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Completed research

2022

  • SPIN

    The SPIN project “Social and economic effects of partnering for sustainable change in agricultural commodity chains – A Southern perspective”, awarded by KNAW/DIKTI, is a collaboration between Maastricht University (MSI) and the University of Lampung (Sumatra, Indonesia).

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2021

  • LIJN50

    LIJN-50 regional foresight study

    The new Dutch Environment and Planning Act (‘Omgevingswet’) aims for more integrated policy to be developed in a participatory way. To support the so-called LIJN-50 municipalities Vaals, Gulpen-Wittem and Eijsden-Margraten in South Limburg, the Netherlands, the Maastricht Sustainability Institute and Pantopicon (a foresight and design studio in Antwerp) explored the potential of the region towards 2050 by means of a foresight study.

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2020

  • STRASUS

    The STRASUS (strategic sustainability for logistics)  project aims to "gamify" the creation and, above all, the active implementation of a sustainability strategy (CSR) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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  • ENERGISE

    ENERGISE

    ENERGISE is an innovative pan-European research initiative to achieve a greater scientific understanding of the social and cultural influences on energy consumption.

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  • social housing residents

    Verduurzaming Aurora flat Heerlen

    Nederland staat voor een enorme uitdaging om de hoeveelheid broeikasgassen ten opzichte van 1990 drastisch (dwz met 95%) te verminderen voor 2050.

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2019

  • Smarterlab

    The SmarterLabs project aims to develop a Smart City Living Lab approach to effectively deal with two major risks to successful, widespread implementation of smart transport technologies.

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2018

  • HEEC Project

    The project is part of Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) – Smart Energy in Smart Cities, a collaborative research programme by China and the Netherlands with the aim to promote long-term collaboration among scientists from both countries.

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  • TRANSIT

    TRANSIT is an ambitious research project that will develop a theory of transformative social innovation which is about empowerment and change in society. 

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2017

  • URB@EXP

    Designing guidelines that are needed concerning types of problems for which urban labs are most suited, how urban labs can best be organized, and how they can be integrated into urban governance systems.

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  • NurSus

    The aim of the NurSus project is to enhance the availability/relevance of a sound learning offer in Sustainability Literacy and Competency (SLC) in nurse education by developing innovative teaching and learning approaches and materials.

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  • MUNPOP

    MUNPOP is a joint program of researchers from Maastricht University, Utrecht University, and Radboud University Nijmegen on the topic of Partnerships for Sustainable Development.

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  • SPIN

    The SPIN project “Social and economic effects of partnering for sustainable change in agricultural commodity chains – A Southern perspective”, awarded by KNAW/DIKTI, is a collaboration between Maastricht University (MSI) and the University of Lampung (Sumatra, Indonesia).

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2016

  • POLFREE

    The POLFREE project (EU FP7) develops an integrated vision for a resource-efficient economy for Europe which is oriented towards key goals of the EU 2020 strategy. 

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2014

  • ISI-MIP

    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.

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  • NESO-Brazil (Nuffic-Capes)

    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.).

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  • NPT Strengthening Teaching and Research Capacity of Preventive Medicine in Vietnam

    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.

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2013

  • Adaptation Pathways

    The Adaptation Pathways project, also known as the Perspectives Project, finished in autumn 2012. In this interdisciplinary and participatory project, MSI, 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.

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  • ORGANEXT

    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.

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  • Perspectives in Integrated Water Resource Management in River Deltas

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

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  • SUN

    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.

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  • VISION

    The main objective of the project ‘Producing a shared vision on how to harness Research & Development for Sustainable Development (VISION RD4SD) is to ensure that Europe is able to contribute to a Sustainable Development of the world by formulating policies and decisions based on robust, up to date knowledge of highest scientific quality.

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2012

  • ENHanCE

    The ENHanCE Project aimed to assess the effects of future climate change on the spread of infectious diseases in Europe and its impacts on human health and wellbeing.

