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The National Growth Fund announced last week that it will make a quarter of its €4 billion budget available to strengthen research and innovation in the Netherlands. Part of that money will be spent on the key technology Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Fontys School of ICT welcomed no less than three Partners in Innovation and new SPARC members on March 12, 2021. During a festive online toast the Municipality of Eindhoven, the Bierens Group and the Ministry of Defense signed up for membership of our partner network.

Imagine that you can digitally recreate your business park to test the best solutions for making it more sustainable. No speculation and costly calculations, but a direct exploration of the effects. Is this possible? Fontys students investigated whether a simulation game could make the process easier for policymakers, planners and administrators. They rebuilt Venlo and its surroundings in the game Cities:Skylines to test the impact of sustainable energy transition initiatives on and around Spikweien business park in Lomm.

On the 9th of February 2021, the yearly conference Nederland Digitaal takes place, where businesses, governments, knowledge institutions and social organizations pay attention to digitalization. Fontys School of ICT (FSICT) and the Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) have a very unique form of collaboration, which the government institution dubs i-Partnership.