Updates

Last month, the European Parliament Environment Committee decided for ambitious measures to boost recycling, cut landfilling and curb food waste, thus kick-starting the Circular Economy.
The share of waste to be recycled should be raised to 70% by 2030, from 44% today, while landfilling, which has a big environmental impact, should be limited to 5%, said Environment Committee MEPs on Tuesday, as they amended the draft EU “waste package” legislation. They also advocate a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.
See for details the link below, for this information in Dutch read https://www.amsterdameconomicboard.com/nieuws/europarlement-stemt-kick-start-circulaire-economie and here (http://audiovisual.europarl.europa.eu/Assetdetail.aspx?id=16fea531-4575-4798-9b24-a5620125ee57) you can watch a short movie with the highlights of the debate.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=IM-PRESS&reference=20170123IPR59605&language=NL&format=XML

Hello everyone, we're looking for a Dutch Lead for Civocracy, our civic tech startup! We are a passionate, international team of 7 and are looking for a driven Dutch Country Manager to spearhead business development activities in the country.
Civocracy is an online platform which fosters participation, co-creation, and engagement in communities.

Responsibilities/job description:
" Business development: research, strategy, budgeting & market monitoring
" Sales: research, cold calling, reporting, & closing
" Account management: training, weekly client management & support,
reporting
" Communication/PR: networking & strategy

Our offer:
• An attractive work environment & network (Impact Hub)
• A highly collaborative group dynamic
• An opportunity to experience and learn from a growing business, its
challenges across different disciplines and an atypical organizational
culture
• Business development training
• Enable you to grow with the company, both in responsibility and role
• Flexible location
• Remuneration based upon commitment and experience
Both full-time and part-time employment possibilities

Your profile:
- ambitious, driven, independent: you want to learn and are able to manage and have ownership of your own work
- communicative, creative: you have experience working in a team, you know how to get a point across clearly, you adapt quickly
- socially oriented: you want to improve yourself and your surroundings
- your are good at planning & strategizing
- previous sales experience desired
- fluent in Dutch + english professional proficiency required

For applications please e-mail vittoria@civocracy.org

Share a ride, Toogethr.

Partners:

Apply now for the Dutch Smart Cities bootcamp organized by B. NY and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York - May 1-6 2017 in NYC, USA!

Deadline extended until 28th February!

For more information, contact Yeni Joseph - yeni@b-buildingbusiness.com

More Info: http://b-buildingbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/B_NY_onepager.pdf

B. Building Business has an amazing internship opportunity for an (international) student at its European flagship location in Amsterdam. Mid- 2017 B. will open its American flagship complex at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City. B. New York City will support European companies that want to expand to the United States. It will be the first official international incubator of NYC.

As an intern with the B.international department you will support the international expansion of B. to New York City. Preferably with experience/expertise in the fields of entrepreneurship and startups and knowledge of the American/NYC market.

For additional information contact me directly via yeni@b-buildingbusiness.com or visit: http://b-buildingbusiness.com/amsterdam/jobs/intern-b-international-b-new-york-city/

Nice explanation and examples. Although quite some attention for smart technologies instead of smart citizens!

We are looking for industrial designers who can help us create reusable, collapsible, food-grade packaging made from sustainable materials. The packaging we are going to start with will consist mostly of glass, aluminum, biodegradable materials, sustainable paper and silicon.

Offering a disruptive grocery-shopping model that reduces packaging waste dramatically, without sacrificing convenience.

Opening in Amsterdam in Spring, 2018: Ozarka is a new-concept shop offering upmarket, gorgeous, high-quality yet affordable specialty foods, every-day grocery, and personal care products. We will also feature a prepared foods station and salad bar that is self-serve and sold by weight.

Best of all, Ozarka is a #NoSupp* retailer. We will sell no product wrapped or packaged in single-use plastic. We will make it incredibly enjoyable *and* convenient for our customers to participate in sustainable shopping.

Plastic packaging has created one of the most severe environmental crises of our time. We use far more of it that we can recycle or manage and most of it ends up in landfill, or polluting our oceans and terrestrial environment (only 8% of plastic is recycled worldwide).

