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Science with Society Festival 2024
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WmdW Festival 2024: HvA Studenten Mental Wellbeing
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SwS Festival 2024: VU Students Mental Wellbeing
This project aims to invite students to think of creative ways to bring the community
together in conversations about connecting and creating social bonding as a way to improve
mental health & wellbeing to understand how the community have a role in supporting
mental strength through fostering social connection. Students will work on applying design
thinking methodologies to propose an initiative that can be implemented in the community
to raise awareness about social connectedness. The challenge welcomes interdisciplinary
contributions from health sciences, language and communication, social sciences, education
and more which are valuable to understanding how these conversations can safely take place
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SwS Festival 2024: HvA student Community building Nieuw-West
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SwS Festival 2024: VU Students Community Garden
The aim of this project was to contribute to a real world initiative where Street Art Museum Amsterdam is developing their new studio area with an edible community organised garden. For this to happen, a plan to be made with a follow up hands-on activity e.g. planting, harvest, culinary workshop. The students will have the opportunity to discuss with Anna Stolyarova their vision, needs and barriers and approach the listed points through their disciplinary background(-s). As a final event, the students are welcome to explore the opportunities to bring the plan into an action e.g. involving neighbourhood members in planting and/or do an art based culinary workshop etc. SAMA also holds experience in organising community culinary events, e.g., harvest carrots and make carrot cakes with the kids. -
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SwS Festival 2024: VU Students Inclusive Cities
For this project, students worked within the Knowledge Alliance Inclusive and
Accessible City: Vrije Universiteit (Community Service Learning Team), the Gemeente
(Municipality) Amsterdam and Amsterdam Transport Authority (Vervoerregio Amsterdam);
students are encouraged to investigate what initiatives are taking place internationally that
are contributing to facilitating proximity in the cities. It will be their task to explore their
adaptability and feasibility to the Dutch context and identify possible gaps and how these can
be approached. In this challenge students will explore, how can we bring proximity to the
city, particularly in the Nieuw-West, Zuidoost and Noord regions of Amsterdam? The latter
question centres around strategies and interventions the city (transport institutions,
municipalities, neighbour organisations) can take to convey the gap between accessibility and
proximity in dense and diverse modern cities like Amsterdam. -
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SwS Festival 2024: VU Students Energy Transition
A key focus of this project was to explore how residents who cannot pay high upfront
costs for renewable energy solutions, can participate in an energy cooperative. As it is not
always clear to what extent energy cooperatives offer a suitable solution for financially
vulnerable populations. The implementation of such initiatives in city areas with a diverse
population including residents who are in energy poverty where energy costs are a
substantial share income (such as in Amsterdam Zuidoost) is a multifaceted challenge that
extend across technical, economic, and social dimensions