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Effective 5 September, the Berenschot Academy, in which Berenschot translates its knowledge and experience into training programmes and makes these openly available, will open its doors. This means that all professionals, in the public as well as private sectors, can now register for training programmes, courses and master classes.

Technological developments, such as automation and robotisation, have a drastic impact on work processes and the job market. Jobs are disappearing, new ones are appearing and staff requires different skills. Yet, the Robotisation theme only ranks in 21st place on the HR priority list. This is one of the findings of the HR Trends 2018-2019, the largest survey conducted among HR professionals by Berenschot in cooperation with Performa and Talentsoft.

Today, the Audit Team Football and Safety, in collaboration with Berenschot, published an incident analysis of the Go Ahead Eagles – De Graafschap football match held on 4 March. After the end of the match, a handful of Go Ahead Eagles fans ran onto the field and attacked De Graafschap's players. However, the security organisation before, during and after the match was well-organised and acted quickly and decisively as a result of which the incident did not escalate any further and, in particular, was quickly over.

In support of the ongoing consultation process of the climate round tables, Berenschot researched the system issues relating to the energy system up to 2030 and 2050. The research was commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate.

The signing of the Paris Agreement and the decrease in the production of natural gas in the Province of Groningen reinforce the demand for alternatives to natural gas. This is why Berenschot, under contract to the Dutch Energy Management Agency (EBN), surveyed the potential for scaling up the production of green gas and what is required to make this possible. The findings were published at the end of May in the position paper 'Strategic Hubs for Scaling Up Green Gas in the Netherlands'.

Over the past few months, Berenschot, under contract to the Economic Board Utrecht (EBU), has conducted research into promising blockchain propositions in the Green and Healthy domains in the Utrecht region. One component of the research was to map out the blockchain ecosystem for the entire Netherlands.

At the Flying Money conference in Amsterdam on May 24th, Berenschot facilitated a workshop on the legal and financial possibilities to create and effectively govern an ‘anti-organised crime fund’.

The ‘Platform Forus’, an initiative set up by the consortium comprising Foundation Forus, the Municipality of Zuidhorn, QHN IT specialists and Berenschot, is one of the two winners of the blockchain competition run by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase II.

To facilitate the climate debate, Berenschot has come up with and calculated two extreme scenarios: an electron scenario and a molecule scenario. In both transition paths, CO2 emissions will be reduced to virtually zero by 2050. It is likely that the future scenario will actually be somewhere in between these two. The scenarios are not mutually exclusive and by and large they share the same infrastructure. Combinations are perfectly feasible, but hydrogen is the key.

Yesterday, the Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum marked a first for the Municipality of Groningen: at five polling stations, rather than counting the votes by hand, they were counted using a blockchain application. The council worked on this project with Berenschot consultants and LAB15 technology partners. The turnout could be followed in real-time and when voting closed, it was compared with the number of votes counted.