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  • taec_handbook_feb_2020_noedit.pdf  (2.66 MB, PDF)
    … THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS EMI TEACHER TRAINING MATERIALS FROM THE TAEC PROJECT. THE PROJECT IS CO-FUNDED BY THE ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. EMI HANDBOOK 1 The TAEC project has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. … Mandated or optional EMI. Whether or not EMI courses are a requirement will also play a role in how you approach your course. If EMI is a mandatory element of the curriculum or an optional choice can affect the extent to which your students ‘buy in’ to the demands put on 15 them. In some cases, elective EMI courses attract students already motivated to study their foreign language or those who have stronger English language proficiency. On the other hand, mandated EMI may result in a more … skills and learn important academic metalanguage.  When preparing for a class, you could explore the vocabulary you need by looking for synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms or items belonging to the same semantic field. You may use a thesaurus for help. Online, you can find numerous useful resources.  Avoid mid-sentence digressions, because they put a strain on your audience and it may be difficult for you to maintain connectedness. If asides are needed, make sure you finish your main idea first; …

  • Complex maar niet onmogelijk, longread deel 2

    Het is ook belangrijk om te onthouden dat democratie over afwegingen gaat, de concurrentie van ideeën en de beste uitweg. Een minderheidskabinet aangestuurd door Christen Democraten is voor Duitsland de beste kans om dichter bij het idee te komen, en het idee aan te vechten dat constitutionle...

    Rechtsgeleerdheid
    Reichstag buiding Germanu Berlin

  • Transparency in the Carbon Market

    What are companies' voluntary offsetting claims based on? How can we distinguish between good and bad? And what is the role of consumers, whose perceptions are at the core of companies' motivations to offset emissions?
    Emma van de Ven, Strategy Lead at ACORN (Rabobank), was interviewed to explain...

    Acorn

  • A gift voucher for employees who quit smoking

    UM is the first organisation in the Netherlands to investigate whether a financial reward will motivate smokers to quit. The researchers wanted to investigate the positive effects of rewarding employees with a gift voucher if they successfully quit smoking.

    UM in the press
    quit smoking
  • master_thesis_sustainable_value_addition_in_the_global_south_marie-luise_zaiss.pdf  (1.17 MB, PDF)
    … studied thoroughly. However, existing research does not sufficiently provide perspectives that expand the traditional concept of value addition in a way that accounts for the complex sustainability challenges present in global value chains. To fill this research gap, this thesis follows emerging scientific voices that challenge the merely economic understanding and proposes the concept of sustainable value addition and a new conceptual framework that operationalizes sustainable value addition at … 24 List of Abbreviations Abbreviation Definition CMC Cocoa Marketing Company COCOBOD Ghana Cocoa Board CMPU Community Mobile Processing Unit CSA Climate-smart Agriculture GHG Greenhouse Gases GVC Global Value Chain LBC Licensed Buyer Company NGO Non-governmental Organization RQ Research Question SQ Sub Question SVA Sustainable Value Addition SVAC Sustainable Value Addition Company TNC Transnational Corporations VSLAs Village Saving and Loan Associations 1 1. Introduction … Chapter 6.1 and Chapter 6.2, respectively. 5.2.2 Qualitative Semi-Structured Interviews Besides desktop research, qualitative semi-structured interviews built the core of the methodological approach of this thesis. Four interviews were conducted via online videocalls between May and July 2022. Input was obtained from a total of five actors in the cocoa value chain in Ghana that were deemed relevant for the subject matter of this paper. Table 2 presents an overview of the interviews conducted. …