Everybody’s been there: you’re sitting on a terrace, then pay up and walk away. With your friends, but without your bunch of keys. Once you attach a Lapa on that bunch of keys, that kind of situation is a thing of the past. Lapa is a Bluetooth tracker for personal belongings which is...
Aafke cycles becomes Aafke doesn’t cycle, at least for now. Because of the current situation, I have decided to go home and interrupt my trip temporarily. But: my bike is still in Portugal, so hopefully I’ll be back soon with more videos, more innovative start-ups and more cycling...
Show people a city in a way they’ve never seen before through a game. Whether they are tourists on a two-day city trip, or locals who have lived in the city for more than twenty years. This ambition drives founders and friends Wendy van Leeuwen and Kristina Palovicova. What started out four...
Aafke has been on the road for a month now. She started in Rabat and meanwhile she has reached Portugal. This country is therefore central in the second video in the series ‘Start-ups of the West Coast’. She explains the situation in Portugal, visits Wendy, co-founder of Secret City...
Helping children become more confident and better educated through an online platform. Especially children from rural areas in Arabic-speaking countries. Since where there is sometimes a lack of proper education, mobile phones can jump in and help. That is what they believe at NoBox Lab, a...
Everyone knows the American West Coast as the place where innovations come from. But what about the European west coast? Aafke Eppinga discovers it for Innovation Origins during a five month bike ride along interesting start-ups. Today the first episode is about Sophia el Bahja from NoBox Lab in...
Visitors earlier this month to Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS – festival showcasing European music, ed.) who ordered a coffee-to-go could expect a delicious alternative to standard carton cups. Cupbite was at the 34th edition of the festival in January with their cookie-based coffee cups. ESNS...
The forest fires in Australia, the countless floods and droughts, climate activist Greta Thunberg who was chosen as Person of the Year … Climate alarm bells are ringing louder than ever and with more voracity. This year is the first time that these alarm bells have also resounded so loud and...
On 1 September 2019, the University of Groningen will welcome its first female rector: Cisca Wijmenga (55). How does she view the position of women in the world of universities? And what does she think of the TU Eindhoven’s scheme to let only women apply for science positions for the time...
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