Ask any Eindhoven citizen what he or she knows about Austin, and maybe one or two might know that it’s a city in Texas, but that will be about it. Yes, there will be some nerds or music fans who…
Europe needs to perform better in building, keeping and maybe even regaining its talents, if this continent wants to take part in the competition with giants like China and the United States. EIT Digital CEO Willem Jonker raised a couple…
Semtive has developed an innovative and simple way to generate clean, renewable energy for your off-grid home. Nemoi is the wind turbine that works at extremely low wind speeds, is almost noiseless and can be installed in under an hour, the…
A sustainable apartment complex that is intended to counteract the disconnection of society in Dubai. With this idea, the TU/e student team finished in sixth place at the Solar Decathlon in Dubai last week. A total of fifteen ‘houses of…
Increasingly, Facebook shapes our view of the world. We see the opinions of our friends in their responses to news that may or may not be fake. But which messages we see first and which messages remain hidden is all…
Of course, going off-grid starts with energy. To light our homes, to power our gadgets, to heat our environment. The BioLite SolarHome 620 is a portable pack for lightning, charging and music. Thanks to this simple setup you can turn…
Young chemistry companies take part in the Gouden KIEM competition organised by the research organisation NWO and Holland Chemistry. The winner will receive 25.000 euro prize money. This year all three finalists of the competition come from the Eindhoven University…
Rockstart has selected the startups for its 2nd AI accelerator program located in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Talented women and men from seven different countries will spend the next 180 days building and refining their products, talking to mentors, and…
Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain as Program Director at Brainport Development. In her columns for IO Eindhoven, she focuses on regional developments, backgrounds and trends in education and the labour market. I am a specialist. Actually, this is against…
Remember this grill bike we told you about a month ago? Great idea. But maybe it would even be better to combine that idea to this one: With the help of the sun – and no charcoal or anything else – we…