Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam
An innovative campus where great minds come together to tackle the world’s biggest energy challenges.
A community for today to make a better tomorrow
Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam is a collaborative community housed in a state of the art, sustainable building that reflects the common ambition to offer innovative solutions for the energy transition.
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Title: ETCA Campus Video
Duration: 1:37 minutes
Description: The video presents the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam, featuring its facilities, research activities, and perspectives from speakers involved in the energy transition.
The video introduces the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA), a hub where companies, researchers, and students collaborate on energy transition technologies. It highlights the laboratories, shared spaces, and the growing community of 32 member companies that develop and test solutions in fields such as hydrogen, CCS, and electrification.
Through interviews with members and campus staff, the video shows how ETCA combines technical innovation with a collaborative ecosystem. It captures moments from events and a member ceremony, emphasizing the importance of trust, interaction, and shared motivation to turn ideas into impact.
ETCA Campus Video Transcript
[Background music plays]
Uplifting, inspiring music with a modern tone.
[Visuals]
Opening shots of inside the ETCA campus building.
[Conversation]
ETCA Director
Sarah Street
We’re pioneers. We’re united and we’re at the forefront of technology.
[Text displays]
At the forefront of technology
[Scene transition]
Cut from interview to laboratory activity.
[Visuals]
Shots of people working in the ETCA laboratory.
[Conversation]
Sarah Street
We’re motivated to work on tomorrow’s solutions today and make them available for use as soon as possible.
[Scene transition]
Shift to another interview.
[Conversation]
Liaison Manager ETCA
Simone Kranendonk
The first two years we mostly worked on our community building and shared trust, and now we’re ready to welcome external clients with their energy transition challenges…
[Text displays]
Community building & shared trust
Simone Kranendonk
…and really solve problems in the real world.
[Text displays]
Solving energy transition challenges
[Scene transition]
Cut to another interview.
[Conversation]
Campus Coordinator ETCA
Floortje Krikhaar
What I love about this place? The people. The interaction, this community.
[Visuals]
Shots of people interacting in the ETCA campus building.
[Scene transition]
Cut to another interview.
[Conversation]
Communications Manager ETCA
Jennifer Shahheidari
Well, we aim to have a welcoming and inclusive environment.
[Text displays]
A welcoming and inclusive environment
Jennifer Shahheidari
By organizing events, listening to each other and engaging with our community.
[Scene transition]
Cut from interview to event footage.
[Visuals]
Shots of people interacting during an event in the ETCA campus building.
[Scene transition]
Cut to another interview.
Sarah Street
We have 32 member companies and we’re still growing all the time.
[Scene transition]
Shift to member ceremony.
[Visuals]
Shots of the new member AGH during the member ceremony.
[Conversation]
Sarah Street
Working together under one roof here in Amsterdam.
[Conversation]
Simone Kranendonk
All our members are so full of ideas and initiatives and the biggest strength of the ecosystem is the motivation to bring it into impact.
[Scene transition]
Cut to presentation setting.
[Visuals]
Members interacting during a presentation.
[Text displays]
The motivation to bring impact
[Scene transition]
Cut to interview with member.
[Conversation]
CEO Huracán (Member)
Vincent van der Meijden
We met a lot of members, learned about their business and that also helps us grow our business.
[Scene transition]
Return to general campus footage.
[Visuals]
Shots of people interacting in the ETCA campus building.
[Conversation]
Sarah Street
We stay focused by our defined technology themes, for instance Hydrogen, CCS, electrification.
[Scene transition]
Drone footage introduces exterior view.
[Visuals]
Drone shots showing the solar panels on top of the ETCA campus building and the Megawatt Charger.
[Conversation]
Senior Principal Architect AVEVA (Member)
Joshua Wright
The collaborative nature of everybody that works here all the members, it’s just fantastic.
[Scene transition]
Wide establishing shots.
[Visuals]
Shots of the ETCA campus building.
[Conversation]
Sarah Street
The dream was to create a campus where members could come together to collaborate on solutions for the energy transition. And three years later we realized that we’ve done much more than that.
[Scene transition]
Back to people-focused visuals.
[Visuals]
Shots of people interacting in the ETCA campus building.
[Conversation]
Sarah Street
Besides the technology solutions we’ve also created this vibrant, amazing community of people coming together.
[Text displays]
Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam
Together with Shell
[Background music ends]
The mission of Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam
With a clear vision of solving the world's biggest energy challenges through collaboration, technology and innovation in one single campus.
