After a few months with a lot of meetings, both regional and transnational, and the preparation of the progress report, this week was much more quiet. I used this week to work on a lot of things that have been on my to-do list for a long time:

• I made a new version of the Inventory and sent it to the C2C BIZZ partners for comments.
• I looked at the indicators and concrete outputs of C2C BIZZ again and sent an e-mail to the C2C BIZZ partners to start the discussion on it now, instead of waiting until the next meeting (and running out of time then).
• I had a look at the draft versions of the Development Framework and the Memorandum of Understanding made by The Institute and sent them my remarks, although I had some difficulties understanding the documents.
• I made some changes to the text of the C2C BIZZ brochure, based on the remarks of the partners and the text was send to them again.
• I had a meeting with Pieter Reus, to talk about his part of the “Materialentransitieprogramma” (material transition program) of the SRE. Pieter is working on optimising and innovating the collection of household waste. As always it was an interesting conversation.
• I tested the “C2C ambitietool” (C2C ambition tool) on the Brainport Avenue website and finally it is working well. The next step is to add business sites and clusters of companies and I made a start taking that step.
• Together with Anouk and Bas and Eva of C2C ExpoLAB I started preparing the workshop during the C2C training in Eindhoven on 12th and 13th June. This workshop will be on diversity and finding the best way to have brainstorms on it.
• Finally I did some preparations for several local meetings: a lunch session on the C2C BIZZ tools in May, an excursion to Venlo and the Floriade in June, a masterclass for the frontrunners group Brainport Sustainability & Innovation also in June, the next C2C Brainport Avenue Cafe in October and a local meeting for building parties hopefully also in October.

Next week will be a busy one again, so I’m happy I was able to do so much work this week.