First stone Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus
Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Day on day 26 years after Bill Gates visited our first campus. What moment is more suitable to anchor our plans for the future?
Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Day on day 26 years after Bill Gates visited our first campus. What moment is more suitable to anchor our plans for the future?
First stone Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus
Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Day on day 26 years after Bill Gates visited our first campus. What moment is more suitable to anchor our plans for the future? Anchoring that you can almost take literally. In the good company of Flemish Vice-Minister-President Hilde Crevits, Mayor of Vilvoorde Hans Bonte and Chairman of our Advisory Board, Herman Van Rompuy, we are starting the construction of our bra-new innovation campus. And we did that in a unique way: Minister Crevits and Mayor Hans Bonte placed the first window of our campus in exoskeletons.
Read more about it in our press release: https://www.mynewsdesk.com/nl_... (EN) https://www.mynewsdesk.com/nl_... (NL) https://www.mynewsdesk.com/nl_... (FR)
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