Boost je Buurt 2026 (Dutch)
MAART - JUNI 2026
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Our ecosystems | Circular
Impact Hub Circular Ecosystem
In our Circular Ecosystem, we bring together and strengthen relationships between impact entrepreneurs, investors, consumers, corporates, government, and other organisations. Together, we spur innovation and co-create a circular economy. Also working on the transition towards a circular economy? Join our Ecosystem!
Through our accelerators, like the Investment Ready Program, Circular Innovation Collective, and others, over 80 mln Euro’s has been invested into circular startups. To further accelerate the transition from a linear to a circular economy, we work together with partners such as the City of Amsterdam, AMS Institute, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Circle Economy, IKEA, Rijkswaterstaat, Triodos, ABN AMRO, and many others.
In CRCL PARK we have a place where entrepreneurs, researchers, policymakers, and residents come together to test, learn, and scale solutions that make cities truly circular.
Projects
Door heel Amsterdam maken ondernemers impact. Met Boost je Buurt krijgen zij een podium en een kans om door te groeien. Ben jij een ondernemer die met jouw bedrijf het verschil maakt in de stad? Meld je aan voor Boost je Buurt, de challenge voor impactondernemers in Amsterdam.
Operators for Impact (Dutch)
NOVEMBER 2025 - JUNI 2026
Ben jij klaar voor de volgende stap? Jouw onderneming maakt sociale impact, maar het opschalen brengt nieuwe uitdagingen met zich mee. Want hoe vergroot je je omzet duurzaam? Hoe scherp je je verdienmodel aan? Hoe bouw je processen die meegroeien met jouw ambitie? Dit programma helpt jouw onderneming verder. Operators for Impact koppelt jouw onderneming…
Boost je Buurt 2025
APRIL - JULY 2025
Ben jij een impact ondernemer die Amsterdam gezonder, inclusiever en duurzamer maakt? Dan is dit dé uitdaging voor jou! De Boost je Buurt uitdaging van de Gemeente Amsterdam omvat een business development programma ter waarde van €20.000,- en een aanvullend ontwikkelingsbudget van maximaal €7.500.
CIRCO Ketentrack – Circulaire kansen voor PV omvormers
20/02/2025
De circulaire transitie en de energietransitie zijn direct aan elkaar gelinkt, inmiddels zijn er meerdere initiatieven op het gebied van (circulaire) zonnepanelen. Er worden nieuw te recyclen zonnepanelen ontworpen op Nederlandse bodem en de 2e hands markt komt in beweging. Na eerdere succesvolle Tracks rondom de panelen zelf en ook de mounting frames is het…
Fair Future Challenge
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
The DOEN Foundation, in collaboration with Impact Hub Amsterdam, is launching a new competition for sustainable and social entrepreneurs. Do you have a sustainable and/or social consumer product or service? Five impactful and sustainable entrepreneurs will win €100,000 to support their innovation.
IKEA Foam Collaboration
JUNE - OCT 2024
Through the IKEA Foam Collaboration, innovators specialising in sustainable foam, innovative foam solutions, or alternative foam materials have the opportunity to collaborate with IKEA. Together with Impact Hub global, we aim to revolutionise the furniture industry by making sustainable solutions accessible to all.
Green at Heart – Build an even more impactful SME
March 2024 - 2025
Green at Heart helps social SMEs close all the loops by building a business that is environmentally as well as socially sound, well-governed, and circular. Through state-of-the-art diagnostic tools, expert guidance, and financial support, we empower you to integrate all aspects of sustainability into the heart of your business and prepare you for incoming ESG…
Built by Nature Prize
15/11/23 - 04/06/24
This is your chance to be part of a global change story and a growing movement to advance a range of positive impacts for our planet and people. Seize the opportunity for recognition, collaboration, learning and inspiration by joining an international community committed to creating a built environment that works in unison with nature.
IKEA Glue Programme | 2023
07/05/2023
Calling out all innovators and entrepreneurs who are working in the field of biobased glues! We partnered with IKEA to track down sustainable glue options that will be kind to future generations.
WDCD Make it Circular Challenge
31 JAN 2023
What Design Can Do (WDCD) launched the Make it Circular Challenge, in partnership with IKEA Foundation. The make it Circular Challenge calls on designers, creative entrepreneurs and startups from around the world to envision and build a circular society. Winners receive a prize fund and a 6-month accelerator programme co-created with Impact Hub Amsterdam!
Circular Textile Accelerator – by CIC
8 JAN 2023
After extensive research the Circular Innovation Collective has identified the most urgent innovation gaps to create a circular textile chain. As a result we are scouting Startups and SME – B2B as well as B2C – national or international that are working on high value innovative circular solutions in Refuse, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse and Repair.
Impact Nation for Startups | 2022 | Sollas
17 NOV 2022
We’ve teamed up with ABN AMRO and TNW to develop Impact Nation, a programme in which we match innovative impact scale-ups with SMEs & organisations to collaborate on implementing innovations at scale.
