Master classes Sustainable energy

Together with three Ukrainian universities and five Dutch based companies and supported by the Cross-programme, Saxion University (Prof. dr.  Johan Wempe) organized three series of master classes to develop ideas for projects for sustainable energy for Ukraine projects in Ukraine.

Topics and organisation of the master classes
The students formed teams around five projects: waste to energy, biogas, energy farm, building related energy supply and energy efficiency opportunities for the woodworking enterprise. Besides the technical aspects, the alternative organizational forms, new forms of communication, and radically new business models are crucial for these sustainable initiatives.

The master-class were carried out in three locations: Kyiv, Lutsk and Odessa. It consisted of two session days (one in April and one in June). In between these two meetings the teams will work on their research. The students communicated via Skype with the Dutch companies and the coordinators in order to get feedback, discuss research progress and problematic points.
The master classs ended with a conference where the results of research were presented and open for discussion. Interested businesses, institutions and governmental officials ere invited to participate.

Universities
The involved professors and universities are:
•  The professors Taras Komenda and Andriy Korovytskyy from the Lutsk National Technical University.
•  Prof. Galyna Strelkova from the Institute for Energy Saving and Energy Management of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic Institute”.
•  The professors Evgeny Fomichev and Lidiya Voloshchuk from the Odessa National Polytechnical University.

Involved Dutch companies and organizations / NUSEP members
The Dutch based companies are:
• BGP: Andrey Yefimov;
• De Bruijn Advice & Practice: Peet de Bruijn;
• KSB: SvitlanaTsvetkova, Kay Rostalski and Jacques Hoos;
• AgroCircle: Richard Kamsteeg;
• Triodos Facet BV: Arjan Visser.

Dutch Waste Management will support master classes in new regions. Education and communication are crucial in developing Waste to Energy - change management. This week Saxion and Dutch Waste Management discussed this program with NBSO - India - Ahmedabad representative Mr. Jolly Joseph.

Indo-Dutch working group Urban Development

A delegation of the Ministry of Urban Development visited the IABR-exhibition of Urban Metabolism in Rotterdam. Because waste is one of critical flows in urban planning I was invited to present Dutch Waste Management and project proposals.

The IABR has published a list of 96 projects that together will make up the main exhibition, URBAN BY NATURE–.
The list includes projects by renowned designers and design offices such as Piet Oudolf, OMA, BIG, MVRDV, West 8, ZUS, JCFO, .FABRIC, LOLA, Floris Alkemade, H+N+S, Wim Quist and Benthem Crouwel; by organizations such as the World Wild Fund for Nature Netherlands and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency; companies such as Shell and the Port of Rotterdam Authority; and universities such as Delft University of Technology, MIT, Harvard, and ETH Zurich. On show in the Kunsthal and in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, curated by Dirk Sijmons, URBAN BY NATURE– runs till 24th of August.

In the Urban Metabolism the urban landscape is considered as a complex, vast and interactive system that continuously works to meet the needs of its inhabitants.

There are recognized nine critical flows: air, water, biota, food, energy, humans, cargo, sand, sediment and construction materials and waste.
Waste can be defined in different strategies:
- Prevention / Cradle to Cradle
- Circular Economy
- Biobased Economy
- Waste to Energy

After an interactive presentation of Dutch Waste Management some topics were pointed by the Indian delegation, such as costs, guide lines construction and demolition waste and gas-emissions, ways to upgrade the caloric value and the advantages of composting and anaerobic digestion. Further discussion will take place at the Indian ministry and in the joint working group.

40 Pioneering Biomass projects

The Netherlands Programme Sustainable Biomass by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) is winding down, having supported around 40 pioneering projects in biomass (2008-2013) worldwide.
An in-depth report has now been published of aggregate findings, meta-lessons learned and recommendations for policy and private sector related to biomass, biofuels and the biobased-economy.
Dutch Waste Management has more than twenty years experience in Designing, Building and Operate these kind of projects.

The general outlook of the report is that demand for biomass resources is expected to increase, for both local markets and export markets; for existing uses and for new markets in the biobased economy. The future possibilities for biomass importing countries to use biomass depend not only on available sustainable production potentials, but also on demand from other countries.

