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"Tiny Machine Learning rightly seen as key technology"
Techport is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Over the past decade, together with all 100 member companies, schools and governments, we have taken steps to become the first green industrial zone in the Netherlands. What projects and actions have contributed to this? Through a series of stories, we look back and forward. This time, we do...
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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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Technique Garden participant Rick: "I see this track as an opportunity to get my bearings and get a bit of training"
The Technique Garden IJmond is a project of Techport, Employers' Service Point ZKIJ, Nova College Beverwijk and 11 companies that allows new entrants to actually start in a technical profession. In 12 weeks, the 10 participants are immersed in the world of technology.
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Techniektuin participant Mariëtte: "I already have choice stress, because I find all engineering fields interesting"
The beginning of April saw the launch of Techniektuin IJmond, the project of Techport, WerkgeversServicpunt ZKIJ the Nova College Beverwijk and 11 companies that allows new entrants to actually start in a technical profession. Over 12 weeks, the 10 participants are immersed in the world of technology. The Technique Garden participants have now been busy for just under a month. What is their...
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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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Invest in craftsmanship as an engine for sustainable innovation
The Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Techport are looking for companies that want to work together towards a sustainable future by seeing their own employees as key to it. Sign up for this initiative where we want to take the craftsmanship and knowledge of employees as the basis for new production methods and products and markets for your company. Benefit...
