A Holistic Approach to Inclusive Mobility Under Resilience and Sustainability Goals: A Pilot Project in Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 218-224
Author(s):  
Magaly Romao ◽  
Anabela Simoes
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Pilot Project

scholarly journals Start Walking! How to Boost Sustainable Mode Choice—Psychological Measures to Support a Shift from Individual Car Use to More Sustainable Traffic Modes

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Risser ◽  
Matus Sucha
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Information Product ◽  
Mode Shift ◽  
Psychological Measures ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Marketing Model ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
Do So

Transport is one of the sectors that contributes to global warming. To tackle this issue, one of the most important tasks is to enhance/support a mode shift from individual car use to more sustainable traffic modes. To achieve this, psychology-based measures are needed. We need to understand what keeps people from walking, and what motivates people who do walk to do so, or to define the barriers and the preconditions that are needed for walking or cycling. These preconditions are perceived in a different way by different people. As the motivation of individual citizens differs greatly, the preconditions have to be targeted precisely. In this paper a scheme is presented that deals with this issue—i.e., to enhance/support a mode shift to sustainable traffic modes with the following steps: To identify and improve the preconditions for walking; to communicate information, and; to provide opportunities or incentives. As a theoretical background we use a classical marketing model presented by Philip Kotler, which has strong connections with communication and social psychology. Through the case of supporting sustainable traffic modes—the product which will be “sold”—we present the different steps of the model (information, product, communication, incentives, and distribution). With all aspects we emphasize that a holistic approach (a combination of all these aspects and steps) is necessary for a successful marketing process that in fact makes citizens “buy” the idea of walking (more). The main suggestion of this paper is to implement the steps suggested in it in the frame of a pilot project in a city or a province and then to evaluate. Evidence that the suggested measures work when applied appropriately and—as strongly underlined—in a concerted manner can only be achieved by trying in practice.

scholarly journals Understanding Abundance of Litter on Urban Lake in Developing Country: a Systems-thinking Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muhsin ◽  
Mahawan Karuniasa ◽  
Herr Soeryantono
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Urban Lake ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Systems Thinking Approach

An abundance of litter on urban lake environment has been an issue for decades. This complex issue involves many stakeholders and also couples human socio-economic and natural-environment systems. Understanding the interrelationships among stakeholders and between those two systems is important as a first step for looking the solutions. This paper aims to present a systems-thinking approach to illustrate the relationships among key factors contributing to the issue. We examined Kenanga Lake located on Campus of Universitas Indonesia, Depok City, Indonesia and some part of its catchment area as a pilot project. By conducting field observation and previous literature review, we identified that campus management, municipal government, and citizen are three major stakeholders in the systems. The results showed that lake cleanness contributes to campus image, thus it gives feedback to the city’s economic and population growth. In another side, those growths combined with some socio-cultural aspects have a pathway to perpetuate this problem. The interrelationships among those factors are further illustrated by a conceptual diagram. Finally, this holistic approach diagram can be used to inspire the development of dynamic models for helping decision making.

scholarly journals Including multiple languages in secondary education: A translanguaging approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-106
Author(s):  
Mirjam Günther-van der Meij ◽  
Joana Duarte ◽  
Laura Nap
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
National Language ◽  
Language Diversity ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Training Programmes

AbstractThis article presents recent developments around multilingual secondary education in the officially bilingual province of Friesland, the Netherlands. As in other European contexts, schools in this region face the challenge of a growing language diversity due to migration. Despite this larger variety of languages in society, schooling is still mainly through the national language (Kroon & Spotti, 2011), based on the idea that immersion in each of the target languages triggers the best outcomes, thus leading to language separation pedagogies. Also, in teacher training programmes, pre-service teachers are educated with a pedagogy of language separation. This is in contrast with research that has repeatedly shown the importance of using all language resources of multilingual pupils in optimizing learning (Cenoz & Gorter, 2011; Cummins, 2008).Against this backdrop, recent developments for multilingual secondary education within the province of Friesland focus on a. less separation between the three instruction languages (Frisian, Dutch and English); b. creating bridges between foreign languages in secondary education (German and French); c. valorising and including migrant languages in mainstream education. The Holi-Frysk project (holistic approach for Frisian and language education) was set up as an answer to these issues (Authors, forthcoming). In this pilot-project three secondary schools of different types developed, implemented and evaluated multilingual teaching approaches to include all languages present in the school in teaching. Teachers were trained through workshops and school visits and the activities were video recorded, transcribed and analysed on their translanguaging practices.The article will first of all present and discuss a few examples of the pedagogical activities and secondly zoom in on its effects at the interactional level by focusing on moments in which different functions of pedagogical translanguaging (García & Wei, 2015) appear. Finally, suggestions are given how these findings could be integrated in the teacher training programmes to prepare our pre-service teachers for today’s multilingual and multicultural classrooms.

