Both China and the Netherlands have experienced large and rapidly changing inflows of migrants into cities, putting a major demand on their public and private housing markets. This project will have a better understanding of the impacts of social housing programmes and market forces on urban housing of different migrant groups. It will also assess the impact of innovative social housing programmes on the social integration of migrants. This project is a Dutch-Sino collaboration, funded by Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) in China.

• Ids Baalbergen
• prof. dr. Pieter Hooimeijer
• dr. Yanliu Lin

• Nico Heerink (WUR)
• Eveline van Leeuwen (WUR)
• Several Chinese partners

The ZonMw research programme "Sport en Bewegen" has awarded a subsidy of 750,000 euros to the research project Calibrating Inclusive Sporting Encounters. Under the leadership of Dr. Maikel Waardenburg, a consortium consisting of universities, colleges and social partners will investigate the crucial role that organisation networks and first-line professionals, such as community sports coaches and social workers, play in guiding people in vulnerable positions to sporting encounters and how to organise them.

Through two "living labs" in Utrecht and Eindhoven, the research project generates more insight into the design and organisation of sporting encounters. First-line professionals work on the basis of various routines on which the exchange of knowledge is limited. Practical tools are developed together with professionals and residents in vulnerable positions. The aim is to achieve better guidance and more structural participation in sports.  This contributes to a more inclusive society for everyone. The tools to be developed will be made available to other locations and practitioners after the project has ended.

• prof. dr. ir. Dick Ettema

• TU/e (Industrial Design)
• Fontys Sports College (research group Move to Be)

PusH - Precarious Housing in Europe, aims to collect and discuss evidence on this growing European-wide phenomenon and make it available for teaching and dissemination in our partner institutions and beyond. The lack of decent, affordable housing and the occurrence of informal, illegal, or unsafe housing across all member states poses a threat to social inclusion in the EU, and hinders the mobility of EU citizens and the integration of third-country nationals. However, so far the issue has not been systematically taken up in curricula in HEIs across Europe. PusH addresses this gap by uniting seven partners from both older and younger EU member states enthusiastically committed to higher education and research that actively engage with societal needs, promote the co-creation of knowledge across disciplines, and bridge the research-practice divide.

• Sybille Munch (Leuphana)
• Tania Berger (Krems)
• Jonathan Darling (Durham)
• Giovanna Marconi (Venice)
• OSF
• CERS HAS