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Het nieuwe “Laat maar Waaien!” project komt er aan! Deze keer in The Valley in Hoofddorp.

Na het succesvolle samenwerkingsproject “Laat maar Waaien!” in Arnhem (korte video https://vimeo.com/109676113) kunnen groep 8ers deze keer samen met MBOers meebouwen aan een miniwindmolenpark in Hoofddorp.
Dit doen ze in de vorm van halve lesdagen (kosteloos) die worden gegeven in de periode 27 februari tot en met 9 maart. Meer informatie en het aanmeldingsformulier vind je op http://groenetransitie.nl/laatmaarwaaien.html

Ken jij een groep 8 die wil meebouwen aan een miniwindmolenpark? Laat ze dan weten dat de inschrijving voor deelname is begonnen. Wees er snel bij want er kunnen maximaal 15 klassen mee doen!

“Laat maar Waaien! in The Valley” is een initiatief van Groene Transitie, I-Link en Alliander in samenwerking met het Nova College, Schiphol Trade Park, Circulair Expo, NMCX, Valley Creators, gemeente Haarlemmermeer en Stichting Promotie Techniektalent.

Het regionale masterplan Rev3 werd in 2013 gelanceerd door Jeremy Rifkin, in samenwerking met de private sector, lokale autoriteiten, clusters en universiteiten in Hauts-de-France. Rifkin's doel was om aan alle energiebehoeften te voldoen door duurzame energie in 2050 en van Hauts-de-France de eerste regio te maken die het post-carbon tijdperk betreedt. Rev3Days borduurt voort op dit concept.

• Rev3 is een initiatief van de Europese Unie om samenwerking tussen bedrijven te promoten op het gebied van circular economy, smart cities, additive manufacturing en energie.
• Door een begeleid B2B-matchmaking proces wil Rev3 bedrijven maar ook lokale autoriteiten, gemeenten en scholen helpen met het vinden van potentiële klanten, producten en strategische of institutionele partnerships.
• De conferentie is daarnaast ook gericht op de investeringsmogelijkheden in Haute-de-France, de regio van Frankrijk die London, Parijs en Brussel met elkaar verbindt. Gezien het BNP van €153 miljard (vergelijkbaar met Ierland), de jonge bevolking en de aanwezigheid van zo’n 282.000 bedrijven is dit een zeer aantrekkelijke investeringsregio.

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam zoekt een enthousiaste en resultaatgerichte projectmanager die mede vorm geeft aan de opbouw en ontwikkeling van de Smart City Academy (= werktitel). De Smart City Academy is een nieuw HvA project dat momenteel samen met het Amsterdam Smart City (ASC) wordt opgezet. Binnen de Academy ontwikkelt de HvA samen met partners van ASC kennis (door o.a. het evalueren van projecten) over het organiseren van Smart City projecten. De Academy ontsluit de kennis door onderzoekers te laten participeren binnen lopende projecten (faciliteren), master classes te organiseren en de kennis te publiceren in o.a. toolboxes en rapporten. Lectoren en onderzoekers van verschillende HvA faculteiten werken binnen dit project op verschillende inhoudelijke crossthema’s (o.a. smart partnerships, data science, user involvement en replication).

The city plans to wean its homes off domestic natural gas by 2050, starting now.

By 2050, Amsterdam hopes to put its gas-heated days behind it. In a city where natural gas warms 90 percent of all homes and contributes 30 percent of all carbon emissions, removing all those boilers won’t be easy—but it could very well be worth it.

From here, the deadline might seem far away, but the journey to that target is beginning right now. This week, the city announced that in 2017, 10,000 public housing units will have their gas supplies removed, and new neighborhoods in the city won’t have natural gas as an option either.

So what will heat Amsterdam in the future? The overarching answer is district heating, derived from a number of sources. By 2020, 102,000 Amsterdam homes will have switched from heat created in their homes to heat created at a central facility and supplied by a pipeline. While it requires a network of heavily insulated hot water pipes to be installed, district heating systems save considerable energy in the long run by creating a single generating point where fuel is burned. This creates efficiencies of scale that ultimately make the same amount of fuel go further.

Even if this heat were to be generated by natural gas, heating water centrally and piping it to heaters, kitchens, and bathrooms would produce far fewer carbon emissions than burning gas in each home. But in a general move against the fuel, Amsterdam is already trying to find alternative heat sources, notably waste heat from industry. Already, 70,000 of the city’s homes are warmed with water heated at a central waste incinerator. The plan is to roll this concept out further to tap into other sources of waste heat.

The plans are not all working toward greater centralization, however. Some heat pumps are being planned to keep homes warm on the new artificial islands Amsterdam has been constructing in the IJmeer lake. Some homes are also being fitted with solar water heaters, which will ultimately be able to feed unused hot water back into the wider network to generate income for the homeowner.

This all makes it sound pretty simple, but the issues ahead are still pretty huge. For heat pumps to be cost effective, for example, buildings need to be extremely well insulated, which could be why only around 1,000 Dutch homes are currently fitted with the technology. That’s an easy enough goal to manage for new construction, but it would be far harder to install in the city’s older, often rather drafty housing stock.

SOURCE: http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2016/11/amsterdam-natural-gas-ban-2050-climate-change-regulations/508022/

Download the strategy (Dutch) 'Naar een stad zonder aardgas' (PDF, 1.2 MB https://www.amsterdam.nl/publish/pages/821300/naar_een_stad_zonder_aardgas.pdf ) and the attachments (Dutch) (PDF, 831 kB https://www.amsterdam.nl/publish/pages/821300/naar_een_stad_zonder_aardgas_-_bijlagen.pdf )

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!

