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Alex Romaniuc (Interreg) - Cross-boarder innovation in the Meuse-Rhine region
Alex Romaniuc works at the Interreg Meuse-Rhine programme. This program (co-funded by the European Union) funds projects cooperation across borders between organisations and people addressing common needs in five regions in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Thomas Osdoba (NetZeroCities) - The ecosystem of NetZeroCities: Cities innovating together on becoming NetZero.
Thomas Osdoba is the program director of NetZeroCities. NetZeroCities is building the foundation infrastructure and supporting Europe's Mission of 100 Climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030. This 'moonshot' initiative is aimed at using systems innovation to help cities accelerate their efforts to decarbonise and build equitable, inclusive communities that will be climate resilient.
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Martin Gauk (ESPON) - assessment tools
Martin Gauk is the Data and Knowledge Portal Manager at ESPON. He shows different products and assessment tools they developed: LORDIMAS, the Digital Maturity Assessment for Local and Regional Governments; the GGIA tool for quantifying the greenhouse gas emissions in spatial planning, and more.
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Elisabeth Torras-Gómez (University of Barcelona) - Assessing the social impact of Dialogic Literary Gatherings
Elisabeth Torras-Gómez is a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has participated in H2020 projects (ALLINTERACT, REFUGE-ED and Real-UP), as well as R+D+i (Memo4Love, Rom21 and #FriendsMatter). She is editor of RIMCIS (Q1, Scopus) and board member of RN29 – Social Theory of the European Sociological Association (ESA). Her lines of research encompass social impact, gender studies and quality education. She has published in flagship journals for the social sciences, such as "International Journal of Qualitative Methods", "Language and Education" or "Frontiers in Psychology". She is also Director of Corporate Development at Social Impact SL, a social enterprise aimed at guiding companies, governments and organizations in measuring and improving their social impact through interventions based on scientific evidence.
In this talk she tells about assessing the social impact of Dialogic Literary Gatherings.Links
- Social Impact SL
- , Dialogic literary gatherings: A systematic review of evidence to overcome social and educational inequalities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2023.100534
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Peter van Besselaar, Ramon Flecha & Alfred Radauer (2018) Monitoring the impact of EU Framework Programmes.
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Maged Elsamny (AMS Institute) - RED & BLUE: Real Estate Development and Building in Low Urban Environments
Maged Elsamny is the Amsterdam Region Living Lab Coördinator for the RED&BLUE program (Real Estate Development and Building in Low Urban Environments). This program brings together scientists and practitioners to co-develop an integrated climate governance strategy for the Dutch delta and beyond. The Red&Blue consortium represents over 50 academic, public and private organizations with a large diversity of relevant expertise.
In this talk, Maged shares insights on how this network of partners works together on anwering questions like "What can be done to reduce the impact of climate change on real estate development in the city? And what is the responsibility of each type of partners to mitigate this impact?" He shows three case studies in Amsterdam: 1. Watergraafsmeer + Amstel III; 2. Schinkelkwartier; 3. Sloterdijk + HavenstadQuestions from and conversation with the audience
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Peter Hildering (Academion) - accreditation and evaluation in education
Peter Hildering is consultant and owner at Academion - Supporting peer review processes in higher education and research, including programme accreditations, SEP evaluations for academic research and quality assurance.
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Egon van Wees (City of Amsterdam)- Wellbeing economy: Mapping frameworks & partnerships
Egon van Wees works for the Economic Department of the City of Amsterdam. In this presentation he tells about different frameworks such as the Economy for the Common Good, B.Corp, True Pricing & The Impact Path. Also he shares some interesting examples: the impact measurements of the social firm De Lokatie and the impact dashboard of ABN Amro.
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Marten Klein (City of Amsterdam) - Economy for the Common Good (ECG)
Marten Klein works for the Infrastructure & engineering department of the City of Amsterdam. In this presentation he shares his experiences with the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) framework.
