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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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☆ 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

☆ 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

Internship Engineering

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

Let’s go for a WorkWalk!

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

Real time respiratory rate monitoring algorithm from BCG

Future-proof care | To develop a real-time algorithm to detect and monitor the posture on an office working using pressure sensors.
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

Brainport Digital Twin: Data Architecture and Technology

Livable region | Develop an integrated model of the Brainport region that can support various societal issues.
Varying from bachelor to master internship/ thesis.

BESS Modelling & Optimization

Livable region | The student will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing the BESS models to be optimized in python.
Varying from bachelor to master internship/ thesis

Buildings Electrical Energy Forecasting using Machine Learning

Livable region | The student will work on a dataset from Kropman office Breda and use the existing model as a base case to develop a solution which outperform the existing forecast and includes the EV demand.
Varying from bachelor to master internship/ 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

☆ 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

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

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

Office Vitality in a Box

Future-proof care | Optimizing the fit between people’s vitality and office environments.
Varying from internship to Master thesis

Real time non-contact posture monitoring

Future-proof care | A multidisciplinary project to develop a real time algorithm to detect, classify and monitor the posture of an office worker using pressure sensors.
Master internship or 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.