2011

  • Climate Change and Tourism in Spain

    Weather and climate are closely linked to outdoor recreation activities and tourism in general. So far, coastal regions, and more specifically beach tourism, have received most of the attention regarding the impacts of climate change.

  • Governance for Sustainable Development: The Case of Limburg, The Netherlands

    The project aims at investigating how sustainable development can be attained at the regional level. The Province of Limburg will serve as a case study. Stakeholders will play an important role throughout the project.

  • INSPIRATOR

    This NWO funded research project examines experiences with knowledge co-production and the use of coproduced knowledge by decision-makers. A typology of knowledge co-production in the science-policy interface will be developed, based on existing classifications, as well as normative criteria to assess the effectiveness of co-production.

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  • INTARESE

    INTARESE is a 5-year project, funded by the EU, on developing and applying new, integrated approaches to the assessment of environmental health risks and consequences, in support of European policy on environmental health.

2010

  • ECLAT-COAS

    The main objective of this project has been to enhance our understanding of climate change impacts on coastal and marine tourism in Europe and to assist in the vulnerability assessment of the sector.

  • Sustainable education in Limburg

    MSI performed an inventory of education on sustainable development in Limburg. The aim of the project was to make a quick scan of educational programmes on sustainable development at schools in Limburg at primary, secondary and tertiary level; to analyse the role of external providers; and to explore the role of the Province.

  • Sustainable Mobility

    The project developed an integrated assessment of the mobility problem. It examined initiatives with alternative mobility in the Netherlands and in other countries. On the basis of the causality analysis and experiences with alternative modes of mobility, sociotechnical scenarios are developed that describe the co-evolution of policy, technology and behaviour.

  • Synthesis study programme VAM

    The Earth and Life Sciences (ALW) and Social Sciences (MaGW) have launched a new programme ‘Vulnerability, Adaptation, Mitigation and Adaptation-Mitigation’ (VAM). Complementing the earlier NRP programmes that targeted the natural sciences, VAM focuses on research into the social and behavioural aspects of climate change, drawing on disciplines such as public administration, geography, environmental economics, socio-cultural sciences, environmental law, and psychology.

2009

  • ADAM

    ADAM will lead to a better understanding of the trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies. ADAM will support EU policy development in the next stage of the development of the Kyoto Protocol and will inform the emergence of new adaptation strategies for Europe.

  • Atlantis

    The ATLANTIS project is an integrated assessment of future trends and impacts of tourism in Antarctica (ATLANTIS = Adventure, Tourism/Leisure in ANtarctica: Towards Integrated Scenarios). The project is funded by the Netherlands Arctic/Antarctic Research Program (NAAP) of NWO and is expected to take four years.

  • MarBEF

    Network of Excellence on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. MARBEF is the first FP6 network and aims to integrate marine biodiversity research at a European level.

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  • NeWater

    The central theme of the NeWater project is a transition from currently prevailing regimes of river basin water management into more adaptive regimes in the future. This transition calls for a highly integrated water resources management (IWRM) concept.

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  • PESETA

    PESETA project focused on the impacts of climate change on the following sectors: Coastal systems, Human health, Agriculture, Tourism, and Floods. For each of these sectoral categories, a corresponding sectoral-based study is developed.

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2008

  • MATISSE

    The objective of MATISSE is to achieve a step-wise advance in the science and application of Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA) of EU policies. In order to reach this objective the core activity of the MATISSE project is to improve the tool kit available for conducting Integrated Sustainability Assessments.

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  • Perspectives in integrated Water management

    This pilot project focused on a new method of scenario development for dealing with uncertainty. In these scenarios, there is a focus on various uncertain developments (climate, space, economy etc.), and explicit attention to possible developments of social perspectives.

