Startup in Residence
Gemeente Groningen
Urban mobility
The challenge: Help us to improve the interaction between cyclists and pedestrians in shared spaces as the Folkingestraat.
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Urban logistics
The challenge: Come up with a way to reduce logistics and transportation traffic flows in a specific sector (for example retail, catering/bars/restaurants, package delivery, waste collection or government services). Needless to say, we expect solutions to improve the quality of life in the city centre, and at the same time will streamline the transportation and logistics sector).
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Smart purchasing and procurement
The challenge: Develop a smart solution that enables us to easily organize our process of drafting, requesting, checking, measuring and supervising contract agreements and, where possible, automating this process.
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Waste away
The challenge: Come up with an innovative solution and marketable product for recycling the city’s internal waste flows.
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Reduce waste
The challenge: Present an innovative solution for reducing the production of internal waste flows in the City’s office buildings.
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Optimizing the use of sports facilities
The challenge: Come up with a novel way to optimize the use of existing sports facilities, as well as increasing their level of occupancy in total.
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Sustainable sports parks and accomodations
The challenge: There is lots to be gained and lots to do, which is why we’re looking for innovative solutions to enhance the sustainability of sports accommodations. Reduce the energy consumption or generate renewable energy for sports parks, halls and gyms.
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Improve sports participation for youth
The challenge: How do we improve sports participation for young people?
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Smoke-free city
The challenge: Come up with an innovative solution for the displacement of smokers from smoke-free areas to the surrounding areas.
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Renewable energy
The challenge: Come up with an innovative idea, concept or technology to create sustainable city government buildings using water generated energy.