The Heroes' Arch
A work of art will soon be established on the TU/e Campus. With the names of our donors on it.
On a special page you can read the wishes they gave our talents.
Technology against global warming
Eric van Schagen, one of our alumni who is strongly connected to our university has set up a fund as part of the university fund Eindhoven. His fund is dedicated to the field of Energy. He believes that innovations in the field of energy can make a strong impact on the world. But also that it is important that decisions in the field of energy should be based on scientific results.
"What is required are many big changes and, above all, a long-term vision. And using technology."
Read more about his motivation.
"I owe my career and relative wealth to my education at the TUE." - Anonymous
“The Marina van Damme grant gives a boost to female engineers”
The objective of the Marina van Damme Fund is to support talented female alumni who have graduated or obtained a doctorate from the TU/e in taking the next step or making the next turn in their careers. The €9000 grant is intended to add depth or breadth to the recipient’s knowledge or to support an international orientation in the form of a study program, internship, or project. The runner-up receives an amount of €2.500.
“With this grant, I would like to support ambitious young women, because I think that it will be a long time before women will fill half of all positions at the highest levels of universities and companies,” states Marina van Damme, the grant’s eponym. She made a conscious choice to have her name associated with the grant, as she expects that an anonymous grant would receive less attention and have less impact. “It is less anonymous, and this allows me to serve as a role model.”
Imaging techniques
In 2015, the happy winner was Lisanne van Oppen, an alumna of the TU/e program in Biomedical Engineering, who is currently a PhD student affiliated with Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, where she is conducting research on targeted drug delivery. Van Oppen will use the €9000 grant to spend three months in Barcelona for a detailed introduction to new imaging techniques, including super-resolution microscopy.
Legacy
Van Damme has reserved the amount of €253,000 for the TU/e to ensure that the prize can be awarded for the coming 23 years. With the signature of the agreement, the grant became the largest legacy ever received by the TU/e.