What works in Utrecht
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Evidence snapshot for Utrecht
The evidence shows Utrecht as a hub for innovative health and education practices. ALS Thuismeten & Coachen is hosted at University Medical Center Utrecht and deployed nationally for motor neuron disease patients, achieving 86 of 90 enrolled patient starts and an 8.0/10 patient satisfaction rating, though only 7 of 9 care teams sustained it post-pilot. Snappet, founded in Utrecht, operates in 3,000+ Dutch primary schools and showed grade-4 arithmetic gains of 2.63 skill points (~1.5 months extra instruction) versus paper-based control. On urban planning, Utrecht's Ten-Minute City strategy committed approximately €7.1 billion in 2021 to build four new urban centres to accommodate growth from 355,000 to 455,000 residents, though the centres themselves remain largely unbuilt.
Drawn from: ALS Thuismeten & Coachen — Nationwide E-Health Home-Monitoring for Motor Neuron Disease · Snappet — AI-adaptive primary school practice in the Netherlands · De Waag — the Netherlands' National Forensic Outpatient Network Treating Domestic-Violence Perpetrators · Utrecht's Ten-Minute City — A €7.1 Billion Bet on Four New Urban Centres · Rekenkamer Utrecht's Algorithm Audit — 45 Algorithms in Use, Five Examined, One Running Without the Human Oversight Policy Requires · Dutch Water Boards' Muskrat & Coypu Control Programme — Nationwide Dike Protection (Netherlands) · Valuta voor Veen — Dutch National Peatland Carbon Credit Standard · EduGenAI — SURF and Npuls' Privacy-by-Design Generative-AI Platform for Dutch Education, DPIA-Cleared Before National Rollout
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +36 pts 83 here · 47 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +11 pts 89 here · 78 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +10 pts 58 here · 48 average
Governance, certification & transferability +10 pts 73 here · 64 average
Weaknesses
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -11 pts 17 here · 28 average
Equity & inclusion -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Effectiveness -68 pts 0 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality -71 pts 0 here · 71 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Utrecht. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
ALS Thuismeten & Coachen — Nationwide E-Health Home-Monitoring for Motor Neuron Disease · 92
Snappet — AI-adaptive primary school practice in the Netherlands · 67
Utrecht's Ten-Minute City — A €7.1 Billion Bet on Four New Urban Centres · 62
Dutch Water Boards' Muskrat & Coypu Control Programme — Nationwide Dike Protection (Netherlands) · 53
Valuta voor Veen — Dutch National Peatland Carbon Credit Standard · 47
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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