Source: Centre for Urban Studies website.
The Centre for Urban Studies connects more than 50 researchers and over 50 PhD students, bringing together urban scholars in human geography, planning, sociology, political science, anthropology, and international development studies. The Centre supports existing urban research programs and stimulates interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborative projects. By enabling international academic collaborations and science-practice interactions, the CUS stimulates the formation of global networks of urban scholars, practitioners and policy makers.
Source: Centre for Urban Studies website.
AMS Institute is a public-private institute founded in 2014 by Wageningen University & Research and Delft University of Technology, together with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We are a young and ambitious international institute at the forefront of innovation, situated at the nexus between industry, government and academia. Engaging and developing the latest technology and science with research, experiments and projects in the city of Amsterdam, we take on the challenges posed by our rapidly urbanizing world.
The mission of AMS Institute is to develop a deep understanding of the city – sense the city – to design solutions for its challenges, and integrate these into the city of Amsterdam. Our research portfolio revolves around applied technology in themes such as smart urban mobility, urban energy, climate resilience, metropolitan food systems, circular economy, urban data & intelligence. AMS Institute is involved in over 80 projects aiming to create a prosperous and vital city. Now and in the future.
What makes AMS Institute unique is the valorization of research in practice, using the city of Amsterdam as a living lab. Amsterdam provides a valuable context for experiments that help to develop and test advanced solutions for challenges in urbanized metropolitan areas around the globe. Master's program Metropolitan Analysis Design & Engineering (MSc MADE) is the latest addition to AMS Institute's educational activities. It aims to provide innovative education and deliver highly skilled interdisciplinary engineers with the theoretical grounding and practical experience to deal with the complex challenges of cities.
The Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) is a national initiative focused on joint technology development between academia, industry and government in the area of artificial intelligence. The Netherlands has the talent, the world-class research and the longstanding tradition in AI education to be one of the world’s top ranked countries in terms of innovation power. ICAI brings these positive forces together in a unique national initiative.
ICAI’s innovation strategy is organized around industry labs, these are multi-year strategic collaborations with a focus on technology and talent development. ICAI will create innovative AI-applications, distribute AI-knowledge for companies and organizations in the form of technology products and tools, train corporate employees through dedicated courses, and simultaneously maintain a connection with other world-level science centers. ICAI will also facilitate commercialization by enhancing start-up and spin-outs.
ICAI is an open national network of academic, industrial and governmental partners that is based at Amsterdam Science Park. At present, ICAI has sixteen partners: Ahold Delhaize, Bosch, Delft Imaging Systems, Delft University of Technology, Elsevier, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence Ltd. (IIAI), ING, National Police, Qualcomm, Radboudumc, Radboud University, Thirona, TomTom, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. So far eleven research labs have been founded: AI for FinTech Lab, AIM Lab, AIRLab Amsterdam, AIRLab Delft, Atlas Lab, Delta Lab, Elsevier AI Lab, Police Lab AI, QUVA Lab, Radboud AI for Health Lab and Thira Lab, with more to come.
The ROBOT LAB investigates the added value of Digital Design and Robotic Production to help address urgent societal challenges, while actively integrating the domains of Education, Research and Practice. With Amsterdam and its metropolitan area as our playing field, we work in collaboration with companies and various institutions, on challenges that explore how smart industry technologies can be a game changer for the circular transition, towards a more sustainable future.
The lab was initiated in 2017 at the Faculty of Technology of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and it is now powered by a multi-disciplinary team of architects, industrial designers, engineers, programmers and more.
Community involvement is a core value of the VU. Among other things, we give substance to this through a central Community Service Learning (CSL) program. Within CSL students use their academic knowledge and skills to contribute to solving societal problems. By doing so, students are closely working together with societal partners. Reciprocity is emerging here. An important feature of CSL is academic reflection before, during and after the educational activity. Recently the new VU-strategy was published. In this strategy there is a big focus on CSL
Bron en meer informatie: VU CSL website
The Athena Institute addresses complex societal issues, like climate change, health inequality and social injustice. We do this by designing, facilitating and studying multi-stakeholder processes. Together with all actors involved, we investigate how to instigate system transformation.
Through a transdisciplinary approach, the Athena Institute includes the knowledge and expertise of a wide variety of actors in the design, conduct and evaluation of research and innovation. Think of citizens, professionals, policymakers, NGOs, and scholars. We particularly focus on including voices that often remain unheard. By learning from each other's perspectives, we jointly generate new ideas and anticipate potential barriers, thereby enabling sustainable change.