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Academic partners, the main cities of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine and people from the five urban neighbourhoods are involved in the project in order to improve the quality of live of these neighbourhoods, reinforce participation to sustainable development and increase exchanges and synergies between these cities.

Water management faces major challenges to cope with potential global change impacts, fundamental uncertainties surrounding future developments, and a diversity of societal perspectives.

The general aim of the ORGANEXT project is to research and develop nano-materials and innovative deposition techniques for next-generation opto-electronic applications and thin-film solar cells.

The Adaptation Pathways project, also known as the Perspectives Project, finished in autumn 2012. In this interdisciplinary and participatory project, ICIS, Utrecht University, Twente University, Deltares, KNMI, Pantopicon and Carthago Consultancy, have developed and applied a novel scenario method to identify sustainable water management strategies for lowland rivers.

The game, Sustainable Delta, helps participants to learn about preparing for an uncertain future. Participants have the assignment to develop a sustainable water management plan for a river delta. In an interactive setting they implement strategies. Once the future unfolds, the participants experience what happens in the delta and its environment. They can implement additional actions, if necessary. After the simulation of 100 years, the participants and facilitators reflect on the developed storyline and adaptation pathway, and discuss what triggered this pathway, how it can be improved, and how exploring adaptation pathways can help to develop a sustainable water management plan .

Photos of the sessions

The project aims to enhance the quality of teaching and research for those institutions in Vietnam producing the staff for the preventive medicine system. The objectives are to improve both technical and training capacity of the university level teachers and training conditions in preventive medicine in Vietnam.

The overall objective of this three-years project is to establish a network of excellence in integrated sustainability assessment (ISA) among higher education institutions and research centers in the Netherlands (Wageningen University and Research Centre and Maastricht University) and Brazil (University of Sao Paulo, Embrapa, e.o.).

ISI-MIP is a community-driven modelling effort with the goal of providing cross-sectoral global impact assessments, based on the newly developed climate [Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)] and socio-economic [Shared Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs)] scenarios.

City labs were a new administrative link between local government and citizens' initiatives.

The ‘Local Energy as Value Creator’ project, awarded by Province of Limburg/DuurzaamDoor, is a collaboration between In de tussentijd, Fontys Hogeschool, municipality Maastricht, Philadelphia and Sila Mens & Organisatie.

ENERGISE is an innovative pan-European research initiative to achieve a greater scientific understanding of the social and cultural influences on energy consumption. Funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme for three years (2016-2019), ENERGISE develops, tests and assesses options for a bottom-up transformation of energy use in households and communities across Europe.

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