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30 July 2021

DPI Annual Meeting 2021 - Save the Date

Connect screen-to-screen As we are not sure if by November 2021 circumstances regarding COVID-19 and associated travel restrictions will allow us to meet our international attendees in a personal fac...
DPI Annual Meeting 2021 - Save the Date
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10 June 2021

Vacature Financieel Administratief Medewerker

Ben jij de Financieel Administratief Medewerker (24 uur/week) die wij zoeken? Binnen de afdeling finance run jij de crediteuren- en debiteuren administratie. Daarnaast verricht je ook werkzaamheden d...
Vacature Financieel Administratief Medewerker
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3 June 2021

DPI is looking for a Senior Project Manager

We are looking for a firm and inspiring candidate to take up the position of Senior Project Manager for the circular plastics project InReP - An Integrated Approach towards Recycling of Plastics.

DPI is looking for a Senior Project Manager
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5 January 2021

Happy 2021!

We wish you a happy, healthy and innovative 2021!  DPI’s strength remains network-based collaboration. As a member of the worldwide DPI network, you are a vital part of that strength! In light of t...
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7 December 2020

Circular Plastics Conference 2021

A series of expert events on closing the loop in single-use plasticsFebruary 4 | February 25 | March 18 | April 8 | April 29 | May 20Registration opens mid December Connecting the circular plastic co...
Circular Plastics Conference 2021
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22 October 2020

DPI is looking for a Business Developer

DPI has an ambition for growth and our Business Development department plays an important role in the further initiation of new research programmes as well as the acquisition of new partners. In this ...
DPI is looking for a Business Developer
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29 September 2020

DPI Annual Meeting 2020

We are pleased to announce that DPI's Annual Meeting 2020 will be held in Eindhoven (Netherlands) as well as online on the afternoon of Tuesday 27 October. The structure and programme have been adapte...
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15 August 2019

DPI is looking for a Managing Director

We are looking for an inspirational and decisive leader to take up the position of Managing Director. Your challenge will be to position DPI nationally and internationally as a unique collaboration p...
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28 June 2019

Save the Date: 12 November 2019, DPI Annual Meeting 2019

DPI’s Annual Meeting 2019 will be held in Eindhoven (Netherlands) on Tuesday, November 12. This year’s Annual Meeting will mark a changeover in DPI’s top management. A key programme item is therefore...
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11 February 2019

DPI is looking for a Managing Director

We are looking for an inspirational and decisive leader to take up the position of Managing Director. Your challenge will be to position DPI nationally and internationally as a unique collaboration p...
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11 December 2018

Looking back at the DPI Annual Meeting 2018

This year, DPI’s Annual Meeting was centred around the theme of a Circular Economy. Around 175 people from across the world attended the event, held at the Holiday Inn hotel in Eindhoven on 13 and 14 ...
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26 November 2018

Article The Guardian: The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference?

In its regular feature “The long read”, the leading UK newspaper The Guardian recently published an in-depth article on the highly topical theme of plastics. The article provides a balanced overview o...
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2 October 2018

Thijs Michels, “HOW POLYETHENE CAME ABOUT”

From thermodynamics and molecular interactions to the ‘Michels pressure balance’: the fascinating story of how the long Dutch tradition of scientific research on gases and liquids contributed to the d...
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27 September 2018

DPI Annual Meeting 2018

The DPI Annual Meeting 2018 will be held at Holiday Inn Eindhoven on Tuesday 13 November.  This year’s theme will be Circular Economy, which is highly relevant in today’s world and will no doubt be o...
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6 August 2018

DPI launches initiative to explore full circularity of flexible plastic packaging

DPI is seeking to team up with its industrial partners in the field of polyolefins (PO) to launch a programme of activities aimed at exploring the technical and economic feasibility of achieving full ...
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11 June 2018

DPI postdoc Georgios Vogiatzis receives GRACM PhD Award

DPI postdoc Georgios Vogiatzis received the GRACM PhD Award for the best thesis of the year 2015 in the field of Computational Mechanics in Greece for the year of 2015 at the triennial Greek Associati...
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16 April 2018

Polyolefins: five new projects

Five new projects have been approved within the area Polyolefins. DPI prides itself on selecting only research projects to be executed in best of class academic groups at universities worldwide on beh...
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5 April 2018

New projects in area Polymers for Oil and Gas

Two new DPI projects studying adsorption during polymer flooding have recently started within the area Polymers for oil & gas, one at the University of Bordeaux and the other at the University of Twen...
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14 December 2017

DPI Annual Meeting 2017

This year, DPI’s Annual Meeting was a special occasion. It marked the institute’s twentieth anniversary. The event took place on 7 and 8 November and the venue, fittingly, was the Pullman Hotel in Ein...
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20 November 2017

A post-plastic age by stealth?

