Friday 27th October 2018 the official kick-off event unfolded at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Delft. Participants from numerous companies and research establishments congregated to make new acquaintances and share their ideas. The dean of Inholland Delft, Gerard van Oosten, gave a welcoming speech. Next lector Robotica Cock Heemskerk formally introduced the unique HiPerGreen project. Several guest speakers presented additional subject related information: Jeremy Harbinson (distinguished researcher in plant physiology atm Wageningen UR), David Pajares (AvioniCS – a company specialised in rapid prototyping and control systems for small UAVs) and Arash Noroozi (ElpaNav, a start-up company for localisation technology). Lucien Fesselet, assistant project manager, resumed the day with a brief history of the ‘Drones in de kas’ project where HiPerGreen evolved from. Then the audience were split into smaller groups to assess the risks associated within each project work package. A important outcome was the consensus that the business case validation should be started right from the beginning. The kick-off was concluded with a drink.
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On April 12th 2019, researchers, students and consortia gathered at the World Horti Centre for an update on the overall status of the HiPerGreen project. The day consisted of presentations from a variety of the HiPerGreen students, staff and guest speakers. There were a variety of exciting updates from the technological and biological realms of the project, as well as an insightful presentation from Deliflor’s Geert Van Geest on Deliflor and their interests in imaging of chrysanthemums. Several new pieces of technology have arisen from the HiPerGreen project. The first being a rail-based imaging system capable of traversing the greenhouse using the heating pipes commonly found in Dutch greenhouses. The drone landing dock has also taken great steps forward and finally, HiPerGreen has partnered with drone manufacture Avular, a company working on the world’s first ‘ultra-wide band’ localized indoor drone. From a biological standpoint significant progress has been made regarding long-term plant monitoring with a focus on reducing fusarium occurrence in the crop. Students are working in climate chambers to model the symptoms of fusarium infection in orchids. Students are also working at Deliflor using the railsystem to measure uniformity in chrysanthemum test crops. Research with the multispectral camera continued and the team hopes to integrate the imaging into mass plant monitoring. The sympoium was concluded with a drink.
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Friday 23rd March 2018 the first HiPerGreen semi-annual symposium took place at the newly opened World Horti Center in Naaldwijk. Participants in the form of students, professors and company representatives came together to share progress and ideas. Cock Heemskerk, lector Robotica, opened the event with a welcoming speech. Lucien Fesselet, assistant project manager, followed with general updates on the project. Then the floor was given to the students to present their results and progress. Pieter van der Hoeven, associate lector, presented on behalf of four graduating students from the Business, Finance and Law department the assignment on market research. The findings show great potential in business opportunity with the Orchid market. Amora Amir, a potential PhD researcher on big data, gave a speech on the usefulness and the need to understand big amounts of data. Lucien Fesselet performed a live flight demonstration to give an idea of the capabilities and the behaviour of the drone. After the risk analasys the sympoium was concluded with a drink.
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Students, researchers, professors and company representatives gathered to share progress and ideas at the second half-year symposium of HiPerGreen at the World Horti Center in Naaldwijk. HiPerGreen is a Raak MKB subsidised research project aiming to bring value to horticultural growers. Cock Heemskerk, head of the HiPerGreen project and lector Robotica at InHolland University of Applied Sciences, welcomed everyone and gave an overall status update. Then Lucien, Fesselet project manager at HiPerGreen, talked about the minimal viable product (MVP) to make automated detection of fusarium in Phalaenopsis (a type of orchid) possible. Three consortium partners were invited to explain what they do for HiPerGreen and what their motives for participation are: Igno Breukers (DB2-Vision, start-up of a new type of multispectral camera for Precision Agriculture), Tim Brander (head grower at Hazeu Orchids) and Tom Kearny-Mitchel (plant biology advisor at Applied Drone Innovations). Next several students summarised their team’s work, findings and failures to the audience. During the live demo Lucien unveiled one of the team’s newly-built technologies: live stream thermal images of plants. The sympoium was concluded with a brainstorm session and drink.
