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Our ecosystems | Inclusion
Inclusion Ecosystem
In nature, the most resilient ecosystems are the ones that are most diverse. Our society is just another ecosystem. Impact Hub’s overall mission is to solve challenges in our society through entrepreneurial action. Our work on the Inclusion Ecosystem takes our mission one step further: to ensure that these entrepreneurial and innovative solutions have a positive impact for all. This means that entrepreneurial communities, companies, governments, and NGOs should represent and reflect all of society, not just a select few.
In our Inclusion Ecosystem, we run programmes, organise events, and bring parties together to make a positive impact on immigration, (refugee) integration, discrimination, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality, disability, or poverty, for example. See what’s on below and become part of the ecosystem!
Projects
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…
Food Pioneers 2025
APRIL - OCTOBER 2025
Are you a budding entrepreneur with a (nearly) completed product, looking for a community that helps you grow both personally and professionally? Then our Food Pioneers Program could be the right fit for you!
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.
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…
Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards 2023/2024
30/06/2023
Since 2006, Cartier has been aiming to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs. The mission of the Cartier Women’s Initiative is to shine a light on these women and provide them with the necessary financial, social and human capital support to grow their business and build their leadership skills.
Groei met Google Marketing Bootcamp
23 OCT 2022
Do you run a social startup or scaleup and do you identify as a woman? Join the Groei met Google Marketing Bootcamp! In this free of charge 3-month program we will share all the ins and outs on digital marketing to boost your enterprise so you can make more social impact.
Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards 2022/2023
30 June 2022
Since 2006, Cartier, in partnership with INSEAD Business School, has been aiming to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs. The mission of the Cartier Women’s Initiative is to shine a light on these women and provide them with the necessary financial, social and human capital support to grow their business and build their leadership…
WeRIn
Together with WeRin – the Women Entrepreneurs in Regional Inclusive Ecosystems project – we aim to make entrepreneurship education and support programmes more inclusive for women.
LIAISE
LIAISE is guiding the future of entrepreneurship towards a more inclusive ecosystem in Europe. Linking Incubation Actors for Inclusive and Social Entrepreneurship (LIAISE) aims to give under-represented groups the tools they need to join the entrepreneur ecosystem.
Boost je Buurt 2022
Feb - June 2022
Are you an Amsterdam-based impact entrepreneur working on solutions for social challenges in the neighbourhood? Or do you have a plan to do so? Then join the Boost je Buurt challenge! The entrepreneurs with the most potential will win an entrepreneurial programme worth €2.500 and a chance to win an additional development budget of €2.500,…
Innov’Keneya Health Innovation
JAN 2021 - APRIL 2022
Are you developing a health innovation and would you like to explore new growth opportunities and partnerships? In the Innov’Keneya programme, Roche and Impact Hub are building a healthcare innovation ecosystem to tackle the most pressing challenges surrounding the cancer patient journey in Ivory Coast. As part of this programme, we are looking to find…
Inclusief Eten
MAY - JULY 2021
As part of the Sustainable Food Ecosystem, Impact Hub The Netherlands is launching the 2-month Inclusief Eten programme in collaboration with Stichting Albron. In Inclusief Eten, we match young people in search for purposeful jobs to initiatives that promote social inclusion by means of growing, cooking, saving or sharing food. This programme is in Dutch.
Boost je Buurt 2021
Feb - June 2021
Vote for your favourite Amsterdam-based impact entrepreneur! In Boost je Buurt, 28 impact entrepreneurs have joined the challenge to win an incubator programme by Impact Hub Amsterdam and a development budget of € 2,500, € 5,000, or € 7,500! The prizes will be awarded during the final on 17 June. Which impactmaker gets your vote?
Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge
Mar 2021 - Q1 2022
We’re scouting for the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge for the third year running! The global program aims to support entrepreneurial startup and scaleup-stage businesses run by BIPOC entrepreneurs who are developing solutions that promote inclusive and positive change in fashion.
Business Model Challenge | Inclusion
MAR - JUNE 2021
The themed edition of this spring’s Business Model Challenge (BMC) is for entrepreneurs who are making a positive impact on social themes like immigration, (refugee) integration, discrimination, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality, disability, or poverty. Boost your business model in our BMC incubator and join the ranks of 350+ alumni!
Erasmus+ MIG.EN.CUBE
Support programmes for migrant entrepreneurs in Europe are many but fragmented, and incubation professionals often lack the tools and training to effectively respond to the migrant entrepreneurs’ specific needs. In the Erasmus+ MIG.EN.CUBE project, Impact Hub Amsterdam works together with incubators and universities from the Netherlands, France, and Italy to train incubation professionals.
Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards
2020
An international entrepreneurship program that drives change by empowering female impact entrepreneurs. Founded in 2006 by Cartier, the program is open to women-run and women-owned businesses from any country and sector that aim to have a strong and sustainable social and/or environmental impact.
De Uitdaging
2016
DE UITDAGING (The Challenge) is organized by Impact Hub Amsterdam and the City of Amsterdam. It’s an intensive 3-month program in which you strengthen your business model, develop your entrepreneurial skills and learn how to collaborate efficiently with the Municipality of Amsterdam (in Dutch).
Amsterdam City Fellowship
2018
In this 8-month program, which ran until December 2017, impact entrepreneurs develop their innovative products / services and receive expert guidance and mentoring from the municipality and Impact Hub’s extensive networks.
Stories
1 September
How do you help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) become more sustainable without overwhelming them with complex rules and endless paperwork? The European Green at Heart program was created to answer that question. By providing social SMEs with practical tools, tailored guidance, and financial support, the program demonstrates that small businesses, too, play a key role in the green transition. After all, 80% of European enterprises are small companies.
24 July
What if businesses existed not just to make a profit, but to create new life – even after death? What if agriculture didn’t deplete the soil but healed it? And what if a humble seaweed plant turned out to hold the key to a regenerative economy?
25 June
Imagine turning industrial smoke into the bubbles in your fizzy drink, or transforming it into a fresh-smelling soap. If you are someone who keeps their finger on the pulse of climate news, then chances are you are familiar with the term ‘carbon capture’, and you may think the meaning is obvious: capturing carbon, right? But what does this mean in practical terms? Where is the carbon captured from, what happens to it, are there drawbacks? And lastly, why does this matter?
12 May
The pressure on the construction sector to become more sustainable is increasing rapidly. Stricter regulations, ambitious climate targets, and rising societal expectations make one thing clear: the sector needs to change course. Yet in practice, integrating biobased innovations into building projects, supply chains, and procurement processes remains a significant challenge.
In this article, Impact Innovation Strategist, Christiaan Glerum shares his key learnings from the Built by Nature Prize project: about collaboration, recurring barriers, and what it really takes to bring biobased innovation into practice.
7 May
At Impact Hub Amsterdam, we are wrapping up an extensive deep-dive into the future of regenerative businesses.
In this article, we share our key findings with you. We will explain the origin of the regenerative mindset, its relation to sustainability and the circular economy model and the potential impact. We will discuss some main hurdles entrepreneurs face when looking to adopt regenerative practices, and possible solutions.