Inclusive society

Lack of basic skills

In the Netherlands, 2.5 million people struggle with reading, writing, arithmetic and/or digital skills. These people are confronted with immense challenges on a daily basis, which seriously hinders their participation in society. Eindhoven Engine emphasizes the urgency of this problem and the need for action.

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Eindhoven Engine enters new phase

Technology with a clear social purpose an starting with the problem.

As a society, we face numerous challenges. At Eindhoven Engine, a collaborative program between companies, knowledge institutions, social organizations and citizens in the Brainport region, work has been going on for years on innovations to address these problems. Now the program is breaking new ground.

GENIUS project

Science, industry and government seek solution to grid congestion via large-scale living lab on TU/e campus

With the OPZuid project GENIUS, TU/e wants to tackle grid congestion together with companies, municipalities, and the province and, at the same time, set up a sustainable testing ground for relevant future innovations. The starting signal is to commission a battery pack in the size of no less than a sea container for the storage of electrical energy on Monday, 18 November.

About Eindhoven Engine

At Eindhoven Engine we work on complex societal challenges. These are also called wicked problems. These challenges are typical difficult to solve due to many conflicting and changing factors. Eindhoven Engine is ready to tackle these challenges head-on.

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Our projects

The projects we support are multidisciplinary, societally impactful, and embedded in our high tech region. Their project members are all eager to accelerate.

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Emergence Lab

The Emergence Lab philosophy is all about the wider prosperity of our Smart Society. After all, everyone should be able to be part of this! Using the concept of ‘bridging the social gap’ as an umbrella, we work together with the entire innovation ecosystem.

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Human Capital

In an exponential world the pressure to speed up innovation is growing higher. We need an ecosystem that disrupts, opens, connects, inspires, and accelerates. Eindhoven Engine offers courses and coaching to take individual innovators and teams on a transformational journey. A journey that will change the way you think, act and move.

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News

Media: Technologie met een duidelijk maatschappelijk doel: innovatieversneller Eindhoven Engine gaat nieuwe fase in

9 December 2024

Innovatieversneller Eindhoven Engine gaat nieuwe fase in. Van het klimaat tot laaggeletterdheid: “We beginnen bij de maatschappelijke problemen waar de regio affiniteit mee heeft”, zegt Steinbuch.

Science, industry and government seek solution to grid congestion via large-scale living lab on TU/e campus

18 November 2024

In the search for solutions to the current grid congestion problem, science, industry, and government are joining forces. With the OPZuid project GENIUS, TU/e wants to tackle grid congestion together with companies, municipalities, and the province and, at the same time, set up a sustainable testing ground for relevant future innovations

Innovative solution for grid congestion: GENIUS project

9 October 2024

The GENIUS project, involving 13 partners including Eindhoven Engine, focuses on smartly addressing grid congestion, improving connectivity, and creating a sustainable testing ground for innovations.

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Events

11 March 2025

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The engine is running…

Innovation projects

Million total value

600

Innovators in community

Partners

Our 80+ Partners

Located in the Brainport region – home of pioneers – our partners all have a hunger for innovation and aim to make an impact. We work together with high tech multinationals, SMEs, healthcare & educational institutions, and many more. Diversity is one of the corner stones of our ecosystem.