Design and development of BlueCrib, a mobile cultivation unit for flat oysters (Ostrea edulis) for oyster reef restoration. The project integrates TinyOcean and ReefBooster techniques to ensure sustainable spat production and ecological quality, and involves local communities in its management and implementation. It also focuses on economic viability and scalability to multiple units for regional and European application.

This project focuses on developing inclusive context-sensitive business models with focus on enabling community development based on feasible technologies to valorise biomass residues for energy and material transition. This project is initiated by the Delft Global Initiative and section of Biotechnology and Society at TU Delft as a follow-up of successful projects to promote global bioeconomy.

Deltas attract people due to fertile soils but face pollution and subsidence challenges. In the Netherlands, subsidence could cause over 50 billion damage by 2050 without innovation, still one million new houses are planned. Delft Blue Village will test technologies for sustainable living in deltas. Questions for this JIP include identifying technologies, designing DBV, and finding areas for upscaling innovations.

Critical raw materials (CRM's) are becoming more important in the coming years. They are needed for e.g. hospital equipment and the energy transition. On a city level, we need to insert critical raw materials in the urban mine, and extract them. We need a roadmap how to proceed.

Help TU Delft achieve 100% circularity by 2030. Partnering with PreZero, you will design a system integrating AI-driven collection and localized recycling for (for expample) 3D/lab waste. Develop a scalable, data-driven blueprint that eliminates waste and transforms the campus into a living lab for high-value resource recovery.

Help The Green Village, TU Delft and The Hague municipality in establishing a successful living lab around regenerative dune development in Scheveningen. How can we facilitate development of both scientific knowledge and societal awareness on nature-based solutions for flood risk, and serve as example for the rest of the world?

Clay minerals extracted from dredging waste can be made to serve as SCM's in concrete, thereby reducing the environmental impact of concrete. Technology has been proven and now we seek to figure out how the technology can be upscaled and be made available to the concrete industry. Students will help to build a business case that the company can use.

Crop insurance in generally is seen as an important way to climate de-risk financing smallholder farmers in the Global South. The main obstacle is that at small scales (1ha), it is difficult to obtain reliable rainfall data. Based on Sentinel-a satellite data, we can determine if a field has received rainfall. However, this is still labor intensive and needs automation.

Drinking water and wastewater treatment in the Netherlands depends on critical raw materials from geopolitically vulnerable regions. What happens during scarcity or trade disruptions? The challenge is to design a future-proof treatment system with lower dependency: which materials can be replaced, how can quality be ensured, and what technological or circular solutions can reduce reliance on critical resources?