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Momenteel ben ik bezig met afstuderen bij Olisto in Amsterdam. Olisto ontwikkelt een app voor consumenten die gratis te downloaden is voor Android en iOS.
Binnen de app kunnen de gebruikers IoT devices, apps en services met elkaar verbinden. Zo kan de gebruiker binnen de app smart city Amsterdam verbinden op het gebied van Park & Ride locaties, vrije laadpalen en ondergrondse plastic containers.
De gebruiker kan daarnaast verschillende kanalen gebruiken van o.a. Philips Hue, KlikAanKlikUit, SmartAlarm, WoonVeilig en nog veel meer.

Voor Olisto voer ik een onderzoek uit naar wat de wensen en behoeften zijn van potentiële partners. Onder de potentiële partners vallen bestaande en nieuwe smart city projecten.

Ben jij momenteel bezig met het ontwikkelen van een smart city project of ben je betrokken bij een smart city initiatief? Dan kom ik graag met jou in contact!

Voor meer informatie over Olisto:
https://www.olisto.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpelj30QzsZMl4Yy-MdvIRQ

Rooftop Award 2018
It is time again for the 'Rooftopper' and 'Roofflopper' of 2018. Report the ugliest or most beautiful green roof in the Netherlands and hopefully the roof will win the Rooftop Award 2018!

How?
Send a photo of the most beautiful or ugliest roof and report the roof through the link below. You can register until June 4th. Rooftop Revolution and ROEF select the top 10 most promising roofs in both categories. From the top 10, a professional jury chooses the Rooftopper and Roofflopper.

Criteria for the Rooftopper and Roofflopper
The criteria for the (pre-) selection are:
- The current state of the roof
- Public accessibility
- Innovation and inspiration
- Sustainability and green
- Visibility

Award
The Rooftopper wins a bee hotel to make the roof even more beautiful. De Roofflopper gets a free roof scan of € 500, carried out by Rooftop Revolution. The awards will be presented on Friday 22nd of June during the annual Rooftop Symposium in the Queen Maxima Hall of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT).

More information: https://bit.ly/2rsW6UW

Looking for a job opportunity as a project- or program manager at a Circular Start-up in Amsterdam. I bring in 7 years of expertise in digital marketing. Anyone?

Hi!

I am a PhD student investigating the environmental sustainability of open-source solutions in buildings.
I am interested in participating in a workshop/project/short course related to collaborative production (or, ideally, a WikiHouse structure) during September or November.
If you know any relevant information, please let me know!

Thank you.

Hi everyone!
I'm a PhD student looking for an internship in Circular Economy. If you know any opportunities, please let me know.
Many thanks!

Hello! A few weeks I posted requesting interviewees for my up and coming sustainability vlog! I was able to meet with IBIS Power and CC Studios. Please see the link below for my first post. Thank you Amsterdam Smart City for helping me with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msO6DH38HLQ&t=177s

For my Master Thesis at the University of Groningen I am currently researching the development of Amsterdam as a Smart City. I am mainly focussing on the modes of collaboration between different stakeholders and which values are important for the different actors involved. At the moment I am looking for people that are willing to help me with my data collection and are involved in Smart City developments. It would be of great help if anyone in this community could help me out. My e-mail address is: w.f.van.der.galien@student.rug.nl. (0615141523) Thanks in advance!

Hello! I am a Canadian renewable energy professional in Town for a week working with a Youtuber (As a side profession). In my spare time, I'd like to shoot a vlog (20min video) for my up and coming channel. Any energy professional who would like some great North American exposure of their product, service or project please feel free to get in touch!)

Hi, I am a candidate for councilors at the forthcoming municipal elections in June in Cinisello Balsamo, a town of 77,000 inhabitants in the north of Milan. For the green rebirth of this city I wanted to ask if it was possible to create a synergy, an innovative twinning to be seen linked to the change in the world. We could organize an annual event, sponsor each other, increase economic efforts with substantial publicity on social media. What do you think? In Italy the wind is changing and we could create a beautiful reality. Good things, Carmine.

Join the "Circular Innovation Challenge: Design with Grind" on OpenIDEO! Work with Nike and use circular design practices to create new products from excess Nike Grind materials. Check out http://ideo.to/kBnE5U for more info.

750 k euro for your circular business idea!
Circular initiatives and experiments are striving in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, and the opportunities for growth and scale are enormous. Therefore, the City of Amsterdam, on behalf of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA), will launch an open call circular & digital in April. The call addresses parties with creative, smart and innovative business ideas that will strengthen the competitiveness of the circular and the economic activity in the Metropolitan Area. A total sum of 750,000€ in public funds is available.

