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Max Koelemaij: The New Esporter of FC Volendam!

FC Volendam, H20 Esports Campus and Bundled Esports have had their eye on Max Koelemaij in their search for a suitable esporter for the Volendammers. The 19-year-old from Utrecht will represent the Volendammers during the 2025-2026 eDivision season.

Koelemaij is delighted to represent FC Volendam: "When I was told through management, Bundled, that FC Volendam was coming as an option, I got excited right away. Also because of the cooperation with H20, with whom I have worked before." The Utrechter is no stranger to the esports world: "I have been an esporter for over four seasons. Two seasons ago I achieved ninth place at the World Cup and last season I was crowned regular season eDivision champion with FC Utrecht." In any case, Koelemaij has no lack of ambition: "I hope to finish first in the Finals with FC Volendam - so not just in the regular season, but to become a true Dutch champion."

"We have been watching his performance with interest for quite some time," he said.

"FC Volendam is proud to welcome Max as the club's new esporter" begins Nino Sneek, employee Commercial at FC Volendam. "We have been watching his performances with FC Utrecht in the eDivisie and at the World Cup with interest for quite some time, where he showed he has a lot of talent and dedication." Sneek continued: "With his arrival we take a nice step in the further development of our esports branch. We are looking forward to a successful season and a pleasant cooperation with Max."

Matthijs Vink, owner of H20, also reacts happily to the appointment of Koelemaij: "Attracting Max fits the core values of H20. We want to offer young talent the chance to become the best. H20 has a background in top sport and from our ambition we want to help develop talent towards the top."

Vink is also happy with the cooperation with Bundled: "We have a lot of respect and appreciation for what Bundled has achieved in the esports world in recent years. In addition, we believe that you get further together. The combination of FC Volendam, Bundled and H20 should ensure that Max can perform optimally. We look forward to this eDivision season and also organize fun activations for and in the region."

Text and photos: FC Volendam

GDK Software falls for mainstage H20

For the second year in a row, software company GDK Software organized the "Delphi Summit. About 200 developers and programmers met at H20 in Purmerend. According to director and organizer Marco Geuze, it was obvious to choose this location again: 'When you step inside H20, it makes an immediate impression.'

GDK focuses on a niche market: The Delphi programming language that allows companies to build and manage apps. From offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Brazil, the company supports customers worldwide in the implementation and maintenance of this software. Since 2024, GDK has organized an event to connect the community and share knowledge on a scale rarely seen in Europe. And for the second time in a row, they chose the atmosphere and technology of the innovative event venue H20.

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Show Your Talent Week: THE opportunity for young sports talent in Region Waterland

Waterland Region, September 2025 - In the fall of 2025, the municipality of Purmerend with a new concept for sports development, namely the Show Your Talent Week. Thanks to this collaboration between various parties, young people from the Waterland region will have the unique opportunity to develop themselves free of charge, athletically and personally through a wide range of workshops, clinics and test moments.

How this initiative came about

Retrieved from May 26, 2025 an inspiring workshop took place at the H20 Esports Campus, organized by HV KRAS/Volendam and Platform Talent Development Purmerend, together with sports clubs, schools and social partners from Waterland and Purmerend.

The result of this meeting was a lot of energy, concrete action items and the shared feeling that people in Waterland are together want to work together on talent development. The workshop evening was thus the booster of the idea to start the Show Your Talent Week in the fall vacations as a Kick-Off for a broader talent development program.

What is Show Your Talent Week?

The Show Your Talent Week is the next step in this trajectory: a sporting week in which young people from Waterland and Purmerend are challenged to show and discover their talent through workshops and clinics. The week is the starting shot for the broader program that will be rolled out in the future.

Some of the workshop offerings

Clubs and sports providers are primarily responsible for the sport-specific interpretation of talent development. The platform/High Performance Center reinforces this process with a valuable, cross-sport offering that contributes to the qualitative development of athletes.

During Show Your Talent Week, young people can choose from a wide range of workshops, including:

ASM workshops with specialized ASM trainers
VR Sports - innovative forms of training with virtual reality
General motor skills at Turn Center Waterland
Judo skills - applicable in all sports
Strength training facilitated Wellness Profi Center
The BrainsFirst Talent Test - For insight into your cognitive sports profile

Stronger together in Waterland

This week is not just to offer young people something, but to lay a structural foundation for talent development in the region:

The creation of a sustainable and inclusive Sports Talent Development Center in Waterland, close to home, supported by a network of partners. Connecting municipalities, sports clubs, schools and community stakeholders to deploy shared vision, responsibility and resources for young sports talent.

Free participation - registration started

All workshops are free of charge for young people from the Waterland region. Registration is required through the official site: https://h20.gg/show-your-talent/

📅 When: Fall break 2025
📍 Where: Sports venues in Purmerend
🎯 For whom: Young people from the Waterland region (4-18 years old).
💸 Cost: No

For more information or questions email showyourtalent@h20.gg or Peter Bus 0651592032

Launching Project: The Hague below sea level!

