Annual Report 2016
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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 Groningen, 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 Netherlands – 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.