Jopie Nooren took office in March of this year as chairman of the Executive Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), as a member of the Board and our Agenda Committee. She is committed to creating an agile and future-proof education and labor market, a topic that is high on the Board's agenda. “As a university of applied sciences, we feel emphatically responsible for Lifelong Development.”
On December 10, 2021, the 'State of the Region' will take place for the fourth time. This year it's an online event. The central theme is 'Investing in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area'.
• Rising number of vacancies increased threat to digital and energy transition • Bundling 120+ talent development initiatives should prevent landscape fragmentation and ensure more people with the right skills • First step in more efficient and effective tailor-made investments to further promote the influx of local talent with the right skills.
If we really want to create mass with circular workwear, so-called off-the-shelf clothing with return logistics must also be introduced. During the second Green Deal Circular Workwear meetup, Groenendijk Bedrijfskleding and Texet take us along in the development of such a product: a fully circular softshell. And a call to participate in this circular innovation.
Circular business models are selling like hot cakes in the form of refurbished smartphones, shared cars and leased furniture. Does your company also want to prevent the waste of raw materials, embrace the reuse of valuable materials and give existing products a second life? Then there is a wide choice of circular strategies.
In the coming years, the collection of textiles in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area will receive a major boost. The flywheel for this is the Green Deal Circular Textiles. In particular, the promotion of circular procurement of corporate clothing is given attention. Given the strength of the ecosystem in the MRA, the entire country can benefit from this booster role.
House of Skills came under the umbrella of the Amsterdam Economic Board as a program in April 2021. More than six months later, general director Nina Tellegen and program director Annelies Spork explain how the collaboration is going.
How do you translate the warmth of people and their values and norms into cold technology, consisting of ones and zeros? That is what digital ethics or responsible data use is all about. “To really do something with this, we need to help each other and learn from each other,” says Hilary Richters, Lead Digital Ethics at Deloitte.
The Board has been working for some time with a wide range of partners to develop concrete investment propositions for themes such as circular textiles and the bicycle metropolis or other solid agreements for employment and a smart, green and healthy region. Interesting coalitions have now emerged with parties that are actively engaged. To reinforce this, governments in the MRA signed agreements during the Sustainability Summit to make the region more sustainable together with companies and other stakeholders. The role of governments is crucial to really take the circular economy further as buyers.
From sustainable evening delivery to a digital layer over our physical infrastructure, and everything in between: smart and clean city logistics has many facets. They were all discussed at the first live Meetup in a year and a half for the partners and signatories of the Green Deal Zero Emission City Logistics in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (GDZESMRA). And with 17 new signatories on board, there was even more reason to celebrate.
