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Recycling – not incinerating – one million mattresses each year

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:21+02:0030 January 2020|News|

In 2016, the Utrecht Sustainability Institute and the Amsterdam Economic Board organised a Circular Economy Lab to discuss how to make the mattress industry more circular. Mattresses currently represent the largest waste stream within the household waste category. Each year, consumers discard more than one million used mattresses – enough to fill the entire Amsterdam Arena all the way to the roof. Year after year after year. The vast majority of these discarded mattresses are incinerated.

Applying AI in a clinical setting: the long but rosy road

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:22+02:0023 December 2019|News|

As Amsterdam knowledge institutes commit 1 billion euros to AI research in the coming decade, those already in the data science trenches remind us: while the potential of applying data science for the benefit for patients seems almost infinite, there’s still a lot of work to be done.

City-zen: Knowledge To Build A Future

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:22+02:0017 December 2019|News|

On 14 and 15 November 2019, the City-zen Closing Event took place in Brussels. The two-day event marked the end of the City-zen program. It was a showcase of accumulated knowledge of five years of City-zen projects. The sessions at the event were aimed at integration of results, sharing of learnings and identifying barriers for replication. An unmistakable call to apply the lessons learned and make use of the insights gained.

Amsterdam knowledge institutions invest 1 billion in AI

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:23+02:0013 December 2019|News, News|

The knowledge institutions of Amsterdam have joined forces and are investing 1 billion euros in the development of responsible AI technologies over the next ten years, by setting up research programmes, attracting top scientists and educating students with state-of-the-art knowledge of AI. Collaborations with top institutes around the world, public partners and the business community will be greatly expanded. The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) announced this week that the UvA has been selected as an ELLIS Unit to help keep in Europe talent in machine learning and related AI research fields for Europe.

More roads lead to smart and clean city logistics

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:23+02:0030 November 2019|News|

Historical quays are collapsing, the first particulate matter refugees have reported and narrow streets are lined with traffic jams with polluting vans and trucks; we now really need to get started with smart and clean city logistics in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.

Winners of Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards 2019

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:23+02:0029 November 2019|News|

The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards go to innovations in 3D-printed embryo models, following criminal money through bank data and tackling the phosphate challenge. The Impact Awards go to Jaap Bonjer, Erwin Peterman and Gijs Wuite, and Roeland van Geuns.

New visions for partnerships in Life Sciences

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:24+02:0026 November 2019|News|

The most recent Amsterdam Life Sciences Café focused on what startups in the life sciences industry must do to go to the next level. Basically, you need near-infinite patience, a risk-taking attitude and two billion euros. But most importantly: you need the right partners.

Using data science for precision medicine

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:24+02:0022 November 2019|News|

As medical data science evolves, how can it create personalised treatments for health and wellbeing and improve patient care? This was tackled during the latest Medical Data plus Pizza Meeting, the first joint meetup by Amsterdam Medical Data Science and Amsterdam Data Science. And as a reflection of ever-growing interest: the event took place in Amsterdam UMC’s expansive Amstel Zaal.

Moonshot: launching a unified European data economy

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:24+02:0014 November 2019|News|

At the ‘Accelerating a Sustainable European Data Economy’ roundtable, data policy and business leaders gathered in Amsterdam to chart out the conditions needed for fair and open data markets. The sense of urgency was palpable. “This is too important to leave to the Amazons and Alibabas.”

Focus on skills improves the labor market and accelerates the energy transition

By bas_h|2023-06-06T15:20:25+02:001 November 2019|News|

As one of the largest consultancies in the world, Deloitte is an important knowledge partner within the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area in the field of various social themes. Johan Stuiver, Director Strategy & Operations Public Sector and counselor of the Board, explains how they contribute to a future-proof labor market within the energy transition.