Practice oriented research in the green domain together with other green universities of applied sciences.
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19 March
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4 June
Practice oriented research in the green domain together with other green universities of applied sciences.
The four green universities of applied sciences Aeres, Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (VHL), HAS University of Applied Sciences and Inholland University of Applied Sciences (HAOs) are continuing their cooperation on practice-oriented research within the Centre of Expertise Green. This will enable them to make a significant contribution to solving societal issues with focus and mass in the coming years.
The green sector faces a number of major challenges in the coming decades, partly as a result of global developments. Such as meeting the ever-increasing demand for healthy, safe and sustainably produced food, biodiversity conservation and landscape quality.
A change in the system is needed to address the societal challenges. In the green domain, this requires changes in thinking and behaviour, use of new technologies and new forms of cooperation. The food production system and the way we interact with our nature and living environment is difficult to change because of its complexity and path dependence. Penetration of new combined knowledge into practice and up-to-date training are essential in this transition and offer many opportunities.
The four green UAS's Aeres, Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (HVHL), HAS University of Applied Sciences and Inholland University of Applied Sciences (HAOs) have joined forces to form the Centre of Expertise Green. In this Centre of Expertise, they cooperate in the field of practice-oriented research. The ambition is to make a significant contribution to solving societal issues in the coming years, as they have done successfully in the past.
Centres of Expertise (CoE) are sustainable action-oriented partnerships in which universities of applied sciences, companies, governments and other public and social organisations jointly research, innovate, experiment and invest for the benefit of future-proof higher professional education and professional practice and to accelerate desired economic and social transitions.
Through practice-based research, the CoE Green aims to make a significant contribution to societal issues relating to food, climate, nature and the living environment. This is achieved by developing and building knowledge within the green sector in the Netherlands, disseminating this knowledge and implementing it in green education and green professional practice: regionally, nationally and internationally.
Increasing sustainability requires a change in thinking, daring and doing through a consistent, integral and innovation-oriented approach to the various aspects of production and management. To accelerate this change, an impetus is needed. With practice-based research, existing and newly combined knowledge can be made accessible, applicable and 'linkable'. Users can be helped in their choice process and support for change and innovation can be created through joint learning and step-by-step change. Cooperation takes shape in living labs, field labs and living labs.
