16 April 2024
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The Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award will be expanded to include a Young Talent Award. It will be presented for the first time in 2025 to a team of graduating students from one of the 105 Dutch Technasium schools and is a call to schoolchildren to help think of innovative solutions in the fields of health, sustainability and digitalization, the themes of the four Brightlands innovation campuses.
The Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award honors sustainability pioneer Marc Cornelissen, who died in 2015. After five successful editions, the organization has decided to involve high school youth in the thinking behind the award. 'We have found the ideal partner for this in the Technasium Foundation,' said Maurice Olivers on behalf of the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award Foundation. 'Technasium schools pay a lot of attention to engineering, research and design aimed at a healthy and sustainable future. For the 'big' award, mainly entrepreneurs with fantastic, revolutionary projects apply. With technical solutions against global warming, the reduction of CO2 emissions, the step towards a circular economy and stopping the melting of the polar caps. We are convinced that schoolchildren, encouraged by their teachers, have fantastic ideas for their own future. We would like to encourage that.'
Master's thesis
Fabiènne Hendricks, board chair of the Technasium Foundation is enthusiastic about the Young Talent Award. 'This award aligns perfectly with our goals: bringing students into contact with practice. For the subject Research & Design they work in teams on their Master's thesis, the exam project in which they work out a concrete issue for a company or organization. This can of course be an idea with an emphasis on circularity and sustainability. How cool is it that the teams can win a prize in addition to being assessed by the school. We are extremely curious about all the teams that will participate!"
"This award aligns perfectly with our goals of connecting students with real-world experience."
Specialty jury
.Foundation Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award and Technasium announced the Young Talent Award on March 20 during a school leadership meeting of all technasium schools. After the summer break, havo and vwo examination students can decide with their teachers whether they want to compete for the award. Only entries in the fields of materials, health, nutrition, smart services and data/AI will be considered. A professional jury will make a selection after which six teams will get the chance to pitch their idea and compete for the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Young Talent Award. Key questions that day: How will your idea help the world become circular? And what is innovative about your solution?
Networking
.The Young Talent Award will be presented on April 17, 2025, just before graduation and ten years after the death of Marc Cornelissen. Students on the winning team will receive one year of tuition for a college or university degree. 'And they get access to the networks of the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award Foundation,' says Fabienne Hendriks. 'This is a great opportunity to then really turn their idea into a concrete product and contribute to a more sustainable world. Technasium is proud of this initiative and is happy to commit to it. Moreover, it is good for our own image. STEM education cannot get enough attention.'
Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award
The Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award is an initiative of the foundation of the same name chaired by former governor of the Province of Limburg and Upper House member Theo Bovens. The award will be presented for the sixth time next fall. In addition to a work of art, the award also includes a sum of €35,000 to be spent on the next step in the winner's sustainability mission. Chairman Theo Bovens is delighted with the addition of the Young Talent Award. 'Certainly. Marc Cornelissen's life story and mission provide inspiration to work for a better world and never give up. This award wants to challenge young people to develop and test their ideas for our, and therefore their sustainable future.'
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Life-like STEM project education
Technasium stands for life-like STEM project education at havo and vwo schools. The subject Research & Design (R&D) is central to this, from bridge class to the exam. In teams, students work on innovative solutions to current problems for real clients. Because of this type of education, more students choose to study science and technology and are extra driven to complete their studies. Over one hundred secondary schools throughout the Netherlands have the Technasium designation and are affiliated with Stichting Technasium. With this network, 34,000 students now receive meaningful science education.
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