The ZomerOndernemer Rijk van Nijmegen project will start in mid-July. ZomerOndernemer Rijk van Nijmegen is an entrepreneurial project in which young people aged between 15 and 25 living in the region are helped to start up their own business. In this way, young people can become acquainted with entrepreneurship. An entrepreneurial attitude offers more perspective. You see more opportunities and possibilities and that is exactly what is transferred and stimulated among this target group.
The participants receive professional coaching and resources not only to work out the business idea, but also to execute the idea. In the past, this has resulted in numerous young people starting their own businesses thanks to ZomerOndernemer. And that throughout the Netherlands.
This project is being carried out in collaboration with various companies in the Nijmegen region. This includes workshops, speakers and company visits to interesting entrepreneurs. The project lasts 6 weeks with a three-day entrepreneurial training as a kick-off. This is followed by a number of return days followed by a festive kick-off where the participants present their own company.
Participation is completely free and is made possible by Fonds 21 and the municipalities of Nijmegen, Beuningen, Wijchen, Berg en Dal and Druten. More information: www.zomerondernemer.nl.
The Collegetour is a recurring event organized by StartUp Nijmegen. The concept is inspired by the Collegetour with Twan Huys. On 28 June, StartUp Nijmegen will host Thijs van Gastel.
During the Collegetour, a presenter and the audience will have the opportunity to ask Thijs questions, for example about his experiences as an entrepreneur, tips for starting his own hospitality business and his plans for the future. Jacqueline van Ginneken, reporter at De Gelderlander, is the moderator.
About Thijs van Gastel
Thijs van Gastel (45) was born and raised in Nijmegen. He studied at the HEAO, stopped, and then ended up in the hospitality industry. He eventually completed the hotel management course in Eindhoven. He grew from manager to one of the most successful entrepreneurs in hospitality in Nijmegen. 18 years ago he got the chance to take over Café de Fuik. Later Bistrobar Berlin, Bascafé and Bistrobar Bankoh followed. In the corona period, as the icing on the cake, he opened another restaurant in Rozendaal: Bistrobar Beaune. He is mainly the man behind the scenes in both financial and administrative terms, but has also gained experience on the work floor.
Curious about his experiences? Then register quickly, because there are only a limited number of places available.
MS Sherpa, a medical device that monitors the course of symptoms of MS, will receive an investment of 1.5 million euros. In recent years, the Nijmegen data science company Orikami has developed MS Sherpa as a medical product, clinically validated it and CE certified.
With the new capital, Sherpa BV will now continue independently as a start-up to grow in the Netherlands and Germany, but also to develop a new product and apply it in Parkinson’s disease.
With MS Sherpa , people with MS and medical specialists gain insight into the presence and progression of MS symptoms by regularly performing self-tests on their smartphones. With the help of digital biomarkers, personalized information becomes available, which is used to monitor the disease course and the effect of the treatment and to make adjustments where necessary.
With the investment, the company will continue to build on the product in the coming years and make the solution available to medical specialists and people with MS in the Netherlands and internationally. The app is already available in the app store and can be used by someone with MS on prescription from the neurologist.
With the available knowledge about digital biomarkers and neurological diseases, work is also being done on an application in Parkinson’s disease, says the new CEO Jacco Schutte. “With digital biomarkers, we can gain increasingly easier and better insight into the course of complex neurological disorders. In this way we make a positive contribution to treatment and efficient affordable care”.
To keep your public speaking skills fresh you should work on them on a regular basis. For most of us however the trigger to work on these skills is when we have to give our next presentation. To make it easy to keep your presentation skills on top of mind he started #FrankSays. With this hashtag he publishes, every Thursday, a practical pitch tip on Linked In.
Collaboration with a large corporate partner may be critical to successfully bring a startup’s innovation to patients. Such a partnership or collaboration may bring them access to expertise, resources and networks which are otherwise hard to tap into. But what are the ins and outs of building a successful partnership or collaboration?
Join this workshop in Utrecht or another regional hub and hear from the deal-making team and innovation scouts at Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Register here: https://jji.jnj/Utrecht
At Briskr, we believe in the power of a strong network. Nijmegen is a hub for health and high tech, which means we have lots of companies in the area that are at the forefront of groundbreaking inventions. Take Micro-Cosmos, a company that creates an environment free of stimuli, so that patients improve recovery in their own space. A great example of how an idea can be transformed into real-life solutions.
