Earth Hour is more than just an hour of darkness. It is a symbol of unity and a call to action for a sustainable future. Together, we can make a difference and create a brighter and healthier future for ourselves and future generations. This Earth Hour, let's come together to show our commitment towards the planet we call home!

This International Women's Day, we caught up with one of our female entrepreneurs from the WorldStartup community. Her story is as inspiring as her venture - Leaves by Roots. Discover how they're tackling income inequality, building bridges across cultures and improving the food system.

What is the current state of the startup ecosystem in Ukraine? Our colleague, Svitlana Krystenko discussed her views and presented key steps for its development during her speech at the Futurepreneurs for Ukraine Kick-off event in Vilnius. Read more about her story in this article.

How do you tell a story about the mission, vision, and accomplishments of an innovation hub within its physical space? Olga Royenko and Alissa Bankovska from Voice of Space searched for answers to these complex topics during WorldStartup's meetup at ImpactFest 2022. You can now read their report based on the outcome of the session.

Futurepreneurs, a pre-accelerator programme that promotes sustainable entrepreneurship, is launching its sixth edition, this time focused on Ukrainian startups that will work on projects to rebuild Ukraine after the war.

During Startup Tuesday, on the 29th of November in The Hague, Teun Kraaij - the man behind Europe's first fully electric airline Lucy - shared his inspiring and personal story about his ambition, inspiration and motivation with an audience of fellow entrepreneurs.

The fifth edition of the Hackathon for Good has a new winner! Teams from all over the world worked for 48 hours straight to tackle today’s biggest challenges related to sustainability, privacy, open government and corruption.

The aviation industry is facing many challenges and opportunities in its journey toward a sustainable future. On Thursday, 20th of October, Transavia, Maeve and Zepp.Solutions shared their latest development and challenges during the Kick-off of the sustainable aviation Challenges & Opportunities Session.

Gerrit Jan reflects on the recent Thinking Bigger report by Techleap and Utrecht University.

Rotterdam offers many alternative ways for its inhabitants to experience the city. Those who find walking on the sidewalk a boring activity can plan their next routes on the city's skyline. Adventurous strollers had the possibility to walk from roof to roof and across the Coolsingel. These walkways are placed on high scaffolding at various locations in the city. During this “Rooftop Walk,” you will come across sustainable, innovative, and creative ways to make roofs more inclusive in improving the quality of life in a city.

Gerrit Jan discusses the concept of a regenerative economy. How does it differ from a traditional ESG framework? And more importantly, how can we make sure it becomes the new standard?

In this personal note, Gerrit Jan recounts his experiences at the Impact Festival in Frankfurt and highlights some of the most inspiring impact entrepreneurs he encountered.

Last month we participated in Leiden University's HOP week in The Hague, which aimed to welcome the freshmen in their first academic year.

We brought the community together at The Hague Tech on September 13 for an interactive session where all participants had a chance to share their ideas and collaborate with others who are enthusiastic about tech in government.

Five roundtables, five diverse topics and two speakers. This is how we launched the first in-person event for the GovTech community this summer. Read more about this event in this article by Svitlana Khrystenko, GovTech NL's communication manager.

During this project Rushabh was working on how to use plastic waste, which was abundant in Indonesia, and how to solve the issue of unsafe constructions.

In his latest editorial, Gerrit Jan shares the contents of a session WorldStartup is going to host at the EVPA Impact Week in November 2022.

WorldStartup is delighted to announce an interaction with the number one online visual collaboration platform “Miro”, also known as one of our favourite remote/hybrid facilitation tools.

In this newsletter editorial, Gerrit Jan reflects on the positive growth approach in entrepreneurship.

Read Gerrit Jan's newsletter editorial about what it takes to become an impact entrepreneur.

Daniël Steginga and Alwin Veldboom have supported the Municipality of The Hague with formulating a Challenge for Startup in Residence with the Worldstartup Challenge Discovery & Definition process.

A story by Svitlana Khrystenko, a Ukrainian living in The Netherlands. In her story, she describes her personal experience with the recent war in Ukraine and how her family living there lives with it. In the end, she suggests practical steps each of us can take to support Ukraine.

​​Limo was founded in 2021 by 4 young international team members. It all started with the passion to improve the quality of landscape and environment surrounding the greenhouses in The Netherlands. Later on, it grew into a concrete product that creates value for everyone in the horticulture ecosystem.

Our thoughts are with everyone who suffers from this terrible war that has been raging for almost a week. Our office and our Next Valley program is open for startups from Ukraine and Russia.

Khach and Natalya are co-founders of Scimagine, a startup which has developed an innovative cloud-based platform for categorised experimental data, structured and stored in the form of searchable databases. They joined the WorldStartup Altitude program in May. Here is an overview of their 2021 startup journey.

