Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

This week, meet Willem van Winden and Daniel van der Buusse, working on innovation ecosystems and the role of different organizations within smart city projects.
Are you interested in their expertise, do you want to know more or want to connect? Feel free to get in contact.

They recently published a paper about upscaling of smart city projects:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319496333_Smart_City_Pilot_Projects_
Exploring_the_Dimensions_and_Conditions_of_Scaling_Up

From cargo tram to retirement homes, this week we heard a lot of interesting ideas during student presentations at the HvA. 70 students studying Public Administration at the University of Applied Sciences (HvA) worked 14 weeks on Sustainability and Energy Transition. They wrote essays and worked in groups on creative ideas that should lead to less energy use and less waste by specific target groups.

Six student groups were selected to present their ideas in front of a jury with experts from the City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Smart City and the HvA. They presented interesting plans to promote the use of biodegradable plastic in supermarkets and the infamous Amsterdam coffee shops, to increase waste separation by well targeted communication and more hygienic underground waste containers, and one group re-introduced an old idea of a cargo tram to distribute packages in town.

Winner of the pack was the group ‘Seniors on Energy’, with their plans to nudge those in retirement and care homes to use less energy by turning down the thermostat, putting on an extra sweater and promoting led lights. Luuk Zaal, Mohamed Belkasmi, Ruben Nap, Hidde Verhoeve and Lars van Oostenbrugge have already test-tried their idea by running a pilot in a care home in the North of Amsterdam with the Amsterdam funded Energy Coaches, and found the seniors to be very interested and willing to look at their energy use and potential savings. Sebastiaan Jacobs of the City of Amsterdam invited this group to work together to see how this can be put to practice.

On the 16th of January 40 smart city professionals met our smart city researchers at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science. Our researchers presented their fields of knowledge, projects and tools. After which the Smart city professionals took the stage and pitched their smart city issues in order to win one of our research vouchers (equals one fulltime week of research). Each organization was matched with one of our researchers in order to start a research or student project.

The ambition of the smart city academy is to make our knowledge and tools more visible and applicable to smart city professionals. That’s why we for example presented our projects on upscaling, business models, entrepreneurship and learning, user design, stakeholder engagement and data. We showed a couple of our tools, like ‘the multi stakeholder multi criteria analysis’ (MAMCA), which can be uses to discuss and weight the interests of stakeholders in smart city initiatives. And our multi stakeholder business canvas, that is still in development, which helps finding a viable business model that suits the needs for all involved stakeholder your smart city project.

The researchers and organizations that brought up their smart city issue will continue with drawing up a research question which will be evaluated by the smart city academy professors; at the end of January. We will grant four research vouchers to the most promising combinations.

Big thanks to Mark Deakin for giving a key note on his research on sustainable smart city developments and offering a theoretical framework. And to those brave enough to climb up the soap box and present their smart city issue. We showed once again that a smart city is indeed a learning city!

Are you curious about our researchers and their ambitions? Starting a project together of doing a masterclass on one of the subjects mentioned above? Contact the academy at smartcityacademy@hva.nl and find us on the website.

IoT and Data management are hot topics in today's world.
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, together with IoT academy and Amsterdam ArenA are organizing an IoT meets Data Science Hackathon. During this 3-day hackathon, the objective is to come up with innovative solutions for crowd management of Amsterdam ArenA.

Do you have what it takes to bring crowd management to the next level and win the IoT meets Data Science Hackathon?

More information and registry via: www.innovationarena.eventbrite.com

Questions? mail to hackathon@hva.nl

Our ambition is to do further research on Smart City projects and their ecosystem. Therefore, we are curious about your smart city issues and questions! Are you a company, foundation, government or startup with a challenge in health, mobility, energy or other smart city issues? Are you curious about the possibilities of big data, struggling to scale-up, wondering how to create effective partnerships, trying to make a business case for you smart city project?
Put your research question into the spotlight at our Smart City Academy event on the 16th of january and win a research voucher. This voucher gives you access to a researcher that will explore your issue for a week. We will try to formulate some first answers to your research question and explore further steps for research together with public or private companies.

If you're interested in pitching on this event, or want some further information, please contact smartcityacademy@hva.nl

For more information about the event, click here https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/events/elevate-smart-city-practice-ih01ygsv

Er zijn drie publicaties beschikbaar die de tussenresultaten van het onderzoek tonen. Deze zijn te vinden op de website van Re-Organise.
1. Een overzicht en informatie over technieken die ingezet kunnen worden om organische reststromen decentraal te verwerken.
2. Een overzicht van de reststromen, behoeften en eerste oplossingsrichtingen bij de stadslandbouwlocatie NoordOogst.
3. Een overzicht van de reststromen, behoeften en eerste oplossingsrichtingen bij de stadslandbouwlocatie Tuinen van West.

Meet & Match at Smart City Academy

The strength of smart city research:
Are you a company, foundation, government or startup with a challenge in health, mobility, energy or other smart city issues? Are you curious about the possibilities of big data, struggling to scale-up, wondering how to create effective partnerships, trying to make a business case for you smart city project? Curious how to elevate your smart city practice?
Find out what research can mean for your smart city project or initiative at our Meet and Match event! Discover our tools, knowledge, methodologies and fields of expertise. Meet smart city professionals & researchers. Share your questions and find research partners. We are curious about your smart city issues!

Pitch & Win
Bring your smart city research question into the spotlight and win a research voucher. This voucher gives you access to a researcher that will explore your issue for a week. We will try to formulate some first answers to your research question and explore further steps for research together with public or private companies. Contact smartcityacademy@hva.nl for more information.

Join us!
January 16th, 1 – 5.30 PM. Hogeschool van Amsterdam, room named “FLOOR”, second floor of the Wibauthuis (WBH 02A30).
Open for everyone!

Program
13.00 – Walk in
13.30 – Welcome by Robert van den Hoed, lector Energy and Innovation.
13.45 - Key note by Mark Deakin: Professor of Built Environment at the Edinburgh Napier University, shows his ground breaking research about smart and sustainable urban transformation in London.
14.00 - Pitches from the Smart City Academy about our research topics, f.e.: upscaling, user involvement, data, collaborative entrepreneurship, partnerships and business models, public values
14:45 - Meet and match the researchers at round tables
15:15 - Break
15:30 – Climb on the soap box and pitch your Smart City research question. We use our collaborative knowledge for some first answers.
16.30 – Closure and drinks

I'm a researcher in entrepreneurship at the Smart City Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. We would like to start a new research project where we explore expertise development in collaborating entrepreneurs and business modeling. Therefore, we are looking for entrepreneurs that are launching new initiatives/ projects that are 1) IT/ ICT-driven, and 2) in circular and/ or sharing economy. We execute action research where we also provide practical advice/ solutions to opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs encounter.