Ysbrand Wijnant and Eric de Vries win 2021 Van den Kroonenberg AwardThe founders of 4Silence, Ysbrand Wijnant and Eric de Vries, won the Van den Kroonenberg Award this year. This entrepreneurial prize is awarded annually by the University Fund Twente; this year, during the Grand Finale of the UT Entrepreneurial Challenge 2021. The award goes to entrepreneurs who have proven that their UT spin-off has a right to exist. 4Silence develops and supplies noise reduction products along roads and railway tracks.
The company originated from research at the University of Twente. The basic concept emerged in 2007-2008. Ysbrand Wijnant worked at the UT Department of Technical Mechanics under Professor Tijdeman. He discovered how sound could affect sound. Together with the UT, Wijnant recorded the ideas in a patent that was obtained in 2009. With the support of NovelT, the company 4Silence was created based on this patent. Ysbrand Wijnant as CTO and Eric de Vries as CEO manage the company together. In recent years, the technical and economic viability has been proven in terms of the current market position, customers, revenue growth and result development. The company has shown steady development and clear choices have been made, resulting in a strong market position.Read more
Demissionary Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven visits theatre experience Mindlab onlineThe moment we had been waiting for arrived on Wednesday evening 2 June: the Mindlab theatre performance could be viewed online by employees of the University of Twente for the second time. Demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) Ingrid van Engelshoven was among them: "Impressive, what a beautiful piece, and what a good initiative this is," she said in the conversation with TheaterMakers Radio Kootwijk, Rector Tom Veldkamp, initiator Ellen Giebels (vice dean of Research at the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences) and other employees of the University of Twente.Read more
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