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CORE (Constructing resilience)
CORE aims to deploy community-led engineering solutions in Sint Maarten to address hurricane vulnerability, drought, and food insecurity. Before going to Sint Maarten, we are conducting research to understand the problems. This research will be the basis of our work there. Four main problems were highlighted during the research. Many people avoid emergency shelters during severe weather due to deportation fears. Waste from Hurricane Irma in 2017 remains unmanaged, leading to many fires. 70% of the buildings were destroyed or damaged from Irma because the roofs are not suited for the extreme climate conditions. Finally, Sint Maarten imports 99.3% of its food, leaving the population severely exposed to supply chain disruptions.
Healthway
International students arriving in the Netherlands must quickly decide which health insurance they are legally required or allowed to have and register with a GP, but the rules depend on their situation (EU/non-EU, working or not, city) and the information is scattered across universities, government sites, insurers and comparison platforms. Of the students we interviewed, 72% felt unsure or were unregistered. Many remain uninsured or without a GP in their first months and only discover the gaps when they get sick. Meanwhile, insurers struggle to reach them at the moment they decide.
Unicorner Game
Football is the world's most popular sport, yet there are limited engaging and accessible ways for fans to test their knowledge and compete with others beyond watching matches or playing traditional video games. Existing football trivia games often lack replayability, meaningful competition, or a strong community aspect. Unicorner addresses this gap by offering a free, browser-based football knowledge game that combines daily challenges, rarity-based scoring, leaderboards, and competitions with friends. Our goal is to turn football knowledge into a fun, competitive, and social daily habit, bringing football fans from around the world together.
Kolibair
When a large incident hits, the people leading the response in fire brigades, forestry, and coast guard need a continuous, current picture of what is happening. They don't have one. The tools available to them were built for other purposes, so the information that reaches command is late, fragmented, and incomplete.
FreshersNest
The information gap. In our first two months we listed 100 events and 157 committee recruitments. No student could have known about all of them, because opportunities are scattered across lots of Instagram pages. The social barrier. Students, especially first-years, will not attend an event alone and step out of their comfort zone, so they are likely to skip opportunities due to this fear. The high friction. Applying means finding and filling a separate Google Form for every event and recruitment, re-entering the same details each time. The lack of transparency. Among almost 40 associations, nobody can tell a student which ones are genuinely active, so a student can give a year of their time to a committee that turns out to be worthless.
Varyz
AI agents can perform complex work, but their users still spend time repeating preferences, rebuilding project context and correcting the same mistakes. Decisions are scattered across conversations and tools, making it harder to switch agents or resume work consistently. Instruction files and built-in memory help, but keeping them current across projects and providers takes effort. Developers and independent founders need a practical way to carry their decisions and standards into each task, while retaining control over their data and the choices that require their judgement.
Lars
Lawyers spend a large part of their week on work they cannot bill: sorting incoming documents, chasing missing paperwork, tracking deadlines across court portals, updating clients and re-entering data into disconnected tools. Small and mid-sized firms feel this most, because they lack the operations staff and IT budgets of large firms. Existing software waits for the lawyer to act, and AI chatbots only answer when asked. Nobody does the administrative work itself. Immigration law, our entry point, is the extreme case: high case volumes, document-heavy files and strict deadlines where administrative delays directly affect vulnerable clients’ legal status.
Biodetect Diapers
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections in elderly care, yet they are often missed or diagnosed late. This is due to, among other things, incontinence, atypical symptoms and cognitive decline. Additionally, current testing relies on dipsticks, which are prone to false positives, and lab cultures, which are slow and require a clean urine sample that is hard to obtain. The result: delayed treatment, avoidable hospitalisations, unnecessary antibiotic use and extra pressure on already overstretched care staff.
Monra
Knowledge workers earn around 2-3 times median wage while they still too often have suboptimal financial behaviour with investment participation at 25% instead of the potentially up-to around 75% potentially today while half of Dutch consumers cannot pay an unexpected expenses.
Joint
Many students and newcomers in the Netherlands struggle to earn flexible income despite having valuable skills. Without formal qualifications, professional experience, or local connections, finding opportunities can be difficult. At the same time, people looking for affordable tutoring, coaching, creative lessons, or practical help often rely on scattered social media groups, personal referrals, or platforms designed for established professionals. The unmet need is an accessible, trustworthy local marketplace where people can easily find affordable help or earn money from their existing abilities, while also building connections within their community.
