Innovation connected! To mark the 10th anniversary of the IADP (Innovation Area Development Partnership), a book has been published highlighting a decade of collaboration, growth, and innovation.
Over the past decade, IADP has demonstrated how important strong regional networks are for accelerating innovation. Campuses serve as hubs where knowledge institutions, businesses, and government agencies come together to work on solutions to social and economic challenges. Campus Groningen is a prime example of this: a dynamic environment where talent, research, and entrepreneurship reinforce one another.
Within the IADP network, this power of collaboration is actively harnessed and further developed. By sharing knowledge and forging connections between different regions, a solid foundation for future growth is established. The anniversary book looks back on this development, but above all looks ahead: to new opportunities, scaling up, and further deepening of ecosystems.
Read the full article about Campus Groningen on the IADP website.
Iris Sommer will receive the 2026 NWO Stevin Prize, the highest honour for researchers in the Netherlands who have achieved exceptional results in translating knowledge into societal impact. Sommer will receive €1.5 million, to be spent on scientific research and initiatives relating to knowledge utilization. Sommer is a professor of Psychiatry at the UMCG and the UG.
Mooi nieuws: 10x10x10 is genomineerd voor de Duurzame Dertig 2026, een initiatief van Dagblad van het Noorden, Leeuwarder Courant en Friesch Dagblad. Het project is geselecteerd in de categorie Duurzame samenwerking.
Engineero vestigt zich op Campus Groningen.
