Theme
Bring your water innovation to life
Zeeland lives with water. Innovatiepunt KAAP strengthens the maritime sector and water technology.
Westerschelde now
Safe, smart and sustainable with water
Zeeland is a water province through and through: from the Westerschelde to the Oosterschelde, from fresh to salt. Knowledge and innovation networks here join forces on flood safety, water quality and generating sustainable energy from water. Companies, education and research institutes work together on practical innovations that can scale up nationally.
Discover the ecosystem
Test and develop
Facilities for water
The spaces and equipment for this theme: at KAAP itself and at the partners on the Kenniswerf.
This overview is just getting started and fills up over the coming months. Missing a place where people can test? Let us know.
At KAAP Ontwikkel- en demoruimte
Hall of 2,000 m² for full-scale innovation tests.
In the network AI impression HZ zoutwaterlab
HZ, Edisonweg 4, Vlissingen
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Listen: water in the podcast
All episodesEpisodes from several podcast series. The source is shown on each episode.
Kenniswerf x Vlissingen Samenwerken in de Delta
Joyce ten Holter (Delta Climate Center) en Karin Bilo (Ørsted)
Hoe ziet samenwerking eruit wanneer onderwijs, overheid, onderzoek en bedrijfsleven elkaar vinden rond grote klimaat- en energievraagstukken? Over natuurherstel, windparken, waterbeheer en oesterherstel, met Zeeland als living lab.
CO3 Connect Van watertekort tot AI
Hans van Bokhoven en Sander Geldof (Laurus Tech)
Over maatwerksoftware voor de uitdagingen van de toekomst: van smart irrigation voor de landbouw en waterbehandeling tot AI die ontwerp en onderhoud ondersteunt. Een Zeeuws gesprek over technologie in de regio.
What we work on within water
Pick the subject that comes closest to your own. It shows what is running, where you can work on it and who to contact.
- Inspection with drones and robots Inspecting a turbine blade or a quay wall without sending anyone up. The setups for that are built and demonstrated here.
- Energy from tides and currents Zeeland has tides, currents and locks. Turbines that harvest energy from them are tested here, right where the water actually flows.
- Seaweed and saline crops In Zeeland, salt water is not a problem but a raw material. From seaweed to shellfish and crops that tolerate salt.
- Fresh water and water quality Fresh water is scarce in a delta. Measuring, purifying and reusing it is daily practice here, not theory.
Learn more about this theme
Courses from HZ University of Applied Sciences around this transition.
The networks behind water
Public-private partnerships that bring education, research, government and business together on this transition.
Delta Platform
Knowledge network for delta and water technology
Delta Platform connects universities of applied sciences, research and business around delta technology. The network translates research into applications for flood safety, climate adaptation and circular water systems.
Dockwize
Cross-thematic innovation broker of Zeeland
Dockwize works across all three themes as an innovation broker. The network connects startups, scale-ups and small businesses with partners and facilities, and co-leads Energy Campus Zeeland and the KAAP food facilities.
Organisations in water
Partners of KAAP and the test locations we refer to, active on this theme.
Join in
Working on water yourself?
Test, develop and demonstrate at real scale on the Kenniswerf. We think along from idea to demo.
