Join us for a special Tea-Talk episode with Supriya Vij, featuring Yvonne Van Deursen Bakx, a Dutch language teacher with over 12 years of experience and a C1 examinator status. Yvonne recently made headlines with a featured newspaper article, and she's here to spill the tea on language exams, Dutch culture, tradition, and much more.

Stay tuned for this Friday's Tea-Talk episode on Radio 4 Brainport

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Did you know that to be successful you need to build “weak” and ”strong” connections and relationships, as both are equally important to develop and progress in life? In Ralu on Board, Edition 6, I have the pleasure to be in conversation with a very well-known connector, elevator, and promoter from the Brainport area.
He has been involved in the development of the smarter square kilometer in Europe, the High Tech Campus, and in this podcast, you will hear about the importance of creating environments where people can collaborate and connect in many different ways.
The conversation gives many insights into what does it takes to build trust, challenge the system when it does not give the results you want, to build a new system more appropriate, and how can you do that? I more collaboration and more building trust the answer to our current problems.

A podcast by Ralu Nistor-Lustermans for Radio 4 Brainport. 2023

She designs a healthy work place and a more productive environment. Her mission is to make a positive impact. She uses more elements from nature to keep the people more creative and healthy. She adds water elements, sound of the birds, more plants 🌱 As result, less sick leave. More positivity and work productivity.

Aniek Bartels, illustrator & designer wants to help children to overcome the fear of having a MRI. In a creative way children can draw their own idea about the experience. Aniek has illustrated a book for the children during DDW to give them a new experience and achieve to be more calm and relaxed. The booklet is still available at het museum after DDW.

The connection is the Philips MRI scanner. This is the reason to present her project at the Philips Museum. Interview by Susan Smit, Radio 4 Brainport

Radio 4 Brainport visits Nino Basilashvili with her project Heartsync at the Philips Museum. Nino creates interactive installations through which she allows people to experience a deeper connection with themselves and the group. It is all about the heart beat, the rhythm of the heart. 

Interview by Susan Smit at Dutch Design Week 2023

Third weekend of October, JOTA time is a great moment for scouts. It is a time to connect. To connect via radio, on the air. But also to connect to each other and to enjoy an wide variety of activities, under the umbrella "connecting the dots".

Alisia Willems-Peters explains what you learn at scouting and why it is fun. Being outdoors, building a team, showing leadership, navigating, playing with technology, learning from each other, ....

Jean-Paul Linnartz on Radio 4 Brainport, 2023

Rick Wesseling explains the many aspects of JOTA, the Jamboree on the Air and how scouts connect to each other worldwide and enjoy the magic of radio. Scouting Aalst-Waarle has a number of activities including not only the traditional shortwave international contacts, but also the local contacts and contests, letting radio signals reflect against the moon and running an amateur television station.

Interview by Jean-Paul Linnartz, Radio 4 Brainport, 2023

Scouting Burgemeester Welschen Meerhoven (SBWM) in Eindhoven will again participate in the annual JOTA-JOTI, the Jamboree on the Air and Jamboree on the Internet. This event will take place from Friday 20 October 8:00 PM to Sunday 23 October 2023, 1:00 PM. Since its founding in 2003, SBWM has participated in the JOTA. This year they celebrate the 20th anniversary. An FM transmitter will be active all weekend, so the Meerhoven area can listen on a portable or car radio. Programs are on air on 103.3 MHz in the FM band. Rob Hardenberg explains the set up and the plans for 2023 and gives an impression of previous JOTA's.

The JOTA – JOTI is the largest global scouting event in which 2 million scout members from 174 countries participate annually. The purpose of JOTA – JOTI is to get in touch with other scouts. Here ideas are exchanged but also communicated with friends. The exchange of ideas is known in the world of scouting as Jamboree. Communication traditionally takes place via radio, but for several decades now also via the Internet. JOTA is an abbreviation and stands for Jamboree on the Radio and was first held in 1957. To be able to talk to each other, the help of licensed radio amateurs is called in who have a license to use some frequency bands and can therefore communicate worldwide using of transmitters and antennas. In addition to the JOTA, the JOTI was organized for the first time in 1995. JOTI stands for Jamboree on the Internet and has since been held together with the JOTA as JOTA– JOTI. During a JOTI, communication takes place via the internet, for example through chatting or online video conference.

Alina is a force of change for good, she battles to help create a society which is more inclusive and equitable for everyone. She is currently a policy advisor for the International relationships and labour department at Noord-Brabant Province, she worked at the European Parliament before as a political advisor for the UK delegation on matters related to the transport ministry during Brexit. Alina listens to what people say, and she helps politicians and governments create the right policies and procedures to help fulfill those needs, like giving her contribution to create a mulit-language call center in Noord-Brabant for matters related to international labour.

Join Ralu Nistor Lustermans in listening to Alina, about the importance of aligning governmental policies to our society current issues and needs. Radio 4 Brainport can be heard on 747 AM and DAB+ in the Eindhoven region.

To save energy and to efficiently use resources, we often need to monitor and to sense, we need to communicate and to process data. To make this possible the Internet of Things promises the realisation of dense sensor networks. But sensors consume energy and cannot always be wired for power. In the EU project LoLiPoP-IoT, 38 partners from across Europe develop Energy Harvesting and micro-power management solutions for Wireless IoT edge devices that enable long battery life sensors to be retrofitted on, in or near equipment and infrastructure. Wireless sensors are the key technology platform to enable us to collect data that will be used for anomaly detection, efficiency and performance monitoring. LoLiPoP IoT creates an ecosystem of developers, integrators and users to develop these platforms thinking about power/battery life, ease of installation and maintenance. The project is driven by 12 laboratory- and field-based use cases to initially demonstrate their technical viability and then potential impact.

Jean-Paul Linnartz interviewed Mike Hayes of Tyndall, one of the main thought leaders in this EU project.