No needless infant mortality and access to health care for 100 million people by 2030. Those are the goals that general practitioner and tropical doctor Niek Versteegde has set himself with start-up GOAL 3. The end justifies the means, so…
We drive on heavily traveled roads and transport goods over bridges and viaducts that are nearing the end of their technical service life. However, during much-needed maintenance work, traffic must be able to continue running as usual. Also, a large…
Walking into a virgin forest is a privilege nowadays. Hearing the bird sing, bugs buzzing around and seeing edible mushrooms and wild berries on every step of the way. Due to the extensive amount of illegal logging and deforestation actions,…
The European Commission wants to “massively scale up” the amount of renewable energy in the European Union. With the help of a huge investment budget totalling no less than 300 billion euros, the goal of no longer importing fossil fuels…
During the first lockdown, Florian Holzmayer often felt the need to sit in the window to get a few rays of sunshine. The apartment building where he lives has a garden, but it’s surrounded by tall buildings so it’s usually…
A GPU is a generator that is used for aircraft while on the ground, mainly powered by fossil fuels at present. Thanks in part to the support provided by the Dutch Province of Drenthe and the EU, a hydrogen-powered GPU…
It is a first in the medical world: the artificial pancreas (AP®) from medtech company Inreda® Diabetic in the Dutch city of Twente, make it possible for diabetes patients to regulate their blood sugar completely automatically for the first time.…
Havinga has one clear goal in mind: to accelerate and optimize the energy transition by helping housing corporations and private companies/individuals to make their houses more sustainable. She wants to achieve this goal by using the ‘Rekenkern’ method: a system…
Using a drone weighing less than 600 grams to count the seedlings in a greenhouse? The drones from Ede-Wageningen-based Corvus Drones do just that. Although the company are still working on their first series production, greenhouse agriculture companies are already…
The Brainport Eindhoven region is gearing up for the Dutch Technology Festival (11 + 15 – 18 June), the successor to the Dutch Technology Week. This celebration of technology is different from previous editions in several ways. Not least because…