A blog by Johan Schot (Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex and Professor in History of Technology and Sustainability Transition Studies), invited speaker at...
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19 October 2017

Third instalment The Plastics Revolution

We are pleased to announce the online publication of the third instalment of The Plastics Revolution: How the Netherlands Became a Global Player in Plastics. The first two instalments were published o...
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22 September 2017

Second instalment of The Plastics Revolution published

DPI, the collaboration platform for industry-driven research in the field of polymers, is pleased to announce the publication of The Plastics Revolution: How the Netherlands Became a Global Player in ...
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22 August 2017

Call for Proposals: Polyolefins

The industrial funding partners in the Programme Committee of the DPI Polyolefins programme are looking forward to project proposals for projects to start in 2018. Preferred topics of  new project pr...
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13 July 2017

First instalment of The Plastics Revolution published: book highlights Dutch contribution to the development of plastics

DPI, the collaboration platform for industry-driven research in the field of polymers, is pleased to announce the publication of The Plastics Revolution: How the Netherlands Became a Global Player in ...
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4 April 2017

DPI Fast Track Projects initiated!

DPI initiated 17 Fast Track Projects in Q4 2016. These projects focus on research challenges for Industrial partners in the areas of Coatings Technology, Performance Polymers and Polyolefins. The proj...
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24 March 2017

DPI launches a new proposition; DPI Value Chain Projects

In addition to our Fundamental Programme, which has projects which are typically 3-4 years, DPI is now initiating a Project proposition which is focused towards industrial research Challenges with a t...
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17 March 2017

Brightlands Rolduc Polymer Conference: Call for abstracts

The Rolduc Abbey in the south of the Netherlands will be the venue of the Brightlands Rolduc Polymer Conference, which will be held on 10-13 September. It is a revival of the well-known Rolduc Polymer...
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15 December 2016

Key challenges in the plastic packaging industry

During our Annual Meeting in November, dr. Rolf Scherrenberg from SABIC gave a very interesting lecture about the challenges in the plastic packaging industry. Click here to view the slides from this...
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15 December 2016

DPI Golden Thesis Award 2016

The DPI Golden Thesis Award for 2016 has been granted to Dr. Davood Abbaszadeh in recognition of his excellent research in the field of polymers, as published in the thesis Reduction of Loss Process...
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6 October 2016

Call for Proposals: Polyolefins

Please note our Call for Proposals for the DPI 2.0 Polyolefins (PO) programme for projects to start in 2017.

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14 March 2016

Yi Jiang designated ‘cum laude' for PhD thesis & wins poster award at DPD 2016

On 4 March DPI researcher Yi Jiang defended his thesis entitled ‘Enzymatic polymerization of biobased polyesters and polyamides' at the University Groningen under supervision of Professor Katja Loos. He received the designation ‘cum laude' for his outstanding scientific work and defense of his thesis.

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4 March 2016

Lifetime Achievement Award emeritus professor Noordermeer

Professor Jacques Noordermeer, emeritus professor of the University of Twente was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tire Technology Expo and Conference 14-17th of February in Hannover, Germany in recognition of a career of outstanding service to the tire industry.

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18 February 2016

Call for Proposals "Chemistry of Advanced Materials"

NWO is pleased to announce that a Call for Proposals "Chemistry of Advanced Materials" for a science industry cooperation programme with the Science & Technology Commission of the Chinese province Guangdong (GDST) was published on the NWO website on 1 February, and that the programme is now open for submissions. The deadline is 28 June. The Chinese version can be found on the website of GDST.

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22 January 2016

Six grants awarded to New Polymer Materials research projects

In December 2015, NWO has awarded six New Polymer Materials (NEWPOL) grants. These public-private partnerships will be conducted in collaboration with DPI. The various research projects aim at the development of new polymeric materials that meet the societal and industrial needs for sustainability and multi-functionality.

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14 December 2015

DPI launches new polymer research programme

DPI (Dutch Polymer Institute) is to continue its activities in a new format. The Supervisory Board of DPI, comprising representatives of DPI's industrial partners SABIC, Shell and Teijin Aramid and academic partners Delft University of Technology and Groningen University and chaired by Dr. Herman van Wechem, unanimously supports the continuation of DPI. This means that the institute can continue to fulfil its key role as an international platform for industry-driven polymer research and go on stimulating innovation and talent development.

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20 July 2015

NWO opens call for proposals on Biobased Performance Materials (BPM2-NWO)

NWO Chemical Sciences opens a call for proposals within the Biobased Performance Materials (BPM) programme in cooperation with the Dutch Polymer Institute.

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1 July 2015

Call for Proposals New Polymer Materials (NEWPOL)

Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) and NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) have jointly published a Call for Proposals for academic research in the field of new polymer materials. The New Polymers technology area (TA-NEWPOL) is a public-private partnership programme developed in close collaboration between NWO and DPI, which acts as the private partner representing its industrial partner base.

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23 June 2015

DPI Annual Report 2014: The Moment of Truth

The year 2014 saw the unfolding of the Dutch government's new Top Sectors policy. Over the past year, the contours of this policy and its implications have become clearer. The new policy has put an end to the specific funding schemes supporting individual institutions such as the Leading Technology Institutes (LTIs) - of which DPI is one - regardless of their past performance. A more generic policy has been introduced instead, with a different organisational set-up and a different incentives structure.

