institutions such as the UvA and business leaders from companies such as the Royal Schiphol Group, Rabobank and Salesforce.
ʻWe invite companies to become impact entrepreneurship ambassadorsʼ
As a private-public partnership, the Amsterdam Economic Board encourages innovation and collaboration to help address five key urban challenges: Health, mobility, digital connectivity, jobs of the future and the circular economy. It already has plans to hit crucial milestones for each of these challenges by 2025: Adding two years to the lifespan of local residents, ensuring emissions-free urban traffic, making Amsterdam Europe’s top location for both datadriven innovation and job opportunities and turning the Amsterdam Area into a role model for smart solutions to the shortage of raw materials.
Tatiana Glad, Co-founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam & Ellen Oetelmans, Programme Manager Amsterdam Impact, City of Amsterdam (Department of Economic Affairs)
A circular economy approach, in which raw materials never become waste, is essential for a region with growth goals as ambitious as Amsterdam’s. When it comes to the built environment, for example, some 230,000 new homes will be constructed in the Amsterdam Area by 2040. New organisations such as C-creators want to make circular construction the norm. Officially launched in 2018, this joint initiative of the City of Amsterdam, the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, Rabobank Schiphol and the Royal Schiphol Group aims to speed up the transition to a circular economy within the Amsterdam Area. One of its core activities is the Construction Programme in cooperation with Cirkelstad, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and the European Investment Bank.
For those who believe we should, the Amsterdam Area offers plenty of opportunities to connect with like-minded organisations working towards a sustainable future. <
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The Construction Programme welcomes new companies and organisations keen to exchange expertise through events such as masterclasses and lectures. Current partners range from private-public partnerships, including the Amsterdam Economic Board, to established construction corporations such as the Royal BAM Group, circular strategy and revenue model consultants Copper8 and architecture firms such as Architekten Cie. In a C-creators talk, Architekten Cie associate Hans Hammink said: ‘I share everything. I currently spend my days promoting circular construction through lectures and guided tours. My children have the right to a healthy world and, if circularity is how we can get there, shouldn’t we all embrace it?’
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