scholarly journals The Model M Method and Its Contribution to a Socially Responsible Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Anita Hrast ◽  
Matjaž Mulej
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Local Community ◽  
National Level ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Impact Measurement ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Project Model

AbstractModel M means being young and being a role model for others in finding innovative employment or creating one’s own employment, and thus becoming and remaining an active citizen. In years 2012-2018, IRDO – Institute for the Development of Social Responsibility – implemented the project Model M Slovenia. The project started in the Podravje region, in years 2012-2014, with a small amount of money invested by the local community (The City Municipality of Maribor). Later (in years 2016-2018), it became a nation-wide Slovenian project funded by the EU’s Social Fund and the Republic of Slovenia. The purpose of the project was to empower youth with training, networking, counselling and active participation in the society to create their own models of success. In this paper, we present the Model M method (MMm) that we have developed through the Model M Slovenia project and its social impact on the employment of youth in Slovenia. With the Social Return on Investment (SROI), a method for social impact measurement, we present how the funds invested in the local pilot project were later multiplied tenfold on a national level within the project Model M Slovenia. The originality of the MMm, as presented in this paper, is in its requisitely holistic approach to youth training in terms of personal and social responsibility. The MMm is accelerating the (self) employment of youth and other unemployed persons. The MMm was created by a team of business practitioners and social responsibility researchers. Their aim was to practice and develop social responsibility, interdependence and requisitely holistic approach as a systemic behaviour, suggested by the global humankind in the ISO 26000 guidance standard.

scholarly journals L5IN: Overview of an Indoor Navigation Pilot Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 624
Author(s):  
Caroline Schuldt ◽  
Hossein Shoushtari ◽  
Nils Hellweg ◽  
Harald Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
Singular Systems ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Map Generation ◽  
Enclosed Space

While outdoor navigation systems are already represented everywhere, the enclosed space is much less developed. The project Level 5 Indoor Navigation (L5IN) presents a new approach with mobile phone standard 5G as the orientation signal and without additional infrastructure for navigation in indoor environments. The aim of this project is to use the new available 5G technology to show how navigation systems, which have thus far only been available in the outdoor segment, can now be integrated into existing smartphone systems for indoor navigation. This paper gives an overview of the project and presents the different work packages leading to a holistic approach towards the development of an indoor navigation application for pedestrians. By using a specific app with open interfaces, it is planned to make navigation possible in all buildings modeled according to certain standards. The challenge involved is that, unlike outdoor maps, there is no map basis for buildings. For this reason, different approaches to map generation were examined. In a building information model (BIM), all information will be collected and made available via a database for positioning and visualization. The focus is furthermore on positioning, achieved through smartphone sensors and 5G, so that users can orientate themselves in buildings without having to connect to singular systems. It shall be shown that positioning with a standard deviation of 2–3 m and a confidence interval of 68 % is possible. Another advantage of 5G, the ability to send real-time data in higher data packages, will be used for data transmission. The basic idea of 5G-based indoor navigation will be enabled with radio cells of the providers, which will be set up on the HafenCity University campus. The complex university building will be used as a prototype environment.

Communication Aide: A Pilot Project

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Muriel Sue Braunstein
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Project

Supervision: Supervision and Clinical Practicum in Telepractice

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sena Crutchley
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Support Personnel ◽  
Clinical Practicum ◽  
Training Support ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
The University

This article describes how a telepractice pilot project was used as a vehicle to train first-year graduate clinicians in speech-language pathology. To date, six graduate clinicians have been trained in the delivery of telepractice at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Components of telepractice training are described and the benefits and limitations of telepractice as part of clinical practicum are discussed. In addition, aspects of training support personnel involved in telepractice are outlined.

Georgia Teams Boost Student Success: SLPs Play Key Role in Nine-Site Pilot Project for Kindergarteners

ASHA Leader ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Charlette Green ◽  
Lydia Kopel
Keyword(s):  
Student Success ◽  
Pilot Project

Medicare Pilot Project StartsTo Look for Mistakes in Claims

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
JOYCE FRIEDEN
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Project
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