What others say about us
Werkbezoek Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam | Minister Adriaansens
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Title: Minister Adriaansens visit to the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam
Time: 2:24
Description: The Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA) is taking an important step by partnering with the Brazilian Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI). At this campus, companies work together with knowledge institutions on the challenges of energy transition!
[video]
[ Micky Adriaansens says]
- Wat ik hier zie is dat er ontzettend enthousiast wordt gewerkt door heel veel bedrijven...
aan nieuwe ontwikkelingen en nieuwe technologie...
zodat we met elkaar een schone aarde maken.
[Frans Everts says]
We zijn vandaag in de Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam...
waar ons Shell laboratorium zit, maar waar we inmiddels samenwerken...
met 25 andere bedrijven of kennisinstellingen...
om te werken aan de grote opdrachten van de energietransitie.
[ Micky Adriaansens says]
De verduurzaming van de industrie gaat over heel veel.
Het gaat over de brandstoffen die we gebruiken.
Maar we moeten niet vergeten dat het ook gaat over de productieprocessen...
die allemaal moeten worden omgevormd.
Het is heel veel wat samenkomt.
En we moeten dus met elkaar investeren...
om die ontwikkeling met elkaar van de grond te krijgen.
Het mooie is dat we zien dat er oplossingen zijn...
maar het moet allemaal nog veel meer en veel groter.
[ Yuri Sebregts says]
We hebben de minister een paar van onze onderzoeksonderwerpen laten zien.
Waaronder het elektrisch maken van zogenaamde kraakfornuizen.
Dat zijn belangrijke fabrieken in de chemische industrie...
waar er ook in Nederland een aantal van staan.
We hebben ook gekeken naar biobrandstoffen...
en hoe je volledig hernieuwbare brandstoffen uit CO2 zou kunnen maken in de toekomst.
[Frans Everts says]
We werken hier al met enorme diepe kennis.
Allerlei mensen die tot op molecuul niveau kunnen kijken...
hoe we eigenlijk in de toekomst onze bouwstenen gaan maken, onze brandstoffen gaan maken.
En hoe we gebruik gaan maken van nieuwe manieren om energie en grondstoffen te maken.
Wat we hier doen op hele kleine schaal...
zien we hopelijk straks terug op mega schaal in het echt.
[ Micky Adriaansens says]
En het is zo belangrijk dat hier geïnvesteerd wordt in die nieuwe technologieën...
zodat we schone producten krijgen.
Zodat we de afvalhoop op de aarde verkleinen.
Zodat we zorgen dat we ook geen fossiele grondstoffen meer nodig hebben...
voor die brandstoffen.
En op al die vlakken wordt hier hard geïnvesteerd...
en hard gewerkt om die ontwikkelingen voor elkaar te krijgen.
En het mooie is dat ze ook al vooruitgang boeken.
[ Yuri Sebregts says]
De toekomst is er uiteraard één waarin we voldoende energie kunnen blijven leveren...
aan onze klanten en anders de maatschappij, maar wel op een klimaatneutrale manier.
Voor sommigen van die transities zijn de technologieën nu al beschikbaar...
maar er zijn ook allerlei processen die veel energie verbruiken...
zoals bijvoorbeeld in de industrie of lange afstand transport...
waar die technologieën nog ontwikkeld moeten worden.
Dus wat wij hier doen past volledig in die klimaatneutrale toekomst die we voor ons zien.
Ben Feringa on the importance of the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam
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Title: ETCA – Ben Feringa
Time: 56 seconds
Description
Working together on solutions for the energy transition in the new Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam.
Shell in Amsterdam opens her doors for start-ups, scale-ups, research institutes, academia and mature companies to work together on energy transition solutions. Nobel Prize Winner Ben Feringa reflects on the importance of the new open campus in Amsterdam.
[video]
Video of the outside of the STCA building
[video]
Ben Feringa walks in the frame and smiles in the camera.
[Ben Feringa says]
The idea of the Energy Transition Campus, here in Amsterdam, I think can make an important difference for our future.
[video]
Scientists are walking down the hall at the STCA building.
[Ben says]
Because it means open innovation, bringing together experts, from academia, from society, from industry, like Shell, to work on some of the most challenging issues that we are facing.
[video]
Video outside the STCA building.
[Ben says]
We have complimentary expertises to the whole chain, from fundamental discoveries to the processes and the products of the future.
[video]
Video of the solar panels on top of the STCA building.
[Ben says]
Bringing together the different expertises we can really make the difference. And accelerate the innovation process to a sustainable future.
[video]
Ben and scientists walking and talking at the STCA lab.
[Ben says]
So open innovation, taking advantage of all the knowledge and experience that has been developed over the past decades. That will make the big move forward.
