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31 May 2016

"Innovatiecluster Drachten impressive collaboration"

  Entrepreneurs and directors visit high-tech company Whisper Power in Drachten High Tech Safari for ING relations The management and relations of ING Northern Netherlands find the collaboration between our companies within Innovatiecluster Drachten impressive. On Thursday, May 26, as part of the Dutch Technology Week 2016, they experienced a High Tech Safari at Whisper Power and…

30 May 2016

Dutch Technology Week 2016 a great success

No fewer than 5,500 visitors experienced our High Tech Discovery Route on Saturday, May 28, during the Dutch Technology Week 2016. At Philips Drachten and Neopost, our companies presented their latest high tech and visitors could "play" with robots, collect aircraft parts and assemble and package them themselves. experience the important role high tech plays in our daily...

30 May 2016

Our Solar Boat unveiled! Have you spotted it yet?

  It has been revealed and we are very proud of our Solar Boat! Friday afternoon 27 May at Whisper Power in Drachten the guys from the Solar Team showed our boat, which we will race in the Dutch Solar Challenge 2016. We start on 2 July in Amsterdam for a trip through the canals and sprint races on…

23 May 2016

Just a little patience…

Also curious about our Solar boat that we will race in the Dutch Solar Challenge 2016? We will present it on Friday, May 27! We will do this at 4 p.m. at high-tech company Whisper Power, one of our partners. You are very welcome. Together with Whisper Power we have put together a solar team that works hard…

9 May 2016

Discover the High Tech companies of Drachten – DTW 2016

  Have you always wanted to take a 'look behind the scenes' of a real High Tech company, where the future is already being created today? This is possible on Saturday, May 28 in Drachten, during the High Tech Discovery Route in the Dutch Technology Week 2016. Discovery Route The 14 High Tech companies of Innovatiecluster Drachten will present themselves that Saturday…

1 May 2016

Variass helps build largest radio telescope

From left to right: Alexander J. Brink (Head of Science Alliances at IBM and Chairman Steering Board Dome), Jet Bussemaker (Minister of Education, Culture and Science) and Henk Smid (managing director Variass). Variass will produce the first series of 26 64-bit microservers for the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Variass does this on behalf of ASTRON and…

April 25, 2016

Very successful first RUG lecture

On Wednesday, April 13, the first lecture was given by the University of Groningen (RUG) for the members of the Innovatiecluster Drachten. By organizing these lectures, we hope to gain more insight into all the interesting departments at the RUG. In the presence of 22 interested engineers from 7 different companies, Professor Jayawardhana gave…

April 14, 2016

Enthusiastic girls during a successful Girslday Drachten

More than 300 girls from schools in Drachten and the surrounding area experienced Girls Day 2016 on Thursday, April 14. A day with activities especially for girls with an interest in technology. Innovatiecluster Drachten offered the girls a special program at the locations of the high-tech companies Philips, Whisper Power and BD. While at the Whisper Power location…

April 8, 2016

Teenage girls experience high tech in Drachten

More than 350 girls from schools in Drachten and the surrounding area will experience the high tech of Drachten on Thursday 14 April during Girls Day. They will experience that it is fun and challenging to work with technology and ICT. Philips, BD and Whisper Power, three companies of Innovatiecluster Drachten, open their doors that day with a special…