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The two-year education programme HiPerGreen initiated by Inholland University of Applied Sciences came to a closure on Friday 27th September 2019 at the World Horti Center in Naaldwijk. The Final symposium gave consortium partners and other guests the opportunity to learn about the HiPerGreen’s team achievements and the various outputs the programme delivered. After the welcome word of lector Robotica Cock Heemskerk, Tom KerneyMitchell, biology researcher, summarized the efforts that the team made in plant monitoring (ranging from growth monitoring and prediction, chamber testing research to delivering fusarium maps to growers). Next Lucien Fesselet, project manager at HiPerGreen and CTO of Applied Drone Innovations) took the public through the team’s technology fails, trials and successes over the two-year programme. Sheelagh Bouvier, market researcher for HiPerGreen, shortly explained that she conducted desk research, field visits in greenhouses, interviews with growers and IP research. Then partner Roy van Rosmalen from Ter Laak Orchids, explained how crucial data was in order to run large orchid greenhouses. He saw HiPerGreen’s monitoring solutions such as the drone and the rail system as the answers to current data gaps. Mauro Gallo, lector Biomimicry at InHolland, announced HiPerGreens follow up project Flapping Wings. The symposium’s final speaker was William Simmonds, CEO of Applied Drone Innovations , a spinoff startup born from the HiPerGreen programme. The symposium was concluded with a drink.
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We hopen dat het nieuwe jaar voor iedereen goed is gestart. Ons lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken heeft de laatste periode van 2023 zeker niet stilgezeten. In deze nieuwsbrief delen we al deze activiteiten graag met jullie. Ook kun je lezen waar we op dit moment mee bezig zijn. De afgelopen periode kenmerkte zich ook als een zeer intensieve tijd waarin de oorlog in Gaza en de verkiezingsuitslag in Nederland een grote impact hadden op de gevoelens van inclusie, zowel binnen de samenleving als binnen onze eigen hogeschool. Samen met de Taskforce Diversiteit en Inclusie en de leden van de Werkgroep Sociale Veiligheid binnen Hogeschool Inholland organiseren we als reactie op de verzoeken vanuit de hele organisatie periodiek gesprekken met het CvB waarin we het met elkaar hebben over de betekenis en impact van deze gebeurtenissen in de klas en in een team, maar ook voor individuele studenten en medewerkers. Hierover verschijnt binnenkort informatie op Iris. Als lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken staan we voor een inclusieve omgeving en beogen we met ons werk daarin, hoe klein wellicht ook, een bijdrage te leveren. En ik ben trots op wat we de afgelopen periode hebben gedaan. Vragen of verzoeken naar aanleiding van deze nieuwsbrief kunnen worden gestuurd naar: Machteld.deJong@inholland.nl Veel leesplezier! Namens het hele team van Diversiteitvraagstukken, Machteld de Jong We hope that the new year is off to a great start for each and every one of you. Our Diversity research group has certainly not been idle during the last term of 2023. We are pleased to share all those activities with you in this newsletter. You can read about what we are up to right now as well. The past term also turned out to be quite an intensive period, in which the war in Gaza and the election results in the Netherlands severely impacted people’s perceptions of inclusion, both in society and within our own university of applied sciences. In response to requests from the entire organisation, we are cooperating with the Diversity and Inclusion taskforce and the members of the ‘Social Safety at Inholland University of Applied Sciences’ working group to organise periodic meetings with the Executive Board, during which we will discuss the significance and impact of these events in the classroom and within our teams, but also how they affect individual students and employees. Information on this will be posted to Iris soon. Here in the Diversity research group, we are committed to being an inclusive environment and aim to contribute to this through our work, however small that contribution might be. And I am proud of what we have achieved during the past term. Any questions or requests in connection with this newsletter can be directed to Machteld.deJong@inholland.nl Happy reading! On behalf of the entire Diversity Studies team, Machteld de Jong
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Welkom bij de laatste nieuwsbrief van dit studiejaar van het lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken. We hebben de afgelopen tijd zeker niet stilgezeten en zullen in deze nieuwsbrief als vanouds ingaan op de belangrijkste activiteiten die we de afgelopen maanden hebben uitgevoerd. Dat doen we niet alleen, maar samen met Inholland collega’s en -studenten, evenals onze externe partners en daar zijn we trots op. We wensen jullie dan ook veel leesplezier en neem gerust contact met ons op over onze projecten of over onderwerpen die jullie graag met ons lectoraat willen delen. Succes met de laatste loodjes van dit studiejaar en alvast een heel mooie zomer toegewenst! Namens het hele lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken, Machteld de Jong Welcome to the final newsletter from the Diversity Research group for this academic year. We have certainly not been idle over the past few months, and in this newsletter, as usual, we will talk about the key activities we’ve been involved in lately. Many of these activities involved collaboration with Inholland staff and students, as well as our external partners, a fact of which we’re very proud. We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to discuss our projects or if there’s anything you’d like to share with our research group. Good luck with the final weeks of the academic year, and have a great summer! On behalf of the entire Diversity Research group, Machteld de Jong
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As part of the American Society of Civil Engineers E-Newsletter at page 5&6.
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