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1901 2016

Prof. Heike Kamerlingh OnnesLeiden University, founds LiS in 1901Nobel prize Physics 1908

LiS exsits 115 years in 2016 and opens new premises!

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‘KO’ and his scientific friends

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• Prof. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes founded in 1901:

The Society for the Advancement of Instrument Maker Training

• His goal: creating the right quantity/quality craftsman for his scientific work

Roots

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LiS students in 1920

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Student, apprentice, master

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Critical friends…

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Guild of precision engineering

• Close cooperation and interaction with:• Critical friends (alumni)• Market field (R&D)• Scientific research institutes

• Teachers:• Mostly own breed…• Ideal: LiS education, 10-15 years experience

and degree in education

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Research & development

• Developement needs innovation

• Innovation needs research

• Research needs a helping hand

• Helping hands need real work!

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Centre of innovations

• Dutch financial arrangement for development of innovative craftmanship

• Close cooperation between education, business and R&D

• LiS: medical device development

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Instruments for ‘cure’

Care. Research

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Environment

• A large network is needed for excellence

• Students are challanged by the needs of this network!

• LiS has built this network in the > 100 years it excists!

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CiV-LSH

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Erasmus

Tell me and I will forget it. Devote me and I will cary it with me for ever!