“At a doctor’s appointment, children are often a bit frightened. They connect those settings with bad memories of acute illness or something that could be threatening to them,” says Leena Haataja. She’s a professor of child neurology at the University…
Personnel matters are generally managed very well in large companies. There is enough budget as well as interest from outside parties to work on behalf of these companies. It is often a different case for small companies. The administration might…
As many as two-thirds of all Dutch millennials are spending less money on Christmas dinner and gifts this year. This is according to international research carried out by the Dutch fintech company bunq among nine hundred millennials and Gen-Z’ers, three…
The income of cocoa farmers is abysmal, to say the least. They are not paid very much money for the beans they grow. Thanks to the start-up company Kumasi Drinks based in the Netherlands, they can now earn a bit…
The fashion world today can be described as anything but sustainable. The textile industry pollutes drinking water and the sector’s carbon emissions are more than those of aviation and shipping industries combined. Fashion tech start-up Coffee Clothing wants to change that…
What does an autonomous robot need to know and do to help people? And how do you teach robots to deal with chaos? Those questions are at the heart of the work of Elena Torta. Anyone seated across from her…
Burglars like to strike during Christmas and around the new year. Mathematical psychologist Dick Willems came up with a solution to make it a lot harder for thieves. He developed a system that can tell in advance where the likelihood…
This fall, Ricco Fiorito, on behalf of Cooloo, won the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award, which is an incentive award for sustainability pioneers. Dutch adventurer Cornelissen died in 2015 while on an expedition to the North Pole. Fiorito, who is also…
In information technology, human-in-the-Loop is a term used for models in which humans and artificial intelligence (AI) work together. Bulgarian start-up Humans in the Loop is a social enterprise and involves in this work people who have fled from crisis…
We will not get there just by making materials more sustainable or by stricter regulations. Making construction more sustainable requires fundamental changes in the way that we think and work. Universities and other knowledge institutions are doing a lot of…