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MOTUS moves to a more secure environment

Joeri Minnen 20 November 2023

Last month we again took a major step in upgrading MOTUS to an even more professional level.
MOTUS is now hosted in a state-of-the art server infrastructure (domain: motusbuilder.io).
By doing so our users and there studies were transmitted to the new infrastructure in an efficient way.

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28 February 2024

First results of the German time use study

On February 28, 2024, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis) unveiled during a press conference in Berlin their first findings from the 2022 time use data collection run through the MOTUS data collection platform of hbits. More information and additional results are available from the press release: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Einkommen-Konsum-Lebensbedingungen/Zeitverwendung/_inhalt.html# The presentation also includes a comparison with data gathered in 2012/2013.

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20 February 2024

WW4WL logo

Within the WW4WL project (EU Horizon), hbits is responsible for the visual identity and development of the project website. This is right up the alley of our designer, Enak Cortebeeck. Two logos were performed during the kick-off, and the one below emerged as the winner. The design refers to the 5 case studies within the project, but also to the work-life balance we need to achieve on a daily basis.

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19 February 2024

[New Article] Calling it quits: a longitudinal study of factors associated with dropout among doctoral students.

Via the MOTUS data collection platform the VUB collects every year a survey on the progress of Phd students. A new article discusses longitudinal findings.

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26 January 2024

Kick-off meeting WW4WL

The WW4WL project is an EU Horizon project funded by the European Commission and aims to better understand Remote Working Arrangements from a social, economic and spatial perspective. The coordinator of the project is LISER, Luxembourg. In total, besides hbits and LISER, 13 other European partners are participating in this project. The kick-off will take place in Belval, Luxembourg, on February 9, 2024. During this meeting, the 8 work packages will be presented. For hbits, the focus is on providing the MOTUS data collection platform to capture 5 different types…

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28 November 2023

Designing, creating, and conducting the International Association’s Time Use Survey (IATUS) through MOTUS

Time use surveys (TUS) collect data on daily life. Yet a TUS is a complex survey because it exists of multiple tasks that need to be completed by a respondent, such as the completion of a household questionnaire, individual questionnaires and time-diaries for all eligible household members. As such, TUSs face numerous challenges, such as the need to replace the expensive and laborious paper- and-pencil method by a digitalized method with smart ways to reduce respondent burden amid the absence of updated guidelines to harmonize digitalized TUS across NSIs. Many of these…

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First results of the German time use study

WW4WL logo

[New Article] Calling it quits: a longitudinal study of factors associated with dropout among doctoral students.

Kick-off meeting WW4WL

Designing, creating, and conducting the International Association’s Time Use Survey (IATUS) through MOTUS

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