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 community managers. Three experienced industry professionals take a seat on the board: Femke Verdegaal, Victor Rijkaart and Jos van den Boom, with additional aid by Laura Gibson – ten Bloemendal. All four have strong connections and experience in academia and the aviation and space industries. The community managers are the linking pin between the community members, students, and the industry. Maximilian Meijkamp, Ruth Vraka and Grégoire Dastros-Pitei currently fulfill this role. The Start-up Voucher Program is coordinated by Olivier Heukelom and coached by Victor Rijkaart. Anne Wielens is our new event manager and Judith Laan is responsible for PR and communication. The offices and facilities are managed by Luc Schrover.
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STUDENT TEAMS
Innovation Ambassadors 2024
Stories
Pre-seed funding and new office for Emergent Swarm Solutions!
We have two exciting updates to share from Emergent Swarm Solutions! Emergent has secured its pre-seed funding! This investment marks a critical step in advancing their vision for scalable, platform independent autonomy and swarming technology. The company has also relocated to a new office on [...]
Dawn Aerospace reaches new heights with the MK-II Aurora!
The MK-II Aurora, a prototype spaceplane designed by TU Delft alumni Tobias Knop and Jeroen Wink, recently broke the sound barrier for the first time. Developed by their company Dawn Aerospace, the MK-II Aurora aims to revolutionize space travel with its reusable, runway-launched design. Unlike [...]
Revolv Space announces In-Orbit Demonstration mission of SARA
Revolv Space announced that SARA, its space-qualified Solar Array Drive Assembly, has successfully completed integration and testing on DPhi Space’s Clustergate-1 platform and D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier. This significant milestone marks a major step toward SARA’s first in-orbit demonstration, scheduled for the first half of [...]
Arceon receives an investment!
Tenzing Alpha invests in material science startup Arceon, founded by TU Delft alumni, to support the development of their advanced materials for extreme environments. Amsterdam, October 25, 2024 – Tenzing Alpha has invested in Arceon, an emerging leader in advanced engineering materials designed for extreme [...]
DEMOday 2024!
DEMOday 2024! 🚀 Last week we hosted our very first DEMOday and it was a huge success! Over 200 participants registered for a day filled with exciting events. We had a very diverse group of participants, consisting of industry professionals, TU Delft employees, government representatives, and [...]
‘Kansen voor West’ Voucher Programme
As part of the ‘Kansen voor West’ programme, TU Delft Campus and residing field labs offer a variety of vouchers that grant access to knowledge, facilities and networks. Whether you need advice, want to conduct a pilot project, or are considering setting up shop [...]
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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
Join the TU Delft Campus’ ecosystem
“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!
European Connection
Moving towards AErospace
TU Delft cooperates with the Municipality of Delft and the Aerospace Innovation Hub in a European INTERREG Project called MAE (Moving towards AErospace).
The project improves the implementation of regional development policies in the field of Smarter Europe. Specifically policy instruments for new markets in aerospace, such as (autonomous) drones, Sustainable Aviation and Smart manufacturing of Composites.
The aim of the project is to work with established SME’s, start-ups, fieldlabs, education and research institutes, consolidating the region as an aerospace hotspot for new technologies. This test bed also looks for opportunities for SME’s that or not yet active in Aerospace fields.
The MAE Mapping Tool correlates directly to the Aerospace Delta strategy agenda.
The TU Delft consortium is led by TPM researcher Emad Yaghmaei, and more information can be found on the projectpage.
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