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Today is the announcement of the Dutch Innovation Top 100. There are 300 entrepreneurs nominated, The Hub Amsterdam is one of the nominees. More information Here:

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Hub Film: "Global Oneness" | 20 May | at 18.30

What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? The Global Oneness Project uses film to explore how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world. Since 2006 the project founders have been gathering stories from around the world about people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for our shared world. These stories have been compiled in a series of short-films available online at www.globalonenessproject.org. Join us at The Hub to watch these films together and be triggered into a conversation about our ways of individually and collectively expressing oneness.
The film is free for members, guests are welcome and asked to pay a small contribution to the cost of running The Hub this evening. Come at 18.30 if you want to share in ordering some locally-sourced healthy and fair pizza. Bring your own drinks.

The Money Game | Friday 15 May | from 10.00 to 13.00 | €3 for Hub members and €10 for non-members

The Money Game is a simulation game developed to help people in all financial situations to understand the feelings and beliefs we have about money in our lives and in society. Each person brings a certain amount of money that may lessen or grow depending on the (un)conscious choices you and the others make, so bring an amount you don't mind losing but that is enough to feel like you are taking a bit of a risk (with a maximum of €1000). The game explores giving, receiving, and asking for money. It is hosted by Lisette Schuitemaker, a social investor and catalyst for systemic change. The Hub is inspired to offer The Money Game to support social entrepreneurs in uncovering unconscious paradigms, choices and challenges in dealing with money while in pursuit for social change.

Places are limited so please RSVP to amsterdam.hosts@the-hub.net to book your place.

It was Dinsdag at The Hub!

We had 65 people join us in a conversation to explore social innovation, with input from Josephine Green (Philips Design), Tatiana Glad (The Hub), Alycia Lee and Shawna Snow (Reckoning) and Egon de Bruijn (Treemagotchi).

Through rounds of small group 'cafe conversations' we explored what social innovation is in our own diverse contexts, what improvements we would like to see in our own neighbourhoods (see tag cloud) and committed to next steps.

Thank you to the Dinsdag.nu team and the Amsterdam Innovatie Motor for the oportunity to share our thinking and parctice on social innovation for sustainability. And we are just getting started...

Innovation Dinsdag with the Amsterdam Innovatie Motor | 21 April | from 9.00 to 11.30

Theme: Social Innovation in Theory and Practice at Hub Amsterdam

True social innovation is systems-changing – it alters the perceptions, structures and behaviours that previously gave rise to the challenges it seeks to address. Social Innovation refers to new concepts, strategies, and ways of organising, that meet social needs of all kinds. Needs in e.g. the areas of sustainable economic development, health and new life-styles, education, or community development. Social innovation does not only describe innovation with social objectives, - such as micro finance or e-learning – but also new social processes that in themselves are innovative or innovation-enhancing, such as open source technologies or open space methods. Now, what does this mean in practice? Where does social innovation take place? And in which areas do we most need it? Which elements facilitate social innovation? And what can we do to make social innovation flourish in Amsterdam?

These are a few of the questions that we would like to invite you to explore, with input from Josephine Green (Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design), Tatiana Glad (Co-founder of The Hub in The Netherlands), and with two case studies presented by social innovators in The Hub.

Read more about the Dinsdag programme at www.dinsdag.nu. Since our audience and speakers are partly Dutch, partly non-Dutch, the Dinsdag program for this week will be bi-lingual. Reserve your place by e-mailing amsterdam.hosts@the-hub.net