Consortium

Businesses and institutions can combine strengths with TU Delft and other knowledge institutions. By focusing on a single theme, it is easier to concentrate knowledge within TU Delft and form research programmes.   

Large corporations and knowledge institutions

TU Delft is continuously involved, both at national and European level, in numerous consortiums with large corporations and knowledge institutions. Within the large Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes of the EU (FP6 & FP7), TU Delft takes part in more than 200 research projects with partners from all over the EU.

The map below shows the total number of FP7 partners for the various European regions.

TU Delft cooperates most intensively with international partners from the Ile de France region (Paris and environs). In addition, extensive collaboration is undertaken with partners from regions in Denmark, Switzerland and Germany. Some of our frequent partners from these regions are the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, the University of Copenhagen, cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt E.V.  

Small and Medium Enterprises

Small and Medium Enterprises can also join consortiums engaging in a specific research theme. In such cases businesses, government agencies and knowledge institutions jointly cover the entire chain of a specific theme: from innovative research to supplier to end user.

Here are a number of examples of current consortiums in which TU Delft works together with small businesses:

MicroNed

MicroNed is a national consortium of researchers and entrepreneurs in the field of microsystem technology. Microsystem technology integrates various functions (such as electrical, optical and thermal signalling, sensors and actuators) in a system at micrometer scale. About 250 researchers from a broad range of disciplines are active within MicroNed, which comprises 9 knowledge institutes and 23 businesses, including 18 SMEs.

Greenport Campus

To stimulate innovation in the Dutch horticultural sector, the Greenport Campus has been set up for technical suppliers of the horticultural sector and their customers (the growers). With the support of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Province of Zuid-Holland, parties from the horticultural cluster are working together with TU Delft, Kennisalliantie Zuid-Holland, TNO, Demokwekerij, Wageningen UR Glastuinbouw and Hogeschool INHolland University of Applied Sciences.

D-CIS Lab
D-CIS Lab (Delft Collaboration on Intelligent Systems) is a research consortium dedicated to innovation in information systems for collaborative decision making and enhanced situation awareness. The D-CIS Lab’s research goal is to become a centre of expertise on actor-agent communities (AACs).