The Metropolitan Area wants to become the hub for circular products and services. Ground-breaking innovations and digital solutions are needed to close material loops at a large scale and to stimulate high-value reuse of resources. But new and profitable products do need initial support to get off the ground. The call for tenders will give these circular innovations a boost. The best plan is awarded a sum in co-financing to go ahead with the business case and make the innovative idea a reality!

Market Consultation
The Amsterdam Economic Board, together with the municipality of Amsterdam conducted a market consultation prior to the tendering procedure to ensure that the requirements put up by the AMA are in line with market possibilities.

48 players in the market have submitted their written input. Participants of the consultation were then invited for a stakeholder meeting to give further insight and answer potential questions.

This report provides further information about the makings of the call and the results (anonymised and aggregated) of the market consultation.

Join!
The call is currently in the preparation phase and will be published in April 2018 on TenderNed. The winners will be selected before the summer. Weigh your chances of winning the call and read the report. Or do you want to join forces? Forming open call consortia is highly encouraged!

Find the report on the website of the Amsterdam Economic Board: https://www.amsterdameconomicboard.com/en/nieuws/open-call-digitaal-en-circulair

Health innovation Hem-Col makes diabetes testing at the dentist office possible.
Labonovum won the regional pre-rounds for the National Innovation Award 2018 with the innovative bloodcollection method Hem-Col®. The Health Innovation Award is a price for the most promising scale-up in the life science and health sector.

Thursday March 15th Labonovum, supported by the Amsterdam Economic Board, The Dutch Chambre of Commerce, Sigra and Rabo Bank will present their innovative blood collection method Hem-Col® to the jury and the public of the Health Valley Event in Nijmegen.

You can support Hem-Col too! Do you want them to win the National Health Innovation Award?

Vote here: https://www.healthvalleyevent.com/zorginnovatieprijs-stemmen/

One of our members, OneFarm, a vertical farm initiative, is looking for 3 interns. Design , Research and Project. Can you help them out?

OneFarm's goal is to provide affordable fresh healthy food to local communities on a global scale to mitigate the upcoming food crisis.
To that end OneFarm implements large scale vertical farms together with local partners to ensure food security for all parts of the population.
We believe community relationships are key to providing long term sustainable food security. It also ensures community support, access to sites for development, inclusion of local agricultural knowledge and industries, local institutional support, employment, distribution.
Localization opportunities in a global context will also allow South-South food chain development in regions that are disaster prone and climate change affected.

We are looking for interns! Join our dynamic and passionate team.

3 new internships! Join OneFarm's team working with the world’s leading network of experts to provide affordable fresh healthy food and plant pharmaceuticals to local communities on a global scale to mitigate the upcoming food crisis. OneFarm internship program will provide you with exceptional experience, extensive knowledge and access to the incredible network of the fast-growing field of vertical farming, and potential employment prospect at OneFarm! If you are ready to join our vibrant startup, check the different positions: Design , Research and Project Assistants!

Check out the positions in https://www.onefarm.io/ on careers section, or through the links below:

Design assistant:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBOuXAGuQCuX7niwR9jjgkkL5aX1N7uvllh8ZnRNtAg/edit?usp=sharing
Project assistant:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZYDdxsUxXTZRzZASoxkovHqbk-bwZ700jWS2YvffTxI/edit?usp=sharing
Research assistant:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lns2ETAlN7FaxHmJkaepxAmSowJJZa0oKtkUPVDATzs/edit?usp=sharing

Vorige week, op 8 februari 2018, hebben Amsterdam Smart City en Pakhuis de Zwijger het event 'Exit Afval' georganiseerd. https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/events/amsterdam-smart-city-event-exit-afval

We hebben het gehad over de pilot van de Gemeenten en PostNL waarin de meldingen over afval worden gecontroleerd en over de data die hiermee verzameld wordt. De gemeente zelf geeft aan dat meer schoonmaken geen oplossing biedt. De participatie van bewoners is erg belangrijk. De Zwerfinator maakt bijvoorbeeld inzichtelijk waar zwerfafval ligt en kan ook de bron achterhalen. Startup RecyQ motiveert bewoners en belichtte de belangrijke rol van voldoende afvalbakken en het scheiden van afval.

