ICT with industry
ICT with Industry is a workshop that focuses on devising innovative solutions for scientifically challenging, commercial business cases. By bringing together researchers and companies during a week-long workshop. NWO organises this workshop together with the Lorentz Center and IPN since 2013. The aim is to stimulate cooperation and knowledge exchange between science and industry. Scientists and researchers from both academia and industry work closely together for a week to find original solutions to challenging industrial problems.
The ICT with Industry workshop brings IT and Computer Science researchers – in particular (junior) research staff and PhD students – together with professionals from the industry and governments. The teams consist of PhD students and postdocs from research institutions and universities across the Netherlands. Each team has access to a company representative and senior researcher to ensure progress and scientific quality. The workshop takes place every year at the Lorentz Center in Leiden and the language of communication is English.
For companies
ICT with Industry is an excellent opportunity to discover new and creative solutions for your company case. Be inspired, surprised, and get in touch with talent! Each participating company is asked to pay a small fee.
- Small and medium-sized enterprises with less than 50 FTEs contribute €1250, – (excl. VAT)
- Large enterprises with more than 50 FTEs contribute €4000,- (excl. VAT)
Registration
Submit your company case by filling in this template and sending it to ICT with Industry. The scientific organisers will work with you for the right wording and content of your case. For more information, please refer to the Poster for companies . Here you can also find the proceedings of ICTwI2024 and ICTwI2025 of past events. The deadline for sending in your company case is 20 June 2025.
Confidentiality agreement
To stimulate a free flow of information, all participants (including companies) will sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to enable information protection. More details will be discussed in the intake with the organisation. If you have questions about this point before, please contact us.
Practicalities
- During the workshop week, we ask to have at least one company representative to be present for at the Lorentz Center to help and answer questions from the students. This ensures good interaction with the students and will also significantly benefit the results for your company. Every company present will have access to their own workspace.
- During the workshop week, a senior researcher, who is an expert on the problem, will be present as a group leader for the students to ensure progress and scientific quality.
The workshop has scientific organisers and a scientific committee consisting of researchers from various universities and institutes, the Lorentz Center, NWO and IPN. If you have further questions about your company case, please contact the scientific organisers Dr. Silvia Rossi and/or Dr. Simon Gunkel.
For participants
Do you want to broaden your horizon and get to know the industry? Then this is the workshop for you! You will become acquainted with the industry during this workshop by working on a company case. Together with the company, you go over the problem and start working towards a solution with your team. Collaborating with other researchers from different disciplines expands your network and experience working within a team with a common mission.
Participation is free of charge, including the lunches and dinners mentioned in the program. Registration for this workshop will open in October 2025.
Organisers
The workshop has scientific organisers and a scientific committee consisting of researchers from various universities and institutes, the Lorentz Center, NWO and IPN.
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