of a number of University of Groningen adaptive interventions intended to Baliegroep Instituut Gak, • Scenarios or prototypes from (RUG) support children with DCD Fonds 21, the Orbis the future public domain. Foundation and De • Public debates. Creative Techno- HANNN, Game • Establishment of creative- Onderlinge UA • Proposals for transition. logy and Health Incubator Foundation industry networks in the North • Possibly experiments as well. and Game companies of the Netherlands to support in the northern these companies in bringing Storytelling and Province of Drenthe • A new marketing campaign Netherlands new games to market. The marketing in for Drenthe, one which better project’s work will be continued Drenthe suits the cultural heritage of in the eHealth testing ground. the province and goes beyond the familiar image of ancient Univé Business Univé Northern • Based on market research dolmens and tranquility. plan for Healthcare Netherlands conducted by Marklinq, a services at Home business plan has been drafted for this new healthcare service. Univé will be putting this plan into actual practice in setting up, introducing and marketing the new service. Research Centre Results in 2016

Art and Society Project External partners Impact

Ageless Jazz: ZINN Students at the Prince Claus Professorships developing Conservatoire developed concerts for concerts aimed - Image in Context, dr. Anke Coumans various care homes operated by ZINN, at a specific a healthcare umbrella organisation. The - Lifelong Learning in Music – Innovative practices, dr. Rineke Smilde target group in life experiences of the elderly persons - Lifelong learning in Music - New Audiences, dr. Evert Bisschop Boele the institutional (and their family members) who made - Art, Sustainability & Innovation, vacancy context up the audience were taken into account as much as possible in designing these concerts. The results of the project have been submitted to the programme so that it can be integrated into the standard Results in 2016 curriculum. 3rd edition: Blauwbörgje nursing Students and lecturers learned about Project External partners Impact In a Different home, Living Lab photo audit, a photographic research Light - Artistic Dignis/Lentis method, while participants from Music in the University Medical • Elderly persons with memory loss research method Blauwbörgje nursing home learned about Odensehuis Center Groningen experienced the beneficial effects of for public space the impact of space on the well-being of (UMCG) listening to and making live music in an institutional residents. 48 49 together. It provides the participants context with additional insight into musical communication. • Contribution to the practical development of alumni and students of the Prince Claus Conservatoire. • Sustainable musical practice in the Korrewegwijk district of Groningen. • The research has yielded a brochure and research report. • The compositions were performed in the Odensehuis, at the Prince Claus Conservatoire, during the ‘Ouderenfestival’ celebrating ‘The Art of Getting Older’ in the Images Forum in Groningen, as well as during the national conference of Odensehuis community centres for dementia patients in the Netherlands

Sing for your life: CultuurClick, various • Insight into the musical self-image of a study of music primary schools, group teachers. education in three schools of • Knowledge of real-world musical primary schools education outside the behaviour in the classroom. Hanze UAS • Training programmes aimed at the group teacher’s singing ability. Research Centre for Built Results in 2016

Environment NoorderRuimte Project External partners Impact

Northern 1,300 professionals Professionals in the North of the Professorships Netherlands from: Netherlands are responding more - Facilities Management, dr. Mark Mobach Demographic • Consultancies effectively to population decline. Activities Decline • Knowledge within the network have led to the active - Demographic Change, dr. Elles Bulder knowledge institutes exchange of knowledge, as a result - Public Real Estate, dr. ing. Jan Veuger FRICS network • Housing of which many professionals in the - Marine Wetlands Studies, drs. Hans Revier (until 1 October) associations North of the Netherlands are aware of - Spatial Transformation – Energy, dr. ir. Mieke Oostra • Institutes for successful practical examples in the area - Spatial Transformation – Water, dr. ir. Floris Bogaard healthcare and of demographic contraction. This year, - Smart Mobility, dr. ir. Niels van Steenis (until 1 September 2016) wellness regional ‘contraction cafés’ have been - Real Estate, dr. Martin Stijnenbosch (until 1 September 2016) • Municipalities organised, along with expert meetings - Groningen: earthquake-proof and promising (two vacancies) • Province and a major national conference on • Ministries demographic decline held in the Abe Lenstra stadium.

Earthquakes • Economic Board Building (Build in Groningen) is a test Results in 2016 Groningen facility for earthquake-proof (antiseismic) • TNO construction. The project broke ground in • Bouwend 2016. 50 51 Project External partners Impact Nederland

Climate scan, • Lokale en nationale Measurements of water quality and heat IWP Healthy • Menzis The Living Lab Healthy Work Place is aimed International overheden Filipijnen stress in Dutch cities have led to changes WorkPlace • Engie at creating a healthy work environment, knowledge ex- en Indonesië in urban policy in the Netherlands. Together • Planon in which technology is used to gain change on inno- • MKB in Filipijnen en with partners in the Philippines and • Measuremen insight into how personal behaviour and vative methods Indonesië Indonesia, project proposals have been • Quantified Self health relate to environmental factors in for measuring • Diverse overige drafted and submitted; these are designed Institute the workplace. A cooperation agreement water quality organisaties to lead to the clean-up of extremely has been signed and the real-life testing (from pilot in in Filipijnen en polluted – dead – rivers. environment is being set up. Groningen to Indonesië The project has also impacted education, Manila) and heat • Tauw Adviesbureau and extensive knowledge transfer to Health Space • CEANconsulting The Health Space Design (HSD) Living stress • AKVO students, municipality, water board and Design Living • Grontmij Lab looks at better ways of coordinating • Waterwegen other parties is taking place. Lab • ‘s Heeren Loo space and organisation in the care sector • UNSECO IHE The project has generated media attention • Martini Hospital so that care institutions can function more • Gemeente at the regional, national and international • UMCG effectively and can provide quality care at Groningen, level. • Lentis lower costs. Hoogeveen, • ZuidOostZorg One of the studies in this project was Leeuwarden • Kloosterveen health a survey of experiences involving the • Waterschap centre treatment room at an outpatient oncology Noorderzijlvest • op ten noort centre. The results of this study are now • Hogeschool blijdenstein being applied to the design of a new Rotterdam architecten & outpatient clinic and the redesign of the • Hogeschool adviseurs current centre. Amsterdam • Coresta • Van Hall Larenstein • Studio dVO • TNO ­

