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OVAM SIS Toolkit for a sustainable design process
The OVAM SIS Toolkit is a tool to integrate sustainability into innovation and design processes in order to increase value creation. SIS stands for Sustainable Innovation System . This tool, developed for the business community, is also used …
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Update of the Flemish material indicators until 2021
Circular materials story: The Flemish circular economy does not yet translate into a reduced material impact.
We are increasingly successful in keeping materials in the cycle. Our reuse and recycling figures are increasing, we are producing more and …
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Goudvis: Compelling television portraits of top Belgian artists
For Goudvis, VRT followed a number of top Belgian artists for a year, on stage, in their studios, during rehearsals, behind the scenes... But their private lives are also shown. There are 19 episodes available, from 19 different artists. Visual …
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Pond biotope study case
Your students identify aquatic plants and animals. They also investigate the water cycle and water quality.
These field study materials invite your students to do independent fieldwork:- landing nets,
- magnifiers,
- petri dish,
- spoons,
- search cards. …
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Energy backpack
Are there energy guzzlers at your school? Let your students go on a scavenger hunt to investigate the standby consumption, lighting or heating in the classroom. Your students can use the measuring instruments in the backpack to examine the …
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Vocabulary, food budget and logarithms
What do a writer's vocabulary and one's budget spent on food have to do with each other? Well, more than you might think! The mathematical relationship appears to be logarithmic.
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Process lab, a didactic lab with measurement and control techniques: Project InnoVET
Due to updated curricula within the study area of Chemistry, students and teachers of, among others, the study options Biotechniques (second grade) and Biotechnological and Chemical Engineering (third grade) must acquire a lot of new content. …
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Material Matters: Article with inspiring insights
Article providing insights and arguments for a transition from a neoliberal economy to an alternative economy.
These are based on the book Material Matters, the alternative to our predatory construction society by Sabine Oberhuber and Thomas Rau.
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The annoying fruit fly also has countless scientific breakthroughs to its credit
The fruit fly has played a major role in biomedical research for more than a hundred years. The insect that colonizes the fruit basket in no time, is part of genetics, helps scientists to unravel the functioning of our body and the origin of …
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Fieldwork forest: Excursion or material
Fieldwork activity in which students, with or without supervision, compare the forest with an open field using a scientific working method and investigate both biotopes. During non-living research, students will work with various …
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Justin Beaver: VR on climate change
Justin Beaver is an interactive VR film where students can experience the changes caused by global warming and pollution from the eyes of a beaver.
In this article you will be taken into the story of Alexandra Sierra, who designed Justin Beaver .
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Climate issues: Suitcase Turnhout
The news increasingly talks about temperature records, melting ice caps and glaciers, drought, floods, etc. Do students know what role climate change plays in this? What does the future of our planet look like according to scientific models? Many …
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