Partners
airportNEXT! is an initiative of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, theGROUNDS and Climate-KIC. The seminar could not be organised without the dedicated efforts and excellent cooperation of the partners. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to our partners and sponsors, who have supported and endorsed airportNEXT! so enthusiastically with their ambition and dynamism. We are pleased that they will be playing an important part in the seminar.
Founding partners
Schiphol Group/ Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Schiphol Grou p is an international leading airport companies based in the Netherlands. Schiphol Group aims to rank among the world's leading airport companies, creating sustainable value for her stakeholders and positioning Amsterdam Airport Schiphol as Europe's preferred airport. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the largest and most important asset. Maintaining and strengthening its competitive position as a hub in continental and intercontinental air traffic and as a main port forms the...
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theGROUNDS
theGROUNDS is a joint innovation platform with a focus on sustainability and initiated by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It aims to accelerate the climate goals defined in Schiphol's strategy for a sustainable airport. Value creation is central to this strategy. theGROUNDS is designed to promote innovation and transition towards fully sustainable airport operations. This transition requires the capacity to think out of the box. Partners of theGROUNDS comprise Amsterdam Airport Schiphol,...
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Climate-KIC
Climate-KIC ( Knowledge & Innovation Community )is a novel community-driven European initiative. Its activities emerge from innovative and creative partnerships between the best available members – global and local, small and large – from the corporate, public and academic worlds. Climate-KIC aims to significantly accelerate the innovation required for a transformation to a low-carbon economy , and to ensure Europe benefits from new technologies, company growth and jobs. This...
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Imtech: market leader in sustainable airport technology
Imtech is a European market leader in sustainable airport technology. Having provided technical services for a number of major airports like London Heathrow and Gatwick, Berlin, Dublin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Schiphol and recent scored orders for the airports of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Imtech combines numerous technological competences like energy efficiency, total HVAC solutions, energy and electrical solutions, security, logistics, airside lighting and technical maintenance...
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Spring Associates
Spring Associates is a strategy boutique that leads and supports value creation initiatives with a hands-on entrepreneurial approach. Spring helps companies, investors and entrepreneurs in taking the right decisions and in becoming more competitive, more innovative, and more sustainable. From its head office in Amsterdam, Spring Associates operates on an international scale in regulated markets and in industries that face disruptive technology or regulatory shifts, such as aviation, energy...
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PNO
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek or TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) is a not-for-profit organization in the Netherlands that focuses on applied science. The main office of TNO is located in Delft. TNO is a knowledge organization for companies, government bodies and public organizations. The daily work of approximately 5,400 employees is to develop and apply knowledge. The organization also provides contract research and...
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Wageningen UR
Wageningen University and Research Centre (also known as Wageningen UR, or WUR) is a Dutch public university in Wageningen, The Netherlands. It consists of Wageningen University, the Van Hall-Larenstein School of Higher Professional Education, and the former agricultural research institutes (Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek) of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. Wageningen UR trains specialists (BSc, MSc and PhD) in life sciences and focuses its research on scientific, social and commercial...
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ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) or ETH Zürich (ETHZ) is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland. Like its sister institution École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), it is an integral part of the ETH Domain that is directly subordinate to Switzerland's Federal Department of Home Affairs. ETH Zurich has come to symbolize excellent...
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TU Delft
Delft University of Technology (Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft, also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. With eight faculties and numerous research institutes it hosts over 16,000 students (undergraduate and postgraduate), more than 2,600 scientists (including more than 200 professors), over 2,000 doctoral students, and more than 2,000 people in the support and management staff. The university was established...
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SkyNRG
SkyNRG was launched following the KLM biofuel test flight November 2009. Founding partners are AIR FRANCE KLM Group, North Sea Group and Spring Associates. Our mission is to help create and accelerate development of a market for sustainable jet fuel. Fuel which is safe, sustainable and affordable. We intend to achieve this by way of: Global sourcing and marketing of sustainable jet fuel; Promoting R&D throughout the entire supply chain (‘well-to-wing’), advancing the...
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THNK
THNK, the Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership, is on a mission: to develop the next generation of creative leaders that will have a significant societal impact in our world. Organizations of all types, shapes and sizes are struggling with a new reality. Social inequality, our love/hate relationship with technology, dwindling resources, climate change, the collapse of financial institutions… Some are so involved in daily operations – and keeping their heads above water – they are...
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