With this year’s final event approaching (Network event on December 14), it is time to start looking for a new board for 2013. We are looking for enthusiastic and ambitious people to organize next year’s YES-DC events. Our distinctive group of Members provides you with plenty of opportunities for interesting lectures and exciting excursions! A board […]
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The Qatar Climate Summit is just six days away but the mood to spark heated debate about this highly controversial topic is already in full flow at the Utrecht University. With global temperatures on a consistent gradual rise and its evident effects on our societies through natural disasters, the opportunity presented itself to debate the gap
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The Event Warming up for the climate summit, and serving as follow up of “Duurzame Dindag”, YES-DC is organizing a heated debate about the climate, society and future. Young professionals, students and experts will discuss the gap between the urgency and the attention climate change gets in media and politics. Topics to be
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Dear members, YES-DC invites you to join our second excursion for this year! This time we will visit the hydropower plant in Maurik, in the province of Gelderland. To warm up find out about hydropower in the Netherlands. The excursion will take place on Firday the 2nd of November! So save the date and fill
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YES-DC is inviting you to this year’s first social event! This year’s Social Energy Party will take place in Utrecht on Friday, the 12th of October 2012 at Mick O’Connells Take the chance to interact with fellow members in an informal setting! See you at Mick’s !! Loading…
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The first event after the summer season will find YES-DC addressing the Empty Office Buildings problem in the Netherlands. More than 7 million square meters of office space are unused in the Netherlands, losing value, consuming energy while at the same time new office buildings are being constructed adding more materials and requiring more energy
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It’s an early Friday morning when two YES-DC vans depart from the city of Utrecht on their way towards Gent, Belgium. Goal of the day is to get to see some parts of the biomass supply chain that comprises an important part of the Belgium biomass capital that Gent is nowadays. Part of our program
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We are happy to invite you to the first excursion for this year! On Friday 6 July 2012, YES-DC will travel to Rodenhuize in Gent, Belgium to visit the 100% biomass power station, of GDF Suez and its subsidiary Electrabel. We will witness at first hand its high environmental performance, find out about the biomass
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On June the 21st, YES-DC organized together with NJR and the student organization STORM the Gasterra Energy Lab. The goal of this interactive evening was to come up with sustainable ideas that will be handed in the briefcase of “Duurzame Dinsdag“. The program started with a presentation by Quintel on the Gasterra Transition Model. This
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The "Sustainable Mobility in Developing Countries" congres held by YES-DC attracted many people which interacted lively with the speakers and with each other in the workshop sessions. To find out more click on the link to read the report.
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Young Energy Specialists and Development Co-operation (YES-DC) is an association of students and young professionals interested and/or working in the field of energy and international co-operation.