Ondernemend in Leefstijl
Working together on a healthier Northern Netherlands.
Ondernemend in Leefstijl, roughly Enterprising in Lifestyle, brings together lifestyle entrepreneurs, employers, knowledge institutions and policymakers in the Northern Netherlands. The aim is to make prevention and positive health in the workplace scalable. The result: healthier employees, less absenteeism and more happiness at work.
This project is close to my heart. The north has many good lifestyle entrepreneurs, but it is hard for them to prove what they deliver and to get a foot in the door with employers. If together we manage to solve that, this can grow much bigger than the project itself. That is why it has its own place on this site.
What the project is working towards
- at least twelve lifestyle entrepreneurs supported in validating, developing and scaling up
- practical pilots with at least nine employers in the Northern Netherlands
- reaching more than two thousand employees
- one route for employers to validated lifestyle interventions, with measurable impact and return
The role of Inqubator
Inqubator scouts lifestyle entrepreneurs, organises training sessions and workshops, and offers an acceleration programme through BOOST Accelerator together with NOM, the investment and development agency for the Northern Netherlands. I am involved in that part of the project on behalf of Inqubator. The project as a whole is run by TCNN as lead partner, together with all the other partners.
Ondernemend in Leefstijl is co-funded by the European Union (ERDF), the Northern Netherlands Alliance (SNN) and the provinces of Groningen, Drenthe and Fryslân.
Are you a lifestyle entrepreneur or employer in the Northern Netherlands?
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