Podotherapeutische zorg als onderdeel van professionele voetzorg is in Zuidoost-Azië nog een onbekend fenomeen. Uitbreiding van het curriculum van de in 2014 in Hanoi (Vietnam) gestarte opleiding tot orthopedisch schoenmaker met onderwijs in het toepassen van vilttherapie biedt kansen. Een combinatie van theoretische uitleg en begeleid oefenen van praktische vaardigheden is daarbij aan te bevelen. Dat concludeert Esther Stals, student podotherapie aan Fontys Paramedische Hogeschool, in haar afstudeeronderzoek.* Zij verbleef hiervoor vijf weken in Vietnam.
This study begins to fill the gap in tourism literature in examining the tourism structures from the perspective of a socialist-market economy with a single-party political system like Vietnam. At present, Central Vietnam (CV) has three different types of administrative layers and existing different tourism structures of destination management organisations (DMOs), like co-operations of public and private stakeholders in juxtaposition with each other, which do not achieve an effective target-oriented co-operation for enhancing the destination's competitiveness. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the existing organisational tourism structures in CV under the aspect of tourism stakeholder co-operation in order to find out which structures and types of co-operation appear as the most efficient ones in CV and which structures would add most value to the region, with the goal for enhancing tourism management in CV. The research process involved a field research as well as in-depth interviews with public and private stakeholders in CV. The findings revealed that all stakeholders perceive CV as one destination. It is recommended to establish one single “DMO CV” as Public Private Partnership, which shall be responsible for CV, with the tasks including sustainable tourism development and to position CV as a strongly competitive destination.
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Under pressure of the continuing need to modernize, Vietnam is rapidly reforming its education system. Cooperative Learning (CL) with a Western-based model is being enthusiastically applied. This paper suggests that an authentic form of CL has long existed in the foundations of Vietnamese education. The reasons why Western-based CL is encouraged can be attributed to false universalism (the belief that a practice that originated from elsewhere can be “cloned” with similar results) and neo-colonialism (the perpetuation of a colonial mindset under the pressure of financial loans). While an adjusted form of CL has been suggested by previous studies to make CL culturally appropriate, this paper argues that a true hybrid form of CL which takes into account the authentic CL will have more potential to make this method not only culturally but institutionally appropriate. The paper indicates a strong need to identify and incorporate indigenous practice in the process of educational reform.
This project entails a feasibility study to assess the possibility of creating an open-access, community-based makerspace in the Vietnamese city of Can Tho. The aim of the project is to kickstart the community based circular economy by utilizing residual flows from the plastic catching process. Plastic catchers trap both plastic and biomass that will be converted into new products to strengthen both the local economy and providing Dutch SME-company Orange Star Solutions with the necessary raw materials to convert into produce. The project will make use of a plot of land bordering the Song Can Tho river. The owner proposed that the plot of land could be used in a way to generate income, preferable in a way that would show environmental awareness. This could be done by using the vast amounts of (in)organic waste that is littering the environment. The collection of the waste is mainly done by local waste pickers. The waste pickers, part of the informal economy, could unleash their full potential if there is a physical location where waste is upcycled and sold, circumventing the bury, burn or bale-and-export economy. The extracted plastic will be converted into pans, cups, pots and crockery. The biomass, predominantly water hyacinth, will serve as one of the ingredients for compost hence, reducing the reliance on chemical fertilizers.
Collaborative networks for sustainability are emerging rapidly to address urgent societal challenges. By bringing together organizations with different knowledge bases, resources and capabilities, collaborative networks enhance information exchange, knowledge sharing and learning opportunities to address these complex problems that cannot be solved by organizations individually. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the apparel sector, where examples of collaborative networks for sustainability are plenty, for example Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Zero Discharge Hazardous Chemicals, and the Fair Wear Foundation. Companies like C&A and H&M but also smaller players join these networks to take their social responsibility. Collaborative networks are unlike traditional forms of organizations; they are loosely structured collectives of different, often competing organizations, with dynamic membership and usually lack legal status. However, they do not emerge or organize on their own; they need network orchestrators who manage the network in terms of activities and participants. But network orchestrators face many challenges. They have to balance the interests of diverse companies and deal with tensions that often arise between them, like sharing their innovative knowledge. Orchestrators also have to “sell” the value of the network to potential new participants, who make decisions about which networks to join based on the benefits they expect to get from participating. Network orchestrators often do not know the best way to maintain engagement, commitment and enthusiasm or how to ensure knowledge and resource sharing, especially when competitors are involved. Furthermore, collaborative networks receive funding from grants or subsidies, creating financial uncertainty about its continuity. Raising financing from the private sector is difficult and network orchestrators compete more and more for resources. When networks dissolve or dysfunction (due to a lack of value creation and capture for participants, a lack of financing or a non-functioning business model), the collective value that has been created and accrued over time may be lost. This is problematic given that industrial transformations towards sustainability take many years and durable organizational forms are required to ensure ongoing support for this change. Network orchestration is a new profession. There are no guidelines, handbooks or good practices for how to perform this role, nor is there professional education or a professional association that represents network orchestrators. This is urgently needed as network orchestrators struggle with their role in governing networks so that they create and capture value for participants and ultimately ensure better network performance and survival. This project aims to foster the professionalization of the network orchestrator role by: (a) generating knowledge, developing and testing collaborative network governance models, facilitation tools and collaborative business modeling tools to enable network orchestrators to improve the performance of collaborative networks in terms of collective value creation (network level) and private value capture (network participant level) (b) organizing platform activities for network orchestrators to exchange ideas, best practices and learn from each other, thereby facilitating the formation of a professional identity, standards and community of network orchestrators.
Dit project is een haalbaarheidsstudie naar de benodigde eigenschappen van een flood early warning system in het stroomgebied van de Rode Rivier in noordwest Vietnam. In het project wordt zowel de gebiedskennis verzameld als een lokaal netwerk gevormd, zodanig dat een smart sensor system voor waterbeheer ingericht kan worden dat de lokale bevolking in staat stelt om tijdig te anticiperen op plotselinge overstromingen. Door extreme weersituaties die zich regelmatiger voor zullen doen zullen de effecten van overstromingen verergeren. Met name vanwege het zeer korte tijdsbestek waarbinnen overstromingen op kunnen treden, is het voor de bevolking noodzakelijk om zelfstandig hierop te kunnen anticiperen. Door de effecten van klimaatverandering en grootschalige ontbossing is het risico op overstromingen in de gehele regio sterk toegenomen. Daarom zal ook gekeken worden naar de mogelijkheden van opschaling van voornoemd systeem. In dit project wordt ook de basis gelegd voor een nieuw samenwerkingsverband tussen het HAN/VHL lectoraat Sustainable River Management, Eijkelkamp Soil & Water, Prins Land, Water & Food Consult en het World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Deze partners hebben de gedeelde ambitie om een pilot project te realiseren voor een early warning systeem, waarmee op basis van real-time empirische data over neerslag en rivierafvoer automatisch een waarschuwingssignaal naar mobiele telefoons in een bepaald gebied gegenereerd kan worden, zodat de bevolking tijdig maatregelen kan nemen voor evacuatie en/of om ernstige schade te beperken bij verhoogd risico op zogenaamde 'flash floods'. Deze ambitie zal gezamenlijk uitgewerkt worden in een voorstel voor een pilotproject onder bijv. de Partners voor Water regeling.
