Centre of Expertise Mission Zero
Empowering learners to create a sustainable futureCentre of Expertise Mission Zero has a clear mission: to create an economy entirely fuelled by sustainable energy and renewable resources and materials. Or rather: to stop using new resources and unsustainable energy. Finding these solutions requires multidisciplinary research. That will mean a holistic approach involving the technological, economic, social and administrative realm.
As a driver of sustainable entrepreneurship and living, we conduct practice oriented research. Professors, lecturer-researchers and students tackle current issues. Issues such as ensuring liveable cities by eliminating CO2-emissions and creating opportunities for using waste. Together with our external partners we develop applicable and useful knowledge and tools for the future.
The Centre of Expertise combines the expertise of four research groups: Energy in Transition, Circular Business, Urban Metabolism and Innovation Networks. We look for the common grounds between these fields and make a difference together. This results in a different way of operating. We discover new values, change our perspective of the world and address current issues with today’s knowledge and technology. Focusing on our planet is an inherent part of that.
Research groups
Projects
SMITZH: Smart Manufacturing Industrial Applications Zuid-Holland
The province of Zuid-Holland is rich in manufacturing industry. Manufacturing companies that develop and sell all kinds of products with the help of technology. These companies would like to produce faster, cheaper, more durable and higher quality products, but are often unaware of contemporary, digital possibilities such as robotisation and 3D printing. SMITZH brings together supply and demand and aims to make the manufacturing industry more innovative, competitive and future-proof. The Digital Operations & Finance Centre of Expertise at The Hague University of Applied Sciences is one of the knowledge and research partners in the SMITZH consortium.
Circular Fashion
Circular operations management – Facility management and ecology in balance
Reshaping Business Education
Podcast Wasted Tales
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Podcast
In the Wasted Tales podcast series we will be bringing you into the lives and minds of waste and other materials within the circular economy, such as a solar panel, a face mask and a plastic bottle. This podcast is inspired by the projects of the Centre of Expertise Mission Zero where we conduct integrated research to come up with regenerative solutions for a more sustainable future. By making inanimate objects key protagonists in this podcast, we aim to provide an alternative perspective to the circular economy discourse. What do these materials and objects experience? How do they view us humans in processes of recycling, repair and repurpose? And what can we learn from them?
The spoken language is English.
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Inaugural Address Professor Kim Poldner
On Thursday 18th of June 2020 Kim Poldner, Professor Circular Business, shared her inaugural Address by premiering her vision through Youtube. This was a more sustainable event then we could have ever imagined, because no one had to travel and there was no foodwaste due to arranging catering. The online premiere took about 20 minutes after which there was time to ask questions or post comments in the live chat. She will select the ones that trigger her most as starting point for developing a range of podcasts together with her team. Watch the Inaugural adress on YouTube.
Kim also created a simplification of this vision, a playfull fable, here you will find this playfull fable The Bear and the Phoenix.
If you're interested in reading the full story including contributions from the researchers involved in the Professorship, please download the publication: Entrepreneuring a regenerative society (pdf).
IMPACT Magazine
Today more than ever, higher education is finding itself at a crossroad. While the internet is filled with qualitative sources of knowledge, universities can often not provide their students with the skillset they actually need for their professional life. Traditional education will get less and less relevant, if it doesn't transform itself into a learning experience the internet can't offer.
An example of such transformation has been 'Mission Impact', a minor taught for the first time in the fall semester of 2020 at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. 17 students of nine nationalities and 12 different bachelor programmes came together to work on wicked problems and apply their respective knowledge, through transgressive, place-based learning.Connecting to a place in the middle of a pandemic has not been the easiest task. While all learning contexts had to be translated to the new online reality, students were scattered across Europe, preventing some, from meeting their group members or the place they were trying to impact. That it is still possible, is proven through this magazine. After the end of the minor half of the group decided to spend their time and work on this artefact, to create a visualisation of their learning experience over the past couple of months. The change of narrative at Mission Impact and the focus on a more ecological and relational practices has allowed these students to learn and thrive in a safe environment.
This magazine is an open invitation for all sorts of learners. We hope this magazine will inspire our readers. To connect, to transform, to learn. And most of all, we hope you'll enjoy reading it.
IMPACT Magazine Issue 1, February 2021 (pdf)Research Group Circular Business
Article
Reconsidering the Circular Economy Rebound effect: Propositions from a case study of the Dutch Circular Textile Valley
Article
Forging Forms of Authority through the Sociomateriality of Food in Partial Organizations
Inaugural Address
Entrepreneuring a regenerative society
Book chapter
Performing affirmation: Autoethnography as an activist approach to entrepreneurship.
