Unifly is active at Antwerp airport, their aim is to ensure that the airspace remains safe in the face of the ever-increasing number of drones. So that unmanned aircraft can be properly integrated...
A sustainable house covering a variety of aspects, from the drawing to the execution and the completion. Team CASA, a student team from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), combines existing...
Dutch Design Week 2019, visiting Drivers of Change and Embassy of...
An international business consortium led by the Dutch green energy conglomerate Koolen Industries has made a multi-million dollar investment in Hardt Hyperloop, which is to set up Europe’s...
Wastewater treatment plants have the job of purifying sewage. But science also sees these as a valuable resource. Wastewater – and what it is made up of – is now being used in new...
“We form the public space, but the public space also forms us.” With these words on Sunday afternoon, Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands Floris Alkemade opened the first DDW...
“Gas is sexy!” With these rather remarkable words, the German Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier opened a meeting in Berlin last week intended to mark the culmination of months...
Students at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) are no longer sitting in the lecture halls as much as they used to. Education is focusing more and more on the practical side, which means on...
Apart from climate change deniers, no one else is indifferent as to where climate change is heading. Experts and a growing number of citizens agree that it is high time we stopped climate change....
Climate change and dwindling agricultural land are major challenges for food and feed production. The supply of animal protein is particularly problematic. The start-up Blue Planet Ecosystems, based...
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Hungary has a huge potential for solar energy. In order to achieve the European climate targets, the country would do well to invest in Photovoltaics (PV). This development is gradually getting off...
Earth Overshoot Day fell on July the 29th this year. On that day, we had used up all the natural resources for this year that the earth is capable of providing in a single year. That means that from...
The former President of Ireland and High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, believes that the European Commission should speed up the transition process of making energy generation more...
Diego Pavía, the CEO of InnoEnergy, (which is a European investor in innovative start-ups), is firmly convinced that we will no longer emit CO2 in 2050 and will all be using green energy. Innovation...
The Austrian start-up company Etagrow has invented a highly efficient lighting system for greenhouses and vertical farming. LED-based, it not only emits light, but can also create the right kind of...
The French Government, like the other EU Member States, is faced with the complex task of involving the entire population in the process of making the French economy climate neutral by 2050. As it...
Charge electric cars cheaper and faster and have a cheaper power supply for your own home. All this without the need for large and cumbersome batteries, which are a major cost factor for cars too....
In June 2019, I had the opportunity to interview Akiro Yoshino, the father of the lithium-ion battery, on the fringes of the 2019 European Inventor Awards. At that time he had just won the...
Alissa + Nienke will be at the Dutch Design Week (DDW) this year with two exhibitions. They will be exhibiting a series of paneled drapes, currently on display at the Minister of Education, Culture...
Not absorbing or blocking sound, but diffracting it so that it ‘evaporates.’ For years, 4Silence has been trying to show that it can be done. After years of struggling to convince...
The best way to reduce CO2 emissions is to make the polluting industries pay at least four times as much for the quantity of these emissions as they do now. So says Steven Chu, the former Secretary...
The Dutch company Technobis is to receive €7 million in order to expand the rollout of applications for sensors based on integrated photonics. Technobis wants to make photonic sensor systems and...
We assume that water is an unlimited resource every time we turn on the tap. But experts warn that climate change will affect our water supplies. Freshwater is one of the most endangered ecosystems...
Last month a new movie came out, packed with celebrities and world class athletes. It drives home the message that a plant-based diet makes you healthier (manlier even) and allows you to compete on...
In the next five years, Europe has to invest in developing systems that measure and explain as to why some agricultural crops are growing well or others aren’t. That is the opinion of advisors...
