Veldhoven, the Netherlands

Eindhoven is home to many museums, design studios, art galleries and exhibition spaces, and hosts a variety of theater productions and live music events. The city’s cultural events are popular with a national and international audience. The annual GLOW light festival attracts more than 750,000 visitors, and every year, students from the top-ranked Eindhoven Design Academy along with other innovators and designers in the region display their latest inventions at Dutch Design Week, which attracts over 300,000 visitors.

Further afield in the province of Brabant, cities such as Breda and ‘s-Hertogenbosch offer opportunities for unique historical and cultural exploration. Artist Vincent Van Gogh was born in Brabant, where he also painted his first masterpiece, 'The Potato Eaters'. Van Gogh’s footsteps can be traced close to ASML in places such as Nuenen, Zundert, Tilburg, Etten-Leur and ’s-Hertogenbosch. Within two hours’ travel distance from Eindhoven are the cities of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels and Düsseldorf, and many other European destinations are easily reachable via Eindhoven’s international airport. Finally, the Brainport region also boasts beautiful landscapes and nature reserves, many of which are within easy biking or driving distance from Eindhoven.