Eef Lamers is the co-founder of Micro-Cosmos, but he is fair enough to admit the idea did not come from him. “At a Health Hackathon organized by the Radboudumc, medical professionals and students came up with the idea. I knew those students, but they were too busy finishing their studies to turn the idea into action. I suggested I could try and make it happen, and that’s how it all got started.” At that moment, the product was no more than a drawing. The problem it had to solve was patients in hospitals suffering from the many stimuli in their surroundings. “As a result, patients develop a lack of sleep, which causes a slower recovery.”
We need a solution! As Eef explained, the product was developed with a very clear goal in mind. “The Hackathon was organized to solve this problem: patients need peaceful surroundings to recover.” In addition to improved patient care, the advantages of a solution are obvious to hospitals as well. “Of all elderly in Intensive Care Units, 70 per cent develop delirium: a state of confusion and disorientation. Because of this, on average, people stay hospitalized 7 more days and recovery takes longer. If you take in mind that daily costs of hospitalization are 500 to 2.000 euros, the possible benefits are quite clear.”
In his efforts to create the best possible solution, Eef maintains close connections with medical professionals from various hospitals. “I don’t have a medical background myself – I studied physics – so I have gathered researchers, patients and nurses to give feedback about the Micro-Cosmos.” We are currently doing a pilot with Radboudumc. At the Intensive and Medium Care Units, and at Cardiology, we are looking into the effects of the Micro-Cosmos on quality of sleep, stress, fear and delirium. We use pilots like these to learn about the ideal circumstances to use the Micro-Cosmos.”
Growing step by step As a young company, Micro-Cosmos could use some help when they started in 2020. One of the ways they found the help they needed, was through attending Briskr workshops. “We needed to know things like: how does an insurance company work? How do you launch a healthcare product? The workshops helped us find our way. Many doors opened because we could get in touch with people giving us information.” This way, Eef also found partners that helped the company develop. “We are in touch with HealthValley and OostNL. The latter helped us clarify what we didn’t know about investors. This eventually led to a successful application for an innovation loan.”
The company continues to take steps toward its final goal. “We want the Micro-Cosmos to be a standard option for patients all over Europe by 2030. To reach this goal, we have to keep proving that our solution works.” The pilots in the Netherlands helped them gather valuable data on the impact of the Micro-Cosmos, but potentially revolutionary research is about to start in Germany. “We just returned from Berlin, where a year-long pilot will provide the most important information we could possibly get. Two-thousand patients are part of the study, which will help us convince other hospitals of the value of the Micro-Cosmos.”
Leading and managing a team is rewarding, complex, sometimes frustrating and amazing! Most entrepreneurs know more about their industry or craft than about getting the most out of the team that they work with. Yet fulfilling that role as a leader well is crucial to the success of your business, to your happiness at work and that of your employees. Something that investors also look at when deciding to put more money into your business or to keep you in your role as CEO as the company grows. Whether you have issues with your team, or everything is fine in that area but you would like to keep it that way, this afternoon will be well spent as good staff are harder to find and keep.
In this workshop, hosted by Lizanne Jakobs, we will work on crafting our knowledge and skills on:
– Your role as a leader
– The difference between managing and leading
– What to do when there is friction
– How do you keep people on track and motivated in the short and long term
Lizanne Jakobs is an award winning business coach and speaker and an entrepreneur herself. She is the founder of Brilliant Work, named best business coaching and consultancy firm in the Netherlands for small to medium sized companies two years in a row. Her workshops are always interactive, useful and engaging. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Master’s in International Business Communications, both from the Radboud University and is a DiSC accredited trainer. The team of coaches at Brilliant Work help clients grow and professionalise their companies. Most of these coaching engagements are aided by one of the many different subsidies they are accredited for.
Programme
The workshop will run from 14.30 to 17.00, with doors opening 15 minutes before hand. Half way through there will be a break and from 17.00 onwards it will turn into a networking opportunity.
Ep. 11 – Adaptive Learning Listen to this episode from AI for Life on Spotify. The latest podcast about AI in Nijmegen is about adaptive learning. More and more schools are using digital tools to help students learn, and increasingly these tools are becoming intelligent. By giving real-time feedback and adapting the lessons for the individual student. In this podcast, we discuss the current state of the art and some of the challenges of this technology. How do you balance the needs of an individual student with those of the rest of the class? How do you use these tools in hybrid environments of physical learning and digital learning? And are these tools suitable for all teachers and learners?
In this podcast we talk to: Inge Molenaar, associate professor of educational studies at Radboud University Marieke van Osch, educational expert at the Ministry and Radboudumc and Jorieke Willems of the education company Gynzy.
If a company develops technical new products or services in the Netherlands, they could be eligible for Dutch tax incentives. These tax incentives can be very attractive for most business. In order to qualify for the tax incentives, several criteria have to be met. BDO can assess if your company could qualify for the tax incentives. Thereby we can support with the application and implementation of the tax incentives.
