Research projects
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The AUAS works together with partners on innovation in its environment in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and internationally through many research projects.
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1001 Hot Nights (Night-time heat)
1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2027Due to climate change, we are experiencing more frequent and prolonged heat. Prolonged heat causes buildings and homes to heat up, preventing residents from cooling down at night and causing poor sleep. This leads to ...
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Mr illi
1 Mar - 1 DecThere are currently about 290,000 people living with dementia in the Netherlands. Of these, 80,000 live in nursing or care homes. This means that more than 200,000 people with dementia live at home. According to ...
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DigiFABs
1 Feb 2024 - 1 Feb 2027DigiFABS aims to promote digital, resilience, and innovation skills to optimize the management of digital transformation in small and medium-sized businesses in the F&B processing sector.
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A blueprint for urban heat resiliency (Cool Cities)
1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2027Due to climate change, European cities are experiencing higher temperatures more often and for longer periods of time. This puts people at greater risk of heat stress: they experience physical and mental complaints ...
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AMSOS
1 Oct 2023 - 1 Oct 2025Chronic joint disorders are common conditions patients come to the physiotherapist or exercise therapist with. Conditions such as osteoarthritis and rheumatism cause problems in daily functioning due to pain and ...
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InvestWomen
15 Sep 2023 - 31 Jul 2024InvestWomen
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Pilot: Responsible Use of Generative AI tools as a Government Institution
1 Sep 2023 - 31 May 2024As a “responsible AI researcher” working in residence one day a week at the Province Noord-Holland to investigate together how generative AI tools are currently used in the organization and what opinions ...
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Enhancing Juridical Decision-Making using AI tools and techniques
1 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2024An exploratory research to use AI on appeals against a decision made to environmental permits in construction.
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Consensusmachine
1 Sep 2023De Consensusmachine is een interactieve AI-installatie die mensen helpt bij het bereiken van consensus over een controversieel onderwerp. Met dit experiment onderzoekt de Werkplaats Responsible IT het idee van een ...
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Modelling Dynamic Lifecycle Impacts of Circular Procurement in Healthcare (MODLI)
1 Sep 2023 - 1 Sep 2025The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability in supply networks in the healthcare sector and the tremendous waste problem and ecological impact of disposable healthcare products such as isolation gowns. ...
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Better book search with AI
1 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2024OBA would like to upgrade the search capabilities for their library catalogue. Currently, search is very limited in that it requires an exact book title and/or author name.
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THE IMAGE PROJECT
23 Jul 2023 - 30 Apr 2025In general, European urban peripheries have not had a positive reputation over the last decades. In contraposition with the liveliness of urban city centres, peripheral areas have been considered, at their best, as ...
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TRANSITIONS
1 Jul 2023 - 1 Jun 2025Fashion and textiles is the second most polluting industry in the world. As a result of European directives, the textile sector must be fully circular by 2050. It is therefore currently facing major challenges that ...
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Innovative circular solutions for a sustainable construction sector (WOODCIRCLES)
11 Jun 2023 - 31 May 2027The construction sector is responsible for over 35% of the EU’s total waste generation, and accounts for about 50% of all extracted resources and an estimated at 5-12% of total GHG emissions. With the ...
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Helping urban households sort waste better (BASSTA Plus)
1 Jun 2023 - 31 May 2025Proper sorting of waste flows creates opportunities for recycling and other circular applications. Yet a lot of food scraps still end up in the plastic waste bins and vice versa. Amsterdam University of Applied ...
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PhD research project Ilham Bouisaghouane
1 Apr 2023 - 31 Mar 2027The Dutch Black Hole Consortium (DBHC) is a large, interdisciplinary consortium bringing together cutting-edge research from subjects as diverse as astronomy, engineering, and geology to further our understanding of ...
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2Do2Digital
1 Feb 2023 - 31 Dec 2023The most important advice to overweight 55+ people with type 2 diabetes is to lose weight. To support them in this, the lectorate of Nutrition and Exercise of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences – ...
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Researching hereditary brain disorders (CureQ)
1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026Hereditary brain disorders often do not become apparent until middle age, when they drastically impact the lives of the patient and their family. Patients generally become fully dependent on care and often die at a ...
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No Trace to Waste (Geen Spoor te Verliezen)
1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026When a crime has been committed, traces of DNA and fingerprints often remain at the crime scene. These traces can play a vital role in investigating and prosecuting crime. The process of seeking, detecting, selecting ...
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AI, Media and Democracy
1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024There cannot be a democracy without a healthy media landscape, there is no free media without a democracy, and the media cannot function without technology.
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TransEET
1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025The TransEET project aims to establish a sustainable network between research labs that will enable a strategic program leading to the co-design, implementation and outreach of innovative educational solutions with ...
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Nature-2-Connect
1 Nov 2022 - 1 Aug 2023Digital nature can contribute to feelings of belonging for frail elderly people and can thus combat social isolation and loneliness. However, the preferences for specific nature scenes are very context-dependent. You ...
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Enhancer
1 Oct 2022 - 1 Feb 2025Europe is facing an increasing number of societal challenges such as migration, inequality, and climate change. Social entrepreneurship (SE) is seen as an essential and viable tool to address these societal ...
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Human Values for Smarter Cities
6 Sep 2022 - 30 Sep 2026Smart city technologies, including artificial intelligence and computer vision, promise to bring a higher quality of life and more efficient urban management to our cities.
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Upscaling circular wood applications for hospitality (Circular Wood 4.0)
1 Sep 2022 - 31 Jan 2025On average, a hospitality business renovates its entire interior every seven years, which constitutes an very high turnover and intense use of new materials for furnishing, wall paneling or other. Can that be done ...
