With this year’s final event approaching (Network event on December 14), it is time to start looking for a new board for 2013. We are looking for enthusiastic and ambitious people to organize next year’s YES-DC events. Our distinctive group of Members provides you with plenty of opportunities for interesting lectures and exciting excursions! A board […]
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The Qatar Climate Summit is just six days away but the mood to spark heated debate about this highly controversial topic is already in full flow at the Utrecht University. With global temperatures on a consistent gradual rise and its evident effects on our societies through natural disasters, the opportunity presented itself to debate the gap
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It’s an early Friday morning when two YES-DC vans depart from the city of Utrecht on their way towards Gent, Belgium. Goal of the day is to get to see some parts of the biomass supply chain that comprises an important part of the Belgium biomass capital that Gent is nowadays. Part of our program
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On June the 21st, YES-DC organized together with NJR and the student organization STORM the Gasterra Energy Lab. The goal of this interactive evening was to come up with sustainable ideas that will be handed in the briefcase of “Duurzame Dinsdag“. The program started with a presentation by Quintel on the Gasterra Transition Model. This
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The "Sustainable Mobility in Developing Countries" congres held by YES-DC attracted many people which interacted lively with the speakers and with each other in the workshop sessions. To find out more click on the link to read the report.
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YES-DC looks back at a successful first event for 2012. On Wednesday the 18th of April, four speakers were invited at the Academy Building in Utrecht to introduce to our members the concepts of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing. All four speakers used the same words to describe the event’s key message: (Small investment in time or
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Dear members, You have recently been informed via email for the procedure of your membership fee. We would like to inform you that for new members pro rata rates apply on the basis of the calendar year 2012. The contribution for an annual subscription is 30 EUR ( 15 EUR for student-members).
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On Friday 9 December 2011 YES-DC organized the last YES-DC Activity of the year, in which networking was the central theme. Apart from that, Koen Willems of kWh People joined us to present his recruitment agency to the audience and to meet potential candidates for his customers. About 40 members and guests participated in the
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In one of the more politically themed activities in recent (YES-DC) history, two great lecturers shared their ideas on the political/ideological distortion of climate science. In a world where the effects of our changing climate are becoming more apparent with every passing year, getting the climate science right is surely a topic worthy of discussion.
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On the the 27th of june our YES-DC activity was on local renewable energy initiatives. Pauline Westendorp was truly a very interesting speaker. She told us about her work with NewNRG and the initiatives she is involved with like “Wij Krijgen Kippen”. Its aim is to unite all initiatives in Amsterdam-Zuid to work together in
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Young Energy Specialists and Development Co-operation (YES-DC) is an association of students and young professionals interested and/or working in the field of energy and international co-operation.