HAN may call itself most innovative organization
08-12-2009 @ 12:26:18 by Sensor
The HAN may call itself the most innovative organization, is what the jury of the innovation-platform decided on the Day of Science. The innovation platform was established five years ago to get Holland in the top five in the area of higher education, research and innovation.
Day of Science
On the Day of Science, two prizes were rewarded, of which one was for the most innovative organization in the category of Regional Trainings Centres, colleges and universities. The conditions for receiving the prize were growth in the amount of students in science and medicine and technical studies, innovative projects, sustainability and encasing in region and country. The HAN did very well in all these areas. Especially inside the faculty of Technical studies many projects are going on and the best example of this would be the group of Car Engineering-students whose goal is to win the Hybrid Autorickshaw (TUKTUK) Battle in India.Ticket for the future
Obviously, Ron Bormans, spokesman of the executive board, mentions the winning of this prize as fantastic. ‘This is an enormous stroke of luck for the HAN’, he says. ‘It is a ticket for the future. We undoubtedly have got our problems, but we’re doing very well.’ The audience on the day was for ninety per cent coming from universities. The Day was oficially opened by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende; also Ronald Plasterk and Maria van der Hoeven were present. ‘It is really fantastic when people from outside the HAN say that the HAN is doing a great job’.Students
The prize was rewarded by Jeroen van der Veer (formal Shell-topman and spokesman of Platform Bèta-Competence). He started a film which a camera-team of Friends of Science made last week at the HAN. The prize contains ten thousand euros. What is the HAN going to do with the money? Bormans: ‘The last few years the money was used to start a nice series of students projects. I suggest that the money will be spent on that again.’
