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📢 Calling for NGOs and civil society working on protecting local #endangeredspecies! The Land Acquisition Fund is here to support you! 🐋 About the IUCN NL IUCN NL operates from Amsterdam as a part of the IUCN’s network around the world in nature #conservation. It actively supports research and projects across various parts of the world including Latin America and Africa. 🐘 🐦 About the Land Acquisition Fund The main purpose of the Land Acquisition Fund is protecting and expanding habitats for endangered species. The Fund is active in 39 countries and has more than 135 local NGOs as partners. 🐢 📑 Eligibility Criteria Applications accepted from local NGOs and CSOs in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. Experience in conservation and project management are expected. The Fund covers activities like land acquisition, purchase of fencing, signboards, salary of guards and other security measures etc. 👉 For more information on the eligibility criteria and application process, visit IUCN NL website: https://lnkd.in/eAtzvYX 💰 Funding Size The maximum financial assistance provided is € 85,000. 📝 How to Apply The first stage of the application – the pre-proposal stage – is open for submissions. The deadline is 1 May 2024. Visit our website for more information on the grant and 300+ opportunities just like this! https://lnkd.in/d-yq6z-T #conservation #endangeredspecies #IUCN

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Last Friday, I had the opportunity to join a training session on Employer Branding led by Ernst Schipper at De Wervingsfabriek. While I was already familiar with some aspects, I was pleasantly surprised by the knowledge and depth that Ernst brought to this topic. The biggest learning for me was the importance of creating a 'thumb-stopper' effect with your posts. In today's oversaturated digital landscape, where we often scroll mindlessly through feeds on platforms like LinkedIn, capturing attention is more challenging than ever. A 'thumb-stopper' is a post that makes someone pause their scrolling and engage with the content. There are two key strategies to achieving this effect: 1. 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥: A high-quality, relevant photo that complements your post is a powerful tool to capture attention and can convey a message quickly and effectively. 2. 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: Start your post with a compelling, attention-grabbing sentence that will hook your readers in and encourage them to read further. Needless to say I very much enjoyed the session, gained valuable insights, and we even ended the day with a super fun vrijmibo. ⭐

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Last week at the World Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia, the Water as Leverage Multilevel Climate Action Programme was launched by the Netherlands Government and UN-Habitat. The programme was launched during the event "Water as Leverage: Scaling Urban Resilience and Financing Adaptation Globally" and addressed the following: 🔵The transformative power of the #WaterAsLeverage approach. A participatory approach including spatial analysis, design, financing, implementing scalable local solutions while addressing global water related challenges. 🔵Celebrating collective achievements of the global WaL community of the journey from ambition to action in transforming urban water management by governments, grassroots organizations, and other stakeholders. 🔵Scaling Water as Leverage through three drivers of the WaL: the WaL Academy, WaL Factory, and City Initiatives. These drivers engage with stakeholders aiming at translating shared knowledge into tailored local urban water solutions. The multistakeholder programme aims to leverage water to create climate-resilient urban landscapes for millions of people and it supports UN-Habitat’s mandate in promoting sustainable urban development, and strengthening cities' capacities to manage complex water issues. #UrbanWaterResilience #SDG2030 #NewUrbanAgenda

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1.3 billion km3 of total water in the world. 3% is fresh water (39 million km3). AI is estimated to be using 6.6 billion m3 (=6.6 km3) in 2027 Global meat and dairy: 1/3 of earths fresh water (13 million km3) I agree that AI needs to find a way to use less water or use more sea water, but let’s not forget perspectives. Meat and dairy are by far our biggest users of fresh water.