Ozarka's model aims to drastically reduce and remove plastic from our daily lives without compromising quality or convenience in every day shopping. Our food is beautiful. Our shopping experience is beautiful. With our customers we will keep the planet beautiful.

Say yes to Ozarka. Say yes to #NoSUPP

We are inviting suppliers to contact us and join in this vision. Specifically:
Fruit and vegetable producers
Local cheese makers
Local beter-leven dairy
Caterers and gourmet food truck vendors
High end personal product makers looking to prototype a refills model: soaps, shampoos, conditioners (think Kiehls, Body Shop, Kevin Murphy)
Bio-based, single-use packaging manufacturers
Compostable packaging manufacturers
Industrial composting facilities

Contact@ozarka.biz

*NoSUPP = No Single Use Plastic Packaging

Dear employers of Amsterdam,

We are PlaytoWork, a job board service with a focus on matching young vocational graduates and students (MBO-graduates) in Metropole Region Amsterdam with actual job openings. CV’s are old school and not a great predictor of success. PlaytoWork adds personality profiling to matching for a better (long-term) fit. By using ‘serious games’ for recruitment issues, we provide candidates with self-understanding of their personality and behavior. This makes applying for jobs and matching better, faster and fun. Our games are based on psychological assessment criteria and are used to build a solid image of a potential employee. Employers benefit from matching on both soft skills and hard skills as the importance of a fit on personality increases rapidly.

Do you have vacancies for which the behavioral component is essential? Is your target group hard to find and or hard to pick? Come on board! We currently have free trials, so don’t hesitate to contact us: http://www.playtowork.nl or floris@playtowork.nl

Currently, we are working on our online portal called UrbanGuide. Our aim is to give residents of Amsterdam the possibility to create city guides based on their interest. When a tourist want’s to visit Amsterdam he can search for guides based on his interest and buy them. We are currently working to release out Beta version of the platform next month and we are looking for people who want to help us test the platform as a tourist or as a writer.

In order to make sure you are only contacted for the right reason, we created a sign-up form on our coming soon page.

https://www.urbangui.de/

All the help is greatly appreciated!

At Edinburgh Napier University and Politecnico di Milano, we are trying to better understand how the development process of smart city strategies is structured and which guiding principles need to be considered. We are doing that by learning from European good practices, like Amsterdam.

Here is one of our outputs: the collaborative network that made it possible to develop the Amsterdam Smart City Strategy. This graph shows how the journey towards becoming a smart city is complex. A journey which is based on a strong leadership, political commitment, the balance between top-down and bottom-up approach and, above all, cross-sector collaboration!

The statistics describing the structure of the network is going to be published in the next months. Each dot represents an organisation collaborating in the development of the Amsterdam Smart City Strategy. Organisations are split in four groups: Businesses (blue); Universities and research institutes (green); governmental authorities (red); other (orange); undefined (black). Edges are used to link those organisations which have worked together. The bigger the diameter of the circle, the more the organisation is connected with other organisations of the system.

Stadium transitions to data driven operation: from preventive maintenance to data-driven maintenance

BAM Bouw en Techniek and Honeywell will become strategic innovation partners of the Amsterdam ArenA for all technology. Part of the agreement forms the installation of a new building management system for the management of the technical systems in the stadium. Assisted by sensors, the building management system collects data from the connected equipment, which is analysed by BAM and Honeywell. Based on data analysis, failures are detected early so that maintenance can be carried out before any inconvenience arises. The systems of BAM Bouw en Techniek and Honeywell make the Amsterdam ArenA a ‘flagship’ in the field of ‘data driven operation’, whereby preventive regular maintenance makes room for predictable, data-driven maintenance.

With the new system, BAM Bouw en Techniek, as the main contractor for all technology, will realise a cost reduction for the energy consumption, maintenance and facility management of the stadium. Honeywell will supply and install measuring and control equipment and sensors throughout the stadium, including the first phase of the new construction.

