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.

Impactful Innovations Webinar

On Thursday 11 June, the first ever Eindhoven Engine webinar was held. This webinar was the first in a series called Impactful Innovations. The goal of the webinar series is to not only share challenges, innovations and impacts across Eindhoven Engine projects but to also actively work towards cross-project group interactions to unlock our collective intelligence.

The webinar, hosted by Joris Dufils, was kicked off by Jesper Pilmeyer, PhD in the NEUROTREND (Neurological MRI-based biomarkers for treatment navigation in depression) project, followed by a presentation by Gregor van Baars, project leader of the ASML project ‘Next-gen piezo-electric wafer stage’. Big thanks to both of you! During the webinar, we experienced a lot of interesting interactions. We’re looking forward to the next one on 9 July.

‘Inspiring to see the first cross-project interactions are taking place
to unleash our collective intelligence!’


Joris Dufils
Eindhoven Engine

Photo: Bart van Overbeeke