The NEST Innovation Alliance co-creates a new form of social innovation ecosystem that acts as a sustainable vehicle for societal transitions and increased capacity in knowledge creation towards healthy living. Our aim is to empower local communities to thrive with social innovation towards a healthy society.
More and more children are recovering from cancer, but it's not guaranteed that they'll regain their pre-illness physical levels. The KABOOST school project aids these children and their schools in this process.
This project looked for the keys to help schools grow further in their movement-friendliness. We started from the role of the movement expert in order to encourage them to bring the whole school into an exercise-friendly story.
Academic Workshop for Elderly Care, Tandem (UZ Gent) and Arteveldehogeschool are working out the preconditions and components of a care model for workplace learning in residential care centres.
The aging population is increasing in elderly care. What are the experiences of healthcare providers with this and what opportunities are there for research?
Workplace Active Certificate is a unique European certification to promote workplace health and wellness initiatives that leverage physical activity or exercise.
By performing the ‘Moving Cancer Care’ project, researchers are trying to bridge the gap between patients, healthcare providers and exercise therapists to encourage and motivate cancer patients to undertake regular physical activity during their treatment and thereafter.