BAM Bouw en Techniek and Honeywell will act jointly as strategic partner to Amsterdam Innovation Arena for a period of ten years. BAM and Honeywell will commit to the AIA concept to apply new technological developments in the Amsterdam ArenA. They will actively participate in this innovation platform where, together with other partners, new technology, products and processes will be assessed and implemented on their practical feasibility.

Jaap Hazeleger, Director BAM Bouw en Techniek: ‘Based on the strategy formulated by BAM: ‘Building the present, creating the future’, we are investing in innovation and digitisation. BAM aims to fully design and build projects in virtual reality prior to physically realising them. Buildings and infrastructure are becoming increasingly more complex systems of sensors and technology, with the aim to make building structures more sustainable, more efficient and more comfortable. Digitisation will change the construction process dramatically. We will apply the latest technology, such as digital design, modular design and construction and predicting future maintenance with sensors and big data, to the Amsterdam ArenA.’

John Brussel, Managing Director of Honeywell B.V.: ‘The new building management system will also provide connectivity for data and the Internet of Things (IoT). All collected data will be linked through the web to the Outcome Based Services (OBS) platform of Honeywell. The Amsterdam ArenA will then have the most innovative platform available worldwide.’

Henk Markerink, Director Amsterdam ArenA: ‘The Amsterdam ArenA together with its partners aims to make the stadium and the stadium area increasingly smarter, so the operations can be more efficient and more effective. With BAM and Honeywell as strategic partners of the Amsterdam Innovation Arena we can add further strength to our innovation programme. The will assist us to achieve our goals, saving on maintenance and cost reduction in energy consumption. We are delighted that these two global players use the ArenA as real-time playground to implement innovations and to test them in a live environment.’

Collaboration BAM and Amsterdam ArenA
In the period 1993-1996 BAM built the ArenA in a joint venture with Ballast Nedam. BAM is also the Founder of the Amsterdam ArenA. BAM has extended the Founder Agreement with the Amsterdam ArenA until 2026.

Zoekt u een ruimte voor uw bedrijf, onderneming of culturele organisatie? De Stadsloods begeleidt u in uw zoektocht naar een geschikte werkruimte. Stadsloods helpt u met gemeentelijke regelgeving en met vragen over ruimte, huurprijzen, erfpacht, gemeentelijk vastgoed, bestemmingsplannen, beleid en vergunningen. Het motto is: voor elk bedrijf een goede plek!

Voorbeelden van initiatieven die in 2016 een locatie vonden met behulp van de Stadsloods zijn: Respijthuis Amsterdam, Impact Hub, Geef Café, De Appel, Rederij Kees, Stichting OOPOEH, Klederdrachtmuseum, Sungevity en Waarmakers.

22,5% méér vonden een plek
In 2016 begeleidde Stadsloods 559 partijen die ruimte zochten, waarvan bijna 400 nieuwe ruimtezoekers. Dat is 22,5% meer dan in 2015. Het gaat om grote en kleine bedrijven, om commerciële en niet-commerciële organisaties. Kantoren, bedrijven, culturele organisaties, sport, winkels, religie tot maatschappelijke instellingen: alle sectoren kunnen bij de Stadsloods terecht. In 2016 is met hulp van de Stadsloods circa 55.000 m2 leegstand gevuld, waarmee naar schatting 2500 arbeidsplaatsen zijn gemoeid.

Trends en ontwikkelingen
Door de druk op de woningmarkt verdwijnen kleinschalige bedrijfsruimten meer en meer uit de binnenstad. Maar de trend van flexkantoren zet in alle stadsdelen door, van het Centrum (bijvoorbeeld WeWork in de Weesperstraat) tot in Nieuw-West (bijvoorbeeld B. Amsterdam in de Johan Huizingalaan). Betaalbaar maatschappelijk vastgoed wordt steeds schaarser en duurder. Voor sociale ondernemingen wordt het steeds moeilijker een plek te vinden. Het fenomeen pop-up blijft populair, onder andere in winkelgebieden.

