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The Rotterdam100 journey

It's already a while ago, but this spring I was a participant of the Rotterdam100. A case competition for talented students and young professionals from different disciplines, working with big companies to solve challenges for the next economy. 

Friday, April 6th

After a selection procedure in February, I was nominated as a candidate for the MatchMaking day together with 250 other talented individuals. During this event, I was introduced to the participating companies and I had to pitch for the consumer-goods company Unilever to become one of the 100 participants. At the end of the day, I have made it to the Unilever team which enabled me to visit Unilever's office ‘De Brug’ and ABN AMRO’s new pavilion CIRCL at the Zuid-as. This circular building is besides being incredibly beautiful, also a source of innovative solutions which fitted the Rotterdam100 spirit. Another plus is that they serve incredible food with seasonal and locally-sourced ingredients;)

Foto by CIRCL

Thursday, May 24th 15:00 - Friday, May 25th 21:00 (including 3 hours of sleep)

The 24hour Creation Day (which was definitely longer than the 24 hours) was held in the Rotterdam Science centre. This final day was full of workshops, brainstorm sessions and no sleep. The case we worked on for Unilever was focussed on plastic waste reduction. Unilever is becoming more and more sustainable over the years, but there is still an enormous amount of plastic waste to be found in the ocean. Together with Denis Banuoku, Duco Kuiper and Jennifer van Dulfen, we wanted to empower communities to create shared value through innovative and sustainable farming solutions. This resulted in a product called Reclickables, a modular system of clickable units made out of used plastic bottles, to grow your own plants. 

Foto’s by SMO

Rotterdam100 was an amazing experience and I can recommend it to people who want to connect with inspirational individuals and companies to solve worldwide problems. 

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