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Amsterdam Smart City is your innovation platform that brings together proactive citizens, innovative companies, knowledge institutions and public authorities to shape the city of the future.

Amsterdam Smart City consists of a public private partnership and an international community. By sharing knowledge and by collaborating we come up with innovative solutions for metropolitan issues of a social, economic and ecological nature. This way we ensure that the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area remains liveable, now and in the years to come.

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Event tip: European Sustainable Cities Summit

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1-2 June, Brussels

The European meeting place for public and private leaderships interested in promoting and sharing sustainable solutions while boosting business opportunities for cities.

In parallel and in partnership with the European Business Summit, the European Sustainable Cities Summit event will have an innovative format that comprises exhibition, conference and cross-sectorial network.

The event features are complementary and designed to maximize the exhibitors and attendees experience while showcasing the best in class sustainable urban solutions and boosting public and private partnerships.

  • 2 days exhibition , across sectors including:cities, corporates, smart cities providers, financial institutions, investors, universities, NGOs, incubators of innovation and start-ups
  • Structured Networking between exhibitors and guests, in private dedicated lounges and office spaces
  • Parallel Programme with sessions of Workshops, Round-tables, Movies, Presentations and other supporting activities
  • Continuous Conference, in a series of panels. A unique opportunity for learning and update with high-level speakers in a cutting-edge program
  • Shared access to European Business Summit, for selected sessions on both days

CONNECTING THE EVENTS TO ADD VALUE
The European Sustainable Cities Summit project is a new adjunct of the European Business Summit, from 2016 - when EBS celebrates its 16 years as successful meeting place where business, policy makers and civil society can develop a constructive debate and co-operation paramount to the EU progress.

EXCHANGE OF ACCESS BETWEEN THE TWO EVENTS INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:
- Access for second day of EBS
- Access to EBS opening ceremony and networking receptions

CONBINED FEATURES:
- Cities Panel: ‘Smart Future of Urban Infrastructure’ and ‘European Cities in Times for Bold Moves’
- EBS reception
- VIP dinner

VENUEPALAIS D'EGMONT
Petit Sablon 8 / Kleine Zavel 8
1000 - Bruxelles / Brussel

PARTNERSHIPS We offer tailor made partnerships for cities, companies and organisations. For more information, please contact: Dr Daniella Abreu, ESCS Project Developer at <daniella@ebsummit.eu> or +32(0) 473 57 15 93

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SmartR City Tour

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The tour showcases innovations and approaches that make Amsterdam a leading sustainable and smart city. The focus is not only on technological solutions, but also spatial and social innovations.

What sets Amsterdam apart from other smart cities is a holistic approach to city making that puts as much emphasis on spatial and social solutions as ICTs to improve quality of life and accelerate economic growth. And that’s what we call a SmartR City! This tour explains how Amsterdam does this.

You can also join one of the other tours provided by Sustainable Amsterdam, click here.

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​‘Kingsday urine’ becomes fertilizer

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The urine will be recycled into fertilizer.

Waternet and the municipality of Amsterdam are going to collect urine on three major Kingsday festivities. The urine will be recycled into fertilizer. The kingsday pee will be collected on April 27 at the urinals at the Nassau Festival, Kingsland and in Vondelpark. The municipality wants event organizers to make their events more sustainable. Alderman Abdeluheb Choho (Sustainability): "We show what concepts like sustainability and circular economy really mean. And it’s great that this happens while the town is celebrating". It is not the first time that Waternet collects urine in Amsterdam: last year the fundraising campaign "Come piss on Sail’’ was organized. This yielded a disappointing result.

Phosphate factory Urine contains phosphate, a precious and scarce fertilizer. It is expected that in thirty years the natural resources where phosphate is currently mined, will be exhausted. Without phosphate it’s impossible for crop to grow. Water network and the Water Board Amstel, Gooi and Vecht therefore win phosphate back since 2013 from sewage in a special phosphate factory in Amsterdam-West. With the phosphate from the wastewater in Amsterdam, 10,000 football fields can be fertilized every year.

All the urine of Koningsdag goes to the special phosphate factory, where phosphate is recovered from pee with the aid of magnesium chloride and oxygen. Next artificial fertilizer is made . One scoop is enough to flourish your entire garden. Read more information.

Source: Parool
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City-zen funding for ambitious and innovative Amsterdam home renovations

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In May the last funding round will be open to existing homes in Amsterdam.

The European Commission provides funding through City-zen for energy efficient home renovations. Amsterdam Smart City is looking for inspiring and innovative projects in Amsterdam. Some Amsterdam residents have already taken this step, like Wigger Verschoor from Amsterdam North, who has just completed his energy efficient home renovation. Here's a link to the interview with Wigger.

