About us

BOOST is the Brabant-wide development agency for student teams. Together with educational institutes, industry and government, BOOST promotes student innovation through student teams.

The Ecosystem of BOOST

As a non-profit development agency, BOOST acts as the platform organisation between student teams, educational institutes and industry. It acts as a centralized funding platform, knowledge center and marketing agency. BOOST is also the program coordinator on student teams between educational institutes.

Partners

Student teams

How will the student of the future be educated?

We enable students to become self-managing, entrepreneurial and multidisciplinary professionals.

BOOST is the innovative platform organization that:

Integrating MBO, HBO and WO while combining various professional backgrounds.

Facilitates active knowledge exchange between industry and education

Supports student-driven initiatives: Facilitate platforms where students develop independence and growth.

The Five Pillars of BOOST

BOOST focuses on expanding the student team ecosystem in Brabant by focusing on five key vision elements. BOOST focuses on encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing among student teams, educational institutions, and industry. BOOST financially supports student teams to foster innovation and facilitates cooperation across different educational levels, creating a rich, synergistic learning environment.

Increasing the human capital within, and gained from, the regional student teams

Stimulating collaboration of different education forms (MBO, HBO, WO), broadening the student team ecosystem

Professionalizing the student team ecosystem, unburdening teams while keeping the challenge

Stimulating student team innovation, leading to more, better developed concepts faster

Create indispensable marketing value for the Brabant region through student teams

We catalyze innovation in the student team ecosystem

We encourage breakthrough ideas through collaboration, knowledge sharing and (financial) support.

BOOST is the innovative platform organization that:

Empowers students to innovate and lead in their field

Creates a new flow of innovation & technology from which startups may emerge

Strengthens ties between industry and academia, leading to practical and timely solutions to current challenges

Meet the team

A small, decisive daily management team that can make quick decisions and consists of people who know the student team program from experience. This MT represents the needs of MBO, HBO and WO students.

Joos Kat

Subsidy Manager

Hugo van Hees

Education Manager

Ewout Hulscher

Partnership Manager

Nick Hol

Chair

Maarten van den Elshout

Community Manager

Supervisory Board

Gerard Spanbroek

Directeur Brabant Startup Fonds

Sandra Rambow

Directeur Avans Ondernemerscentrum

Katja Hilckmann-Winkel

COO Flynth Adviseurs en Accountants

Job Nijs

Directeur Braventure

Beatrix Bos

Project Manager Carbyon

View all our vision and policy documents

Get comprehensive information on our goals, policies, to be developed program elements and how we ensure proper governance of the BOOST foundation.

Documents

General Vision & Policy