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Rainbeer (Hemelswater)
Besides taking on the heavy rainfall problem (rainproofing the city) we focus on making our products and the producers we work with circular.
First Zero Waste Lab in Netherlands
The Zero Waste Lab is an initiaitive of De Gezonde Stad (the Healthy City) and is supported by partners Stadsdeel Oost, Icova, Cities Foundation, de Regenboog Groep, Ymere and EY.
Besides, the Dapper Market, local entrepreneurs, the Dapper School and residents join.
Smart Stories
Check the article about the Zero Waste Lab featured in our online magazine 'Smart Stories':
Co-Creating Responsive Urban Spaces
The rapid developments of smart sensoring kick-started a new industry. However, in relation to public space, sensors are mainly used in interactive objects as part of cultural or temporal exhibitions like the Amsterdam Light Festival and Glow in Eindhoven. The Co-ReUS project aims to bring these kind of objects into the challenges of spatial design of public space.
Do you have a question, are you interested to join and/or would you like to follow the project via Newsletters? Please send an mail to project manager Jolanda Tetteroo via j.i.a.tetteroo @ hva.nl (remove spaces)
Commissie Democratisering en decentralisering
How to increase democracy at the University of Amsterdam?
Opzetten Duurzaamheidscentrum Haarlem
Een plek voor ontmoeting en kennisdelen op gebied van duurzame maatschappelijke ontwikkeling
Robots at your Service: Active & Healthy Ageing
Using robots, our ageing population will enjoy a pleasant retirement.
Central event – European Robotics Week 2016 - Amsterdam, 18-22 November, Marine Base
This year the European Robotics Week’s central event focuses on several topics such as:
- Assistive living technologies and healthy aging
- Girls and women in technology
- Encouragement of STEAM-based education
- Robotics competitions and challenges
This is a multi-track event aiming to inspire people on the positive contribution robotics can bring to our society and geared to aspire to the younger generations on the growing importance of skills in science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM).
RE-ORGANISE
Re-organise organic waste streams to create a benefit for all
The Bio-based street bench : A sustainable cooperation between Waternet and NPSP
Using a biocomposite to make street benches
EnergieKoplopers
How can flexible strategies help grow sustainable energy and keep the electricity grid reliable at the lowest possible cost, while also revealing potential benefits for households?
Open Data API's Municipality of Amsterdam
DataLab is a workshop, knowledge-center and open stage.
<https://github.com/DatapuntAmsterdam>
DataLab is een werkplaats, kenniscentrum en open podium
Om letterlijk ruimte te creëren voor dataprofessionals en in data geïnteresseerde ambtenaren, bewoners en partners van de gemeente Amsterdam is het DataLab op initiatief van rve Onderzoek, Informatie en Statistiek opgezet. Een fysieke werkplaats, kenniscentrum en open podium voor Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Tech City => Global Tech City
An innovative and intuitive platform made for streamlining and forging meaningful connections between like-minded, influential, and invested partners in order to efficiently make real progress towards achieving the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a better world.
Aquatic plants transform into bench
Can you sit on aquatic plants?
Schluss
With Schluss you will have your own digital, multi encrypted digital safe. Which only YOU can access. Inside that safe you can store anything: from simple addresses to real complex medical and financial data. And the information that you decide to give insight to, can never be copied, transferred or sold. And it's always up-to-date.
We're building Schluss together: with technicians, companies, governments and individuals. Our software will be Open Source. We're building a community. A world wide cooperative where each Schluss-user is co-owner. To ensure that Schluss will always stay that independent, trusted third party.
Schluss software will be Open Source. The entity will be a cooperative.
Duurzaamheidsfonds Amsterdam
Matching great ideas with cheap loans
City Alerts
City Alerts provides adequate information of relevant information (personal and non-personal) between emergency services during emergency incidents.
City Protocol
By the end of 2018, City Protocol ended. The common solutions and principles are still relevant. Therefore, you can still find these useful insights on this page.
Cities have become the key nodes of the global economy, acting as magnets for the new hyper-connected communities. They play a singular role as hubs of innovation and sources of universal flows of information—produced by people, things and the interactions between them. How can cities approach these challenges and adopt sound financial strategies to become more livable and self-suficient, with empowered citizens?
1) A collaboration and knowledge sharing framework for the development of a new science of cities.
2) Establishment of the basis for the evaluation and accreditation of standards and recommendation documents for city transformations.
3) A set of methods and tools for system-level data analysis and representation, and a city knowledge base into specific learnings.
4) A ‘city language’ and set of common images for describing the City Anatomy.
5) Building a repository of documents describing projects, policies and recommended practices which may be tested in cities working and learning together to tackle their common transformational challenges.
6) A network and/or platform for education and knowledge sharing among all members.
City-zen: Retrofitting homes
On our way to become a natural gas free city, many residential buildings in Amsterdam need to be retrofitted. In City-zen the most ambitious ones were granted subsidy.
City-zen was an international consortium, a program stimulating learning-by-doing in Grenoble and Amsterdam between March 2014 and November 2019. The results can be found in a booklet or in detailed reports. http://www.cityzen-smartcity.eu/home/reporting/deliverables/
Read our interviews with some of the individual home-owners:
- Koos Marinus, who renovated his single family rowhouse
- Frank Hylkema, who made his houseboat energy friendly
- Jan Pel, who now has a sustainable apartment
- Marjolein Cazemier, who together with other 9 families, transformed a former schoolbuilding into family homes.
Learn more about some of the larger projects:
- How to make post war buildingssustainable?
- VIDEO: Wath this video (in Dutch) about how social housing company Eigen Haard renovated 138 apartments in the post war Airey Buildings in Amsterdam Nieuw-West with the support of City-zen funding:
Have a look at the MURMUR2 Campaign in City-zen city Grenoble and the work of the social landlords over there.
BAMBEA
Exploring how Beacons can be put to use to increase exercise in Amsterdam.
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