Kick-off joint VU-UT research program ‘Creating secure societies: Resilience in Action’On Wednesday 10 February, the University of Twente (UT) and Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam organized a workshop with more than 50 UT and VU scientists as a kick-off for the joint research program Creating Secure Societies: Resilience in Action. The workshop was jointly opened by Theo Toonen (Dean of the Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences [BMS] at the UT) and Karen van Oudenhoven-van der Zee (Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences [FSS] at VU).Read more
The office of mayor is untenable without adjustmentsResearchers from the universities of Twente, Maastricht, Utrecht and Leiden have concluded that the office of mayor as we know it today will eventually be untenable. The various roles that mayors have to fulfill are proving increasingly difficult to combine. There are higher and more contradictory demands on mayors, which they find increasingly difficult to meet. The authority, prestige and attractiveness of the office will decline as a result. The main reason for this is that over the past 10 years, mayors have become increasingly part of the political game, while many tasks require them to be independent and above the parties.Read more
Kick-off joint VU-UT research program ‘Creating secure societies: Resilience in Action’
The office of mayor is untenable without adjustments
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Replay: Campus Talks S02E01
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Cooperation between Dimence Groep and the University of Twente
