Focussing on food, nutrition, health and logistics

In the area around Venlo, where horticultural innovation and logistics play the lead role, the Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo is developing into the third campus under the Brightlands umbrella. Alongside the Brightlands Chemelot Campus (Geleen), where the emphasis lies on performance materials, and the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus, which focuses on health, the Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo is doing its utmost to put the themes of food, nutrition and logistics firmly on the world stage.

The heart of Brightlands lies in the Dutch province of Limburg, which is located in the top technology triangle formed by Eindhoven, Leuven and Aachen. The region extends over the frontiers of Germany and Belgium. In this international zone, open-innovation campuses and knowledge institutions derive the maximum benefit from each other’s activities and from cross-border collaboration between fundamental and applied research, academics and business developers, (agrarian) manufacturing industry and healthcare, chemists and doctors, designers and programmers, engineers and biologists, service providers and producers, multinationals and start-ups, teachers and students.

The heart of Brightlands lies in the Dutch province of Limburg, which is located in the top technology triangle formed by Eindhoven, Leuven and Aachen. Next to Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, Brightlands consists of Brightlands Chemelot Campus (performance materials) and the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus (health).

A breeding ground for new, high-tech market gardening

Situated in the middle of the second biggest single horticultural production area in Europe, Venlo is a breeding ground for new, high-tech market gardening. Entrepreneurs and researchers in food and logistics want to be where it’s all happening. And that is here! With the extensive know-how available in the region, the agrarian, logistical mind-set, and the presence of companies and institutes that can take new ideas further, Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo is contributing to the solution of global problems in the field of food safety, food security, and healthy, tasty food.

The campus focuses on four programme lines:
- propagating and growing
- food processing and health
- bio-based use of raw materials
- logistics and services.