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Today we are introducing you to the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD)! 🌳 About the DFCD Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) was established in 2019 with the aim to support projects targeted at climate adaptation and mitigation and enhancing resilience of the most vulnerable communities and ecosystems. DFCD is managed by a consortium consisting of Worldwide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL), SNV, the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) and Climate Fund Managers (CFM). 🌺 About funding opportunities DFCD has several options available for interested applicants that have a commercially viable project. For newcomers to DFCD, the first step is 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 is the central funding mechanism of DFCD. - It is open to companies operating in one of the OECD DAC list of eligible ODA countries. - The main aim behind this grant is to offer funding and technical assistance to projects to enable them to become bankable for large-scale funding. - It is targeted at four high-impact sectors: for (1) agriculture, (2) environmental protection, (3) forestry and (4) water and sanitation. On average, the grants are around €150,000 – 300,000. - Some of the activities eligible for funding under the Origination Facility include technical and financial feasibility studies, environmental and social safeguard checks, pilot studies and development of business models. - Applications to the Origination Facility are accepted on roll basis.   Once projects reach to the desired level, the DFCD seeks to graduate them to 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, or 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝-𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 depending on their focus and suitability. - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 offers a selection of different financial instruments (such as grants, equity and loans) to sectors relating to agroforestry, sustainable land use and climate resilient food production. It is targeted at companies working on areas like resiliency in land use and food production. - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 offers grants and equity opportunities for the contributes to the development, construction and operational phases of projects related to water and sanitation infrastructure. - 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝-𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 are also engaged and can offer alternative funding pathways. 👉 Visit FIRE website for more information on the eligibility criteria and application process: https://lnkd.in/dScCGY6S 👈

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Learn all about a new benchmark of urban forest success, the 3-30-300 rule at our May 1st webinar. Presenters Cecil Konijnendijk and Joost Verhagen will explore how urban greening benchmarks are evolving, including urban forest quality indicators, better integration of social and health benefits, and a greater focus on crown volume. https://bit.ly/3CA8GFa

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Last Tuesday, I had the wonderful opportunity to give an #AI workshop to Nederlandse Zuivel Organisatie (Dutch Dairy Association) together with my colleagues Patrick de Lange and Victor Hendrikse. We talked about the future of work, the workings and possibillities of AI and the importance of data in your organisation and in relation to AI. But maybe most importantly, we talked about the relationship between technology and people. One of the pillars of Sound and the number one reason why I love working with these topics 😉 Thanks to all the participants! We had great conversations and maybe we will continue our conversation some other time! #ai #futureofwork #digitalisation

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I’m happy to share with you that today the start meeting for the Dutch government climate adaptation NBS scoping- and feasibility study for the whole Dutch coastal area took place. We have a dream team of top experts and Wereld Natuur Fonds (WWF-NL) acts as co-contractor. Starting point for all the analysis which will be done the next 10 months is reaching a favorable conservation status for coastal ecosystems, which is a quite unique approach. This can be game changing, once NBS is quantitively assessed at this level the chances that it will be absorbed in policy will increase significantly.  https://lnkd.in/eXWh2fsC

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#Citizens play a key role in tackling today's global challenges. Learn how we can co-create sustainable cities in this free mooc: https://lnkd.in/e-yeGUsg co-created with Wageningen University & Research #city #sustainablecities #urbanaction #climateaction

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From my personal experience, career coaching is a game-changer, providing guidance and support to help reach professional goals. Whether it’s for navigating a career transition, aiming for a promotion or seeking to refine skills. Invest in your future and unlock your full potential with the help of my friend and coach Simon Jansen. #CareerCoaching #ProfessionalDevelopment #CareerGtowth #Success

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🌿 Excited to be part of Land Life's green revolution! 🌿 One of the best things about being an interim HR & Recruitment Specialist at De Wervingsfabriek is the opportunity to experience diverse and unique workplaces. Currently, I'm excited to work with Land Life and contribute to their mission of reforesting the planet and restoring degraded land. 🌍 How do they make impact? Land Life's dedication to climate, biodiversity, and supporting communities is very inspiring: - They've planted 10 million trees (wow!) 🌳 - Restored 25,000 hectares of degraded land 🌱 - Captured over 5 million tons of CO₂ 💨 It's incredibly rewarding to work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to making a difference and creating a sustainable future. 💚 How do I support Land Life? One of my current goals is to streamline the onboarding process, making sure every new team member has a warm welcome and feels ready to contribute. Effective onboarding is key to integrating and empowering employees from day one. What do you think makes an onboarding process successful? Curious to learn more? Let’s connect and discuss how we can improve HR and/or Recruitment processes in your organization!

