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VitalWear is an Eindhoven startup developing fiber-optic sensing technology embedded in bed sheets, intended to detect early signs of pressure ulcers. Jettie Hoonhout discusses the technology and its intended use in patient care settings. Technology that can help the hospital staff by early signalling of potential risks. Making it "nurse-proof" became a key success factor.

Stay tuned for our chat with the Eric Thelen CEO and co-founder

VitalWear discovers vital information by embedding optical fiber sensing technology in textile materials, to create innovative sensor surfaces and, ultimately, sensor clothing, for non-invasive medical applications.

VitalWear’s prime application prevents pressure ulcers. These often occur for immobilized patients or patients with reduced sensory function of the skin when skin cells under pressure die due to mechanical stress or due to restricted blood supply. Pressure ulcers are very painful for the 2.5 million patients they affect every year in the United States alone – and they even lead to the death of 60,000 of them. Pressure ulcer prevention and care are very time consuming for nurses, due to the current best practice of frequently repositioning at-risk patients. Consequently, pressure ulcers inflate healthcare costs, annually by more than $ 26b in the U.S. alone.

Jeroen Groenen, Managing Director of Unica, the hidden IT hero of High tech Campus. Even HTC needs IT to run smoothly, and Unica is behind this operation, ensuring HTC technology runs smoothly.

The STREAM Festival is a young, community-driven, international festival for children in the Eindhoven region. It promotes S.T.E.M. disciplines as well as arts, reading, and more generally literacy and creativity skills. The event is open to all, Dutch and internationals, promoting mutual discovery and conviviality. On air, Vlad Niculescu-Dinca invites you to participate in a day of science, creativity, music and fun. The many S.T.R.E.A.M. workshops are offered by scientists and experts from a variety of international communities, heritage language programs, universities, technology companies, and organizations.

Ralu Nistor-Lustermans, Bart Bruijen and Ron Jacobs in debate with Vlad on air on the HTC 2026 open day.

STREAM festival 2026 - Vald Niculescu - Dinca, presents an unique festival of Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art and Mathematics, where different international communities come together to share knowledge, fun and traditions on these topics; and of course food will play a role as well.

This year the STREAM festival will take place on 5 July 2026, at Blaarthemseweg 90 in Veldhoven (vlak bij Eindhoven).

In this episode of Unless We Talk, host Meagin van der Westhuizen dives into a topic close to her heart: learning to swim as an adult. Joined by Christina, founder of Your Personal Swim Coach, and student Abhigya, this conversation explores what makes adult swim lessons unique — from tackling fear and unlearning old instincts to building real water confidence, one skill at a time.

Together, they unpack:

• Why so many adults never learned how to swim

• How fear, culture, and past experiences shape our relationship with water

• The science and psychology behind learning to swim later in life

• What actually happens during Dutch ABC diploma training

• Why adults are asked to swim with clothes, jackets, and even shoes

• The empowering moment when students realise, “I can do this.”

Whether you’re a newcomer to the Netherlands, someone who’s been putting off lessons for years, or simply curious why the Dutch take swimming so seriously — this episode will leave you inspired, informed, and maybe even ready to jump in.

👉 Details on how to sign up for classes with Your Personal Swim Coach www.your-personal-swim-coach.nl

From recruitment to industrialisation consulting — and everything learned along the way.

Entrepreneurship isn’t about holding on it’s about knowing when to move on.

In the newest episode of Ralu on Board, Edition 18, @Radio 4 Brainport, I sit down again with the very first guest of this podcast series, Bart Ghysels

This time, we talk about evolution: recognising when an industry has changed, letting go of what once worked, and building a new entrepreneurial chapter with purpose.

A powerful conversation full of lessons, perspective, and hard earned insight, which will give you food for thought and no doubt inspire you!

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬? 𝘈𝘮 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘯 Eindhoven?

"𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞, 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 - 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬"Episode 1 | The Conversation Begins

For the first episode of this series, Supriya Vij is joined by ⁠Cav. Miriam Frosi⁠ for an open, conversational discussion on ⁠hashtag#participation⁠, ⁠hashtag#representation⁠, and finding your ⁠hashtag#voice⁠ in the city you live in.

This series isn’t about telling anyone how to vote. It’s about understanding the system- so participation feels possible.🎧

H𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬?

𝘈𝘮 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦?

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺?

For the first episode of this series, I’m joined by Cav. Miriam Frosi for an open, conversational discussion on #participation, #representation, and finding your #voice in the city you live in.This series isn’t about telling anyone how to vote.It’s about understanding the system- so participation feels possible.

Join us for an open conversation 𝐨𝐧 Radio 4 Brainport, the expat station Eindhoven

On 6 December the STREAM Festival Network brought their creative & science workshops to theWinter Market Eindhoven at Muziekgebouw. Vlad Niculescu-Dinca, festival coordinator, explains the close relation between Science, Technology (STEM) and Art.

Through various workshops at this winter edition and throughout the year, the team helps children get creative and stay curious about the world.

The STREAM Festival is a young, community-driven, international science festival for children. It aims to promote both S.T.E.M. disciplines as well as Arts, Reading and more generally literacy and creativity skills. The event is open to all, Dutch and internationals, promoting mutual discovery and conviviality. The festival is coordinated by the Stichting Romanian School Eindhoven and the workshops are offered by a generous group of Dutch and international scientists, artists, teachers, engineers and students from the various international communities and heritage language education programs in The Netherlands.

"Internationals in Eindhoven enjoyed the expat fair on November 9th, 2025.

Nikos Nakos from IamExpat Media and his team led this first expat fair at the Klokgebouw, an event that connected hundreds of internationals with organizations across the Netherlands."

Mary Evangelista-Kersjes talked with Nikos at the event.

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Deep Dives with Iman, hosted by Iman Mossavat and featured by Radio 4 Brainport, features Associate Professor Jelle Zuidema from the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC).

Zuidema analyzes large language models (LLMs) using explainable AI, including striking examples to show how model knowledge can be surgically edited.

He briefly discusses how researchers understand LLMs, fix biases, and analyze how they reason. Listeners gain insight into how these models represent knowledge, interact with data, and how analysis can clarify complex AI systems.

This episode gives you an excellent view into the inner workings of modern language models.