Food Hub maakt vernieuwende vormen van voedselonderwijs en begeleidt innovatie- en veranderingstrajecten. Wij helpen bedrijven, overheden, studenten en professionals om de veranderende wereld van voedsel en landbouw beter te begrijpen. Onze missie is het aanjagen van de transitie naar een eerlijk, gezond, lekker en duurzaam voedselsysteem. Food Hub is in 2016 opgericht door Joszi Smeets en Joris Lohman. In 2020 is Jeroen van IJzerloo toegetreden als partner. Tot onze opdrachtgevers behoren o.a. Flevo Campus, Rabobank, Unilever, het ministerie van LNV, en de gemeente Amsterdam. www.foodhub.nl

The Low Food Movement has set the goal to change Dutch gastronomy. We want to make Dutch gastronomy leading when it comes to forward thinking on subjects as sustainability and inclusion. In a world where food security and the sustainability of the food and agricultural system are two of the big themes we believe that the food movement has an important role to play. The Low Food movement will therefore act as a networking agent and platform where new ideas are created and implemented.www.lowfood.nl

Lecturer Master 'Food Systems Innovation' en Bachelor European Food Business: 'Food Systems in Transition'.Talent for growth. That is what Aeres University of Applied Sciences from the Netherlands stands for. Our university is rooted in the agricultural and educational higher education. We focus on education, research and sharing knowledge. This is how we contribute to the development of innovative professionals. Professionals who are capable of taking responsible decisions in a complex world, with a natural talent for acting sustainable. Aeres University of Applied Sciences offers Bachelor programmes, a Master programme and a three month course. We have three faculties in the cities: Dronten, Almere and Wageningen. We used to be two seperate universities, but we merged in 2013. We share the same vision and mission, but we each have our own profile and identity.

Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment.A non-profit member-supported association, Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.Slow Food has over 100,000 members joined in 1,300 chapters worldwide, as well as a network of 2,000 food communities who practice small-scale and sustainable production of quality foods. The Executive Committe forms - together with president Carlo Petrini - the highest governing body of the organization.

The Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum, is a network of 350+ city groups ("hubs") around the world, developed and led by 4,000+ people. See @GlobalShapersNL or twitter.com/GlobalShapersNL for more info.

October 3-6, 2015, Slow Food and the Slow Food Youth Network in collaboration with the University of Gastronomic Sciences and Terra Madre Foundation invited 2,500 young farmers, food producers, food professionals, students and scientist to Milan to discuss the future of food and farming, in the light of the 2015 Milan Expo 'Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life'. During four days, delegates followed an intense 'Food Academy' program, and created a variety of new projects, innovations, start-ups and businesses in over 120 countries around the world. As a result, an interdisciplinary network of change makers was created that aim to create a transition in the food system, from the bottom up. The project was funded by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Fondazione Cariplo, Compagnia San Paolo, amongst others, and workshops where co-organized together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Around 300.000 euro was collected by means of a crowdfunding campaign, co-developed with Saatchi&Saatchi.

The Food Film Festival wants to educate people about wrongs in the food system by screening revealing documentaries, inviting knowledgeable speakers and debating with the public about current issues. But the festival's philosophy is based on the idea that people will have to revalue their food in order to make a sustainable change. In our view, the best way to do that, is by enjoying, loving and caring for your food. And the best way to do that is to get inspired. Therefore we also screen documentaries that show the most amazing chefs, dishes, food producers and food lovers. Also, we invite the public of the Food Film Festival to brush up on their cooking skills by partaking in one of the many workshops. Because the best way to revalue food is through the shared experience of it. In 2011, the first edition of the festival drew the attention of around 3,500 visitors, in 2014, the Food Film Festival welcomed over 9,000 visitors.As one of the founders, I have been involved in various roles in de development of the festival. As a Managing Director, my main responsibilities were overall management, finance, partnerships and fundraising. As a board member, I have been responsible for partnerships and fundraising. www.foodfilmfestival.nl

Youth Food Movement (YFM) was founded in 2009 with the aim of creating an interdisciplinary network of young consumers, food producers, food professionals, fishermen, farmers, and cooks that actively shape the future of food and farming. YFM has developed a two tie strategy to change the future of food and farming. By creating an interdisciplinary network of young people that share the value of food, we are creating a fertile ground for new ideas, businesses and projects that help the food system forward to flourish. By connecting people from different social, professional and cultural backgrounds, we create a network of change makers that will change the food system from within. On the other hand, the YFM is constantly enlarging and strengthening its on- and offline community, by doing grassroots events, campaigns, and by influencing the (online) debate on the future of food and farming. Raising public awareness while showing innovative alternatives for food production and consumption holds the key to steering the transition to a truly inclusive, good, clean and fair food system. Over the years, YFM has evolved from being a volunteer-based, grassroots organization to a social enterprise that runs various projects. These projects are both privately or publicly funded. As director, I was responsible for strategic long-term decisions, day-to-day management (financial and HR), partnerships and fundraising (private and public).www.youthfoodmovement.nlwww.yfmacademie.nlwww.heteetcafe.euwww.damnfoodwaste.nl

The Youth Food Movement is an international network of young farmers, cooks, artisans, activists and students that are actively changing the future of food and farming. Projects 2011: Food Film Festival (managing director), CAP 2013: Food for Change (project officer), YFM Academy (participant). Projects 2012: Food Film Festival (managing director), CAP2013 (project officer). www.youthfoodmovement.nlwww.cap2013.org

Urgenda is the action-organization that aims to promote sustainability in the Netherlands in cooperation with companies, government, NGO's and consumers.

MDL is a studio for innovation and societal change. The company works on the principle of transition management, a theory developed at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Transition management aims to trigger sustainable development from the bottom up, by organizing transitionarena’s in which regional vision development processes are developed and implemented.

Doc Lab is IDFA’s program for new media projects. As producer I was responsible for the production of a series of debates, lectures and presentations taking place on various festival locations in Amsterdam. Also, I developed the new online platform for Doc Lab in cooperation with Paris-based webdesign bureau Upian, as well as launching the online social media campaign for Doc Lab.

As webmaster I was responsible for the technical maintenance and the textual content of the website www.idfa.nl. After three months I was appointed project manager for the ICT project ‘IDFA 2.0’. ‘IDFA 2.0’ consisted of the development of a new website, linking the company’s back office database to an online interface, as well as digitalizing 1000 hours of video material for online use. My role was to organize the workflow between the website developer, the ICT team and the IDFA staff. During the festival I worked as editor-in-chief for the online video platform IDFA TV.