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- Learn more about Economy for the Common Good on their website
- Here you find Marten's presentation together with Jurgen Herbschleb (Royal HaskoningDHV) on the ESG Research Conference (13th September 2023)
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Joost van Faassen (City of Amsterdam) - Mapping Frameworks
Joost van Faassen (strategist at the CTO innovation team of the municipality of Amsterdam) presents their recent inventory on sustainable frameworks, what we use in Amsterdam and in what situations.
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Berci Florian (City of Amsterdam) - Dynamic portfolio and the social strategy in the development of Haven-Stad
At the beginning of the deepdive, the ESG research and the framework is explained.
Berci Florian, program manager Sociaal Haven-Stad tells about the development of this new part of Amsterdam, and the social strategy in this development.
After the presentation of Berci, the participants explored together what the requirements for an ESG-HUB could be.Recording and presentation of Berci Florian about Haven-Stad
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Annoesjka Nienhuis (City of Amsterdam) - Developing a menu for social impact in Urban Land Development
Annoesjka Nienhuis works for the Area Development department of the City of Amsterdam as a program manager Innovation and Sustainability, mainly in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
Story of Annoesjka Nienhuis - recording & slides
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Caroline van Campen & Giancarlo Carboni (City of Amsterdam) Negotiating and measuring urban social impact
Caroline van Campen & Giancarlo Carboni work for Bureau Social Return of the City of Amsterdam. This bureau organizes a network which is involved in social procurement in Amsterdam.
Story of Caroline van Campen & Giancarlo Carboni - recording & slides
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Read more about Bureau Social Return here.
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Marten Klein (City of Amsterdam) and Jurgen Herbschleb (Royal HaskoningDHV) - Donut procurement
Marten Klein works for the Infrastructure & engineering department of the City of Amsterdam. Jurgen Herbschleb works for Royal HaskoningDHV.
The story starts four years ago, on a rainy Sunday morning in a dune in Terschelling. Marten hears about the model 'Economy for the common good' and is immediately interested in how it could be applied on the procurement of infrastructure in Amsterdam. But he doesn't know how. He writes to contractors in his network: 'please look at this model and do you want to go on a journey with me?' In this talk, Marten and Jurgen tell their insights of the last 1,5 years.
Regarding to Marten there are two important things to know from the start: that we spend about half a billion a year on infrastructure in Amsterdam and that the city has adopted the circular economy.Story of Marten Klein and Jurgen Herbschleb - recording and slides
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Melle Schol (City of Amsterdam) - Sustainable budgetting and monitoring
Melle Schol works at the Financial Department of the City of Amsterdam.
Story of Melle Schol - recording and slides
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Amor Strauss (City of Amsterdam) - Social- and economic participation: re-dress of in-equality
Amor Strauss is a sociologist and the key thing in her life is dealing with all kinds of sticky issues: housing, refugees or economic transformation. She works for the City of Amsterdam at the department Work, Participation and Income.
Story of Amor Strauss - recording & slides
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Joekenel van der Pijl (City of Amsterdam) - Can civic initiatives be facilitated by commercial parties?
Joekenel van der Pijl works for the City of Amsterdam in the department of urban planning and sustainability. In her work she collaborates with artists, creatives and people in the city that are trying to make their dreams and plans come true.
Her story is about how we can connect civic/public collaborations with private companies. She tells about three programs in Amsterdam that have one common goal: enhancing the vitality of the city.The programs are:
- Samen Stadmaken | Making the City Together (Omgevingsvisie 2050, p.126)
- Expeditie Vrije Ruimte | Free Space
- AmsterDOEN | Commons
Story of Joekenel van der Pijl - recording & slides
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Pieter Legerstee (City of Amsterdam) - Strategic partnerships in the City of Amsterdam
Pieter Legerstee works for the City of Amsterdam on strategic partnerships between the city andlarge organizations.
His story starts with an email. One of those partners contacts him about donating money because of their ESG goals. ESG? The journey begins...Story of Pieter Legerstee - recording and slides
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Egon van Wees (City of Amsterdam) - Economic perspective on ESG
Egon van Wees works for the Economic Department of the City of Amsterdam. His talk is about the Impact
entrepreneurship program and economic perspective on ESG for the city of Amsterdam.Story of Egon van Wees - recording & slides