Adding vascular network to engineered tissues is an important step for the clinical application of these tissues. However, in order for such networks to perform, they need to have a physiological organization. This proposal hypothesizes that fluid flow shear stress on the outside of a vascular network can control vascular organization. To test this hypothesis, a transparent artificial eggshell with which directed fluid flow pattern can be applied, will be used in a chick embryo model. When the hypothesis holds true, the results of this project will provide us with an extra tool to control vascular organization in engineered tissues.

Grand societal challenges typically require collaboration from stakeholders with different backgrounds, education levels, experience, and beliefs. Through joint effort, they can pool knowledge, technologies, behaviors, and social structures needed to solve these challenges. However, fruitful collaboration among these groups, due to potential conflicting perspectives, is challenging. It is therefore important that students develop so-called transdisciplinary competencies during their education and learn how to function in such contexts. This large design-based research project will result in design principles for shaping transdisciplinary education, at the lesson, subject or course level.

Ship propulsion at high speed or under adverse conditions causes cavitation, a hydrodynamic phenomenon that leads to an important increase in emitted noise thereby affecting the ship’s signature and marine life in a negative way. Therefore, both ecological, economical and strategic reasons call for the reduction of cavitation. This project 1) acquires fundamental knowledge on the phenomenon, 2) models and predicts the moment when cavitation starts in various conditions, and 3) applies this knowledge at the training center of the Royal Netherlands Navy to develop the preconditions for real life navigation that flexibly allows for minimizing cavitation.

Adequate financial self-management is crucial for independent living, leisure-time activities and social relations. Financial self-management is, however, at risk among young people with psychosis. Psychotic symptoms may start to interfere with their financial behaviour and cognitive alterations may hamper their financial capabilities. Loss of income and incurring debts in turn can trigger financial, psychological and social distress. Not seldom parents have to take over or a guardian has to step in. The present project called FinFit represent a new initiative how to assess, stimulate and support financial self-management among young people with psychosis.

The third joint NWO-NSFC seminar is meant to continue and extend the successful cooperation between Dutch and Chinese researchers on aspects of Game Theory and its Applications. The tradition started with the 1st joint NWO-NSFC Workshop (also the 4th China meeting on Game Theory and its Applications) held in Xian, China, in 2010. This was continued with and the 2nd joint NWO-NSFC seminar that took place in Twente in 2013, organised by dr. Theo Driessen and prof. Marc Uetz, the head of the research group in Twente. The Chinese co-organizer of the first workshop was prof. Hao Sun, a former PhD student from the University of Twente. The Chinese co-organizer of the second seminar, prof. Genjiu Xu, has completed his PhD-research on game theory at the University of Twente in 2008. Also the current co-organizer of the forthcoming seminar in 2016, Prof. Deng-Feng Li, attended the 2nd joint NWO-NSFC seminar that took place at the University of Twente in 2013. The main purpose of the planned meeting is two-fold: First, to give a group of Chinese junior researchers the opportunity to come together and collaborate with a group of scientists from the traditionally strong community of Game Theory in the Netherlands. Second, this time we extend the group of organizers by the research groups respectively led by Prof. Deng-Feng Li from Fuzhou University which studies fuzzy decision making and game theory in management and led by prof. Guochuan Zhang from Zhejiang University which is particularly strong in the design and analysis of approximation algorithms in optimization. Indeed, we are particularly proud of having the forthcoming workshop hosted by the group of Prof. Li at Fuzhou University, thereby enabling us to establish cooperation across the disciplines Game Theory, decision making and Optimization, and thereby also establishing new links with the local groups at Fuzhou University and Zhejiang University. One major aim of the workshop is to maintain the scientific dialogue and cooperation between the participating groups and researchers. The University of Twente is seeking for cooperating institutions abroad with the intention to enlarge the number of foreign students in Twente across all disciplines. The faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science has already established a formal cooperation (signed by the deans of the respective institutions) with the Computer Science Department of Zhejiang University. The current rector Ed Brinksma of the University of Twente has recently set up a formal training contract with Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian as well.