Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, is hot in the Arnhem-Nijmegen-Wageningen region of the Netherlands. Universities, research centers, but also the business community and start-ups have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into finding applications for this important technological development. The AI For…
Europe is slowly but surely emerging from the lockdown. Many governments are convinced that thanks to the immunity provided by vaccines, the final stretch of the long-drawn-out corona marathon seems to be underway. Will the last few kilometers prove to…
GenoRobotics (Lausanne), a project backed by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), is developing and testing a portable device for taking DNA measurements. They are developing it so they can take on-the-spot DNA samples of plant species and map biodiversity,…
Bacteria like to settle on and in plastic bottles. This is nothing new. While these single-celled creatures that are harmful to humans can be a problem, certain bacteria can help break down plastic waste more quickly. Left to nature, this…
Though the pandemic has slowed the global airline industry, it has also provided a pause for how to re-approach flying in a way that is environmentally conscious. Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs), or fuels created from, among others, non-edible biomass, provide…
Groningen is often referred to as the ”Hydrogen City‘’ in the Netherlands and the Northern Netherlands region bears the honorary title Hydrogen Valley. The hydrogen-powered train has already been extensively tested, and work is currently in progress on many other…
There is hope for patients suffering from an energy metabolism disease. The company Khondrion, a spin-off from the Radboudumc university hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has been working in recent years to develop a new medicine for these rare diseases.…
With the rapid increase in the number of electric car models, the inevitable price drop is coming closer. With normal (million-dollar) production numbers, the investments in research, development, and production facilities will quickly be recouped, and the automotive industry can…
Intelligent, self-driving cars are seen as the future of mobility. But to ensure that such a car reacts correctly in all situations, it must also recognize and process potential hazards. Training artificial intelligence accordingly, however, is very time-consuming and costly.…
For organic and sustainable agriculture, farmers must have access to high-quality organic seeds. Yet in Europe there is still a shortage of these kinds of seeds. In the LIVESEED project, the European Union wants to do something about this. “New…