{"id":164,"date":"2025-11-17T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vd32448.hands-web6.level27.eu\/?p=164"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:20:01","slug":"surely-you-also-recognise-the-new-toplas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/u-herkent-toch-ook-het-nieuwe-toplas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing director Martijn Geerits nominated for JCI Award Limburg Young Entrepreneur 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"610\">We are proud to announce that <strong data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"383\">Martijn Geerits<\/strong>, managing director of <strong data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"411\">Toplas<\/strong>, nominated as a finalist for the <strong data-start=\"449\" data-end=\"494\">JCI Award Limburg Young Entrepreneur 2026<\/strong>. The nomination was officially announced during the <strong data-start=\"550\" data-end=\"601\">Launch event of JCI Limburg on December 9, 2025<\/strong> In Genk.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"646\"><strong data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"646\">Strong batch of finalists<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"971\">Each year, the JCI Award highlights young entrepreneurial talent in Limburg. For the 2026 edition, four finalists were selected from a large number of high-quality nominations. Besides Martijn Geerits <strong data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"891\">Tasso Limneos (Victus Sales)<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"893\" data-end=\"919\">Thomas Jeurissen (MVT)<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"923\" data-end=\"952\">Dorien Breels (Pubmarket)<\/strong> along to the title.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"973\" data-end=\"1091\">JCI Limburg speaks of an exceptionally strong batch and stresses that the choice will be particularly difficult this year.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1820\" data-end=\"1853\"><strong data-start=\"1824\" data-end=\"1853\">Theme 2026: Intergalactic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"2125\">The theme of this year's track is <strong data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"1929\">Intergalactic<\/strong>, a metaphor for groundbreaking thinking and entrepreneurship that dares to grow beyond classical limits. An approach that perfectly matches the ambition and innovativeness of the finalists.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"2127\" data-end=\"2172\"><strong data-start=\"2131\" data-end=\"2172\">Final on 2 April 2026 at C-Mine Genk<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2314\">The winner of the JCI Award Limburg Young Entrepreneur 2026 will be announced during the final show at <strong data-start=\"2278\" data-end=\"2294\">2 April 2026<\/strong> at <strong data-start=\"2298\" data-end=\"2313\">C-Mine Genk<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWe know who our vote would go to ;-).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that Martijn Geerits, business manager of Toplas, has been nominated as a finalist for the JCI Award Limburg Young Entrepreneur 2026. The nomination was officially announced at the JCI Limburg Launch Event on 9 December 2025 in Genk.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-niet-gecategoriseerd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}