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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 made today? This is possible on Saturday 28 May 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...
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 Kilometre Array (SKA). Variass is doing this on behalf of ASTRON and...
Very successful first RUG lecture
On Wednesday April 13th 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 that the RUG has to offer. In the presence of 22 interested engineering from 7 different companies, professor Jayawardhana gave a...
Enthusiastic girls during a successful Girslday Drachten
More than 300 girls from schools in Drachten and the surrounding area experienced Girlsday 2016 on Thursday 14 April. A day with activities especially for girls with an interest in technology. Innovatiecluster Drachten offered the girls a special programme at the locations of the high-tech companies Philips, Whisper Power and BD. While at the location of Whisper Power...
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...
Girlsday 2016 program announced
Girlsday 2016 promises to be a success on Thursday 14 April with 350 registrations in Drachten. The high-tech companies Philips, BD and Whisper Power open their doors from 8.45 am to 12 noon with a varied program for the technology girls. Girlsday is a national campaign to introduce girls from 10 to 15 years old to…
Visit to the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz
During a visit to the Willem Barentsz Maritime Institute 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...
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...
The Green Postcar winner Go-kart Race 2016
In the photo alderman Nieske Ketelaar (Smallingerland) with the team The Green Postcar. The winner of the Skelterrace 2016 is the team The Green Postcar of CSG Liudger in Drachten, sponsored and assisted by high-tech company Neopost. After an exciting race with even one dropout, these technology students went home with the first prize and a big...