Through the Samen voor Eindhoven foundation, 1600 people volunteered in 2017. That is 45% more than the year before. Most of these are employees of large companies, who have joined the foundation. Under the motto ‘dedicate one day to the…
Due to a growth of 11,284 jobs, exactly 418,160 jobs were available in the Brainport Eindhoven region at the end of 2017. This growth of 2.77% was well above the average in the Netherlands. Neighbouring regions Middle-North Brabant (+ 2.74%)…
“Relatively high vacancy rates call for the removal of shopping space from the city” The whole region is shopping in Eindhoven. This is not surprising, but the purchasing flow research that Metropoolregio Eindhoven (MRE) has carried out last year confirms…
Annelies Termeer will succeed Ton van Gool as editor in chief of VPRO Medialab. On April 1, Van Gool will start as the new director of STRP, the organization highlighting creative technology in Eindhoven for 12 years now. At the time, he…
Philips is using the annual Mobile World Congress, this week in Barcelona, to show its Smart Fusion Pole. “Designed to meet capacity challenges in dense, busy areas”, Philips says, “the Smart Fusion Pole provides the infrastructure necessary for wireless broadband connectivity in…
Philip de Goey, a professor in Combustion Technology, has been elected as Fellow of the Combustion Institute for his innovative experimental and numerical investigations of flame properties including laminar burning velocities and flamelet-generated manifolds. Apart from being a professor at…
Ninth edition of Bliksem en Donderdag again focuses on inspiration, interaction, connection and acceleration Creating an ‘office jungle’, working on human rights and helping vulnerable juveniles: these are just three of many pitches that can be seen at this week’s…
According to the Brabant Development Agency (BOM), this organisation helped create 1,150 new jobs in Brabant last year. “No less than 39 foreign companies were assisted to establish or extend their operations in Brabant – projects that added €134.5 million…
Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven (Education, Culture, and Science) is not disturbed by the fact that the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has opted for English as its official language. “Choices on language policy should be made at the level of the institutes themselves.…
Professor Nikhil Bansal of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science has been awarded a Vici grant of one and a half million euros. He is one of the 35 academics to receive this grant from NWO this year. Bansal…