Impact Nation for Startups | 2022 | PVG
26 OCT 2022
We’ve teamed up with ABN AMRO and TNW to develop Impact Nation, a programme in which we match innovative impact scale-ups with SMEs & organisations to collaborate on implementing innovations at scale.
Renewi Pilot Program
14 OCT 2021
Upcycling waste at the end of the dividing line. As part of our Circular Ecosystem work, Impact Hub The Netherlands has teamed up with Renewi to find innovators and solution providers in the field of waste processing.
AM
sep 2022-2023
AM is on a mission to become climate positive by 2040. To reach this goal AM is on the look out for innovative solutions to grow crops on the land AM cannot (yet) build houses on and use these crops as input to produce sustainable building materials.
CIRCO Track – Circulair Verpakken Afhaal- en Bezorgmaaltijden
OCT 2022 - NOV 2022
De CIRCO-track ‘Circulair Verpakken Afhaal- en Bezorgmaaltijden’ helpt bedrijven voor te bereiden op de komst van uitgebreide producentenverantwoordelijkheid (UPV), om zo samen te werken aan een duurzame verpakkingsketen voor afhaal- en bezorgmaaltijden.
Impact Nation for Startups | 2022 | De Zeeuwse Kust
26 OCT 2022
We’ve teamed up with ABN AMRO and TNW to develop Impact Nation, a programme in which we match innovative impact scale-ups with SMEs & organisations to collaborate on implementing innovations at scale.
IKEA Marine Materials Innovation Program 2022
18 MAY
Are you revolutionising products by using marine materials? For IKEA of Sweden, we are scouting pioneers for the Marine Materials Innovation Program. Apply by 18 May and get a chance to work with IKEA on your sustainable marine material product or solution!
Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge 2022/2023
Mar 2022 - Q1 2023
We’re scouting for the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge for the fourth year running! The global program aims to support entrepreneurial start-up and scale-up businesses who are developing solutions that promote inclusive and positive change in fashion.
React!
31/12/2023
React! calls on all youth workers to get inspired and share knowledge on the circular economy, impact entrepreneurship and personal development.
Impact Nation for Startups | 2022 | Nationale-Nederlanden
26 OCT 2022
We’ve teamed up with ABN AMRO and TNW to develop Impact Nation, a programme in which we match innovative impact scale-ups with SMEs & organisations to collaborate on implementing innovations at scale.
IKEA Packaging Innovation Program
SEP - DEC 2021
Are you revolutionising packaging? For IKEA of Sweden, we are scouting pioneers for the Packaging Innovation Program. Apply and get a chance to work with IKEA on your sustainable packaging product or solution!
Business Model Challenge | Circular Edition
SEP - DEC 2021
You have the green dreams – we hand you the business tools. Join the ranks of 350+ alumni and apply for our Business Model Challenge incubator! In three months, you will finetune your business plan, strengthen your entrepreneurial skills, and expand your impact business network in a blended, on & offline programme.
WDCD No Waste Challenge
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
What Design Can Do (WDCD) launched the No Waste Challenge, in partnership with IKEA Foundation. Designers and creatives from around the world are invited to submit their innovative solutions to reduce waste and rethink the current production and consumption cycle. Winners receive a prize fund and a 6-month accelerator programme co-created with Impact Hub Amsterdam!
Investment Ready Program
OCT 2020 - MAR 2021
During this 5-month accelerator (now in its 7th year!) powered by the ING Nederland Foundation, we’ll help you review your business model, strategy, team as well as craft a funding plan to grow your sustainable business. At the programme’s concluding Demo Day, you’ll pitch your plan to our network of impact investors!
Stories
14 April
Reflecting on the insights from this year's Plant FWD conference, it is clear that the global dialogue is shifting. The keynote by Louise Vet underscored a reality we at Impact Hub have long championed: the transition to a nature-positive economy is a fundamental economic necessity.
31 March
Door heel Amsterdam maken ondernemers impact. Met Boost je Buurt krijgen zij een podium en een kans om door te groeien. De selectie is gemaakt en een nieuwe groep impactondernemers is begonnen aan hun reis. Maak kennis met de deelnemers en hun organisaties: volg hun voortgang en ontdek de impact die zij maken in de stad.
3 March
At Impact Hub Amsterdam, we see that scaling impact takes more than a strong vision. It also requires execution, structure, and the right people alongside founders as they grow. That is exactly what Operators for Impact was designed for. This initiative by the City of Amsterdam’s Impact & Innovation Ecosystem team provides targeted growth support to 11 impact scale-ups. Now, halfway through the program, that intention is beginning to take form in meaningful ways...
23 December
In 2025, we kept coming back to a simple idea: meaningful change starts close to home, and scales through collaboration. That’s why we’re looking back on the year through three lenses: what we built locally in Amsterdam, what we advanced nationally, and how we contributed globally. Because in a network of 130+ Impact Hubs we’re happy to be locally rooted and globally connected.
26 November
In November 2025, after months of research and preparation, we kicked off The Regeneration Program: a five-month journey for organizations that are moving beyond sustainability toward true regeneration, by restoring ecosystems, communities, and culture. In this article we'll introduce you to all of the participants.
Partners