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15 June 2015

René Janssen wins Spinoza Prize

Professor René Janssen will receive a Spinoza Prize, the highest Dutch award in science. This was announced by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on 12 June. NWO praises Janssen, professor of Molecular Materials and Nanosystems, as ‘world leader in the field of organic solar cells'.

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19 December 2014

Cum Laude PhD defense PO researcher Ivan Kryven

Last week Ivan Kryven obtained his PhD cum laude at the University of Amsterdam with professor Piet Iedema of the Computational Polymer Chemistry group. Kryven worked on DPI project 674: Rheology Control by Branching Modelling in the Polyolefins Technology Area.

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16 December 2014

DPI Golden Thesis Award 2014

The DPI Golden Thesis Award 2014 has been granted to Mark van Eldijk for his thesis entitled "Elastin-like Polypeptides in Protein Nanotechnology". Mark did his PhD work at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands) under the supervision of Prof. Jan van Hest. The Golden Thesis Award is granted annually for the best PhD thesis resulting from DPI-funded research. Mark van Eldijk was unanimously selected as the winner from among the three finalists competing for this year's award. The other two candidates were: Gert-Jan Wetzelaer (University of Groningen), with a thesis on "Change Transport and Recombination in Organic-Semiconductor Diodes"; and Diego Wever (University of Groningen), with a thesis on "Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Linear and Branched Polyacrylamides for Enhanced Oil Recovery". The award was presented during the plenary session of the DPI Annual Meeting 2014 in Arnhem on 11 November.

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16 December 2014

Platform Composites

Supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the two Top Sectors Chemicals and High Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM), the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) and Materials Innovation Institute (M2i) are setting up a new programme with fundamental and applied research projects. The strategic objectives of the programme are to create an innovative network and to accelerate development and application of fiber reinforced polymers in selected market segments and to create specific fields of expertise in knowledge domains not yet widely covered in foreign programmes.

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16 December 2014

DPI Annual Meeting 2014: The Road to the Future

This year's DPI Annual Meeting was held on 11-12 November and the venue was once again the Papendal Hotel conference centre in Arnhem (Netherlands). The programme included the Annual Meeting, the Technology Area review meetings, the half-yearly meeting of the Council of Participants and DPI Value Centre's annual Polymer Innovation Day.

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2 December 2014

Best Poster Presentation Award for Qingbao Guan

At the 9th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-9, from 15 until 17 October 2014) in Suzhou Qingbao Guan working on DPI project #761 received the Best Poster Presentation Award out of 46 posters displayed at the conference poster session. His poster titled "Poly(P-oxybenzoate) Reinforced Polyesterimide Molecular Composites", which displayed the results he has achieved within his DPI project titled "Reactive Liquid Crystal Oligomers as Precursors Towards Composite Resins" was selected by the jury because of its excellent scientific significance and clear industrial relevance.

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16 September 2014

DPI and M2i to collaborate on composites research programme

The Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) and the Materials Innovation Institute M2i, two of the technological top institutes in the Netherlands, have been asked by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Top Sectors of Chemicals and High Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM) to jointly set up a research programme in fibre-reinforced polymer matrix composites. The research programme is intended to start before the end of this year.

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8 August 2014

Prof. Schubert on Highly Cited Researchers list

Professor Ulrich Schubert of the University of Jena is on the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Thomson-Reuters 2014. Professor Schubert is an active member of the DPI community.

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8 August 2014

Synthetic rubber repairs itself

A new synthetic rubber developed by EU-funded researchers repairs itself. That means longer-lasting components, plus reduced maintenance costs and waste. The rubber will initially be used for reducing rail and traffic noise, with many more applications to follow.

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1 July 2014

DPI Annual Report 2013: Charting a New Course

owards a new format for DPI Last year, in our Foreword to the 2012 Annual Report, we had expressed the hope that the Dutch government would take a long-term view and continue to support public-private partnerships like DPI as part of its policy to promote collaborative research and innovation and enhance the knowledge infrastructure in the Netherlands. Over the past fifteen years, DPI has developed into an internationally acclaimed example of cost effectively addressing the needs of industry while at the same time building a strong academic base producing innovative solutions as well as competently trained polymer experts. DPI's success is also the success of the Dutch government, whose commitment and financial support have all along been of crucial importance in creating the strong knowledge infrastructure for polymers that the Netherlands boasts today.

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31 March 2014

Gert-Jan Wetzelaer (RUG) designated ‘cum laude’ for his DPI thesis

On 28 March DPI researcher Gert-Jan Wetzelaer defended his thesis entitled ‘Charge Transport and Recombination in Organic-Semiconductor Diodes' at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen under supervision of Prof. Paul Blom and Prof. Dago de Leeuw. He received the designation ‘cum laude' for his outstanding scientific work and defence of his thesis.

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26 March 2014

Prof. Klumperman received Gold Medal of the South African Chemical Institute

A leading international scientist in the field of polymer sciences at Stellenbosch University has received the highest possible accolade from the South African Chemical Institute.

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