Links
- Presentation of Ilonka at the ESG deepdive #2
- About the Green Hub
Ilonka de Beer works as a Program Manager and Sustainability Professional for the Green Hub. "The Green Hub is a place for active residents in the heart of Gaasperdam. It is a sustainable learning and doing community that opens its doors wide to anyone who wants to think, or participate. In these communities, sustainable frontrunners, social quartermasters and vocational trainers will make informal learning possible together. The Hub is the base for services that contribute to a sustainable social society." (groenehub.org)
In this talk, she tells about Democratic Value and Inner Development Goals and how that helps in building resilient cities and to strengthen Community Wealth.
Ilonka de Beer works for the Green Hub. She tells about the pro's and con's of the frameworks they use to measure their impact, like the Donut Deal, SDG's, MAEX and the Theory of Change. She enriches the conversation by introducing 'Inner development goals', and the learning process of the people of the Green Hub.
Dr. Ina Säumel (Humboldt University Berlin) is a biologist and geographer. She leads the research group "Multifunctional Landscapes", Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys).
In this keynote she tells about the project "Edible Cities Network" and communities for sustainable funding.
Andreas Heinecke is the founder of Dialogue Social Enterprise. Andreas is a social entrepreneur by accident. Here he tells his story, about Dialogue in the Dark: an experience where visitors are guided by blind guides in absolute darkness.
Andreas Toelke is a social entrepreneur that started Kreuzberger Himmel, a Syrian restaurant in Berlin that works with refugees.
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:
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.
Peter van Besselaar, Ramon Flecha & Alfred Radauer (2018) Monitoring the impact of EU Framework Programmes.
Mare Santema is founding partner of UseSpace, a platform that matches available (office) spaces in the city with social impact projects that are looking for a place.
In this talk, she tells about how UseSpace works, how their efforts are linked with the SDG's, ESG and CSRD, and the collaboration with the municipality of Amsterdam.
Jaromil is an expert in technologies like blockchain, financial- and technology systems and worked as an applied cryptographer, designing systems that are end-to-end encrypted.
In his talk he tells about DAOs: Distributed Autonomous Organizations and how technology can be a part of the ESG-HUB.
"Tjeerd J. Haccou was educated as an architect at the TU-Delft and SCI-Arc, Los Angeles. He is a founding partner of space&matter; a progressive design office that seeks to expand the reach and responsibilities of its architectural practice.
By designing new business models, taking pro-active lead in developments and introducing online technologies into real estate, space&matter realized a number of unconventional projects, ranging from an off-grid creative incubator in refurbished houseboats (DeCeuvel) to an online platform to kickstart the transformation of vacant real estate (CrowdBuilding)."
In this talk, he tells about the development of De Ceuvel, Schoonschip, Sample Noord (Kavel19) in the Buiksloterham, in which they collaborated with Verdedig Noord, and the Community Land Trust Network. Find the recording and some interesting links below.
Silvia Oostwegel is the founder of MAEX/Social Handprint. MAEX Amsterdam provides insight into the value and needs of social initiatives from the city and encourages companies, governments and funds to contribute to these initiatives.
In this talk, Silvia shares more about their measurement methodology.
Wesley Ankrah is Social Value Director at Savills UK: advocacy and leadership in social value with a focus on the real estate sector. In this talk he tells about the concept of social value and why it is so important in the real estate sector, and about four pillars of people interacting in development. Lastly, he shares two cases in London: Gaia's Garden and the Migration Museum.