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the highlights

Here you can find some of our favourite moments.

track ambassadors

Meet our track ambassadors. These students share their insights from the tracks within the minor program Embrace.

Track Ambassador Jonathan Jayakusuma profile picture

Jonathan Jayakusuma

Company Adventure Track

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Carolina Middel Soria

Company Adventure Track

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Samuel Addokwei

Business & Entrepreneurship Track

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Justice Dreischor

Business & Entrepreneurship Track

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Stan Stelten

Personal Purpose Track

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Aleksandar Lazarov

Personal Purpose Track

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student projects

Empower student Remco Ververgaard profile picture

giving the elderly back their social contacts

For challenge 4, I had to come up with a solution for elderly people with mobility problems.

#empowertec

#prototype

student projects

Empower student Stephan Hemel profile picture

the random lights

Lighting based on sounds and a randomizer

#empowertec

#glow

student projects

Empower student Merlijn van der Veen profile picture

a game about the struggles of life in my head

The challenge was to make any type of game and since I always wanted to try and make a videogame, I decided to do just that.

#empowertec

#selfdiscovery

student projects

Embrace student Justice Dreischor posing in his self made apparel

have faith and strive forward

Finding out what drives me and what makes me challenge myself

#embracetec

#authenticity

no-category

Amber and Pulsed company logo's combined

Amber + Pulsed

Amber and Pulsed join forces together to investigate the motives of Amber users.

#designthinking

#userresearch

student projects

Empower student made a Slick powerbank

the worlds thinnest 
wireless power bank

Creating a portable and wireless charger for all of your home's devices - Slick Powerbank

#designthinking

#embracetec

student projects

Embrace student Keanu van Ruiten working on his product

the perspective of electronic waste mitigation

Recycling is hard and boring. Creativity and design is exciting and sexy. With some tweaking and thinking we could combine the two!

#embracetec

#designthinking

student projects

Empower student Emma-Louise Duffy made a glitter art jar

finding my spark by using sparkles!

Why not do something creative, and add some sparkle to your day while you’re at it as well?

#empowertec

#authenticity

student projects

Embrace student Edwin Gomersbach's logo of True purpose

finding true purpose

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

#embracetec

#prototype

student projects

Embrace students Dhruvil, Rens, Long & Lars made an ikea style buildable racket game

the Kullen racket

Count with your racket, play with your heart.

#stayhomechallenge

#embracetec

student projects

5 weeks remote in the minor

I would like to share the experience I had with the minor for the first 5 weeks while following it fully online - and working remote from Bulgaria

#embracetec

#prototype

student projects

embrace the process

Video capture of my personal process during the #stayhome challenge.

#embracetec

#authenticity

student projects

company adventure @Here Technologies

Our journey of making Adly! A One-Stop Service Application for people to advertise in their desired city. 

#embracetec

#brainporteindhoven

student projects

growing your own greens in the living room

Understanding how to use hydroponics to maximise the potential of living in smaller spaces and to increase the sustainability of big cities. 

#embracetec

#design-based-learning

student projects

rebellion of being myself

My ongoing journey of choosing who I want to be over who I’m expected to be

#authenticity

#embracetec

testimonials

Yusuf Dogan

Study: Industrial Engineering Home country: Turkey

#embracetec

#young-professionals

student projects

SAVE THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS

Turning my #6wordchallenge into a social campaign

#spreadingawareness

#uyghurgenocide

student projects

staying fit during the lockdown

Creating an online Vitality Week to keep everyone motivated to work out and promote a healthy lifestyle by sharing tips, tricks and hacks.

#embracetec

#sportsmediaarya

student projects

Tobias Greve Embrace TEC student profile image

how I kickstarted my own video company

If you’d have told me before this minor that I would have my own business halfway through the program, I wouldn’t have believed you.

#embracetec

#videography

student projects

sketching! my way to change the world.

I wondered if I could help change the way students are forced to learn at schools.

#discovervisually

#visualcommunication

student projects

Jelmer & Raymond from Embrace TEC

making cookies fly

Building a portable cookie dispenser to reward good behaviour

#embracetec

#empathize

testimonials

Shiva is doing the warrior one pose

yoga your way @ Fontys Pulsed

Coming from a background of yoga and meditation I have decided to keep my focus on these subjects while doing my internship of applied psychology at Pulsed. Here I am trying to implement awareness in stillness within the organisation and educational programs.

#young-professionals

#talentdevelopment

testimonials

Demi van Empower

being open was the key to success!

Demi stopped with her bachelor and started the Empower program. Now, half a year later ze looks back at this intense period.

#empower

#wearepulsed

events

In the stairwell of the Heuvel Galerij in Eindhoven. Most visitors take the elevator, so you can stay warm and dry here.

concrete jungle

We pass by tens of people every day… do you sometimes wonder who those people are and what moves them

#society

#homeless

testimonials

Portrait image of Rik Vogel

Rik Vogel

Study: Sports Sciences Home country: The Netherlands

#fontyspulsed

#young-professionals

testimonials

Portrait image of Maartje Groenen

Maartje Groenen

Study: Journalism Home country: The Netherlands

#fontyspulsed

#young-professionals

testimonials

Portrait image of Nick Fuhren.

Nick Fuhren

Study: Communication & Design Home country: The Netherlands

#young-professionals

#fontyspulsed

testimonials

Portrait image of Marta

Marta Kielpinska

Study: ICT & Software Engineering Home country: Poland

#embracetec

#young-professionals

student projects

Portrait image of Edon

bicycle powered phone charger

Created as a Future Solution - a prototype for a phone charger that is powered by a bike.

#embracetec

#prototype

events

Dr. Patrick Kramer implanting a chip into the hand of Jochem Goedhals.

biohacking day @ Fontys Pulsed

Dr. Patrick Kramer implants a chip in the hands of our founder and students from Embrace TEC.

#biohacking

#technology

student projects

Willem posing proudly with a prototype of his modular paddleboard.

modular guitar paddleboard

Created as a Future Solution - a prototype for a modular paddleboard

#embracetec

#prototype

student projects

Jade and Ivan setting up their prototype for a sustainable system for urban farming.

sustainable system for urban farming

Created as a Future Solution - a prototype for a sustainable system for urban farming.

#embracetec

#prototype

events

Jesse and Nick Fuhren portrait image.

glow festival, Eindhoven, 2018

Created as a Future Solution - a digital experience called ‘Fragments of Fascination’

#studentwork

#glowfestival

testimonials

Ijsbrand Geutjes portrait image.

Ijsbrand Geutjes

Study: Mechatronics Home country: The Netherlands

#embracetec

#design-based-learning

testimonials

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Judi Farho

Study: Communication Home country: Syria

#embracetec

#young-professionals

testimonials

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Frederico Belohuby

Study: Mechanical Engineering Home country: Brazil

#embrace

#young-professionals