Our innovative cluster goes for content and we like to share our knowledge
Our innovative cluster goes for content and we like to share our knowledge. We do this, for example, with honor programs for students and Hightech Safaris. We also have special career and development programs for talents and support high-tech startups.
Our companies jointly use a high-tech Shared Facility Centre with industrial 3D printers for metal and plastic, and cobots. This is where we host our workshops for R&D projects, and where our development and testing facilities for 3D printing and auditoriums for school and student programmes are located.
Together, we develop the solutions of the future with our ‘Big 5’ of high-tech: robotics, 3D metal printing, remote sensing & big data, visual intelligence and renewable propulsion. In doing so, we work toward a healthy environment, better and safer food, advanced healthcare, a safer society and sustainable working conditions.
Exchange of knowledge is the basis of our cooperation. Through this knowledge exchange and cooperation, a unique high-tech ecosystem is growing in the Northern Netherlands. Knowledge institutions are linking up, including the University of Groningen, University of Twente, the colleges NHL Stenden and Hanzehogeschool Groningen and the ROCs FIRDA and Drenthe College. Not only for doing research and research, but especially for gaining internship and work experience in a high-quality technical environment. In addition, Technicnoord was recently started with the cooperation of members of the ICD. This institution has a unique BBL Mechatronics training program. Furthermore, we have facility sharing programs. And what about the special career and talent development programs for both MBO and HBO/WO graduates and a special program in which we guide high-tech start-ups!
Being part of the ICD means contributing to solutions for the future. More than 3,500 motivated professionals are leveraging the power of the ICD to build their careers in the high-tech industry in the Northern Netherlands. Together, we take on the challenge of developing high-quality, unique products — and often producing them ourselves. Not by competing, but by sharing knowledge. Because together, we go further!
Knowledge exchange is the basis of our collaboration. This also attracts the attention of schools. University of Groningen, University of Twente, the northern universities of applied sciences NHL/Stenden, Hanze University of Applied Sciences and ROC Friese Poort, Friesland College and Drenthe College have now joined in. Not only for their students to conduct research, but also to gain work experience through an internship in a high-quality technical environment. In addition, we run facility-sharing programmes, special career and talent development programmes for both secondary vocational education (MBO) and higher education (HBO/university) graduates, and we supervise high-tech start-ups.
We work together on providing solutions for the future, by combining our 'Big 5' of high-tech: robotics, metal 3D printing, remote sensing and big data, visual intelligence and renewable propulsion. A few examples:
Together we create more than 50 new products a year worldwide, which contribute to society in the areas of safety, simplifying the operation of complex systems, providing access to data that improve food quality, and tailoring them to individual consumer needs.
Knowledge sharing
The exchange of knowledge is the foundation of our collaboration. Through this knowledge sharing and cooperation, a unique high-tech ecosystem is emerging in the Northern Netherlands. Knowledge institutions are getting involved, including the University of Groningen, the University of Twente, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, and vocational colleges FIRDA and Drenthe College. Their involvement is not only for conducting research, but especially for providing internship and work experience opportunities in a high-quality technical environment. In addition, recently Technicnoord started with the cooperation of members of the ICD. This institution has a unique BBL Mechatronics training program. Furthermore, we have facility sharing programs. And what about the special career and talent development programs for both MBO and HBO/WO graduates and a special program in which we guide high-tech start-ups!
'Part of the smart'
Being part of the ICD means contributing to solutions for the future. More than 3,500 motivated professionals are leveraging the power of the ICD to build their careers in the high-tech industry in the Northern Netherlands. Together, we take on the challenge of developing high-quality, unique products — and often producing them ourselves. Not by competing, but by sharing knowledge. Because together, we go further!
Knowledge exchange
Knowledge exchange is the basis of our collaboration. This also attracts the attention of schools. University of Groningen, University of Twente, the northern universities of applied sciences NHL/Stenden, Hanze University of Applied Sciences and ROC Friese Poort, Friesland College and Drenthe College have now joined in. Not only for their students to conduct research, but also to gain work experience through an internship in a high-quality technical environment. In addition, we run facility-sharing programmes, special career and talent development programmes for both secondary vocational education (MBO) and higher education (HBO/university) graduates, and we supervise high-tech start-ups.