September 24, Museon-Omniversum hosted the official launch of the program "The Hague under the Sea Level." Together with Alderman Robert Barker, visitors, partners and ambassadors gave the go-ahead for a series of workshops that will prepare The Hague for the future of rising sea levels and changing climate.

Since August 19, Museon-Omniversum's Minecraft ambassadors have collaborated online to build the Hague of the future. In the online Minecraft future version of The Hague, developed in collaboration with Gaming partner H20, they were able to work on various tasks such as building a floating neighborhood and further dressing up the digital city.

For H20, this project fits perfectly with "Gaming Impacting the World": using gaming as a tool to explore social issues and devise solutions. By combining the power of gaming and creativity with current themes such as rising sea levels, visitors are involved in tomorrow's challenges in an approachable and inspiring way.

This festive launch officially opens the interactive programming around "The Hague below sea level." The activities can be experienced in Museon-Omniversum in the coming months and invite young and old to think along about creative solutions to the consequences of climate change.

H20 Esports & FC Volendam Partnership

FC Volendam will participate in the eDivision for the third time this season. H20 Esports joins as an official Esports partner.

H20 is the largest Esports gaming ecosystem in Europe. More than 50 companies and startups are already housed on the campus in Purmerend. H20 aims not only to provide entertainment, but also to connect: bring young people together, stimulate education in technology & gaming, focus on responsible gaming. This season, H20 will be the training location for FC Volendam's Esporter. In addition, H20 will be used as an event location for gaming related activities of FC Volendam.

"FC Volendam and H20 are joining forces in the field of Esports," said Nino Sneek, Commercial Officer of FC Volendam. "With the top sports and Esports experience of the owners and organization of H20, together we create new opportunities for talent development and business in the region. In doing so, we can count on the excellent facilities in Purmerend."

Matthijs Vink, owner of H20, also responds happily to the partnership. "Being H20, we find the connection with sports and top sport important. Our background in top sports with HV KRAS/Volendam makes us eager to enter into this cooperation with FC Volendam. We both have an important regional function for youth with a national image. I am convinced that this cooperation will yield beautiful performances on and off the digital field!"

Setup eDivision

The eDivisie is the official Dutch EA FC26 competition. In the eDivisie, all eighteen Eredivisie clubs compete for the virtual championship in EA Sports FC 26 Ultimate Team. The seventeen rounds of play are divided into four periods, with the winner of each period earning prize money and a qualification for the KPN eDivisie Finals. The matches will be broadcast via the eDivision's YouTube channel.

Hack Your Future Sept. 18

Hack your future - young talents build challenges for the company of the future!

The new and unique concept that brings together business, education and gamification has not been organized in the Netherlands before. H20 believes in these innovative forms of education and is going into the project with full energy!

Hundreds of students will start the project this Thursday, September 18, which will last until the end of January. On January 29, the grand finale will take place at our H20 Event location in a project intensively supported by ST.AN through Renate Ooms.

During the kick-off, in addition to getting to know the companies, the classes will have the opportunity to attend informative workshops. Broad development is important to us at Hack Your Future. Workshops such as AI, social media, presentation techniques, understanding your talent, job training, dealing with emotions and setting boundaries, making choices about education and life, cyber security and how to create a start-up will be offered. Specialists will be speaking and we are incredibly grateful to have you committed to the new generation! Darragh Baratin, Tobias van der Stelt, Paddy Stegerhoek, Kim Kulderij, 👊🏻Lonneke Deutekom, Arend de Geus, Ninco van Sligtenhorst, Carmen Lopez-Brea -!

Several schools are stepping into the project such as Vonk, SG De Triade, Ir. Lely Lyceum, Bit Academy, Purmerendse ScholenGroep and Jan Arentsz.

These are the wonderful companies that brought in challenges: KBO Noord-Holland, Vitalics, Van 't Hek Groep, Woon Gangmakers, NRG PALLAS, Door met Zorg, PDZ Uitzendbureau, Endeavour, Davinci college Purmerend ESPORTS TECH CAMPUS. Matthijs Kruijer, Ludo van de Grift, Nancy Boterblom, Julien Pieterse, Monique Stam-de Nijs, Hans Hoek, Klaas de Jong, Dirk Tuip thanks for opening up your companies!

Collaborative partner Paddy Stegerhoek has been involved from the beginning, and Talland College is also making an important contribution!

If you would also like to attend to watch and meet, you can! please email eefje@h20.gg

Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eFQdTZ7W

Tobias new Head of Education at H20

From Silicon Valley to the Netherlands: Tobias new Head of Education at H20

As of September 1, Tobias van der Stelt has started as Head of Education at H20 Campus. Tobias brings years of experience as an educator and innovator at the intersection of technology and learning. After four years in Silicon Valley, where he set up the quality control department of online classes and worked as a teacher at Synthesis.com, an edtech startup that grew out of Elon Musk's spaceX school, and ran as a first staff member at Recess.gg in setting up an online community for homeschooling and education development through gamification - he now chooses to start a new chapter at H20.

