Tijdens ons jaarlijks event HAS Expo hebben wij in 2020 de HAS Talkshow geïntroduceerd. Tijdens de HAS Talkshow 2020 praten 3 lectoren van HAS Hogeschool je in deze interactieve talkshow bij over de impact van Covid-19 op de sector agrofood en leefomgeving. De presentatie is in handen van alumna Froukje Kooter. Froukje Kooter presenteert de HAS-talkshow. Transitie, jongeren, nuances in de voedselketen en landbouw en een toekomstbestendige leefomgeving doen haar hart sneller kloppen. Ze is kritisch en zegt waar het op staat. Er komen verschillende onderwerpen aan bod, denk aan overschotten van o.a. frietaardappelen en vlees, consumenten die hamsteren, maar ook landbouwhuisdieren en zoönose. De lectoren die aan tafel zitten zijn: - Margje Voeten - lectoraat Innovatieve Biomonitoring - Lenny van Erp - lectoraat Precision Livestock Farming - Herman Peppelenbos - lectoraat Groene Gezondheid.
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Op 17 mei hield het lectoraat Innovatieve Biomonitoring de eerste Bioblitz: studenten en docenten gingen namens de opleiding Toegepaste Biologie zoveel mogelijk soorten planten en dieren tellen op het HAS-terrein en het naastgelegen Westerpark. De resultaten vind je op deze website en in de bijgevoegde video.
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In 2017 heeft de HAS Hogeschool samen met een viertal partners uit het werkveld een kenniscaroussel georganiseerd. Deze Community of Practice heeft nieuwe inzichten gegenereerd met betrekking op het sturen van de openbare ruimte. Kennis en inzichten die niet alleen voor de direct betrokkenen interessant zijn, maar ook voor andere partijen in het werkveld: aannemers, adviesbureaus en onderwijsinstellingen. Voor het onderwijs is het van belang dat, bestendige, veranderingen in het werkveld hun beslag krijgen in het curriculum. Dat geldt niet alleen voor de HAS, maar ook voor de groene MBO opleidingen. Tijdens een bijeenkomst op het Citaverde college in Roermond zijn bovenstaande thema’s besproken met vertegenwoordigers vanuit het onderwijs (Citaverde, Helicon en de HAS).
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Energy transition is key to achieving a sustainable future. In this transition, an often neglected pillar is raising awareness and educating youth on the benefits, complexities, and urgency of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency. The Master Energy for Society, and particularly the course “Society in Transition”, aims at providing a first overview on the urgency and complexities of the energy transition. However, educating on the energy transition brings challenges: it is a complex topic to understand for students, especially when they have diverse backgrounds. In the last years we have seen a growing interest in the use of gamification approaches in higher institutions. While most practices have been related to digital gaming approaches, there is a new trend: escape rooms. The intended output and proposed innovation is therefore the development and application of an escape room on energy transition to increase knowledge and raise motivation among our students by addressing both hard and soft skills in an innovative and original way. This project is interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary due to the complexity of the topic; it consists of three different stages, including evaluation, and requires the involvement of students and colleagues from the master program. We are confident that this proposed innovation can lead to an improvement, based on relevant literature and previous experiences in other institutions, and has the potential to be successfully implemented in other higher education institutions in The Netherlands.
Designing cities that are socially sustainable has been a significant challenge until today. Lately, European Commission’s research agenda of Industy 5.0 has prioritised a sustainable, human-centric and resilient development over merely pursuing efficiency and productivity in societal transitions. The focus has been on searching for sustainable solutions to societal challenges, engaging part of the design industry. In architecture and urban design, whose common goal is to create a condition for human life, much effort was put into elevating the engineering process of physical space, making it more efficient. However, the natural process of social evolution has not been given priority in urban and architectural research on sustainable design. STEPS stems from the common interest of the project partners in accessible, diverse, and progressive public spaces, which is vital to socially sustainable urban development. The primary challenge lies in how to synthesise the standardised sustainable design techniques with unique social values of public space, propelling a transition from technical sustainability to social sustainability. Although a large number of social-oriented studies in urban design have been published in the academic domain, principles and guidelines that can be applied to practice are large missing. How can we generate operative principles guiding public space analysis and design to explore and achieve the social condition of sustainability, developing transferable ways of utilising research knowledge in design? STEPS will develop a design catalogue with operative principles guiding public space analysis and design. This will help designers apply cross-domain knowledge of social sustainability in practice.
The production of denim makes a significant contribution to the environmental impact of the textile industry. The use of mechanically recycled fibers is proven to lower this environmental impact. MUD jeans produce denim using a mixture of virgin and mechanically recycled fibers and has the goal to produce denim with 100% post-consumer textile by 2020. However, denim fabric with 100% mechanically recycled fibers has insufficient mechanical properties. The goal of this project is to investigate the possibilities to increase the content of recycled post-consumer textile fibers in denim products using innovative recycling process technologies.
