Impact Hub Amsterdam

18/03/2024

It’s official - Impact Hub Amsterdam is one of Europe’s Leading Start-up Hubs according to a new Financial Times Special Report.

This acknowledgment highlights our commitment to accelerating impact innovations for a new economy, by forging partnerships with experts, buyers, and investors.

For over 15 years, Impact Hub Amsterdam has empowered not just impact entrepreneurs but also SMEs and corporations, playing a vital role in the transition to a circular economy in the Netherlands and beyond. We’re honored to be among the major players and key hubs for entrepreneurship across the continent!

If you’re interested in learning more about how we can collaborate with you on supporting sustainable innovative entrepreneurship for your startup, SME, or corporation don’t hesitate to reach out.

Read the full FT Report here → https://impacthubamsterdam.net/FTStartups

14/03/2024

Exciting news! We're happy to announce the launch of the Circular Innovation Collective program guide!

Launched during the , the CIC is "sharing the recipe" for designing and executing local innovation programs for local governments to foster circular innovation within their cities and regions.

Gathering insights from its first pilot program in the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam, the guide offers practical and comprehensive instructions for scoping out, designing, and executing local innovation programs.

Here’s what Egon Van Wees, Program Coordinator at Amsterdam Impact said about the program:

"To transition to an impact economy we need to radically change our approach. We need to work with front runners and entrepreneurs that tackle societal challenges and influence the broader ecosystem. With the CIC approach you can do just that.”

Wanting to empower other cities and regions across Europe, the CIC is sharing its FREE program guide to accelerate the transition to the new circular economy.

Download the guide here: https://impacthubamsterdam.net/CICGuide

The Circular Innovation Collective is a consortium of impact-driven organizations initiated by Metabolic, Impact Hub Amsterdam, and Bankers without Boundaries. With the support of the City of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Impact), Stichting DOEN Foundation, and Goldschmeding Foundation, this initiative specifically targeted achieving 70% circular textiles in the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam by 2030. Demonstrating the potential for impactful change, CIC is now dedicated to sharing its knowledge, experience, and strategies in an open-source manner.

Join the movement towards circularity with the CIC Program Guide. Whether kick-starting new initiatives or enhancing existing ones, discover tried-and-tested approaches for advancing circular innovation programs across European cities and regions.

21/11/2023

As you can tell from this pretty cake; today marks the 15th anniversary of Impact Hub Amsterdam and the Netherlands!! For the last 15 years we have been working to build a bridge between the old and new economy, guiding innovators to expand their impact.

We are proud of our work, and excited to keep going! Together, we will keep using our expertise in innovation and acceleration to transform the economy. Targets like reaching 70% circular textiles in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region, or 60% plant-based protein diets by 2025 are key to achieving this, and we will continue to fight for this change.

Do you agree? If you are an SME or corporate looking to innovate its business model or a startup keen to accelerate its new economy solution, reach out.

Here’s to many more years of radical innovation to reach our sustainability goals!

07/09/2023

CIC alumni featured by Fashion United | With 92 million tonnes of textile waste produced yearly, how can we involve consumers in circular fashion and the conscious, responsible use of clothing?

Find out in this Fashion United article featuring Circular Textile Innovation Accelerator alumni Byewaste, Race Against Waste and DeSteek > https://bit.ly/FashionUnitedCIC24Aug

By pioneering sustainable concepts and production methods, these three startups prove that responsibility and innovation can go hand in hand and that style and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

The Circular Textile Innovation Accelerator is part of the Circular Innovation Collective (CIC). CIC is a collaboration between three impact-driven organizations, Impact Hub Amsterdam, Metabolic, and Bankers Without Boundaries, made possible by the Municipality of Amsterdam, DOEN Foundation, and Goldschmeding Foundation.

26/04/2023

A huge thank you to everyone who joined the networking workshop and drinks today to work towards a 70 per cent textile sector in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA)!

The Circular Innovation Collective (CIC) hosted a networking workshop today at Impact Hub Amsterdam to offer the startups and SMEs from the Circular Textile Innovation Accelerator the opportunity to get in touch with possible partners to (re)design the circular textile value chain together. Think manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, product development managers, knowledge experts, and policymakers.

It’s the mission of the MRA to bring about a paradigm shift within the textile sector. MRA’s goal is a 70 per cent circular textile sector by 2030, which requires fundamentally different thinking. It takes industry-wide collaboration and innovation to create a change.

