Projects
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Single Session Therapy voor toegankelijke en persoonlijke geestelijke gezondheidszorg
Danae Beskers & Maikel Pauw | 31-05-2023Birdt Health wil de kloof in de geestelijke gezondheidszorg overbruggen en het verschil maken met een innovatief platform dat toegankelijke en effectieve onlinebehandelingen aanbiedt. Birdt ontwikkelt een platform voor alternatieve transdiagnostische benadering voor ggz-problematieken gebaseerd op het netwerkmodel.
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Towards a circular future with raw materials from paper sludge
Sophie Pahud de Mortanges & Jasper van Hijfte | 22-05-2023Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is a versatile and crucial raw material. The global market volume is nearly 10 billion kg per year. Calcium carbonate is widely used in various applications, such as paper, carpets, ceramics, glass, toothpaste, and medicines. At the end of their life cycle, these products often end up as waste in landfills or are incinerated. This not only results in the loss of the material but also releases a significant amount of CO2 that is present in the calcium carbonate. There is great potential for adopting a circular approach to this valuable substance.
The National Coalition for Sustainable Digitization
Deniz Seyfeli & Sijmen Verveer | 21-10-2022On October 18th 2022, a coalition of more than 70 organizations presented the "Manifest Duurzame Digitalisering” (Sustainable Digitization Manifesto) to the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate in the context of the ‘Nationale Coalitie Duurzame Digitalisering’ (NCDD - National Coalition for Sustainable Digitization). The Manifesto calls for an approach in which business communities, governments, knowledge institutions and citizens work closely together to lead digitization in the Netherlands in a sustainable way.
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A relief for patients in Africa
Danae Beskers | 01-12-2021Recently, due to the covid crisis, the medical procedure of intubation has been in the news a lot. Intubation is the insertion of a breathing tube (endotracheal tube) through the mouth, in order to connect patients who are unable to breathe independently to breathing equipment. However, safe intubation is not available to everyone in the world.
Making PET recycling a little easier
Ezra van den Bosch | 24-09-2021In order to achieve the European climate goals of 2030, industry and society will have to become more independent from fossil fuels. Today, however, almost all food packaging is still made from fossil based resources. This is a shame because we could reuse so much more of the plastic that is already in circulation.
Eliminating the need for central heating boilers almost effortlessly
Philip Hoogreef | 26-07-2021In order to meet the objectives of the Dutch Climate Agreement, the Netherlands are making plans to equip around 200,000 houses a year with a sustainable heat supply in the coming years, signifying that these houses will need an alternative for being heated using central heating boilers that run on natural gas. However, many of the existing terraced houses in the Netherlands from before the 1990s are not suitable for existing alternative heat sources such as a heat pump. For these houses, high investments are currently required in e.g. insulation and low-temperature radiators, and a large, noisy outdoor condenser unit is often required.