Wet peatlands contribute tremendously to stopping climate change. The European Commission should therefore pay much more attention to the fact that many such areas have been drained for agriculture in recent centuries, and the Commission should work hard to restore…
With the onset of autumn, the second corona wave has also erupted. Spain, Romania, and France already had to deal with this back in August. During the past week, the COVID bear is on the loose in the Czech Republic,…
“In just about every business in the world, robots get to play a role in some form or another,” says Yuri Steinbuch, a member of Avular’s board of directors. This ‘robot revolution’ is something that start-up Avular wants to speed…
The German Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology (UMSICHT) in Oberhausen, together with the Hörmann company, have developed fire-resistant double glazing that can withstand extreme heat and that can be produced without the carcinogenic substance acrylamide. It also…
Connectr wants to be an inspiring place where research, education, startups, and established companies can use shared facilities and take a big step forward together. Most of the necessary fragments are already present in the Arnhem-Nijmegen region, but the dots…
The robots are coming. That was the heading of the September issue of the Dutch edition of the National Geographic. This was immediately followed in that edition by: “Our work is more and more often being taken over by machines.…
EIT InnoEnergy in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is a vehicle deployed by the European Commission for investing money in start-ups that develop innovative technologies in the field of sustainable energy. This autumn, Innovation Origins will publish a series of ten stories…
A few weeks ago, Sir Ken Robinson died. He is the man behind the most-watched TED-talk ever: ‘Do Schools kill creativity?‘ It prompted me to immerse myself in the subject of education and creativity. Of course, as a teacher, I…
Apparently, pigs feel better with the right lighting in sheds. That’s why, as part of their ‘Enlightened Pigs’ project, Slaughterhouse Westford in IJsselstein and pig farm De Hoeve BV in Valkenswaard are looking into how lighting can best be utilized…
There is still plenty of scope in the construction industry for reducing CO2 emissions. For example, by building a lot more with timber. With a ‘tool’ developed by scientists from the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB, Germany), municipalities will soon be…