Read more about the CIC and accelerator here: bit.ly/CircularInnovationCollective

Get to know the startups and SMEs here: bit.ly/CICAcceleratorStartups

28/02/2023

Are you an ambitious entrepreneur that contributes to the alternative protein shift? Does your startup want to raise funding and build brand awareness? Then, participate NOW in the Plant FWD Challenge!

Why?

- Get free admission to the Plant FWD event (18 April, Amsterdam)
- Pitch your plant-based product on stage
- Have 1-on-1 meetings with investors and retailers
- Showcase your product in the Supermarket of Desire

Submit your pitch before 10 March > bit.ly/3YqYc59

The Plant FWD Startup Program is powered by Impact Hub Amsterdam and Brave New Food.

24/01/2023

“It shouldn’t be an option to design to be thrown away.”

Designers are in an excellent position to redesign the way we live using circular design, given that over 80% of product-related environmental impacts stem from the design phase.

“It shouldn’t be an option to make it fast. It shouldn’t be an option to design to be thrown away. It shouldn’t be an option to design to be disposable,” says Carla Fernández, whose fashion house is dedicated to preserving and revitalising the textile legacy of the indigenous communities of Mexico.

What Design Can Do published a video series featuring four renowned designers. Alongside Carla, Bas van Abel (Fairphone), arthur huang (MINIWIZ) and Poonam Bir Kasturi (Daily Dump - Compost at Home) weigh in on the state of the world and a designer’s responsibility to make processes and products more circular. Watch the videos here > bit.ly/WDCD_VideoSeries

Are you championing circular design too as a designer, creative entrepreneur or startup? Sign up for the WDCD by 31 January > impacthubamsterdam.net/WDCD_MakeItCircular

23/01/2023

Today, during Modefabriek in Amsterdam, the largest fashion trade event in Benelux, and the haute couture Paris Fashion Week, Metabolic, Bankers without Boundaries and Impact Hub Amsterdam are officially launching a flagship pilot on textile value chains. In this pilot, our goal is to help the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area achieve its goal of 70% circular textiles by 2030.

The launch comes with the report 'Vision for a regenerative and circular textile industry', written by Metabolic. The Circular Innovation Collective (CIC) has conducted this intensive research to identify the opportunities to accelerate the transition towards a circular value chain in the textile sector.

Curious about how to make this happen? Read the complete research here > bit.ly/CICreport

And learn more about CIC > www.circularinnovationcollective.nl

CIC is supported by Stichting DOEN, Goldschmeding Foundation and Amsterdam Impact.

20/01/2023

"Maak het circulair, of maak het gewoon níét," zegt Richard van der Laken. "Ik wil een broodrooster met schroeven."

Richard is oprichter en creative director van platform What Design Can Do. Met roept hij op om met onorthodoxe circulaire ideeën te komen: bit.ly/WDCD_MakeItCircular

Voor ontwerper Bas van Abel was de ergernis over het feit dat hij zijn eigen dure telefoon niet open kreeg, de reden om een nieuwe smartphone te ontwikkelen: de Fairphone, geheel demontabel.

Voor modeontwerper Borre Akkersdijk was de frustratie over de zwaar vervuilende kledingindustrie – verantwoordelijk voor 10 procent van de wereldwijde CO2-uitstoot – zelfs reden om helemaal te stoppen met zijn succesvolle jaarlijkse BYBORRE collectie.

"De ontwerper heeft, met de consument en regelgevers aan zijn zijde, een sleutel in handen om producenten richting een circulaire samenleving te duwen," aldus Richard van der Laken.

Lees het Trouw opiniestuk van Richard: bit.ly/Trouw_RichardvdLaken

18/01/2023

Redesign the world we live in

“We are constantly producing loads of sh*t,” visionary engineer Arthur Huang exclaims. “I hate that people are still talking about the circular economy and not doing anything.”

In a new video series for its , What Design Can Do asked Huang and three other leading creatives to weigh in on the changing responsibilities of design and the art of transforming outrage into action.

Filmed in Taipei, Amsterdam, Mexico City and Bangalore, this campaign tells the stories of four renowned designers working to change their industries from the inside out. First up is Arthur, co-founder and CEO of MINIWIZ, a closed-loop architectural firm known for upcycling waste into everything from tables and chairs to aircraft and hospital wards.

Watch all four videos: bit.ly/WDCD_VideoCampaign. And check out the Make it Circular Challenge before applications close on 31 January 2023: bit.ly/WDCD_MakeItCircular

Want your challenge submission to stand out? Attend this free webinar tomorrow, 19 January: bit.ly/MakeItCircularWebinar

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