About
CONNECTING AEROSPACE INNOVATORS
The Aerospace Innovation Hub @TU Delft is a community of aerospace related startups, academics, students, corporates, and industry professionals.
Our mission is to accelerate content driven innovation in aerospace in a community by facilitating the early entrepreneurial journey, offering a vast aerospace network, and access to a rich aerospace talent pool. We are attaining our mission by offering our members an active community through which they can develop their ideas into viable and scalable products.
The community room and offices are situated on the top four floors of the Aerospace Engineering Faculty at Delft University of Technology. This location enables our community members to have a close connection with the faculty’s students, researchers, and facilities. On top of that, it is a vibrant environment full of likeminded people who elevate each other’s work.
The Aerospace Innovation Hub supports the faculty’s Start Up Voucher program by offering an entry into our community and coaching sessions with industry professionals. There is no better way to kick off your entrepreneurial journey in aerospace!
Our focus is supporting innovations in space technology, in solutions enabling the long term sustainability of aviation, and in novel drone technology. Our power is connecting innovators from in and outside of the aerospace industry and academia to collaborate on these innovations.
Are you interested in becoming a community member? Contact us!
Team
The people connecting aerospace innovators.
The Aerospace Innovation Hub is run by a board of directors and a community manager. Three experienced industry professionals take seat in the board: Femke Verdegaal, Victor Rijkaart and Jos van den Boom. All three have strong connections and experience in academia and the aviation and space industries. The community manager is the linking pin between the community members, students, and the industry. Jan-Willem van Zwieten fulfills this role currently. The Start-up Voucher Program is coordinated by Leanne van Dam and coached by Victor Rijkaart. The offices and facilities are managed by Luc Schrover.
We are always looking to expand our team. If you believe you can add value to our team and community, do not hesitate to contact us!
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Innovation Ambassadors 2022
News
EmbraerX opens office at the Aerospace Innovation Hub @TU Delft
EmbraerX opens office at the Aerospace Innovation Hub @TU Delft The Netherlands has been a core partner for Embraer’s efforts in the development of innovative and sustainable aviation technology. And now, EmbraerX, a disruptive innovation subsidiary of the Embraer Group, will also strengthen this [...]
Learning to lead as a young woman in aviation
Learning to lead as a young woman in aviation It takes guts to pursue your dreams, but having good role models and mentors can make a difference. These are things that have helped Leanne van Dam, a master’s student at TU Delft’s Faculty of [...]
Making environmental observations accessible: Obscape’s story
Making environmental observations accessible: Obscape's story Obscape is a company that develops, produces, and sells environmental observation equipment, that can measure waves at sea, wind, and other weather-related parameters. All the equipment the company develops is real time equipment, so it sends the data [...]
Going to Mars with Team Tumbleweed!
Going to Mars with Team Tumbleweed! Team Tumbleweed is a volunteer-based research organisation led by TU Delft students with the mission to make deep space accessible for everyone. For this blog, we interviewed Julian, co-founder and technical lead of the team. [...]
Drone flight control startup Fusion Engineering raises €700k
Drone flight control startup Fusion Engineering raises €700k to create the future of drones today Fusion Engineering, community member of the Aerospace Innovation Hub @TU Delft, announced that it has raised €700k in its first investment round. Investors include the Dutch Graduate Entrepreneur Fund [...]
An insight into last year’s startup voucher winner: Laminance
An insight into last year’s startup voucher winner: Laminance In this blogpost, we will let you in on the story about last year’s winner of the Start-up Voucher and how they see their future now that the coaching coming from the voucher has come [...]
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Join our broad Aerospace & Drones network
Connect to aerospace engineering students and staff
Meet in the Flighthouse and Community Room
Be close to research facilities
Connect with start-ups, student teams and corporates
Rent offices on the top floors of the Aerospace faculty
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Bring innovation to the Hub and Faculty
Share your ambitions with the community
Join the Aerospace Faculty’s network
Provide internships or projects to students
Give back to the next generation of aerospace pioneers
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“HUMANITY NEEDS PRACTICAL MEN, WHO GET THE MOST OUT OF THEIR WORK, AND, WITHOUT FORGETTING THE GENERAL GOOD, SAFEGUARD THEIR OWN INTERESTS. BUT HUMANITY ALSO NEEDS DREAMERS, FOR WHOM THE DISINTERESTED DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENTERPRISE IS SO CAPTIVATING THAT IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO DEVOTE THEIR CARE TO THEIR OWN MATERIAL PROFIT.”
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“WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET. WE MAKE A LIFE BY WHAT WE GIVE.”
Winston S. Churchill
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“IF EVERYTHING SEEMS UNDER CONTROL, YOU’RE JUST NOT GOING FAST ENOUGH.”
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Start-up Voucher
YOUR IDEA HAS THE POTENTIAL
Great ideas should not be kept on shelves but should be given the opportunity to turn into business. The Aerospace Faculty offers a Start-up Voucher & Coaching Program together with the Aerospace Innovation Hub. This voucher aims to guide, facilitate and accelerate the first entrepreneurial steps of an aerospace innovator. Each year this voucher is awarded to five ambitious student groups.
01. FUNDING.
A winner of the Startup Voucher is awarded €2500 for support of production of the first prototype and initial development.
02. COACHING.
A dedicated coach from the Aerospace Industry offers guidance and advice to the newly formed startups. Coaching sessions and workshops are part of the program to facilitate the best start.
03. COMMUNITY.
Every Startup Voucher winner joins the Aerospace Innovation Hub’s community. The community offers startups a broad and experienced network from the moment they become a member. Collaborating with the university, students, companies and other startups becomes a lot easier when you are in the loop!
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