Uit de reacties na afloop van de sessie begrepen wij dat dit onderwerp bij de aanwezigen enorm leeft. Heb jij een idee waarover een eventueel tweede event zou moeten gaan? Welk onderwerp is bijvoorbeeld onderbelicht gebleven of waar moeten we over doorpraten om nog beter te gaan samenwerken? We horen het graag van je! Laat een reactie achter!

We are two students from Gothenburg trying to identify a holistic approach on how to reduce plastic waste, combining circularity, prevention, replacement, reuse, etc. in order to reach the European targets and Sustainability Development Goals. We would like to get in contact with someone who can tell us about how Amsterdam is approaching this problem.

My name is Moon JaeYong. I'm a Korean journalist planning to do serial articles and make presentation about "Smart City". If anyone - project creators, project managers and of course community members and citizens of Amsterdam - would like to see me during January 22 - 24, 2017, I would be delighted. Filming team will accompany me so we hope to visit some space which could visualize developed Amsterdam Smart City.
Although I'm aware of possible time constraints, I really do hope to get some reactions to this request.
you may reach me at any time on this platform. Or on my regular e-mail: gotkf88@gmail.com
Thanks for your assistance - Moon JaeYong

Do you know a startup working on sustainable innovations within the fashion industry? Applications for the next Fashion for Good-Plug and Play Accelerator close next Wednesday! See http://ow.ly/YlAA30h901E for more information!

In particular we are looking for entrepreneurs/startups working on the following:

- Alternative raw materials. For ex: alternative to leather, hemp or mushroom based fabrics etc.

- Sustainable Dyeing For ex: bacteria based pigments or synthetic dyes

- Production – For ex: water and chemical usage efficiency, knitting techniques to avoid waste, sustainable packaging etc.

- Traceability – technology to improve transparency of the supply chain. For ex:
Blockchain connected RFID systems

- Recycling / Upcycling – techniques to recycle blended fabrics: For ex: Mechanical or chemical recycling

- End of Use – products that can be converted into apparel products. For ex: Fabric made out of food waste

With plastic waste getting into the ocean at a rate of 1 garbage truck per minute and a bleak prediction of more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, the time to act is now.

We want to find the 10 best Netherlands based startups that help replace, reduce and reuse plastic, and change consumer behaviour!

WHAT IS THE PLASTIC FREE OCEAN ACCELERATOR
This acceleration program is a joint initiative of WWF and Impact Hub Amsterdam. During our intensive 7-month accelerator, a group of 10 startups will work with mentors, business and ocean experts, strategy advisors and investors on their entrepreneurial solutions on plastics, with the ultimate goal of reducing plastic waste worldwide. At our accelerator's Demo Day, startups will pitch their business plans to our network of impact investors.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
We'll apply a business lense to the global plastic issue and help you work on: Impact Strategy & Execution | Finance | Marketing & Sales | Partnerships | Investment | Impact Measurement | Organisation & leadership | Go To Market | Pitching | Systems & Processes.

4 REASONS TO JOIN:
> Impact Hub Amsterdam’s track record of helping 1,000+ startups start, grow and scale their business
> A faster route to market through the expertise of 60 WWF offices and 100+ Impact Hubs worldwide
> The chance to connect to Impact Hub and WWF’s combined impact investing network including VCs, angel investors, banks and funds
> An affordable boost for your startup. This program, which includes more than 150 hours of support, costs 995 euro excl. VAT

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 14 JAN 2018. Learn more and apply now > http://bit.ly/plasticfreeocean

Hi All,
I am currently seeking to participate in Urban farming & Vertical Farming projects. I am very enthusiastic about everything that is related to these topics and would love to participate and help these types of initiative grow. My role could be project management, project support , organize events to promote this topic (event management) and or analyse data gathered from growing the vegetables in the urban farm. I am reachable at info@patandinconsulting.eu. My website: www.patandinconsulting.eu . Thanks in advance.

VanPlestik transforms plastic waste into new products! We’ve designed and build a giant 3D printer that enables us to make large sized products. The input of our 3D printer are small pieces of shredded plastic. The 3D printer transforms these small pieces into products like flowerpots, tables and chairs. The plastics that we use are 100% recycled.

We are looking for partners:
* Who have plastic waste streams of ABS, PS, PC or PLA.
* Who are interested in buying or distributing products of recycled plastic.

Do you have any of these plastic waste streams and do you want to transform them into products? Perfect! Than we can close the loop and work towards a more circular economy.

Interested?
Mail to info@vanplestik.nl or leave a comment.
You can also visit us at https://vanplestik.nl

We’re looking forward to your response!