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Towards the sustainable transport of goods (Greening Corridors)
1 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2026Making optimal use of goods transport corridors will help us achieve a more sustainable transport system. In the SPRONG research project Greening Corridors, AUAS is working together with four other universities of ...
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Dutch Black Hole Consortium
1 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2027The Dutch Black Hole Consortium (www.dbhc.nl) combines research in a variety of disciplines from theoretical physics, astrophysics, geology and cutting-edge technology for the new generation of gravitational wave ...
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Crafting resilience
1 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2027Social resilience is often presented as a panacea for issues from inequality to polarization. But what is social resilience and how do you build a resilient society? The NWA-funded project ‘Social Work and the ...
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DRAMA
1 Sep 2022 - 31 Dec 2023Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in media organizations, but how are these companies applying responsible AI? University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam, University of Applied ...
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The Bubble machine
1 Sep 2022 - 31 Dec 2023Much is still unclear about disinformation, the deliberate dissemination of information aimed at misleading or strongly influencing people. Disinformation is one of the topics the professorship has been working on ...
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Who Takes Care?
1 Jul 2022 - 1 Jul 2024The problem addressed by this research project is the high workload of care professionals in dementia care. Due to an increase in the number of elderly people with dementia, the demand for care is increasing, while ...
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RITA
1 Jun 2022 - 31 Dec 2022Running a website costs energy. If we need to have one, we want it to be as low energy consuming as possible (both on our workplace as on the hosting site) as well as inclusive, that is, accessible and usable by all.
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CrAFt – Creating Actionable Futures
12 May 2022 - 29 Apr 2025An EU-funded coordination and support action for New European Bauhaus transformations towards climate-neutral, beautiful and inclusive cities
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Creating actionable futures (CrAFt)
1 May 2022 - 1 May 2025How can you make European cities climate neutral, beautiful and inclusive in the near future? And which local collaboration models can help in this process? Three AUAS Centres of Expertise will work together with an ...
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It takes a village to grow old
4 Apr 2022 - 4 Apr 2024Social contacts and encounters in the neighborhood are important for the people who live there. It also encourages community residents to live together and, in particular, people with early dementia. Artificial ...
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Mapping Microplastics
1 Apr 2022Mapping Microplastics was a first exploratory workshop (part of the Entrepreneurship Program at HvA) with researchers and entrepreneurs to map how the public discourse on microplastics develops on Twitter.
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E-mail removal tool
1 Mar 2022 - 31 Dec 2022Storing e-mails costs energy. How can you easily remove redundant emails and at the same time gain insight in how much energy you save by doing that? Together with students Software engineering, we have built an ...
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Responsible Business Models
1 Feb 2022 - 31 Jul 2023Within the project ‘Responsible Business Models’, we want to investigate the conditions for digital public spaces. Together with Waag society, we are researching a ‘blueprint’ in which the ...
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Charging the Commons
1 Feb 2022 - 20 Dec 2024Charging the Commons is a 2-year project that investigates the design of digital platforms for resource communities. The project explores how a Situated-design approach can be employed to articulate the (social) ...
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A second life for discarded hard foam (Circular Foam)
1 Feb 2022 - 31 Jan 2026From freezers to wall panels: polyurethane hard foam can be found in many products and objects. Though it is a valuable material, with excellent insulating properties, it often ends up in the incinerator or in ...
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IDEEC - Impact-Driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children
10 Jan 2022 - 30 Sep 2025IDEEC is an international research project investigating the effects of impact-driven entrepreneurship education for primary school children. The project is a collaboration between the AUAS, Amsterdam Impact, Fawaka ...
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Building for Well-being
1 Jan 2022 - 15 Jun 2024How can we address the housing shortage while at the same time boosting the well-being of urban residents? This is the question Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) investigates in Building for Well-being, ...
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Fake News detection - Grip op desinformatie
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022It is often difficult to judge whether an article we read online is based on fact or not. Just hit current events: corona, reports from Russia about the war with Ukraine. Because it is impossible to manually verify ...
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Social Robotics in PsychoGeriatrics
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023This research builds on insights gained over the past two years during the NZA Pilot project ‘Social Robotics in Eldercare’. That project focused on the needs, acceptance and sustainable use of robotics ...
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Algorithm register municipality of Amsterdam
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022The algorithm register is an overview of the algorithms used by the City of Amsterdam in municipal services. An algorithm is a predetermined set of rules or steps that are followed by the computer.
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Generation Blockchain
1 Jan 2022 - 1 Jan 2024Generation Blockchain is an Erasmus+ research project focusing on blockchain technology and its impact on the rapidly changing economy. This two-year project involves several European colleges and universities, led ...
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Oplus
1 Dec 2021 - 1 Dec 2022Oplus is a collaborative platform of ROC Amsterdam-Flevoland, AUAS, Stichting ZZP Nederland, and the Municipality of Amsterdam. The platform aims to support entrepreneurs in the Amsterdam metropolitan region by ...
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Virtual Reality in Educational Escape Rooms (VR-EER)
1 Dec 2021 - 1 Dec 2022Escape rooms have taken the entertainment industry by storm, and there are now over 1,000 escape rooms in the Netherlands. These games are also being used in education.
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E-ToP
1 Sep 2021 - 1 Sep 2023The ToP program is a national evidence-based intervention for very preterm children (<32 weeks gestation) and their parents, aimed at improving parent-child interaction and the development of the preterm child.
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Filter Bubble Modeling
1 Sep 2021 - 31 Aug 2022Algorithmic Curation and the emergence of filter bubbles - An agent-based modelling approach