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

6 plenary tracks with each 6 speakers
Presentation based on an ongoing interview
Congress + Community for public servants & partners + Virtual fair
Visit the site and the program via http://www.4Instance.be
Interested as speaker or as partner ? Let me know by mail tvda@4Instance.be

From 2017 on, the KIT (Royal Institute for the Tropics) and Impact Hub share the office in the East of Amsterdam and collaborate on local and global sustainability issues. The building becomes a breeding place for 200 entrepreneurs and organisations and will be the biggest social impact hotspot in The Netherlands. Read on in Dutch..

Ellen Oetelmans, programmamanager sociaal ondernemerschap van de Gemeente Amsterdam is zeer te spreken over de samenwerking: “Een belangrijk speerpunt van de Gemeente Amsterdam is het verder stimuleren van Impact First ondernemen. Nu Impact Hub zijn intrek neemt in het KIT-pand en er 200 ondernemers en organisaties werken met hetzelfde doel, wordt de synergie vergroot en zullen we meer impact maken. Zo wordt dit prachtige pand aan het Oosterpark de hotspot voor sociaal ondernemen in Amsterdam, of zelfs in Nederland!”

Lees meer hierover via http://bit.ly/2jCmdGu

During my internship at Amsterdam Smart City, I did a research about the use and expectations of our online community (this website). As you may remember, I asked our members to fill in an online questionnaire about their behaviour and wishes on our online community. I want to share some outcomes of this survey with you!

During my internship at Amsterdam Smart City, I did a research about the use and expectations of our online community (this website). As you may remember, I asked our members to fill in an online questionnaire about their behaviour and wishes on our online community. I want to share some outcomes of this survey with you!
The total amount of respondents was 304, which gives a good indication of the whole community (more than 2000 members at this moment). From these 304 respondents , some interesting results were observed:

> 46% lives in Amsterdam
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> A wide range of type of organisations where members are working (SME’s, Corporates, Knowledge institutions, Governmental organisations and start- ups)
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> 72% of the members is satisfied about the interface of the site

Interests of the members

> The most important reasons to sign up on the online community are to find smart city projects (65%) and to acquire knowledge (66%)
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> 55% of the start- ups wants to find partners on the community to do business with​- The community members have most interest in start-ups (74%) and knowledge institutions (74%)
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> The project section and event section are the most important/interesting sections on the community. Events are mostly interesting for users who live in Amsterdam.​Activities of the members
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> 58% visits the online community once or twice a month
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> 28% visits the community weekly
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> Only 9% never visits the online community
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> 25% of the respondents shared content in the past54% expects to share content in the future

A smart city, according to the members, is mostly associated with:

> Technology
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> Citizens; Liveability (a higher score was given on this aspect by respondents living in Amsterdam)
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> Environmental sustainability
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> Mobility

The results show that the community is a diverse and growing group with different interests, depending on where people live and work. The results also show some challenges for the future.

1. To ensure the quality of the shared content (with a growing amount of members). We already try to remove irrelevant content from the community.
2. Involve citizens from Amsterdam (more actively) on our community. We already made a program with offline activities, which are also interesting for the citizens of Amsterdam! This ‘off-line’ agenda will be shared soon.
3. How can we help start-ups to find partners to do business with? We already to try share relevant events for start- ups in Amsterdam, like the start up in residence program.

If you have any suggestions our tips to improve our community, you can always share these tips with us! Please give us your comments below!

Applications are now open for Rockstart's 4th Smart Energy accelerator program in Amsterdam! Are you an entrepreneur with a startup focused on IT and energy? Apply before February 17!

Amsterdam Smart City was launched in June 2016 and in 7 months time 2.000 members registered! Our developers at Crowded distilled a top 5 of most viewed items and more. Check out the facts and figures.

Amsterdam Smart City was launched in June 2016 and in 7 months time 2.000 members registered! Our developers at Crowded distilled a top 5 of most viewed items and more. You love to read about smart mobility and energy solutions!

Top 5 of most viewed items

1. Smart Traffic Management (project)
2. Smart Light (project)
3. Organising Smart City: Lessons​ learned from Amsterdam (post)
4. City-zen: Virtual Power Plant (project)
5. The Green Living Lab (project)

Time spent

Together we viewed 532,781 pages and spent 384,235 minutes on the site! (the same time you need to watch half of Netflix series).

You shared

Our platform is operating fully user generated. This resulted in:

• 565 Posts
• 183 Projects
• 283 companies
• 164 Events
• 107 Requests

This is all thanks to YOU, our community!

Most active members

Special thanks go out to:

Xaris Xaritwnidis, Margot Frederiks, Rogier Havelaar, Kim Gijsbers, Cornelia Dinca, Nuray Gokalp, Sander van Lingen, Melchior Kanyemesha, Paul Voskuilen, Chanhee Leem Esther Somers and Mirko van Vliet as our dedicated members!

Of course we could not have done this without the support of our developers' team of Crowded.

We are looking forward to continue our story together in 2017!

In the Amsterdam district Slotermeer locals use an purpose made app to map (un)healthy spots and behaviour. This helps the local government to fine-tune measures to make neighbourhoods more healthy and social.

With its knowledge intensive industries, capacity for innovation and strong R&D base, Bavaria is the innovative motor of the Germany’s economy.

Join the mission of Amsterdam / Utrecht region to explore trends in the fields of urban mobility, e-health, digital media, fashion, agro-food and startups.

Find new avenues for cooperation. Expand partnerships.

Interesting read (Dutch only) on using big data to help cities overcome some of there challenges or be more efficient.
This is one of the topics of the new established Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative which is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. This programme equips mayors and their senior leaders with cutting-edge tools and techniques to more effectively tackle pressing management challenges faced in their cities. Through a $32 million initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University are collaborating to provide hundreds of city leaders customized executive education focused on leadership and innovation in governance.

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Erkan Efek
Smart Product manager