In May 2016, the new and also very last City-zen funding round will be open to existing homes in Amsterdam. These can be private homes, homeowners associations, but also housing associations and investors. For the renovations is a funding contribution up to 50% of the costs and up to € 50, - per m2 is available. There is funding for around 120 to 150 homes.

Do you want to know if your home renovation project is eligible for City-zen subsidy? Then read more about the criteria here.

Keep an eye on this site to find out when the new City- zen funding round starts. Alternatively you can send an email to city-zen@amsterdamsmartcity.nl, or sign up for our City - zen newsletter via the website of Amsterdam Economic Board Newsletter , via this link , you will receive automatic notification when a new City - zen round opens.

You can register for the City-zen funding until June 30, 2016.

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New Project: Green Datacenter Hotspots

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​SADC and Green IT Amsterdam collaborate on sustainable datacenter hotspot.

Schiphol Area Development Company (SADC) and foundation Green IT Amsterdam recently started a collaboration. They join forces to work together to expand the datacenter hotspot around Schiphol Airport. This unique collaboration will create an efficient and a high level sustainable datacenter ecosystem. It is examined whether the current datacenter hotspot Schiphol can be expanded by developing a dedicated Green Datacenter Campus at Schiphol Trade Park.

Green Datacenter Hotspots SADC develops high-quality work locations on the west axis of Amsterdam. Around Schiphol airport is the datacenter hotspot has grown to an ecosystem of datacenters with excellent connectivity. Schiphol Trade Park is offering room for further growth in the hotspot and the sustainability of the datacenter sector could be lifted to a higher level. Along with Green IT Amsterdam, this leads to a broad-based transition to a far-reaching implementation of best practices and innovative methods in terms of efficiency, renewable energy and circular economy. The aim is to facilitate groundbreaking initiatives such stable integration of renewable energy and heat exchange.

Cooperation with Green IT Amsterdam is fitting within the SADC strategy, according to Jeanet van Antwerpen (director SADC): “We are working hard on the development of circular work locations in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.. Data streams are increasingly the drivers of the economy. A Green Data Center Campus thus fits well with the aspirations of SADC. ”

The project approach will help to ensure that the expected future demand for space for sustainable datacenters in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. Thanks to the excellent connectivity Amsterdam has been a popular establishment place for datacenters. It is expected that the datacenter industry, with the strengthening of sustainable infrastructure around the hotspots (Science Park, Amstel / Southeast and Schiphol Airport), is increasingly going to strengthen its role as the driving force of the digital economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.

Green IT Amsterdam director Jake Vlasveld about the cooperation: “The participants of Green IT Amsterdam have much knowledge in the field of sustainable datacenters, and SADC is progressive in sustainable area development. We are proud to have taken the initiative to integrated these two themes to strengthen Amsterdam as a smart city with green datacenter hotspots now. ”

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Think about the circular economy

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What is circular economy ? Our current economy is characterized by 'take-make-waste': we use raw materials at a high rate to make a product and then throw it away. This system is finite, since we are wasting raw materials on a large scale.

What is circular economy ? Our current economy is characterized by 'take-make-waste': we use raw materials at a high rate to make a product and then throw it away. This system is finite, since we are wasting raw materials on a large scale.
In a ' circular economy' products and materials are reused and raw materials retain their value. This is not at the expense of economic growth. The energy used for production and logistics, such as solar and wind energy, is generated sustainably.

Join now The municipality wants to facilitate a circular economy as good as possible. Therefore we want to know what ideas and initiatives, large or small, you (residents and businesses in the city and region) have. We also want to know what opportunities and obstacles exist.
What do you think? Let us know through the contact form. Based on the responses, the municipality determines what is needed from the government to support the transition towards a circular economy. Comments coming in before May 10, 2016 , will be taken along with the government's response to the investigation 'Amsterdam Circular. A vision and roadmap for the city and the region. Read more.

Source: DuurzaamAmsterdam
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Future Amsterdam must make way for the bike'

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We need to look ahead, at least forty years.

Geert Kloppenburg, mobility expert at Urgenda, doesn’t understand that the car still gets so much space in the city. Kloppenburg doesn’t want to complain: that time when the Dam was packed with parked cars is far behind us. Besides, motorists are discouraged to drive in the city through high parking fees and road diversions, for instance on Leidseplein and at the Munt.

Make way for the bike
“Because of increasing traffic we need to look ahead, at least forty years”, says Kloppenburg in Het Parool. According to him, the only way to keep the city livable is to make way for the bicycle, which is only possible if the car makes way. That will create more space for broad bike lanes with two lanes: one for slow bikers and one for fast, electric bicycles.

Source: Parool
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