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March 31, 2016

Visit to the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz

During a visit to the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz on Wednesday 30 March, representatives of Innovatiecluster Drachten and the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden (NHL) strengthened the cooperation. With presentations of, among other things, the ship simulators with which students learn to sail, Gerrit van Leunen, director of the nautical college and Hans Drijfhout, director of the technique section of the NHL…

March 24, 2016

Successful first High Tech Safari

On Wednesday 23 March, students from the technical universities of Twente and Eindhoven experienced the first High Tech Safari. The students were invited by Innovatiecluster Drachten to come to Drachten during the Bedrijvendagen Twente and Wervingsdagen TU Eindhoven at the beginning of March. Not only to see with your own eyes what career opportunities there are in the high tech…

March 16, 2016

The Green Postcar winner Go-kart Race 2016

In the photo, councilor Nieske Ketelaar (Smallingerland) with the team The Green Postcar. The winner of the 2016 Go-Kart Race is the team The Green Postcar from CSG Liudger in Drachten, sponsored and assisted by high-tech company Neopost. After an exciting race with even one dropout, these technology students took home the first prize and a big…

March 3, 2016

Eindhoven students surprised by high-tech cluster

The students of Eindhoven University of Technology reacted with surprise on Wednesday 2 March to the cooperation of the high-tech companies in Innovatiecluster Drachten. Our business cluster presented itself to the technology students at the university's annual Recruitment Days. “I didn't know there was a cluster of innovative tech companies in the north of the country,” was a…

25 Feb 2016

Great interest from Twente students

Many students visited our stand on Thursday, February 25, during the Bedrijvendagen Twente information market. 80 of them took a chance to win our scholarship prize. In the afternoon, Jaap (left) received the "cute" Star Wars robot BB8 Sphere for his fellow student Floor. “That collaboration between companies makes your cluster much more interesting than others!”, was one…

23 Feb 2016

Successful workshop financial engineering

How do you keep your start-up company financially healthy and what sources of money can you tap into for this? These and other financial questions were answered by 12 start-up techno companies on Thursday, February 18 at Neopost in Drachten, during the first in a series of workshops organized by Innovatiecluster Drachten. Joost Krebbekx, program manager of Innovatiecluster Drachten, introduced the techno starters to…

19 Feb 2016

Visit our booth at Bedrijvendagen Twente

Bezoek onze stand tijdens de Bedrijvendagen Twente en win een BB8 Spehro. Donderdag 25 februari staat Innovatiecluster Drachten op de informatiemarkt van de Bedrijvendagen Twente 2016 van de Universiteit Twente. Waarom? Omdat wij denken aantrekkelijk te zijn voor studenten die hun high tech loopbaan willen starten met een afstudeeropdracht of misschien met een baan!  Wij…

February 16, 2016

Into space with Innovatiecluster Drachten

Today, during the start of the annual Business Days for students, students from the University of Twente can make a space trip on the campus in Enschede. The journey goes to the recently discovered planet 'No. 9', where Innovatiecluster Drachten has made a successful landing. At the invitation of the Twente students, the high-tech companies of Innovatiecluster Drachten…

February 16, 2016

Students face-to-face with the most modern high tech

90 students from the Alfa College in Groningen were given the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes at five high-tech companies of Innovatiecluster Drachten. They came face-to-face with the most modern technological developments. The students were taken on a High Tech Safari along BD Kiestra, Variass, Delta Instruments, WhisperPower and YP Your Partner. A…