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What does employment look like in the future? What are the major influences that change your business model - hence your need for talent and skills in your organization? We want to know your view on the future of the labor market in order to anticipate talent and skills shortages in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.

By participating in the research 'Jobs of the Future' - focused on employers in the Metropolitan Area of Amsterdam - you gain insight in how work in general and needs for skills and talent in particular, are changing. By collecting the needs and prospects for future skills and talent, we can improve the adaptivity of the the regional labor market - strengthening our education system and minimizing the transition from learning to work. By collaborating we make the labor market the most adaptive of Europe - ensuring your organization is ready for the future!

More information:
https://www.amsterdameconomicboard.com/projecten/jobs-the-future

Interested and willing to participate? please send your contact details to m.vanvliet@amecboard.com.

Please, don't hesitate to forward this message.

Are you an enthusiastic millennial, eager to spread the word of sustainability? Are you itching to help shape future leaders and build a new tomorrow?? If you currently live in or near Amsterdam and answered yes to the above questions, this is your chance to help organise EURENSSA 2017. We are specifically looking for a PR manager, a treasurer, and a few folks to join the logistics team. As the conference approaches we will also be in need of volunteers to help run the event (i.e. cook), so stay tuned if that sounds like something you’d be interested in.
Applicants ideally have experience and knowledge in some aspect of the field of environmental science, but if you have any useful skills/love the earth, please apply!

Descriptions:
Logistics: We are looking for people to help us with all aspects of the event planning. This includes organising workshops, contacting potential lecturers, assisting with the application process, figuring out location logistics (sleeping, food, etc.); the list is endless

Public Relations Manager: Specific responsibilities include managing social media accounts (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) and basic website maintenance. Tasks will include blog writing, event advertising, and perhaps some general secretarial/organisational assistance.

Treasurer: If you're organised and great with budgeting, this is the job for you. We need someone who can keep track of expenditures, help get sponsors, and generally ensure that everything is done as cheaply as possible.

For all positions, you should:

Work well in a diverse team
Speak English (if you speak Dutch as well that’s a major plus)
Be in town from July 23rd until July 30th (and the months leading up)

If interested, please send your CV and a brief letter of motivation (200-300 words; introduce yourself, specify the position you're applying for, tell us why you’d be a valuable member, let us know why you’d like to join, etc.) to info@eurenssa2017.org.

Would you like to improve infrastructure quality for cargo bikes? Then please read! Master student Yuki Yamamoto from University of Amsterdam, is working on a thesis regarding cargo bike users' route choice and infrastructure preferences. I am looking for people to fill in a survey (it should take less than 10 minutes), and your help is greatly appreciated. Some planners are interested in the research, so it's a good opportunity to complain about whatever problem you face, and hopefully your voice will be heard!

Please follow the link below to start the survey. And please share the link with people using a cargo bike in Amsterdam!

https://goo.gl/forms/xSET46kjkQ0jYAFu2

Please feel free to contact me if you have any question/comment. Thank you very much for your help.

Yuki Yamamoto
yuki.yamamoto@student.uva.nl
Research master urban studies
University of Amsterdam

I am looking for job or internship opportunities in Amsterdam. I have a background in environmental law.
My goal is to work towards making cities healthy and sustainable for the long term. I believe that promoting collaborative innovation and circularity is the only viable way for societies to path the way for a sustainable future. I am now seeking opportunities to work on projects pertaining to these fields. I am passionate about circular economy, technological innovation and integrated urban design.
Setting ambitious goals, engaging in aspiring projects, and expecting a lot from myself defines my values.
Hire me!

Looking for synergies (partners, researcher, investors) to develop the project Sainthorto,
an interactive garden which thanks to Arduino and a good part of creativity, interacts with the environment producing a soundscape where the melody changes according to the environmental changes and the meteorological parameters shaping an always unique space. Sainthorto received already important acknowledgment and awards connected with the initiative where it took part like the Maker Faire Europe in Rome and the Architizer People Choice Award 2014 e 2015. You find the complete description of Sainthorto here: http://www.oflstudio.com/works/sainthorto/
We want to focus now on the development of applications that can improve the performance of Sainthorto and on the research of design solutions for urban spaces strongly connected with nature and empowered by technologies enabling dwellers to interact with plants.

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

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/

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.

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!

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 :)

Dear all, I am conducting research for my Dissertation and would highly appreciate your contribution to my questionnaire based upon the added value of Open-government data to Smart City Developments.

I am studying BSc Information Management for Business at University College London (UCL, UK).

I am looking to establish the relationship but also future capabilities of open-government data in the development and integration of Smart City infastructure amongst Europe and the rest of the world.

Overall it should take less than 3 minutes to complete, and your opinions will be highly valued, all data will be anonymised and only used within the purposes of my Dissertation.

Any questions, feel free to contact me via email at: jayvekaria_96@hotmail.com

Thankyou and the link can be found below.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/R86RSP5

Started in Delft, partnered with technical universities as TUE &TUD, involved in project with Den Haag Gemeente and international companies, we, CFD Alpha Tech, are a growing startup and currently looking for potential partners and clients for our service, Computational Fluid Dynamics to solve the challenges in Urban Design.