The agro-ecosystem in the Netherlands is of great importance for innovations like the one of Infrascreen. Read how Frank & The Backs works with a network of seasoned professionals and C-level executives.

Camptoo is the platform for private individuals who want to rent a campervan or rent out their campervan safely. The popularity of his 'Airbnb on wheels' has ensured that founder Martijn Peeters now focuses on the enormous market potential in Germany.

Tiller bv is a unique company from The Hague with an innovative product: a hand truck with a motorized lifting system.

Hackathon for Good The Hague 4 edition was so much more than a weekend. We are thrilled to see all the fruitful outcomes it has brought to the teams and challenge owners.

Read about our brand new support programme Basecamp and the first startup Batazia that joined the programme.

Climate Action Center is one of our newest Altitude startups that joined World Startup a few months ago. We are glad to introduce James, a co-founder of Climate Action Center, with whom we have had a very inspiring conversation.

This year, the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) launched the Scalable Climate Solutions Challenge. With the aim of finding scalable climate projects in Bangladesh, Kenya and Uganda.

Growing Green Cities Lab is a six-month programme organized jointly by SYNCHRO SPACE, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine, and WorldStartup. The main goal of the programme is to help the municipality of Rivne to solve its sustainable challenges by providing them with scouted solutions from Dutch and Ukrainian startups.

On September 27 the event BackTalks took place for the first time. The hybrid event, organized by Frank & the Backs, was a success: over 30 interested parties attended the live event in The Hague, almost 50 people worldwide were present online. The event was moderated by Bas van Werven, radio host at BNR Nieuwsradio. Plan is to organize BackTalks every quarter.

Celebrating the winning team Nife Labs and their smart AR solution, right before the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in July. The hackathon program was part of the 5G Railway Lab in Barcelona and it was fully designed and facilitated by the WorldStartup Lab unit.

While Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos focus on concurring the space creating one giant leap for pollution, we focus on impact-driven entrepreneurs on the Earth.

Empower farming communities, enhance transparency in the supply chain and ensure fair wealth distribution in the supply chain.

The Hague's population is growing and with that the number of bicycles. The number of bicycles left behind on the streets has risen over the past years. Additionally, parking garages are getting filled with old bicycles that lead to lack of space for active cyclists. WorldStartup, together with ANNA Vastgoed & Cultuur and The Municipality of The Hague, facilitated co-creation workshops with local citizens to raise awareness and seek solutions to the problem of abandoned bicycles.

This year we are looking forward to the 4th edition of the Hackathon for Good.

16 March, The Hague. Unknown Group is delighted to announce an investment in Burgs Foods. Founded in 2018 by Sander Peltenburg and George Brandenburg, Burgs Foods manufactures sustainable food products made of insects. With their unique insect processing technologies they intend to become the food factory of the future for everything related to processing insects into food.

The entire month of March is B Corp month. We’ll be joining a global community of almost 4,000 businesses to celebrate what it means to be a Certified B Corporation™ and share our story to becoming a Better Business.

Worldstartup Stories is a series of exclusive interviews with impact driven startups. In this series, as a recap and result of #CoCreateFutureCities, we will introduce you to founders, who work with great passion in shaping our solutions to our global development challenges.

The Province of South Holland engaged in a co-creation process with an innovative startup to deal with the problem of misinformation and fake news about 5G. After defining the challenge, WorldStartup scouted for startups that could co-create solutions together with the province. Zephyros is developing an easy to use tool that gives government officials and other stakeholders clear insights on all the (mis)information on the topic on social media. The dashboard shows the number of posts per topic, the sentiment (positive, neutral or negative) and also sources and how the information is spread.

Data is key for planning the city. ModelMe3D delivers the 3D interface for data driven design and monitoring. Samuel Alvarado will share his lessons so far and talk about how 3D models help policy makers, city designers and architects in our latest WorldStartup Stories.

This is Finch Floating Homes. As a recap and result of their session ‘Floating homes how to deal with severe floods’ on the CoCreate Future Cities platform, we’ve held an interview with the founder of the global impact startup. Next to our medium articles and the startup Tuesdays that we organize we’ve started and experimented with our podcast channel. Please check the first one out.

Ivana Dvořáková’s first encounter with crickets was during a school presentation about the sustainability of crickets. After that presentation, Ivana and some of her friends went to a pet store and bought their first crickets which they then tried. From the start she thought it tasted amazing.

The idea for uHoo came when Dustin and Brian were studying in Hong Kong. Both Dustin and Brian have respiratory difficulties from which they were suffering more due to the air quality in the dormitories in Hong Kong.

Burgsfoods was founded by Sander Peltenburg and George Brandenburg in 2017. Burgsfoods is a company that creates meat substitutes that consist of insects, mainly crickets and grasshoppers.