In his role as Head of Education, Tobias focuses on two main tasks: implementing new technological innovations for and with education together as well as deepening the educational impact of social projects within H20.
Some of the projects Tobias is directly involved in:
Minecraft at the Museon-Omniversum, where young people learn about climate change and technology through gamification;

Learning programming through gaming, in partnership with Samsung Benelux;

And a new partnership with Young Impact, which encourages young people to use their talents for a better world, with technology as the driving force.

"After an extraordinary period in Silicon Valley, it felt like the right time to refocus on innovation in the Netherlands - for the love and for the chance to make a difference here at H20," Tobias said. "Education is on the brink of a revolution, and I believe that innovation, technology, gamification and creativity play a key role in it." "Exactly what I have found at H20."

"With his international experience in edtech and innovative education, H20 sees in Tobias the ideal person to take its educational program to a higher and deeper level," said Matthijs Vink, CEO of H20. "We want to attract both edtech start-ups and innovative schools to collaborate with the H20 campus, we believe with Tobias' arrival this can be accelerated."

Cyber Security Event: make sure you don't get h@cked

Cybersecurity is becoming more important than ever. Are you ready for it?

New legislation such as NIS2 requires action. But what does it mean concretely for your organization? On Thursday, June 19, together with TechoneNL, Rabobank and ThreadStone Cyber Security, we organize an afternoon at the H20 Esports Campus in Purmerend, where we take entrepreneurs and professionals into the world of digital security. Including:

Xander Koppelmans, sharing his personal story as 'the hacked entrepreneur'
René V. and Floris van Zonneveld, Threadstone Cyber Security, discuss NIS2 and show how hackers operate

We will conclude with an enjoyable networking reception. You can find the entire program here. You don't want to miss this!

📍 H20 Campus, Purmerend
📅 Thursday, June 19
🕒 From 2:30 p.m.
👉 You can sign up here.

Hack Your Future - Design the company of the future!

Purmerend, March 5, 2025 - H20, ST.AN & Dutch Affairs are proud to announce 'Hack Your Future'. Hack Your Future is an initiative that challenges young people and students to actively participate in thinking about the future of work. The event offers them a platform to get creative, meet companies, and gain valuable insights that will help them in their future careers.

Hack Your Future is a unique challenge for students from secondary schools, MBO, HBO and universities to design the workplace of the future in a digital visualization. What does the company of the future look like? What is young people's vision of the workplace 10, 25 or even 50 years from now? It is now up to them to find out!

The final event at the H20 Campus in Purmerend

The grand finale of Hack Your Future will take place on the impressive stage of the H20 Campus in Purmerend. Here, students will present their creative ideas in front of a panel of experts and share their vision of the workplace of the future. The best designs will have a chance to win great prizes! Spectators/fans are also welcome.

Getting to know companies in the region

In addition to the exciting finals, students will also have the opportunity during the event to meet leading companies in the region. ST.AN (Stichting Arbeidsmarktstrategie Noordwest-Holland), the sponsor of this event, ensures that a number of top organizations are present to share information about internships, workplaces and the (future) labor market. Hack Your Future is thus an excellent opportunity for students to orient themselves within the work field and for companies to present themselves to and hear from their potential future employees.

Break Out Sessions are also organized by the companies where pupils and students can go for interesting topics such as job training or efficient collaboration, for example.*

*Final program + topics for the Break Out Sessions to follow. Keep an eye on the website!

Sign up and more information

We cordially invite all schools in the region to promote this project to students, whether or not to include it in the curriculum. This is a great opportunity to actively engage students in thinking about the future business, develop 21st century skills and help them prepare for the challenges of tomorrow.

For more information about the event, registration and participating companies, please visit our website or contact us at info@h20.gg.

We hope for great participation and look forward to a fantastic event together with students, businesses and schools!

H20 renews successful partnership with Red Bull!

H20 Esports extends partnership with Red Bull: Continuing to build the future of esports & gaming together

We are proud to announce the renewal of the partnership between H20 and Red Bull. This partnership, entering its 5th year with this agreement resulted in numerous memorable events and productions.

From the start, Red Bull has played an important role in making H20 unique as a stadium for esports and gaming within the Netherlands and Europe. One of the eye-catchers is the Red Bull Esports Area, a specially designed space with ten high-end gaming setups, five of which are on the first floor and five at a height of five meters, where both professionals and enthusiastic gamers can showcase their skills.

The first event in this space, Red Bull Flick, was the first 2v2 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. The success of this event highlights not only the potential of this collaboration, but also the power of a growing gaming community.

In addition, the collaboration with Red Bull marked a breakthrough in content production for H20, with highlights being the filming of Red Bull Xceptional Player YouTube series and Red Bull Home Ground. These productions, shot entirely within the H20 Event location has opened new doors for our campus in terms of TV and esports productions.

A shared vision for the future
''At H20 we aim to be a home base for the growth of esports and gaming in the Netherlands,'' said Matthijs Vink. ''Red Bull has always supported us in this and we look forward to creating even more productions together and in doing so we continue to build a sustainable future for esports and gaming, with the goal of continuing to inspire our community."