Focus on Energy and Health for Eindhoven University Fund

Ton Backx, Mark Boneschanscher en Harrie Noy in gesprek over nieuwe themafondsen. Foto: Bart van Overbeeke Alumni donations make radical research possible through the new UFe theme funds. For the energy transition and the issues surrounding sustainable health, the Eindhoven University Fund has come up with the Energy Health theme funds. TU/e alumni can thus make important research possible for which funding would otherwise be more difficult to obtain through the established channels. Ton Backx, director of the UFe, Mark Boneschanscher, director of EIRES, along with Harrie Noy, donor and former CEO of Arcadis, explained how this development aroused their enthusiasm. -Within the university, we put a lot of effort into developing talent. And those young people have quite a challenge at the beginning of their careers in the current system to find funding for their own original research ideas,- explains Ton Backx, director of the Eindhoven University Fund (UFe).