Meet with projects in the making
This year's North Sea Conference is themed Building blocks for the future. Why? Because we offer our guests all the building blocks needed to help shape the future of North Sea Region.
At the conference, you get the chance to meet people who are in the process of putting together their building blocks. During the networking event on the afternoon of Wednesday 15 June, the project ideas below will be pitched in the hopes of gaining new perspectives or developing their partnerships.
Have an interesting idea to share? Let us know by sending an email to info@northsearegion.eu and we will set you up with a networking table.
Bitcoins and blockchain for better public services (priority 1,2,3)
Short summary: The blockchain is going to change all of our lives. This revolution can be compared to the introduction of the internet only. Blockchain technology is in its infant shoes, comparable to the internet around 1993. It has the potential to revolutionize the financial, energy, logistic and public markets by making contracts smart and being the technology bringing trust. So what is the blockchain actually? In 5 minutes this animation will explain in easy terms. https://youtu.be/YIVAluSL9SU
Benefits in participating: We would like to discuss a potential project on jointly developing and testing blockchains (public) services.
Contact: Stefan Kunst, S.Kunst@drenthe.nl
Innofest (priority 1)
Short summary: Innofest is about creating an innovation quarter at festivals, where entrepeneurs can develop and test their new ideas and products in direct contact with the end-user.
Benefits in participating: Explanation of the Innofest-concept and exchange of ideas and looking for additional partners
Contact: Stefan Kunst, S.Kunst@drenthe.nl
Legolisation of bridges (priority 2)
Short summary: Bridges can be build more flexible, circular and cost efficient using Legolisation. Legolisation combines standardised and innovative building!
Benefits in participating: Governments within the North Sea Region are collectively faced with a large replacement and renewing tasks of their infrastructural works. Especially for bridges this requires an immense amount of resources on development in years to come. These projects are still all tailor made by bridge building governmental organisations. We would like to build bridges with standardised elements with respect to interface, function and dimensions: Legolised bridges. By cooperating our efforts in Legolisation of bridges we can boost the scale needed to make bridge building much more effective. This results in less use of resources and less time to build ànd maintain these bridges. This in turn vastly improves availability of the infrastructure, while at the same time making these bridges more adaptive, renewable and reusable.
Contact: The province of North-Holland, Dr. Paul H. Waarts, Senior technical Advisor, Province of North-Holland, The Netherlands, Waartsp@noord-holland.nl,
Tel. +31 23 5143326, Houtplein 33, 2012 DE Haarlem, The Netherlands
SlowFarm NSR (priority 2)
Short summary: SlowFarm is the place where SlowFood is produced and SlowTourism is practised, where traditional knowledge meets new technology for developing new products, new (touristic) services and new supply chains for stimulating rural economies. SlowFarm are rural SME’s and Farms producing innovative traditional products and innovative services for supplying urban citizens quality food and products and providing them with rural experiences. Slowfarm contributes with its innovations and activities to economic development of rural areas and to self-esteem and pride of its people.
Contact: Rob van Haren, Irmgard Starmann, colorandbrain.com, tel+31620182110
Internet of Things and City Center Logistics (priority 4)
Short summary: The central aim of the Internet of Things City Center Logistics project is to contribute in reducing the common challenges in the NSR related to urban road congestion, increase of GHG and noise in the city centers, by making use of Internet of Things and provide a traffic management and loading system for the urban city distribution. An open source service delivery platform will be developed and provide different city distribution solutions, which are replicable to be tested in different cities in order to cope with the common challenges.
Contact: Phuong Ninh, Project Consultant, Dir. Tel. +4599300016, Fax. +4599300001, Email: pn@ntu.eu
Citizens engagement in “Young Villagelift” behavioural change through schools (priority 4)
Short summary: Parent engagement through student play and learn engagement in local schools, supported by survey and “what’s in it for me’ tool. The objective is to actively engage teachers and young students in setting local community behavioural change in motion.
Benefits in participating: Participants will be presented for a “Play User Lab” project that students and teachers work with in classes. It is planned to be launched as a national mobility action in Danish Schools in European Mobility Week 16th to 22nd September 2016. The project is designed as a “base building block” for citizen engagement in the GreenDriveThinking Young Villagelift project.
Contact: Marianne Hansen, Phone: +45 4028 7634, E-mail: unglandsbylift@gmail.com, Organisation: GreenDriveThinking
Photo from the 2007 - 2013 North Sea Region Programme project SmartCities.