A race car that runs on green hydrogen. This is what the students of Green Team Twente to demonstrate that hydrogen is also a good alternative to fossil fuels. The team is developing a car this year that can go…
If you are going through difficult times and have trouble expressing that to others, an alternative may be to open up about it on your phone. Irish start-up Opa Mind (opa = Greek for uplifting) is utilizing artificial intelligence to…
Micronit from the Dutch town of Enschede has grown over the years into a world player in the market for microchips, specifically ‘microfluidic chips’. These are used in hospitals and laboratories around the world, among other things, for cancer research…
The lesson learned from European politics in recent years is that our continent is vulnerable. First the corona pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have shifted the goalposts. Our dependencies on countries like Russia and China are far too…
Dr. Bernhard König’s vision is to use solar energy from the summer as a heat source in the winter without burdening the planet. SoulHeat, the heat storage system he developed, is designed to make this possible. It has the capacity…
Baat Medical based in the Dutch town of Hengelo once started out as a spin-off from the University of Twente and has since grown into a recognized medtech scale-up. The company helps global start-ups, scale-ups and multinationals turn an idea…
European aerospace company Airbus is teaming up with student team AeroDelft to research the use of hydrogen in aviation. “If everything goes according to plan, we will be sending a two-seater aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen into the air in…
Include Industries, a new acceleration fund for industrial SMEs, aims to take over promising companies and further grow them together with the owner. “It is a safe option that strikes a balance between financial exit for the owner, respect for…
Traffic counts cost governments a lot of money and are usually momentary snapshots. Thanks to the Telraam project, citizens can help map local traffic problems much more accurately. They don’t have to do much more than stick a simple sensor…
More and more hospitals, companies and start-ups are discovering the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for healthcare. Yet not everyone is leaping at the opportunity. Medical specialists are divided over the smart software. Artificial Intelligence is making the work of…