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Paper which introduces an method developed by the research group Duurzame Projectontwikkeling of the SIA-RAAK project Energieke Restauratie. Besides an discription of the method, it also describes the application of the method for three (fictional) case study projects: Dairy Factory Dongeradelen (Lioessens), Strawboard Factory Free (Oude Pekela) and Der Aa church (Groningen).
In de periode september 2019 tot april 2020 heeft HanzePro SOFE in opdracht van de provincie Groningen een verkenning uitgevoerd naar de restauratiebranche in de provincie Groningen. De thema’s onderwijs, arbeidsmarkt en innovaties stonden daarbij centraal. Het doel van de verkenning was om te komen tot een gedragen beeld van de huidige situatie en wat vervolgens nodig is om de restauratiebranche in de provincie Groningen toekomstbestendig te maken. Op 13 juli 2020 is het rapport van de verkenning door HanzePro opgeleverd.Het doel van dit verdiepend onderzoek is om in beeld te brengen wat voor de onderdelen Erfgoedlab en Kennisdatabase nodig is om deze initiatieven succesvol te realiseren.
A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), the Groningen Countryside Association (‘Landschapsbeheer Groningen’) and, later on, the De Zijlen healthcare institution. A year later, this initiative was followed by the establishment of the Southwest Drenthe Area Cooperative, another formalised multi-stakeholder cooperative on a large scale, bound together by a shared agenda. The members of these two new cooperatives sought to bring together and strengthen local and sectoral initiatives at the regional level. Because of their close cooperation with knowledge institutions, they hoped that practice-based research would yield a lot of results. At the many evening meetings and during workshops, spirited debates were held about new concepts such as bio-based economy, new concepts in food and health, alternative methods of energy production, but also ways of improving the quality of life in the region, strengthening the tourism industry and creating jobs for young people. Those involved were all too aware that the existing educational and research institutes and government agencies, and the organisational structures used by businesses, tend to do more harm than good, which led to the call for Next Education, Next Governance and Next Business. It became apparent from these discussions that there were many knowledge questions to be explored, and the need arose for a permanent link with the knowledge institutions through the establishment of a separate professorship focused on sustainable and cooperative entrepreneurship for the benefit of the entrepreneurs involved as well as for the education sector, the government and the general public. This is how the Sustainable Cooperative Entrepreneurship professorship came about, as part of the Sustainable Financial Management professorship chaired by Dr Margreet Boersma at Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen’s School of Financial and Economic Management. I am honoured to be giving this new professorship shape, and I would like to point out that I will not be doing this on my own – I am only the figurehead of a very substantial group of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs, students, lecturers, public servants, citizens and colleagues. The Innovation Army is marching. And if you are not a part of it yet, now is the time to get involved!
This working paper is a deliverable of ESTRAC Transforming Regions, a joint initiative of knowledge and research institutes TNO (ECN), Hanze University of Applied Sciences, University of Groningen and New Energy Coalition.
Overcoming Challenges in local green H2 economies Organizer: Dr Beata Kviatek, Jean Monnet Chair in Sustainable EU Economy, Centre of Expertise Energy / International Business School / Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands One of the main pathways of the current energy transition includes development of regional green hydrogen economy, usually based in the so-called hydrogen valleys. The development of regional green hydrogen economies enables to green up regional industry and mobility, brings new business opportunities for local and regional businesses, redirects regional investments and financial streams, and proposes new avenues for regional education, knowledge, and research institutions. However, the complexity of regional transformation towards green hydrogen economy, poses challenges that require a close cooperation between different local and regional stakeholders at multiple levels, including national and European. What are these challenges in developing regional green hydrogen economies here, in the northern part of the Netherlands, and in other regions of Europe and what are the new pathways to overcome challenges in regional green hydrogen economies? – is the main question of the proposed panel discussion that will involve academics, policy makers, and practitioners from the northern part of the Netherlands as well as some European regions.
Bij het Erfgoedlab Hanze ontmoeten de erfgoedpraktijk, onderwijs en studenten elkaar. Er worden opdrachten beschikbaar gesteld (cases en kennisvragen) en er worden excursies en lezingen georganiseerd. In deze bundel staan de projecten, activiteiten, opbrengsten en publicaties beschreven.
Bij het Erfgoedlab Hanze ontmoeten de erfgoedpraktijk, onderwijs en studenten elkaar. Er worden opdrachten beschikbaar gesteld (cases en kennisvragen) en er worden excursies en lezingen georganiseerd. In deze bundel staan de projecten, activiteiten, opbrengsten en publicaties beschreven.