Meer lezen?
www.amsterdam.nl/stadsloods

The City of Amsterdam has won an award in the ‘Best Government Emerging Technologies’ category of the World Government Summit Awards in Dubai. The award went to the City of Amsterdam for its outstanding approach to innovation in general, and for the public-private Amsterdam Smart City programme, which forms a strong basis for the development of a smart city, in particular. The category recognises governments that are experimenting with emerging technologies to provide more efficient and effective services to their citizens and that have proven results in adding greater public value and transforming the lives of people.

The annual award is designed to motivate various consortia to promote creative smart initiatives and partnerships with the aim of providing innovative smart solutions to common global challenges. Amsterdam is currently at the forefront in this field. The City is running a lot of pilots and a long-term strategy is in place to continue developing its structures, with the aim of cementing Amsterdam’s pioneering status as a smart city.

At the closing ceremony of the World Government Summit 2017 on 14 February 2017, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE and Emir of Dubai, presented 17 winners with awards. Nina Tellegen, Director of the Amsterdam Economic Board and responsible for the Amsterdam Smart City programme, accepted the award for Amsterdam.

Tellegen said: “This is an incredible compliment for the Amsterdam Smart City programme. Very often, Smart City programmes are initiated and run by city governments. In Amsterdam, we believe in a different approach. We organise smart, public-private collaboration between municipalities, knowledge institutions, corporates, startups and citizens. This leads to more creative, innovative and sustainable solutions. This is what works in Amsterdam and it’s what we need in this complex time.”

Hello!
I am a student from Czech Republic writing my thesis on the topic of Circular Ecocnomy and I am looking for people who founded circular businesses (no matter how big or small), willing to share their opinion on the topic of CE and answer a few questions. Interview is done via skype call, should not take more than 25-30min.
I will highly appreciate your contribution! Please write in the comments or email me at xtriv002@studenti.czu.cz if you are interested :)

The EU FP7 GEYSER project has come to its successful conclusion. During the past three years, the GEYSER team was focused on delivering a technological and business proof-of-concept that supports Data Centres to interact with their smart city ecosystem.

Indeed, the concept of Smart Cities, the evolving role of DSOs, as well as the increasing possibilities for renewable energy sources, make GEYSER not just a data model for a DCIM, but an innovative tool to help data centres to re-think their strategies for energy sources, storage and heat re-use. Nevertheless, the developed solution targets not only Data Centre Managers and Operators but stakeholders at the interface of the involved systems such as Distribution System Operators (DSOs), Smart City Energy Managers, Energy Service Companies (ESCos) and so on.

A concrete summary of the validation and evaluation process, where collected results are analysed and presented in a uniform, consolidated way, can be found at http://www.geyser-project.eu/downloads/GEYSER.D7.6.RWTH.WP7.V1.0.pdf. This report delivers evidence on the achieved performance along with guidelines towards the development of a market-ready solution.

The results we have achieved are already used in the development of a Green Datacenter Campus around Amsterdam (http://www.greenitamsterdam.nl/projects/707-green-datacenter-hotspots) and will be taken into account for follow-up projects.
The data centre industry is uniquely positioned to actively participate within local Energy Hubs which will leverage on new combinations of innovations and technologies, from both within and outside the industry itself.

We strongly believe that the GEYSER Solution for Green Data Centres will be ready, exploitable and marketable in less than 5 years. Business drivers, such as cost reduction, revenue generation and CSR guidelines, are pointing towards that direction and the industry is already looking for new opportunities. GEYSER enables the successful integration of Data Centres operations to a Smart City vision where all involved stakeholders can benefit from the developed solution, tailored to their needs and wants, and achieve energy efficiency and costs savings.

Should you have any questions, remarks or comments whatsoever, do not hesitate to contact us!

By tracking movement with common sensors on a smart phone we can detect stress and it's cause (i.e. environmental, physical, emotional, mental, other). By applying programming from Oxford Universities Center for Evidence Based Medicine we reduce the stress with specific mindfulness techniques.

Several elementary schools in Amsterdam compete to save the most fossil energy. A good start is to know how much energy your school is using today. Children, teachers and board work together to use less energy and to produce more renewable energy.

Would your school like to join in? Just fill in this form and get started! http://www.oranje-energie-challenge.nl/aanmelden/