Development
A campus, next to being made up out of hardware such as buildings, facilities and land, exists above all of the people. They need to be able to meet each other. We stimulate meetings and accidental encounters. It is a fine art of organising coincidence by continuously balancing innovation programmes, by enthusiastic community management and by developing the area in the best way possible.
The municipality of Noordwijk adopted end of 2020 unanimously the strategic area vision and an indicative businesscase for the development of a modular Basecamp. This Basecamp aims to accelerate the development in the area, activate the plan area and facilitate and stimulate parties to meet and collaborate.
Phased Development
NL Space Campus area currently is in the first of three planned phases of area development. This offers unique possibilities for ‘early adopters’ to become part of NL Space Campus, especially for start-ups and talents.
NL Space Campus has adopted a phased development approach that offers the desired flexibility to respond to new developments with room for the wishes and insights of initiators and stakeholders in the area.
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The strategic area vision kicks off with the Activation of the Open Field: symbolizing open innovation the NL Space Campus will activate an open terrain by providing walkways, a simple meeting stage and very basic elements to trigger incidental meetings next to the food truck and not to forget: a big event space for people of all disciplines and backgrounds to meet, share thoughts, discuss problems and have ingenious or crazy ideas. It is this very first step that will fuel our curiosity for what could be next and which new ambitions we can have. -
Soon, the activation of Open Field will be followed by a Basecamp that provides those facilities needed to accelerate and stimulate campus development. Think of such elementary items as a catering facility, meeting rooms, a Fablab, flexible office spaces, a FabLab and an AIT facility. -
After Basecamp the NL Space Campus will follow a market-driven maturation approach by welcoming parties that contribute and strengthen the innovation and technology areas on upstream and downstream side of the business. The Campus will reach from upstream enabling sensors or equipment development to downstream data application with relevant Centres on the Campus such as the Galileo Reference Centre (GRC) and the GNSS Centre of Excellence (GNNS CoE) and consequently foster lines of business where the parties of the ecosystem truly excel.