The Dutch government offers companies two tax incentives: the WBSO and the innovation box. These tax incentives encourages companies to occur Research and Development (R&D) activities in the Netherlands.
WBSO
You can invoke the WBSO during the research and development stage of your innovation. This entails a reduction in the payroll tax liability for wage and other costs as well as expenditures associated with the research and development work for your innovation. This reduction may run up to 40%. For the WBSO is involved the development of (components of) technically innovative physical products, physical production processes or software components, or technical and scientific research.
All kind of innovative developments could be eligible for the WBSO. The WBSO can take effect at any time during the research and development stage, however the WBSO does not have retrospective effect. Applications for the WBSO can be submitted at RVO each month and the application period could start (at least) on the first day of the following months. Only exception is applications starting as from 1 January, which should be submitted before the 20th of December. The period for which a company could opt for the WBSO, should be at least three months within the same calendar year.
Innovation box
The innovation box offers a reduction on the corporate income tax paid on profits generated from innovations. Subject to meeting the conditions, companies will owe no more than 9% corporate income tax on your ‘innovative’ profits. With effect of 1 January 2017, a patent or plant variety right alone is no longer sufficient to qualify for the innovation box. To demonstrate that you have self-developed an innovation, qualification under the WBSO is now the decisive criterion.
Large companies with a global revenue of more than 250 million euros over five years or income from innovations of more than 37.5 million euros over five years are required to meet additional criteria, i.e.:
A patent or plant variety right (granted or requested);
Software;
Authorisation for marketing a medicine;
A protection certificate from the Netherlands Patent Office;
A registered utility model to protect an innovation (not being a design right).
The innovation box can be applied to the years in which the conditions are being met. Contrary to the WBSO, the innovation box can be applied with retroactive effect to all years for which the corporate income tax assessment is not final yet.
BDO: specialist in tax incentives
The WBSO and innovation box could offer companies significant tax savings in the Dutch wage tax and the Dutch corporate income tax. Unfortunately, our experience shows that companies often do not (optimally) use these tax incentives. BDO has experience with the WBSO and innovation box for a variety of companies. We can assess whether your company could qualify for these tax incentives and if so, file an application at the competent government agency. Furthermore, we can also help you with the implementation and optimization of the these tax incentives.
Yours to gain
Savings on wage and other costs as well as expenditures;
Reduction in corporate income tax liability;
Alleviation of administrative burden;
Boost in innovation.
New transparency
Tax laws and rules are constantly changing and tax issues are becoming increasingly complex. What is more, the social pressure for transparency is intensifying. How can you, as a managing director and/or business owner, best maintain a clear overview when facing such a dynamic tax landscape? And how do you set clear tax objectives for the future? BDO tax advisers provide new transparency by examining your business from a fresh and independent perspective. We are able to translate complex tax issues into coherent recommendations and tangible solutions. We work closely with you to ensure your professional and personal goals are attained. In dialogue with you, we develop a clear-cut tax strategy that leads to sustainable success.
More information?
BDO specialises in tax incentives. Our specialists combine their knowledge with practical experience of your sector to provide tailor-made services. The initial scan is always free of charge.
Who am I? Who do I want to be? How do others see me? Identity and identity questions play an important role in our thinking, feeling and acting. As we continuously relate to an ever-changing reality, a core idea is forming of who you essentially are. This is a complex process involving a series of major and minor crises. Although central during adolescence, your identity continues to evolve throughout your life. Identity is key in certain disorders and problems related to anxiety and insecurity – such as those surrounding ethnicity and gender dysphoria – and is ultimately fundamental to our functioning and happiness.
But what do we exactly know about identity and identity development? Before we dive into the summer, Science Café Nijmegen will be hosting identity researchers Susan Branje (UU), Lisanne de Moor (UU & TU) and Andrik Becht (UU) on Wednesday evening June 15th, to educate us and discuss this (in Dutch). Branje will discuss identity as a psychosocial phenomenon; how it is shaped by your relationships and interactions with others and the wider social context. De Moor studies identity through narratives – the stories we create about ourselves – and also looks at psychological problems. Becht will outline his research into identity insecurity and depression and will also discuss the (testing of) identity theory and the relationship between brain development and identity. For Tia Mangola, it’s always summer; they will give this evening a touch of identidade Brasileira.
scientists /8pm Susan Branje (UU), Andrik Becht (UU) and Lisanne de Moor (UU & TU)
music /7.30pmTia Mangola
moderatorLinda Drijvers
timeWednesday June 15th 2022, 7.30/8 – 10 pm venueThe Shamrock, Smetiusstraat 17 in Nijmegen
