OostNL has a track record in linking especially SMEs in the region of East NL to R&D project collaborations with higher education institutes, but also to other societal partners as well as facilitating connections to large industries. Expected benefits include direct connections to organizations for the potential for educational collaborations (i.e., internships, industrial PhDs, client-oriented problems to work on, symposia/networking with industries, etc.) or for facilitating joint R&D subsidy applications between NeurotechEU partners and industry. OostNL also has experience connecting to the EU and can help with the smart specialization strategy and implications thereof for an EU wide strategy.
Have hosted interns; have brokered connections between RU researchers and regional SMEs and to other regional ecosystems; have co-written grant proposals; have had a similar role in helping to shape an EU-wide educational initiative https://www.eciu.eu/. East Netherlands (provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel) has also received the labels of a regional innovation valley/strong innovator regions.