News

March 23, 2017

Future makers: 'A robot is not the cure'

Ben Scholtanus (Nepost) and Hendri Kortman (Variass) were clear about this on Wednesday evening, March 22, during the first lecture in the Future Makers series. Work will disappear due to robots.

March 20, 2017

Great interest TU students for northern high-tech companies

'Would you like to come to the North for a career in high-tech?'. With this question, the Innovatiecluster Drachten companies 'seduce' students from the three largest technical universities in our country.

March 16, 2017

Demcon opens location in Groningen

High-tech company Demcon from Enschede has opened a branch at the Zernike complex in Groningen. The fast-growing company not only wants to attract talent in the Northern Netherlands and strengthen the collaboration with the University of Groningen, but is also an attractive collaboration partner for Innovatiecluster Drachten.

March 13, 2017

Ziuz wins design award

ZiuZ Medical, in collaboration with Spark design & innovation, has won an iF Gold Award with its IRIS.

March 2, 2017

Are you also coming to the North?

Students in Twente were bombarded with this question on Wednesday 1 March during the annual job and career fair at the technical university.

23 Feb 2017

So many beautiful high tech companies in the North?

So many interesting high-tech companies in the Northern Netherlands? The Delft students did not know this when they were introduced to our company cluster on Wednesday, February 22, during the Delft Business Days of TU Delft.

February 16, 2017

University of Groningen students sniff high tech

Having become even wiser than they already are, 50 students from the University of Groningen browsed our 'Big 5 of high tech' on Wednesday 15 February.

13 Feb 2017

Teacher internship at Variass

Good education is a joint responsibility of companies and schools and that does not stop with a good internship for students. All VET teachers must also keep abreast of the rapid developments in the technology industry.

February 10, 2017

Father of Bluetooth guest at Innovatiecluster Drachten

Jaap Haartsen, father of Bluetooth, unveiled the technological birth of his wireless technology, which now connects 30 billion devices worldwide with each other and the Internet.