projects

Qualified and increased workforce to enhance land administration processes to support peacebuilding and rural economic development. 

This project, funded by the Orange Knowledge Programme of the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nuffic, aims to strengthen the national system of Land Administration as a pre-condition for rural economic development. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas in Bogota, Colombia, will be strengthened in three pillars: education, research and outreach/community development, aiming to become the national reference centre for Land Administration.

The consortium (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, University of Twente/ITC, Esri Colombia, Kadaster International, and ROC van Twente) aims to ensure the country can count on a qualified workforce at the level of Higher Education, TVET and informal training to support public and private initiatives in land tenure security.
Project leader: Dr. Javier Morales Guarin 

See also:  Visitors from Colombian Distrital University at ITC

Land in Peace is a Colombian-Dutch project to formalize and register land ownership in post-conflict areas through an innovative, fast and transparent methodology. The University of Twente/ITC is a partner in this project coordinated by Kadaster International.
Project leader: Dr. Javier Morales Guarin

See also: ITC helping Colombians getting land rights - U-Today (utoday.nl) 

 While understanding pedestrian behavior is essential for many aspects of urban design, planning, and management, monitoring of pedestrians often intrudes a person's privacy. Therefore, in this project funded for by NWO, we develop a framework with novel technological solutions toward measuring pedestrian dynamics to answer urban-related questions in a privacy-preserving and socially acceptable way.
For more info, please contact: Dr. Frank Ostermann

In 2020, NWO opened a call for a single proposal containing three small projects within the context of each Dutch Research Agenda (‘NWA’) route. Climate change is altering nature’s rhythms. Citizens see these alterations and have crowdsourced millions of observations of leaf unfolding and flowering events. These observations will be modelled to map long-term spring onset dynamics. This information supports climate change adaptation strategies, agricultural practices, nature conservation and public health interventions.
Project leader: Prof.dr.ir. Raúl Zurita Milla

The Guyana Lands and Survey Commission and FAO are implementing the project Mainstreaming Sustainable Land Development and Management in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. The project aims at establishing an enabling environment for promoting sustainable and climate-resilient land development, management and reclamation in support of Guyana’ s Green State Development Strategy. The objective of the project is to design and establish institutional capacity to capture information and manage, update and digitize data registers on land allocation (leasing, deeds, titles, etc.), and in parallel, cadastral mapping in targeted regions.
Project leaders: Dr. Javier Morales Guarin, Dr.ir. Rolf de By

In a ZonMw-funded research project, several researchers are joining forces to understand annual hay fever dynamics. The project determines under which (weather) conditions, where in the Netherlands, how much pollen is released into the air by plants, and how the pollen moves through the air. It also examines how different levels of pollen exposure affect the burden of disease, and therefore which trees are best to plant or not to plant. Finally, it discusses with people who suffer from hay fever how they currently manage their symptoms and what information they would like to have in order to reduce the nuisance.
Project leader: Dr. EllenWien Augustijn
Project members: Prof.dr.ir. Raúl Zurita Milla, Dr. Rosa Aguilar

See also:  Large differences in hay fever progression 2021 and 2022 (itc.nl)