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CALL: Is your company inspiring during Techport Technology Week?
Does your company also encourage the growth of technical skills and personnel? Then be sure to register your organisation for Techport Technology Week.
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Departing programme director Henno van Horssen: "Energy transitions only succeed through collaboration"
After five and a half years as programme director, Henno van Horssen is leaving Techport. How does he look back on his work in IJmond? What did you expect when you started this job? "Until then, I had always worked for the government, as a booster of cooperation between education and business. Now I had to be in...
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31 May: opening Techport Innovation Centre
On Friday 31 May, we will open the Techport Innovation Centre, the development and meeting centre for the technicians of the future, businesses, education and government of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region with a focus on IJmond.
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JTF grant for labour market project Strategic HR
Techport was the first organisation in IJmond to submit an entirely labour market-focused project to JTF IJmond. The application for the 'Strategic HR for SMEs' project has been honoured and will start soon.
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Fieldlab Smart Energy on lab safari
On Friday 26 April, the Techport Fieldlab Smart Energy project consortium was hosted by partner Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) for a lab safari.
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Hannover Messe 'Energising a Sustainable Industry' inspiration trip
On Monday 22 April, Techport organised a day trip to the world's largest industrial fair, Hannover Messe, for member companies, governments and educational institutions. Theo Koster of Techport: "It is striking how this fair has changed in recent years. Concrete products made of kilograms of steel and electronics are giving way to digital twins. Sustainability and digitalisation lie as...
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Esmee and Emmelotte already know they want to study automotive engineering mbo
Again this year, many Techport companies demonstrated during Girls’ Day that you can have a great career with engineering and technology and that technical talent is not innate, but that you can develop an interest in engineering.
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"By not focusing on technical skills, students are more likely to see engineering as something positive"
Dalton school De Klipper has been a Techport school since 2019. The school combines thematic learning with 'group-based' teaching. Instead of traditional classrooms and classroom teaching in large groups, teachers create vibrant learning environments. So that children of different ages and groups work together and learn from each other. Thematic learning makes every lesson engaging Director Madelon Boot: "Whether it...
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Primary school ‘The Adventure’: ‘Technology is woven into our education’
Primary school ‘Het Avontuur’ in Heemskerk is literally a Techport school from the very beginning. Since 2018, they have experienced a huge development in providing technical education. Their motto ‘Learning by daring & doing’ is already reflected in their lessons