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  • Sustainable Tourism in the Antarctic Peninsula

    This project aims to contribute to the development of effective management policies to preserve the Antarctic environment, while accommodating tourism. This project – funded by NWO – made these views explicit, and connected them with policy. Special attention was given to the scale aspect: is it necessary, desirable and possible to limi tourism in Antartica?

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  • ZonMW scoping study

    This scoping study (funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), in collaboration with Erasmus MC and RIVM), has identified the potential consequences of global environmental change on human.

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Before 2008

Camera
The main goal of the WOTRO-CAMERA project was to assess how changing environmental and socio-economic factors have an impact on the risk of vector-borne diseases.

cCASHh
This research project, funded by the European Commission (2001-2003) answered questions regarding how communities and individuals could adapt to health impacts of climate change.

Cohesie
The “Cohesie model” provides insights in the behaviour of stakeholders involved in the building processes of urban restructuring programs. The model identifies possible pitfalls in an early stage and therefore stimulates a more progressive building process

Dealing with uncertainty project
In 1998 MSI together with RIVM started an ongoing learning process on dealing with uncertainties in a systematic way.

EPN (European Phenology Network)
EPN aimed to improve monitoring, assessment and prediction of climate-induced phenological changes and their effects in Europe.

Firma
The FIRMA project aimed to improve water resource planning by developing and applying agent-based modelling to integrate physical, hydrological, social and economic aspects of water resource management.

Globalisation, Environmental Change and Public Health
‘Globalisation, Environmental Change and Public Health’ was a collaborative project with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP). This project studied the health changes in a globalising world.

Goliath
Goliath was an in-depth study of global tourism (GOLIATH = Global tO Local Integrated Assessment of Tourism and Hospitality).

HarmoniCOP
The HarmoniCOP project (2002 -2005) aims to increase the understanding of participatory river basin management planning (RBMP) in Europe

Hot4
Hot4 assesses the risks of climate change in the Netherlands. The project builds on previous projects results and aims to revisit and improve the quality and robustness of the assessment.

INSURE
The INSURE project is an EU-funded project aimed at devising a flexible framework for indicators for sustainability in regions using system dynamics modelling. INSURE Dutch papers INSURE guidelinesINSURE case studies INSURE other

IRMA
This project analysed flood reduction and mitigation strategies in water management of the Rhine and Meuse.

Medaction
MEDACTION was a multidisciplinary research project focussing on finding solutions to the problem of desertification in the Mediterranean region.

New methods for sustainable urban and neighbourhood planning project
In the context of the National Initiative for Sustainable Development (in Dutch: NIDO) ICIS has explored new integrative methods for sustainable urban development and neighbourhood revitalisation.

NMP4
From January 2000 MSI has been involved as advisor in the developing process of the National Environmental Policy Plan 4 (NMP4).

OCCUR (Ozone and Climate Change interaction effects for Ultraviolet radiation and Risks)
This project summarises the present knowledge on the climate-ozone interaction, the past and present UV-climate in Europe and dose-effect relationships for health and aquatic effects.

OEEI
Commissioned by the Dutch Ministry for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Fisheries (LNV), the OEEI-evaluation project was aimed at evaluating and discussing the new OEEI guideline for assessing the economic impacts of projects concerning the infrastructure.

Parkstad Limburg region 2030 project
In this project, a vision for the Parkstad Limburg region (situated in the south of the Netherlands) for the year 2030 was developed.

POL
This project assisted the Province of Limburg to develop an integrated long-term vision on the future of Limburg.

Sustainability A-Test
This project reviewed existing tool and methods that are needed to support strategy development, ex-ante sustainability impact assessments as well as policy reviews.

The river Meuse and uncertainty management
In this project, uncertainties were identified with regard to future developments in the area of the river Meuse.

UNEP
With other GEO collaborating centres, MSI was involved in the development of the scenarios of the third Global Environmental Outlook.

Visions
VISIONS is an Integrated Assessment project, developing scenarios for the European region.
 
 

 

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