Research Centre for Built Environment Research Centre NoorderRuimte Biobased Economy (since 1 September 2016)

Professorships Project External partners Impact - Ingredients & Health, dr. Doede Binnema Doctoral • NS In 2016, the effects of moving the cleaning - Life Sciences & Renewable Energy, dr. Jan-Peter Nap research into services in the train from daytime hours to - Transition in the Bio-economy, dr. Rob van Haren the influence the night were studied in connection with of space on a doctoral research project. On the basis passengers’ of this research, the scheduled cleaning experiences and on some railway lines was indeed shifted, perceptions of seeing as the trains remained much tidier. Results in 2016 cleanliness on the train Project External partners Impact Barometer • 150 municipalities The Barometer MVG 2016 [Public Public Real • 245 professionals Real Estate 2016] is about the LIBBIO This includes: More and more land is required for the Estate (MVG) from municipalities, professionalisation of municipalities Color&Brain, increasing demand for biomass in Europe. knowledge and care institutions with regard to the Innovation Center The most fertile land is already being institutes, local management of their real estate holdings. In Iceland, Lusosem, cultivated and expansion will only be 52 governments, addition to the publication, a well-attended Vandinter Semo, possible through the use of less productive 53 investment conference was also organised. Wageningen land. The challenge is to increase the company University, crop yield on marginal land. Lupins are Deutsches Institut für extremely suitable for this purpose. As the Space for New • Trynergie energy For this RAAK project, research was Lebensmitteltechnik scientific coordinator of the Horizon 2020 Energy cooperative conducted into all aspects of energy (DIL), Universidade project LIBBIO, Hanze University of Applied • Reggestroom cooperatives, with the participation of the de Lisboa Sciences Groningen is helping to maximise energy cooperative cooperatives themselves. As a result of the the yield and returns of this crop and its • NLD, Noordelijk study, the cooperatives are now able to biorefining. Lokaal Duurzaam, work more effectively in order to achieve regional energy their goals. Horizon 2020 is the European subsidy company The activities through which this knowledge programme for research and innovation. • Ecoop, consultancy transfer is taking place include workshops, Its aim is to improve Europe’s global firm focus groups and publications. competitiveness. From its Biobased • Grunneger Power Economy knowledge centre, Hanze • GReK, Groninger University of Applied Sciences Groningen Energie Koepel is the technical and scientific coordinator • Adema Architecten of the LIBBIO project: Lupinus mutabilis for • ASN Installaties Increased Biomass from marginal lands and • Paddepoel Energiek value for BIOrefineries. Research Centre Biobased Economy Independent professorships Project External partners Impact

Biobased Stenden Hogeschool, Young professionals are prepared for Business Event Drenthe College, the future labour market. Lecturers Excluding those at the Centres of Applied Research, our university of applied (Emmen) Windesheim IPO, and students from various educational sciences also has two independent professorships: Green Logistics, institutions demonstrate how they are - Excellence in Higher Education and Society Professorship BERNN, Hochschule preparing for developments in the Biobased - Computer Science & Sensor Technology Professorship Osnabrück, RUG, Economy. Hondsrug College, Green Pac

Biobased N/A The knowledge lunches have a low Economy threshold and are suitable for a wide Knowledge audience. The aim is to inform interested Lunch (internal) parties about ongoing research within the Biobased Economy knowledge centre.

Our knowledge centre is a multidisciplinary partnership. It combines the knowledge and skills of professors, (lecturers and) researchers, students, entrepreneurs 54 55 and external experts. We are working on concrete, innovative solutions for the challenges which we encounter during the transition to a biobased economy.

Contribution to N/A • Round-table discussion about the ‘rules the Financieel of a biobased economy’ by leading dean Dagblad Victorine de Graaf-Peters supplement • Interview with leading professor Doede Binnema about ‘the development of profitable chains from biomass production via processing through to application’ and ‘the northern Netherlands as a hotspot for the biobased economy’ Award winners

Each year, we honour a number of remarkable employees and students by adding their names to our ‘Walk of Fame’. A few stand-outs from 2016 are listed below.

- Stephan Boers, student at the Minerva Academy of Popular Culture, won the 2016 Noorderslag Pop prize. - Eythora Thórsdóttir, student at the Lucia Marthas Dance Academy, finished ninth in individual all-around gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Rio. - Alena Lakova, student at the School of Communication, Media & IT, won the Euprera Master Thesis Award for Excellence. 56 - Loes Damhof, lecturer at the School of Communication, Media & IT, was named Lecturer of the Year 2016. Grotius Minor

In recent years, many refugees from places such as Syria and Africa have been granted resident status in the Netherlands. Lecturers and students of Hanze UAS have taken the initiative to help these people become part of Dutch society, including their civic integration process. These efforts have led to the Grotius Minor. This educational programme brings refugees into contact with Dutch higher education. The Minor takes its name from Hugo de Groot, the Dutch founder of international public law as we know it today. The second group of forty refugees began the programme in November 2016. They attend classes at a university of applied sciences level for six months, free of charge. The participants also gain an introduction to Dutch culture and society, through activities varying from ice skating lessons to a visit to the House of Representatives. Publication details

Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen hanzegroningen.eu/annualreport

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