What kind of challenges?
With the technology and human capital in-house, we are able to create designs, analyze and evaluate in the field of flow dynamics, such as:

1. Air: A detailed of analysis on the quality of air and its flow dynamic through urban areas; the response of wind flow for building proposals or existing building dynamics;
2. Water: Analysis of rain water dynamics and evaluation on the flow routes.
3. Heat: Heat radiation patterns for building design; Urban Heat Island analysis and suggestions ( Urban Heat Island are areas in the city which are significantly higher than rural area due to human activity); Evaluation on outdoor setting to increase the indoor energy efficiency; Analysis whether the natural ventilation through a site is sufficient to mitigate heat and pollutant to achieve better human comfort in dense urban environment.
4. Ventilation Analysis: Analysis of various heating ventilation and air conditioning systems by inputting different diffuser types and locations, control schedules and supply air conditions.

What benefits does computational 3D modelling have in flow dynamics?
1. Time efficient
2. Possibility with different hypothetical scenario testing
3. Cost efficient
4. Accuracy

If you are interested, take a look on our website www.cfdalphatech.com. You can email me directly xjuan.zhang@gmx.com for inquiry. We wish all projects success for a more efficient economy, starting from Amsterdam!

Kind regards,
Xuejuan Zhang

Dear Sir or Madam,
I am a post-graduate student in M. Sc. Global Sustainable Cities, coordinated by the Institute for Future Cities, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
I am very keenly interested in issues concerning a sustainable future in cities in order to enable a better quality of life. Considering that Amsterdam is often considered a role model for its liveability, I would be very interested in Amsterdam's solutions to urban issues and how these are transferred to other cities.
In our third term, in place of a traditional dissertation, we undertake two work-based placements that support our studies from the previous two terms and help us gain some real-world experience. Placements usually are about four weeks in length, but are very flexible according to each partner's needs or the project timeline. The placements are unpaid and I would be available to start from 17th of April. The intention is that for the partner, the student is able to assist in delivery of an activity or piece of research which adds value to you, whilst for the student the project is an opportunity to put knowledge into practice whilst developing highly desirable professional skills. Negotiating the topic and scope is a key element of the project and it is anticipated that this will be led by the partner. Alongside assisting the partner in delivery of a task, the student is required to submit to the University a report based on the project. This is not the output for the partner but connects their practical experience with the academic literature and their learning from the other parts of the MSc course.
Please do not hesitate to contact me on sissar@outlook.com .
Kind Regards,
Seema Issar

Recently, we submitted a project for Green Energy Playground for The Whole Family in Amsterdam: https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/international-projects/green-energy-playground-for-the-whole-family
It is a ready-to-implement project. And we are fully prepared to deliver the solution once we receive an approval.
In this regard, we are looking for a responsible person in Gemeente Amsterdam who deals with the installation of new playgrounds, and the equipment of public spaces.
I would like to receive a proper feedback and to find out how to realize the project in order to give Amsterdam another innovative feature :))

Finding skilled talent within the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA) is one of the key factors for success in regional economy. That is why we need to know about your needs in hiring future talent. With your insights we enhance the adaptivity of the labor market.
To gain these insights, the Amsterdam Economic Board, together with Randstad, the Free University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences started to investigate the ‘Jobs of the Future’.

Your input in this research is of high relevance. What does employment look like in the future according to you? What influence does employment have on future business models, talents and skills? We are looking for HR managers and employers to participate in this research.
Interested? Please send an e-mail to Inge van der Kraan (Amsterdam Economic Board), i.vanderkraan@amecboard.com.
By sharing information, we together increase the adaptivity of the labor market!

https://energyelephant.com/createAccount - "Turn energy data into ACTION!"
We do not want people to click this link and create an account. We do not want you to upload some energy data and to give us feedback.

We're working off the principle of reverse psychology in case you have not guessed.

Op 10 februari organiseert Skyscrapers de Inspiratiedag met als thema De Circulaire Economie voor onze young professionals. Skyscrapers is een partner voor de inzet van young professionals in bedrijven. Met de Inspiratiedag willen we onze trainees (zo'n 25) bewust maken en het belang inzien van circulair ondernemen. Allereerst zal EY langskomen om een introductie te geven over de circulaire economie en praten over verdienmodellen. Vervolgens zal in de middag Vandebron een training geven over 'hoe maak je impact'.

Er nog steeds ruimte voor initiatieven, bedrijven of mensen met een inspirational speech om het dagprogramma aan te vullen. Kan jij iets voor ons betekenen? Neem contact op met Louiza > louiza@skyscrapers.co.nl
Dankjewel!

Hi! We are promoting the circular use of home appliances! See for more information our explanation how we reduce waste: https://www.bundles.nl/en/quality-sustainability/. We are looking for ambassadors who spread the word and join our community! Feel free to contact us!

Hello my name is an Hannah Weber and I am looking for a project that I can tap into for one or two days, as a volunteer. I am doing a project working with people with disabilities in southern Germany.
Does anyone have any suggstions? Any ideas on workshops or projects will be highly appreciated as I am having trouble finding anything online.
Thank you so much,
Hannah Weber