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Excited to share that Maaike van de Vorst ‘s final thesis has evolved into a scientific publication! Join her at the ISCRAM conference next Wednesday from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM, where she will present our article, “End user perspective on the results and impact of European projects: a case of failure to innovate.” This work, co-authored with Kenny Meesters and myself, delves into how European project results can be more effectively implemented within first responder organizations, addressing why this doesn’t always occur. We emphasize that European projects need to offer concrete solutions to pertinent issues. Simultaneously, first responder organizations must cultivate a clear vision for innovation and research to ensure they achieve the desired outcomes from these projects. Interested in learning more? Check out the attached article. Looking forward to starting this crucial conversation! #CrisisManagement #Innovation #ISCRAM2024 #Research

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗳 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘁? At Dat.mobility, we have the NVP Database, a dataset produced by passive mobile phone trip detection from over 25,000 Dutch volunteer panelists across the Netherlands, totaling over 35 million trips! The exact trip paths users take are constantly recorded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Smart algorithms detect when trips start and end, how trips are made, and for what purposes. The level of detail and insight from this dataset is unparalleled. Unfortunately, for many urban planning practitioners, this data is a black box. Few understood its value, and given the size of the data, interacting with it can be sluggish. My work has directly addressed this challenge. Through a bit of a hunch, I built a proof-of-concept ETL pipeline that increased the speed at which data was fetched 100-fold while maintaining the anonymity of this sensitive dataset. Made possible by the new ETL pipeline, I built a tool using RShiny that allowed users to query the NVP dataset and view results immediately. This prototype inspired a team of developers to create what is now the NVP Analyzer. I think we’ve done great work, Jurgen Onland! If you are interested in learning more about the NVP Analyzer, the NVP Data, or how I managed to speed up our ETL pipeline (hint: it wasn’t just indexes 😊), please reach out! Link to info about NVP: https://lnkd.in/diHMJmvG

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Save the date: Thursday 4 July, 3 pm - 4:30 pm, MM 04.610, Faculty of Social Sciences  Professor Rachel Pain will provide a talk on: "Rethinking Women’s Public Safety as Care in Urban Spaces of Hyperunsafety" https://lnkd.in/ej9Euivq Abstract: The safety of women and girls in public spaces has re-emerged as a prominent issue for the media, politics and planning in the UK. Since the earliest geographical research, very little has changed: levels of fear remain high and are justified by patterns of violence and harassment, with hotspots in certain urban areas. This paper focuses on public parks as spaces of urban hyperunsafety. We argue that the representation of hyperunsafety in public and policy discourses often runs counter to workable ways of improving it: it is viewed as atomised, as localised, as an immaterial feeling, and is mobilised divisively. Our research in North East England takes an intersectional approach, finding high rates of harassment, hate crime and other forms of violence in parks among certain groups of women and men. Structural violence underpins these experiences, both in the wider UK context of austerity, and in diminishing confidence in the state and police, who are seen as exacerbating unsafety by some women and minoritized people. Challenging predominant criminal justice, technical and environmental approaches, which we argue naturalise unsafety and show little sustained success in reducing violence, we explore our respondents’ responses to the question of what measures would make them safe. We argue that reframing public safety in terms of care opens the way to strategies most likely to achieve safety for everyone, and consider strategies for collective responsibility for creating emancipatory and safe public spaces. About Rachel Pain Rachel Pain is Dean of Social Justice and Professor of Human Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. Her research focuses on spaces of violence, fear and trauma, with gender-based violence a particular interest from intimate to international scales. Her work is informed by feminist and participatory theory and practice. She collaborates on this research with public and voluntary sector organisations, as well as with survivor groups. For questions email Sonja Marzi from CAOS Nijmegen at sonja.marzi@ru.nl

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A second article written as part of the SUMHIT project has just been published! It investigates the experiences of people with substance use problems in using mental health services. The article is available below 👇

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Within the RAINFOREST project, Unilever and Radboud University are working together on a case study considering “patterns of food consumption and transformative actions for mitigating biodiversity loss”.   The case study will evaluate changes in global food consumption, and associated climate and biodiversity impacts over the last 30 years. Understanding the drivers of climate and biodiversity impacts may help us identify pathways for impact reduction.   We will explore how potential dietary shifts within three countries (UK, Netherlands, US) towards more plant-based diets (based on consumer dietary change surveys) may help to mitigate future climate change and biodiversity loss.

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SUSTAINABILITY & COMPETITION LAW ✅ ACM is positive about the collaboration between coffee capsule producers to recycle more plastic and aluminium coffee capsules while continuing to innovate alongside the collaboration to make coffee capsules more sustainable 🌎 Sustainable products and consumption are after all essential for a sustainable world 🟢 As always also published in English: https://lnkd.in/euZc_ceC Autoriteit Consument & Markt #sustainability #competition

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