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  • October 6, 2025

Campus Drachten festively opened: learning, research and innovation together

With an inspiring program in the SKILL building, Campus Drachten was officially opened last Friday. Administrators, students, researchers and entrepreneurs came together to mark the start of this unique s...
  • July 15, 2025

ICD as engine of Frisian economy: Rabo report highlights urgency of driving sectors

ICD mentioned in Leeuwarder Courant article The Frisian economy is under pressure. That's according to a recent report by Rabobank, in which economists warn of further impoverishment of the ...
  • April 10, 2025

Omrop Fryslân headlines: Drachten as the ‘Boston of the Netherlands’? 

It's been a little over a week now, but the energy and inspiration of the National Autonomous Systems Congress is far from gone. Even the media picked up on it. Omrop Fryslân was...
  • 27 January 2025

4 million European subsidy for innovative training courses in Drachten and Emmen

Friday, Jan. 24, the TONIC project received a European grant for innovative training. This grant of nearly €4 million comes from the Just Transition Fund Groningen-Emmen. Deputy eco...
  • November 19, 2024

TV recordings in the SKILL building

At the end of October, there were TV recordings in the SKILL building. In fact, there were a total of three interviews. These came about through a collaboration of the three northern regional broadcasters RTV ...
  • 22 October 2024

Batenburg Beenen contributes to the renovation of Vitens' automatic sample analysis system

As a member of the ICD, Batenburg Beenen played an important role in the renovation of the microbiological laboratory of drinking water company Vitens. This laboratory is crucial for the control...
  • September 23, 2024

Autonomous ferry project launched, with ICD member YP Your Partner!

This month the German-Dutch project ‘Ferry Go!‘ was officially launched. The goal of this project is to develop an autonomous ferry service in the German-Dutch Wadd...
  • 29 August 2024

Nice newspaper article in the FD about the pearls of the tech sector in the North

The FD contacted Joost Krebbekx of the ICD several weeks ago. This in response to the announced downsizing of Philips Drachten. A good opportunity to take the FD on a tour of various...
  • April 24, 2024

Astron celebrates 75 years of astronomy innovation

This year marks a special milestone for Astron, the Dutch institute for radio astronomy, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. ICD warmly congratulates Astron on this impressive achievement....
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