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Looking back on Games for Health Europe 2011

01-11-2011 - The first Games for Health Europe conference was a success! 72 speakers gave an insight in the latest features, success stories and exciting new things to come in the field of serious gaming in healthcare. In the exhibition area, creative game developers demonstrated that playing a serious game is not only good for you, but also a lot of fun. Over 460 people attended the conference. The Games for Health Europe team is already working on next years conference and calls for suggestions. Who do you want to see as a speaker? Let them know on their Facebook page, where you can also see photos of the conference.

Do you want to experience Games for Health Europe 2011 (again)? Watch the video!

Winners DME Award 2011 celebrated in Tallinn!

27-09-2011 - The five winners of the Design Management Europe Award 2011 were proudly presented Friday, September 23rd at KUMU (Art Museum Estonia) in Tallinn, Estonia. The award ceremony kicked off with a performance by the well-known Estonian saxophone player Villu Veski, followed by the celebration of the DME winners and honourable mentions.

How to Grow officially presented at PICNIC 2011

20-09-2011 - The online platform How to Grow was launched last week at the PICNIC Festival in Amsterdam. All features and tools available on the platform were presented, followed by a live streaming online consultancy session with financial expert Andrea Di Anselmo. The session could be followed online by everyone registered to the platform and was a good kick-off and the first of many great events to come. Are you a creative company ready to expand your business and develop your potential?
Have a look at what How to Grow can offer you.

João Mena de Matos receives Cotec Award

08-06-2011 - In Lisbon, EDC’s CEO João Mena de Matos is awarded the prestigious Cotec Award by the Portuguese president Aníbal Cavaco Silva. The Cotec Award is a recognition for the most innovative Portuguese entrepreneur abroad.

Mena de Matos (54) is founder and CEO of various innovative businesses in the Netherlands, including European Design Centre, Medsim, Ibuild and Play2Learn. He was born in Lisbon and came to the Netherlands in 1980 to study at the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven. Since 1999, Mena de Matos has been CEO of European Design Centre which has offices in Den Bosch, Eindhoven and Brussels. In the next few days, he will be accompanying the Portuguese president on visits to companies and financial institutions thoughout Portugal.

Cotec Portugal is an entrepreneurial association founded in 2003 with the main goal of promoting the competitiveness among companies that are established in Portuguese territory. The Cotec Award is a recognition to Portuguese entrepreneurs abroad.

The Dutch newspaper Brabants Dagblad published an interview with Joao about the award and European Design Centre. You can read the article here (pdf, the article is in Dutch).

27 January 2012:

Me Craft/You Industry

Premsela’s Me Craft/You Industry symposium, taking place on Friday 27 January at the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, will look at how we can shape the future of industry. The English-language symposium will examine past and present design processes and look toward tomorrow's work landscape – a central concept in the thinking of Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey (Studio Makkink & Bey). The design duo curated the exhibition Industrious|Artefacts: The Evolution of Crafts, on view in the museum through Sunday 12 February. Read more

6-12 February 2012:

Stockholm Design Week

Largest annual design event in Scandinavia. Updates on programme from December 2011. Read more

7-12 February 2012:

Munich Creative Business Week

Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW) will be the special event in the state capital of Bavaria to present multifaceted, innovative design activities, to give momentum to interdisciplinary design discourse and to bring together people in the creative and economic sectors from around the world. MCBW will serve as a platform for fostering international partnerships and demonstrating the business potential of the state of Bavaria and of the partners participating. Read more

Past events:

5-6 December 2011:

Innovation Convention

The first edition of the Innovation Convention will take place 5-6 December 2011 in Square Meeting Centre in Brussels. The conference aims to bring together world leading experts in research and innovation to share their views on building a global innovation economy. The Innovation Convention is all about interaction. Read more

18-27 November 2011:

STRP Festival

STRP is an Art & Technology Festival where Music, Art and Technology merge together. The 5th edition of STRP will take place in the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven. Read more

24-25 November 2011:

Game in the City

This year’s theme of Game in the City is Connecting the Dots. Mapping your options and making connections. Essential steps to be taken if you want to create catchy, innovative or even daring projects. Science, means and possibilities are almost unlimited. But do you recognize an opportunity when you see one? Or even more important: do you have the courage to really go for it? Central event within Game in the City is the Dutch Game Award (24 November). Read more

25 November 2011:

TedX Amsterdam

TED is a nonprofit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. In 2009 TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. TEDxAmsterdam takes place in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam and is ‘invite only'. For more information on attending and to watch previous talks, read more

18 November 2011:

The Europas: European Tech Startup Awards

The Europas are the premier European Awards for early stage Internet and Mobile technology startups. The are selected annually by a combination of The Advisory Board (which changes every year) and the voting by the industry. The award show will take place November 18 in London. Read more

Compilation video of Games for Health Europe

Medsim Portugal

EDC wins Achievement Award 2011