Openbare les. Toegang tot het recht is het kenmerk van een rechtvaardige samenleving waar mensen hun waardigheid op een gelijke manier op basis van wet- en regelgeving kunnen verwezenlijken, zonder het risico te lopen te worden genegeerd of vervolgd. Of je nu rijk, arm, oud, jong, gedetineerde, nieuwe Nederlander of illegaal bent: je kunt je recht zoeken. Op papier – bijvoorbeeld in wetboeken – of op internet. Zowel formele instituties – waaronder rechtbanken – als informele – zoals de Ombudsman of online mediation – houden zich bezig met geschillenbeslechting. De praktijk is echter vaak weerbarstiger. Weliswaar wordt op een globaal en statelijk niveau door het internationaal en national recht en beleid erkend dat het bevorderen van veiligheid, publieke dienstverlening en toegang tot het recht voor ieder mens van belang is. Maar op lokaal niveau – kleine bedrijven, buurten, school, werk of detentie – werkt dit doorgaans anders door. Is toegang tot het recht bijvoorbeeld relevant in een wereld waar een sloppenwijkbewoner geen mensenrecht op eigendom kan afdwingen? Waar groepen vluchtelingen in Europa geen asiel kunnen aanvragen, hoewel ze beschermd zijn door het Verenigde Naties (VN) Vluchtelingenverdrag? Of waar de neveneffecten van het internationale delen en gebruik van big data nauwelijks met een effectief rechtsmiddel aan de kaak kunnen worden gesteld?
Openbare les. Toegang tot het recht is het kenmerk van een rechtvaardige samenleving waar mensen hun waardigheid op een gelijke manier op basis van wet- en regelgeving kunnen verwezenlijken, zonder het risico te lopen te worden genegeerd of vervolgd. Of je nu rijk, arm, oud, jong, gedetineerde, nieuwe Nederlander of illegaal bent: je kunt je recht zoeken. Op papier – bijvoorbeeld in wetboeken – of op internet. Zowel formele instituties – waaronder rechtbanken – als informele – zoals de Ombudsman of online mediation – houden zich bezig met geschillenbeslechting. De praktijk is echter vaak weerbarstiger. Weliswaar wordt op een globaal en statelijk niveau door het internationaal en national recht en beleid erkend dat het bevorderen van veiligheid, publieke dienstverlening en toegang tot het recht voor ieder mens van belang is. Maar op lokaal niveau – kleine bedrijven, buurten, school, werk of detentie – werkt dit doorgaans anders door. Is toegang tot het recht bijvoorbeeld relevant in een wereld waar een sloppenwijkbewoner geen mensenrecht op eigendom kan afdwingen? Waar groepen vluchtelingen in Europa geen asiel kunnen aanvragen, hoewel ze beschermd zijn door het Verenigde Naties (VN) Vluchtelingenverdrag? Of waar de neveneffecten van het internationale delen en gebruik van big data nauwelijks met een effectief rechtsmiddel aan de kaak kunnen worden gesteld?
International education is a relatively new field and until recently, there was no formal education to prepare practitioners. This means that people working in international education are a colourful and diverse group, coming from a wide range of disciplines, which definitely adds to the attraction of the field. I call international education a field rather than a discipline since it is composed of a variety of established disciplines, such as languages, educational sciences, psychology, business, anthropology, history and even, in my case, classical archaeology. For this lecture, I have chosen to return to my original discipline and discuss global learning as the stages of an archaeological excavation. Cutting though the subsequent layers represents a history of international education but also my own professional history. By digging deeper down, layer after layer, I hope to uncover the essence of global learning in order to make its benefits available for all our students. This lecture consists of four sections. In the first section, I want to go back to the time when archaeology was a new discipline and see what we can learn from the research conducted at that time. In the second section I will reveal the layers of internationalisation and global learning until we come to the layer that we are currently exploring. In the third section, I will look at some of the factors and trends that will have an impact on global learning in the years to come. This shows that circumstances are quite different from when the excavation started and that global education is therefore dynamic. Finally, I will discuss what research the Research Group Global Learning will conduct, how and with whom, in the coming years.
Globalization has opened new markets to Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and given them access to better suppliers. However, the resulting lengthening of supply chains has increased their vulnerability to disruptions. SMEs now recognize the importance of reliable and resilient supply chains to meet customer requirements and gain competitive advantage. Data analytics play a crucial role in developing the insights needed to identify and deal with disruptions. At the company level, this entails the development of data analytic capability, a complex socio-technical process consisting of people, technology, and processes. At the supply chain level, the complexity is compounded by the fact that multiple actors are involved, each with their own resources and capabilities. Each company’s data analytic capability, in combination with how they work together to share information and thus create visibility in the supply chain will affect the reliability and resilience of the supply chain. The proposed study therefore examines how SMEs can leverage data analytics in a way that fits with their available resources and capabilities to improve the reliability and resilience of their supply chain. The consortium for this project consists of Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Logistics Community Brabant (LCB), Transport en Logistiek Nederland (TLN), Logistiek Digitaal, Kennis Transport, Smink and Devoteam. Together, the partners will develop a tool to benchmark SMEs’ progress towards developing data analytic capability that enhances the reliability of their supply chain. Interviews will be conducted with various actors of the supply chain to identify the enablers and inhibitors of using data analytics across the supply chain. Finally, the findings will be used to conduct action research with the two SMEs partners, Kennis and Smink to identify which technological tools and processes companies need to adopt to develop the use of data analytics to enhance their resilience in case of disruptions.
We live in a time of radical changes in Europe. The climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, energy crisis, the pandemic, increasedprice levels and interest rates, digitalization, robotization, reduced birth rates, an aging population, migration, a decliningdemocracy index and increasing friction level between continents and powerful states makes us uncertain about tomorrow.Deglobalization, shorter production lines, changed export models, bloc formations and sovereignty might be results of someof the large challenges we see today. We see tendencies towards increasing poverty and a declining middle class. It isperhaps more important than ever in recent times to show optimism on behalf of young people and future generations.European cooperation and the link between the right skills for the right future seems to be more actual and important thanever. A report from McKinsey Global Institute (2017) about future work life, competence development and digitalization,shows that approximately 50 % of todays jobs can disappear in the nearest future caused digitalization, robotization and AI.MGI’s in-dept report have covered more than 20 countries and 30 industries (mckinsey.com). We have also a commonEuropean challenge reagarding too many youth outside the working life. The NEET index (Not in Employment, Education orTraining) was 14 % totally for the EU countries, 9.6 % for Germany, 6.3 % for Netherlands and also 6.3 % for Norway in2021 (ssb.no).This is a challenge we have to solve as we need to increase the work participation as welfare costs willincrease as a consequence of more immigration and several older people.