Article
Fashioning ethical subjectivity: The embodied ethics of entrepreneurial self-formation
Research Group Energy in Transition
Article
Wind resource characteristics and energy yield for micro wind turbines integrated on noise barriers – An experimental study.
Article
First step to full DC-potential:improving energy efficiency in household equipment
Research Group Urban Metabolism
Report
Publications of Karel Mulder
Report
Requirements for sustainable heat storage in the Zeeheldenkwartier district of The Hague
Report
Resistance against heat networks
Report
What are the characteristics of successfullocal heat cooperatives?
Team
dr. ir. Christine De Lille
Professor Innovation Networks
dr. ir. ing. Sander Mertens
Professor Energy in Transition
dr. ir. Karel Mulder
Professor Urban Metabolism
dr. Kim Poldner
Professor Circular Business
dr. Mark Mobach
Anja Overdiek
Associate professor
Tadeo Baldiri Salcedo Rahola
Associate professor
Heleen Geerts
Nico Persoon
Programme Coordinator
Eveline Kapteijn
Rolien Blanken
Coordinator
Nathalie van der Voort-Remkes
sr. Management Assistant
Professor Innovation Networks
dr. ir. Christine De Lille
Christine has been a professor in the Faculty of Business, Finance & Marketing at The Hague University of Applied Sciences since 1 September. She also works as an Assistant Professor in ‘User-centred Design of Business’ for the Industrial Design Engineering Faculty at Delft University of Technology. This is where she studied and earned her PhD in 2014 (in combination with Utrecht University of Applied Sciences). She has extensive research experience and expertise in the areas of design, management, entrepreneurship and internationalisation in complex environments. For example, she is currently involved in the Strategic Product Design Master’s programme at the Delft University of Technology. In her work for the Design Management Network, Christine applies her experience as a Board member and network to focus on contacts between research and higher education. She is also a member of the board of an international working group on research into design management. In addition, Christine works as a reviewer and organiser for design management conferences and works together closely with such organisations as KLM, Barco, the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Luzern Hochschule and Antwerp Management School. She speaks regularly at conferences in a practical and academic capacity, both in the Netherlands and internationally.
c.s.h.delille@hhs.nlProfessor Energy in Transition
dr. ir. ing. Sander Mertens
Professor Urban Metabolism
dr. ir. Karel Mulder
Dr. ir. Karel Mulder studied both physics and philosophy of science, technology and society at the University of Twente. In 1992 he obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen for a thesis on research strategies of large companies. Afterwards he was employed as a senior lecturer at Delft University of Technology. He spent some time as guest researcher at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona) and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Since 2015, Mulder has been a Professor in Urban Metabolism at The Hague University of Applied Sciences
+31 (0)6 - 29 05 35 64k.f.mulder@hhs.nl
Professor Circular Business
dr. Kim Poldner
Before she embarked on an academic career, Kim was founder of the first eco fashion store in The Netherlands in 2005 and initiator of online platform Eco Fashion World. Her green wardrobe, including her up cycled wedding dress, was exhibited during the exhibition Wear I Am in 2017. See: www.wur.eu/circularfashion
k.a.poldner@hhs.nl
dr. Mark Mobach
Mark studied Business Administration at the University of Groningen and Stockholm University. Between these two programmes, he worked as a consultant at the University Medical Centre Groningen. After earning his PhD in 1998, Mark worked as a researcher for many years in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen. He was also a Facility Management lecturer at Wageningen University from 2011 to 2015. In March 2012, Mark was appointed head of the Facility Management research group and, a year later, head of the research group at the NoorderRuimte Knowledge Centre, both affiliated with the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen. Since 2013, The Hague University of Applied Sciences has had a partnership with the Hanze and Mark has worked as the head of a research group at THUAS.
m.p.mobach@pl.hanze.nlAssociate professor
Anja Overdiek
Heleen Geerts
Heleen Geerts is docent onderzoeker (opleiding Ondernemerschap & Retail Management) en practor Retail (practoraat in oprichting van het mboRijnland en het ROC Mondriaan in samenwerking met De Haagse Hogeschool). Heleen is mede-initiator van de Retail Innovatie & Experience Campus Leidschendam-Voorburg. Zij was tussen 2018-2021 project manager bij het landelijk onderzoekstraject Future-Proof Retail, verantwoordelijk voor Living Labs en het stakeholdership management. Haar onderzoek richt zich op het organiseren van (en het leren in) labs waarbij thema's als het betrekken van stakeholdersgroepen (vanuit Onderwijs/Onderzoek, Ondernemers en Overheidsperspectief), netwerken en samenwerken haar onderzoeksfocus heeft.
Programme Coordinator
Nico Persoon
n.j.persoon@hhs.nl
Eveline Kapteijn
Contact:
e.f.kapteijn-kruijswijk@hhs.nl