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Media: Innovation accelerator Eindhoven Engine enters new phase

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.

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Are you on the lookout for an internship or a cool project for your bachelor’s or master’s thesis? Eindhoven Engine and its projects are on the hunt for enthusiastic students like you who want to team up with companies, researchers, and fellow students to work on innovative and impactful projects!

Check out the interesting assignments available where you can get involved. They cover a wide range of themes like Circularity, Energy Transition, Health Tech, High Tech, Smart Cities, Smart Mobility, and also Inclusivity (e.g. low literacy) and Business Innovation. It’s a chance to dive into exciting multidisciplinary work and make a real impact on society!

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Current assignments


Designing learning exercises with AI

Inclusive society | oefenen.nl | This involves creating and implementing Dutch language learning exercises for the online learning platform oefenen.nl, incorporating speech, visual, and other interactive elements. 
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Data dashboard for social organizations

Inclusive society | Mijke the Matchbot | For this project, we are seeking motivated students with a passion for technology, innovation, and making an impact in society.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Advancing campus energy transition

Livable region | Raise campus users awareness and involvement with energy transition. Explore how we can improve the awareness and the active participation of campus users.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Implementing inclusive healthcare portals

Inclusive society | Healthcare | In this assignment, we aim to conduct research on online patient portal products within Inclusive society.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Empowering societal impact through technology and innovation

Inclusive society | To work on improving fundamental skills in language, mathematics, and digital literacy, making a difference in the lives of people in the Eindhoven region and beyond.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Loungescape Powernap

Future proof care | Supporting the effectiveness of the furniture pieces designed for power napping through physiological and neural measurements.
Varying from WO Bachelor to Master

Let’s go for a WorkWalk!

Future proof care | Developing interactive WorkWalk routes.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Advancing campus energy transition: a multilevel comparative study

Livable region | Institutions of higher education are also not exempt. They, too, must undergo energy transition. In this challenge, Eindhoven will delve into the complexities of energy transition on campuses, analyzing strategies, challenges, and successes across multiple campuses.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Internship Engineering

Livable region | To design and develop battery pack systems for UAVs, conduct performance testing.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Improvements for Eindhoven Engine as innovation accelerator

Innovation | Various possible assignments in the domain of organization design and management, human interactions, creativity and innovation, and life-long learning. 
Varying from bachelor to master internship/ thesis

How to measure innovation speed?

Innovation | Delivering a set of innovation speed and innovation acceleration measures applicable to Eindhoven Engine.
Varying from bachelor to master internship/ thesis.

Business Innovatie bij Eindhoven Engine

Innovatie | Pas je kennis en vaardigheden toe bij Eindhoven Engine. Momenteel worden 26 projecten begeleid in zeer uiteenlopende toepassingsgebieden.
Avans/fontys afstudeeropdracht

Enhancing UI/UX learning paths

Inclusive society | oefenen.nl | You will work on the online platform to identify gaps in the current Oefenen.nl website and design an improved UI/UX for the onboarding process.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Towards climate adaptive Brainport: Regional water hub

Livable region | Regional water hubs have the potential to create a climate adaptive Brainport regional by using large local water generators (cities, highways, etc.) to provide the necessary water for local use.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Inclusive society – open project

Inclusive society | open project | This project invites driven individuals with unique perspectives to propose and develop initiatives addressing basic skills challenges across domains like finance, work, healthcare, etc.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Local LLM optimisation and feedback integration

Inclusive society | Mijke the Matchbot | Developing and evaluating a privacy-preserving local LLM for Mijke’s matching engine, building a feedback loop, optimizing model performance, and …
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Energy transition and inclusive participation

Inclusive society | Energy transition | In this assignment we focus on addressing energy justice and energy poverty by exploring ways to ensure inclusive participation in the energy transition.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Future proof care in the Netherlands

Future proof care | Given the current structure of the care system in The Netherlands, which may not be sustainable for the future . In this challenge, we aim to bring people together from diverse sectors to tackle wicked problems within the Dutch care industry.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Internship Electrical Engineering/ ICT

Livable region | The internship is focused on contributing to a tool that has the capability of quickly analyzing the effect of adding or removing EVs to a given energy demand profile.
Varying from HBO project to Master thesis

Internship Investigate New Business Opportunities

Livable region| To investigate a new part of the business.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

☆ Advancing environmental sustainability in the semicon

Sustainable semicon | Like many other industries, the semiconductor sector needs to assess and improve its impact on the environment. This project aims to go beyond small-scale changes and instead investigate forward-thinking, sustainable strategies for organizational and collaborative processes.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Data Framework for Smart Office Living Lab

Innovation | The goal of the project is to create a new, automated, building access system that will allow guests to be registered, with the option to allow the guests to enter the front doors without the intervention of a receptionist.
Group project