More biomass resources needs to be unlocked to increase the availability of affordable biomass in the future. The NPSB projects demonstrate the need for an integrated approach towards sustainability (including economic sustainability). The debate on sustainability is a dynamic one, with new impacts (ILUC, carbon debt, cascading) emerging in recent years and still under debate. Any agreed sustainability framework will be subject to change, which stresses the importance of multi-stakeholder consultation processes.

Unlocking sustainable and affordable biomass requires a transition towards using resources more efficiently and towards creating alternative resources. The NPSB projects have shown that alternative biomass resources may successfully be unlocked, with multiple positive impacts on sustainability. This is especially true for integrated, sustainable production models with multiple market outlets, and for the valorisation of residues and waste streams. These 'best practice' production systems serve the food-fuel-feed sector well, and as such they contribute to regional development and sustainable land use. Benefits can be further optimized in the supply chain, through efficient use of technologies.

Holland Turkey Business Forum 2014: Innovation

Theme of this year’s Business Forum was “Innovation”, a perfect match with the Amsterdam ArenA because of their prominent role in the development and implementation of new technologies and services in its stadium in Amsterdam and in its projects all over the world. 
After Chairman Dutch Trade Board Working Group Turkey, Head of Marketing for Business Clients ING Netherlands, mr. Ben van de Vrie opened the program two ambassadors promoted business between the both countries:

• H.E. Ron Keller, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Republic of Turkey
• H.E. Sadik Arslan, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Peet de Bruijn joined the parallel session Agri & Food, were also was pointed the strong relation with renewable energy such as geothermic- en bio-energy and circular economy (fertilizers).

Indian Researchers

Eight researchers from Indian Universities and Institutes visited Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. This program is part of the European-Indian SAHYOG cooperation. Monday 7th April they were guest at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency were Dutch Waste Management presented the Dutch Waste Policy. In the afternoon we also visited the Attero-VAR location in Wilp. After a company presentation we've made a location trip with several innovative waste to energy processes, such as an anaerobic digester.

Netherlands-China Trade and Economic Forum

Dutch Waste Management was invited on Sunday 23^rd March 2014 at the Netherlands-China Trade and Economic Forum in Noordwijk (the Netherlands), where China President Xi Jinping was present with a large delegation, along with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and a large delegation of business from both the Netherlands and China (250 companies and institutions).President Xi said, “just as China needs to learn more about the world, the world needs to learn more about China”
He said China welcomes Dutch enterprises to engage in China’s reform and development and jointly share opportunities. 
He also encouraged more established Chinese enterprises to invest in the Netherlands.

Xi Jinping said he hopes the two sides can settle trade disputes properly, and promote healthy development of China-EU trade. He also noted the Netherlands has been China’s second largest trading partner in the EU for 11 consecutive years.

King Willem-Alexander echoed Xi Jinping’s words, and said that his country is willing to step up mutually beneficial cooperation and further promote trade.

During the opening ceremony, witnessed by the leaders of China and Netherlands, representatives of enterprises from the two countries signed 8 cooperative agreements involving finance, science and technology, and agricultural cooperation, which amounted to about USD 2 billion. 

After the opening ceremony, the Forum held a plenary session, which was co-held by Sun Chenghai, the Director-general of the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of China, and the Director-general of the Netherlands Bureau of Enterprises. 5 entrepreneurs from Bank of China, Yili Group, Netherlands Association of Employers, DSM and Royal Dutch Shell made speeches at the session on behalf of other entrepreneurs, talking about China-Netherland Cooperation.

During the network lunch some new partnerships on waste to energy were made between Dutch Waste Management and Chinese companies and institutions.

Final SAHYOG Conference and Brokerage Event on Bio-economy

The final SAHYOG Conference and Brokerage Event on Bio-economy is organized in New Delhi, India, on 3-4 February 2014. The conference is organized by SAHYOG in cooperation with TERI and the European Commission.

Dutch Waste Management member Peet de Bruijn presented his vision on the Biobased Economy integrated in Waste Management. His vision was also discussed with Dr Rajendra K Pachauri,  who has been serving as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 during his tenure.

It takes place on the occasion of the 14th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) on 6-8 February 2014. The DSDS, convened annually by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is an international gathering that facilitates a vital exchange of the ideas, knowledge, lessons and awareness needed for the sustainable development of India and the world.