Projects

To better educate healthcare professionals on the topic of consolation, the ‘TroostWijk project’ (Consolation Wise project) was launched. This project collects comforting experiences from the lives of older people.

Teaser: Relatively large health disparities exist in Dutch society, particularly among people with a low socioeconomic position.

Two out of five young children do not get enough physical activity, and one in five shows concerning motor development. Despite the attention given to this issue, efforts to change this have not been sufficiently...

How creative, transdisciplinary collaboration strengthens health ownership and offers a way out of the healthcare crisis.

This project is called CUPIDO, an abbreviation for Community-Up Plant-based Innovations for healthy Diets and new business opportunities.

Only 50 percent of young people meet the daily exercise guideline. This project investigates how young people can be motivated to exercise, with a stronger focus on diversity and inclusion in physical education classes.

Breast cancer has a major impact on life. Physical training can help reduce this impact. Together with practical partners, the Research Group for Oncological Care started a study into tailored exercise support.

Image-guided treatment enables patients to be treated in a more targeted and less invasive way. This results in health benefits and ensures the approach is future-proof.

Fatigue is the most debilitating complaint among young people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). This project aims to adapt an existing fatigue treatment designed for adults to suit adolescents.

In collaboration with stakeholders, promising innovations are developed, evaluated, and implemented in real-life settings, enabling people to live safely and independently at home for longer, thanks to technology.

Young people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) face many challenges in their daily lives. Contact with other young people with TBI appears to have a positive influence on coping with all these challenges.

During their internships, Skin Therapy and Nursing students find that vocational education at universities of applied sciences does not prepare them adequately for practice.