Invest-NL funds PhotonVentures with €5 million

Invest-NL funds PhotonVentures with €5 million

Invest-NL is investing €5 million in PhotonVentures Fund I, a Dutch venture capital fund focused on developing integrated photonics. Through the investment in PhotonVentures, the Dutch investment agency is supporting early-stage photonics startups and contributing to...
Guidelines to boosts Dutch energy hubs development are out

Guidelines to boosts Dutch energy hubs development are out

The Dutch Ministry of Climate and Green Growth unveiled a guide to accelerate the development of energy hubs nationwide. This initiative, part of a €166 million stimulus program, aims to enhance local energy management by connecting production, storage, and...
Eindhoven student team introduces new, circular car

Eindhoven student team introduces new, circular car

Eindhoven University of Technology’s (TU/e) student team TU/ecomotive presented Phoenix, a car whose up to 75% of its material can be reused in new vehicles. Using mono-material structures (structures consisting of one type of material), four times more materials can...
Home batteries drive Dutch energy storage installations

Home batteries drive Dutch energy storage installations

Dutch home battery purchases keep driving battery storage installations. According to Dutch New Energy Research’s Nationaal Smart Storage Trendrapport 24/25, 410 MWh of new battery capacity was installed in the Netherlands in 2023 – 1 MWh is enough to power a couple...
Microplastics-free tech protects crops from pests

Microplastics-free tech protects crops from pests

Researchers at the University of Twente and the University of Bayreuth have developed a pioneering approach to shield crops from diseases without resorting to microplastics. The new biodegradable block copolymers, known as polyphosphoester cubosomes, can be loaded...