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Active Co/Labs
- HeijmansIn progress
Building for Wellbeing
What if building started with how people want to feel?
- ActizIn progress
Caring Neighbourhoods
How can care professionals contribute to caring communities?
- AllianderIn progress
Circular Energy Grid
How does the transformer substation of the future become circular?
- VattenfallIn progress
Connected Energy
How can energy reconnect people?
- PWNIn progress
Drinkable Nature
How can we make nature drinkable again?
- In progress
Healing Bridge
How can building bridges lead to new ways of working together, with each other and with water?
- HeijmansIn progress
Restoring the Balance Together
What if we approached our water system as a shared responsibility?
- In progress
Rethinking Waste
How can waste bring people together?
- In progress
Self-reliant Mierlo-Hout
What if a neighbourhood community took care of one another?
- In progress
Silent wisdom as a building block for tomorrow
How can historic ways of living contribute to making heritage buildings more sustainable?
- In progress
Tech Talent Unlocked
How can we introduce young people to technology in a positive and engaging way, starting from their own interests and motivations?
- GGD Brabant-ZuidoostGGD Hart voor BrabantGGD West-BrabantIn progress
The First 1000 Days
How can we better support families during the first 1000 days of a new life?
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