Intermediaries in the ‘Design for Sustainability’ Field: Strategies for Developing Innovation Support Mechanisms in Turkey

Design for sustainability is a key approach for achieving sustainable development. This PhD study investigates innovation support for companies working on design for sustainability and intermediaries that provide innovation support. The study focuses on Turkey, where design for sustainability is not yet developed. It investigates the innovation...

Competences in Context: Knowledge and capacity development in public water management in Indonesia and The Netherlands

International cooperation for reaching development goals has expanded gradually since the 1950s. The effectiveness of the Overseas Development Aid (ODA) has become a topic of great public interest. A growing body of experience exists to demonstrate that finance alone is not sufficient for development, and capacity and knowledge are increasingly...

Hoe kies jij je minor? Een onderzoek naar beïnvloedingsfactoren van minorkeuzes door voltijd HBO-bachelorstudenten van Fontys Hogescholen

Since 2002 Dutch higher education has adopted the Bachelor/Master degree structure. Many universities of applied sciences have since then designed their undergraduate professional bachelor programmes education in terms of majors and minors. Minors offer students the possibility to differentiate their education in such a way that it reflects...

The Facilitating University: Positioning Next Generation Educational Technology

Higher education is directly and indirectly subjected to pressures of diminishing subsidies, increasing student populations, heterogeneity, shorter knowledge and product lifecycles, labour demands, proliferation of technology, and new educational approaches and practices. Higher education must change to cope with these pressures. This study is...

Study of Delft aerospace alumni

This thesis reports on an alumni study of the Faculty Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology to discover what the impact is of the degree in aerospace engineering on an alumnus' professional success and comment on what are important qualities for aerospace engineers to have in order to differentiate themselves from those with an...

English as the medium of instruction in Dutch engineering education, Engels als instructietaal in Nederlandse ingenieursopleidingen