The market doesn’t organise itself according to your needs
Leather bags from mangoes, sustainable paint from flax, ink from coffee grounds ...
Corona: first aid for entrepreneurs and companies
Entrepreneurs are full of questions in this time of crisis. What arrangements have been made for entrepreneurs? What regulations are you eligible for as a company? What are the most frequently asked questions from employers and what answers are there? Which support package does the cabinet offer? Where can you apply for an extended credit scheme?
“Circular thinking is essential in the creative sector”
Art and culture program maker Ewa Scheifes is one of the new members of Young on Board: "I want to connect the diverse networks of Young on Board and the Board itself as much as possible during program sessions in order to gain new insights and collaborations."
Board Talk: working on the energy transition
With the municipality of Amsterdam as shareholder, the Johan Cruijff ArenA simply owes it to its stand to take social issues very seriously, says CEO Henk Markerink. And they handle that extremely well, says 'neighbor' Hans Wichers Schreur, director of real estate and housing policy at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA).
Cumulus Park: collaborating on social issues
At the end of last year, a new innovation district was opened in Amsterdam Southeast. Cumulus Park is an initiative of ING, the City of Amsterdam, ROC Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In the coming years, Cumulus Park wants to grow into the place where entrepreneurs, large and small companies, researchers and students work together on solutions to social challenges. Program manager Irene Duyn tells more about the ambitions of the district.
Board Talk: ‘Only invest in companies that operate sustainably’
Industry and mobility together cause a large part of the CO2 emissions in the region. And so the energy transition is high on the agenda at Tata Steel and LeasePlan, say Board members Ernst Hoogenes and Erik Henstra. "The region has the right scale to get started with this."
Keeping essential workers moving: public transport and COVID-19
Since Prime Minister Mark Rutte addressed the nation on 12 March with a clear message to stay at home, public transport agencies were tasked with a unique set of challenges. During the ADS and ADMS webinar ‘COVID-19 and Capacity Modelling in Public Transport’, representatives from Netherlands Railways, or shortly NS, Dennis Huisman and Menno de Bruyn explained how the organisation used data science to adapt its services and predict its future.
Why the Netherlands needs a single health data infrastructure – now
Data to improve patient care With a national integrated health data infrastructure, ...
Municipality of Almere enters into collaboration with TekkieWorden Foundation
In order to cope with the increasing shortage of IT staff, public and private partners from Almere are entering into a partnership with TekkieWorden. With a package of measures, the ambition is to activate people of all ages for tech studies and retrain them for IT jobs. Despite COVID-19, companies in Almere are struggling with an increasing shortage of IT talent. With this program, the Municipality of Almere wants to provide an answer to the many people who want to train or retrain in IT because their current job offers little prospect for the future. Of the more than 40,000 people who work in an administrative position, this program offers more employment prospects in the fast-growing ICT sector in Almere.
With COVID-19, data science is having a very large moment
It’s a somewhat awkward truth: the current global coronavirus pandemic is proving to be a boon for data scientists. Large amounts of data is streaming in from all over: not only hospital intensive care units (ICUs) but the private sector, too. As a result, data scientists have a lot of rich information to pump into their models – improving their ability to predict possible future scenarios that could help us better manage a possible second wave.