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Call for Proposals 2024
5 February 2024 | Centre for Economic TransformationCET invites HvA employees to submit proposals, with two funding rounds available, totalling €100,000 per round. They can use these seed funds to set up small-scale experiments, write grant applications, engage ...
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Connecting social entrepreneurship education and research
31 October 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationA successful Research and Education Conference was held at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) on October 10, 2023, Fringe Day of the annual Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF). This event, with a ...
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Transformation Cities Seminar
4 July 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationEnd of June we had an inspiring meeting organised together with Euricur (KU Leuven) and led by Willem van Winden on the different compasses cities can use for economic transformation. Topics included the Doughnut ...
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Selling online and cross-border shopping
14 June 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationThe doctoral research of Sjoukje Goldman - By understanding the marketing strategies of small eretailers, building trust between consumers and foreign e-shops and analysing buying behaviour across generations, ...
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The need for circular procurement in healthcare
31 May 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationThe Modelling Dynamic Lifecycle Impacts of Circular Procurement in Healthcare (MODLI) project has received a Raak-publiek subsidy to advance the transition towards circular procurement in healthcare.
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AUAS well represented at European research conference in Prague
17 April 2023 | CommunicationApplied research is intertwined in our education at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), driven by the search for concrete solutions to pressing urban issues. At the EARMA conference in Prague next week, ...
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EU Valorisation Week to showcase RESILIO as best practice
16 April 2023 | CommunicationThe Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ blue-green roof project RESILIO will be in the spotlight during the EU Knowledge Valorisation Week 2023 – an European Commission event for researchers and ...
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The Amsterdam Doughnut Coalition: some critical reflections
27 March 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationHow does Doughnut Economics play out on the ground? Last summer, Sophia Manolis, a Bachelor student from Stanford University, came to Amsterdam, to take stock of how Doughnut thinking is applied in the city.
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Dutch organisations are still a long way from realising the SDGs
23 January 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationIn this first-time report titled the SDG Barometer 2022, the Netherlands can gain important insights regarding the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by Dutch organisations. This research has been ...
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A look inside the coworking space - PhD Victor Cabral
18 January 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationIn the last two decades, a rapid rise in the number of coworking spaces has taken place in many cities across the globe. Coworking spaces are shared office spaces for people who wish to pursue work in socially ...
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CIE Conference attracts scholars from around the world
17 January 2023 | Centre for Economic TransformationOn 25 November 2022, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and the Maastricht School of Management (MSM) jointly organized an online Collaborative Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Conference. The ...
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Doughnut Design Tool for businesses: now available!
2 November 2022 | Centre for Economic TransformationDo you want your company to take the step towards the Donut Economy? From now on, you can get started with the Donut Design Tool for businesses. A practical guide with insights and tips to start transforming your ...
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Think, do and experience at the festival of the future
3 October 2022 | CommunicationAt the Society 5.0 Festival, designers, scientists and artists can discover what the sustainable, inclusive society of the future looks like. In Amsterdam on 12 and 13 October, festival visitors can also work ...
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First year students explore True Price-model for jeans
2 September 2022During the Student Orientation ‘HvA Experience’ last week we ask the festival goers to guess the ‘True Price’ of a pair of 80 euro jeans, e.g. the market price plus the social and ...
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THE TOP 5 'MUST READ BOOKS
7 July 2022 | Centre for Economic TransformationCan't wait to start your holiday? No work, deadlines, colleagues, nothing to do...? Or wait, maybe finally read the books that are still on your bedside table... And would you like more inspiration? Then take a look ...
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Collaborative Organizing for Grand Challenges
13 June 2022 | Centre for Economic TransformationOn 7 June, Lori DiVito, lecturer Collaborative Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the AUAS, presented her inaugural lecture. The CIE professorship focuses on the collaborative paradigm in economic transformation and ...
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AUAS well represented at research conference in Oslo
3 May 2022 | CommunicationResearch is an increasingly important element of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, besides education. At the EARMA conference in Oslo this week, Maren Pannemann and Lucy Kerstens will demonstrate the ...
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Five hard questions and the need for capacity building
3 March 2022In the Atelier project, Amsterdam and Bilbao are building Positive Energy Districts: urban districts that create more energy than they consume and do it in a CO2 neutral way. Six other European cities (Bratislava, ...
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Hafid Ballafkih appointed tenure-track professor
14 February 2022 | Centre for Economic TransformationHafid Ballafkih has been appointed tenure-track professor of ‘Labour and Human Capital in Transition’ in The Work Lab research group. A tenure-track professor is an AUAS position for talented postdoctoral ...
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Working on tomorrow's economy in CoE Economic Transformation
8 February 2022 | Centre for Economic TransformationWith effect from 1 January 2022, the AUAS Centre for Economic Transformation has become a Centre of Expertise (CoE). ‘‘Transformation’ means accelerating in large and bold steps rather than moving ...