Challenges

Self-actualization Robotics

Self-actualization robotics Arie Fokkink How can artificial intelligence support in enhancing self-actualization of limited individuals? About this challenge This issue was presented within a High-Tech Human-Touch (HTHT) minor within the UT. We started this in...

Inclusivity Enschede

Inclusiveness of neighborhoods in Enschede Arie Fokkink At some point, young people with a physical, mental or multiple disability have the desire to live more independently. They can do this by living in an inclusive...

First language first

Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey Femke Nijboer In 2090, a quarter of the population will be 65 or older. Many people of that age still feel very vital. Yet they are portrayed as old, vulnerable, lonely...

Heftan Tattat

Heftan Tattat Femke Nijboer Can a student who only speaks the language Low Saxon (Twents) graduate at Saxion or the University of Twente? Is the eHealth technology that we are developing at Saxion and the...

craft hall

craft hall Ivo Meijerink How do we ensure that upcoming entrepreneurs also find their way to the city center? The Corona crisis has made it even more difficult for new entrepreneurs to establish themselves in...

Language delay

Language delay Library Enschede Particulate matter is released when shredding car tires. In recent months, the municipality of Enschede negotiated with rubber processing company Doornberg to house the company, which was recently bought by the...

Drivers of a Creative City

Drivers of a Creative City Arjan Beerman How do you develop a ‘creative city’? This question has often been answered by different researchers and with different cities as research material. This question has also existed...

Station environment of the future

Station environment of the future Rik Goossens Enschede, like other cities, is constantly changing. This requires a constant flow of new ideas and concepts. One of the physical areas where a transition is needed is...

Local Government of the Future

Local Government of the Future Angela Rijnhart What will a municipality (or something similar) look like in fifty years? That is the main question of the master Public Administration course Institutional Frameworks for Local and...

Bringing city and student together

Bringing city and student together EnschedeLAB How can students play a role in identifying, mobilizing and supporting initiatives at the neighborhood level? That is a relevant question, now that the Municipality of Enschede is aiming...

EnschedeLAB Community Space

Young voices

Operation clean: less waste in operating rooms

Operation Clean Laurens van Houte, MST “How do we avoid generating so much waste in our operating room?” is the question that Medisch Spectrum Twente is grappling with, as part of their wish to make...

Inclusive Prosperity Enschede

Inclusive Prosperity Enschede Katrien Spanbroek The municipality of Enschede has recently developed future scenarios for 2030 with the most important uncertainties for the city: 1) is administrative or social control predominant? and 2) will traditional...

Guidance Early School Leavers

Guidance Early School Leavers Ypkje Grimm How can early school leavers best be guided to return to study or work? In Enschede there is a project for early school leavers (young people without a mavo...

Loneliness (international) students

Loneliness (international) students Youth loneliness education How can we, together with those concerned, ensure that (international) students feel less lonely (Post Corona)? That this question is relevant hardly needs explanation. During the Corona pandemic, it...

Sustainable Event Site

Sustainable Event Site Lonnekerberg & Landscape Overijssel Foundation The closure of the Twente military airport on 1 January 2008 has led to an area development in which the municipality, social organizations and citizens can make...

Enschede Circular Economy

Enschede Circular Economy Municipality of Enschede What does ‘circular economy’ mean in Enschede’s (resident) perspective – and how do we shape it together? That wish lives within the Municipality of Enschede, but the subject is...

Micro-participation in Enschede neighborhoods

Micro-participation in Enschede neighborhoods Malu Hertzdahl How can we stimulate participation at the smallest scale level , learning from examples at home and abroad, and start with that? That is the question for this challenge,...

Awareness of particulate matter

Awareness of particulate matter Christy Groenen-Rompelman Particulate matter is released when shredding car tires. In the past year, the Municipality of Enschede negotiated with rubber processing company Doornberg to house the company in Enschede. This...

Make Twents Great Again

Make Twents Great Again Femke Nijboer In healthcare and nursing homes, personal contact between caregivers and patients is very important to ensure adherence and outcome. It helps if healthcare providers speak the language of the...

Eye-Catcher TasteEat

Eye-Catcher TasteEat Robin Hollander Food festival ProefEet lacks an eye-catcher. Something that attracts attention every year and that can be presented to a wide audience from the innovative and creative disciplines. An element that, in...

Digibite during the second wave

Digibite during the second wave Twente Alliance How can we ensure that during a second lockdown the group of people who are not online / technically skilled can still maintain their social contacts? The ‘lockdown’...

Role of residents for the future of Twente

Role of residents for the future of Twente Twente Noabers How do we involve residents in the development of Twente? Especially after the Corona crisis, we discover that other ways of cooperation arise and that...

View of the Road

View of the Road Rik Goossens, Municipality of Enschede “View of the Road”: The Municipality of Enschede wants to improve the quality of life in the city by reducing the amount of parking spaces in...

Nuisance of smokers in neighbourhoods

Nuisance of smokers in neighbourhoods Saxion University of Applied Sciences, ROC of Twente, Municipality of Enschede How can we limit the nuisance caused by smokers in neighborhoods around educational institutions? That is a question that...

Student housing

Student housing Keeping Talent in Twente At the end of the summer, we were surprised that the University of Twente sent an email to international students to reconsider their registration if they hadn’t found a...

New Issues

New Issues EnschedeLAB Students of the Honors Plenary Program were given the task of coming up with new problems from the solutions of six completed challenges within an hour and a half. 75 students in...

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