Innovator in the Spotlight

Towards a more inclusive society to raise awareness of basic skills gaps

In the Netherlands, 2.5 million people struggle daily with reading, writing, math, and digital skills, also called basic skills. These deficiencies make it difficult for them to fully participate in society, such as reading and understanding a letter or buying a train ticket, leading to various personal and societal problems.

Keep on growing

For most of us, the summer holidays are in sight and it looks like the summer is going to be as normal as we could have wished for over the last year.

“There are more exciting things coming up after summer; we will keep you posted!”

Joris Dufils – Eindhoven Engine Community

For me personally, it’s also a moment to reflect a bit on what we’ve achieved since the beginning of the year and what we need to pick up after the summer. It’s incredible satisfying to see that we kept on and keep on growing our community of practice, enabling you to connect with peers and people from different backgrounds, domains and businesses in order to accelerate innovation. Some interesting topics emerged in the webinars and we held a successful workshop series around the future of work. The co-location will receive amazing, active art designed and developed by young artists Tjeu van Bussel and Serge Gruson, which will be finished before the summer. We are also preparing the onboarding of new Eindhoven Engine projects and I would like to reach out to you to give them a warm welcome during the next webinar in July. There are more exciting things coming up after summer; we will keep you posted!

Serge Gruson working on the active art.