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Our first-ever 'Build & Connect' event, on May 6, 2026 at CometLab, was a success! A big thank you to the scientists, students, investors and experts who joined our workshop at CometLab / NL Space Campus. We shared our journey, tools and equipment — and of course, our very own Ali Azadbakht. No better way to understand our mission than by building an optical tweezer microscope piece by piece. It was hands‑on, chaotic in the best way, and genuinely fun. Or, as somebody told us

Noordwijk-based Scientific pre-incubator Wfront Principle got off to a running start this year with two separate grants that have been awarded recently. The Province of Zuid-Holland approved of a €100,000 subsidy while NLnet chipped in €49,800. Wfront provides independent scientists with funding for a year. The goal is to come up with innovative desktop tools that can either be open sourced or be brought to the market by start-ups. The boundaries are clear: one year, one cubi