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== Science and education ==
[[File:Westerbork Synthese Radio Telescoop.JPG|thumb|[[Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope]]]]

[[ASTRON]], the Netherlands institute for [[radio astronomy]], is located near [[Dwingeloo]]. Their single-dish [[radio telescope]] of the [[Dwingeloo Radio Observatory]] was completed in 1956 and is now a national heritage site (''[[rijksmonument]]''). Their [[Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope]] is an array of fourteen dishes near the village of [[Westerbork (village)|Westerbork]] and construction was completed in 1970. Their international [[Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR)|Low-Frequency Array]] with its core near [[Exloo]] was completed in 2012.

In Assen, Emmen, and Meppel are universities of applied sciences (''[[Vocational university#Netherlands|hogescholen]]''). The [[Stenden University of Applied Sciences]] has locations in these three towns, which formed the [[Drenthe University of Applied Sciences]] before a merger in 2008. The [[Hanze Institute of Technology]], part of the [[Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen|Hanze University of Applied Sciences]], is located in Assen. There are no research universities (''universiteiten'') in the province of Drenthe.