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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...
Eindhoven students surprised by high-tech cluster
The students of TU Eindhoven responded with surprise on Wednesday, March 2, to the collaboration of the high-tech companies in Innovatiecluster Drachten. Our company cluster presented itself to the technology students at the university's annual Recruitment Days. "I didn't know there was a cluster of innovative technical companies in the north of the country," was one...
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...
Successful workshop financial engineering
How do you keep your starting company financially healthy and which sources of money can you tap into for this? These and other financial questions were answered by 12 start-up techno companies at Neopost in Drachten on Thursday 18 February, during the first in a series of workshops organized by Innovatiecluster Drachten. Joost Krebbekx, program manager of Innovatiecluster Drachten, introduced the technostarters to...
Visit our booth at Bedrijvendagen Twente
Visit our stand during the Bedrijvendagen Twente and win a BB8 Spehro. On Thursday, February 25, Innovatiecluster Drachten will be at the information market of the Bedrijvendagen Twente 2016 of the University of Twente. Why? Because we think we are attractive to students who want to start their high-tech career with a graduation assignment or perhaps with a job! We...