On friday the 30th of May, 2008 the Christiaan Huygens Foundation was officially founded. This was celebrated together with the revelation of a new statue of Christiaan Huygens (http://ch.tudelft.nl/beeld/); an event where the first funds were raised for the Foundation. A raffles was held for an X-Box 360 or one of two watches, donated by Microsoft and juweller Warnaar. The benefits of the ticket sale went to the Foundation. The enthousiasm of all present was seen in the number of tickets: over € 800,- was raised.
On behalf of the Foundation, we would like to thank everybody that helped with the start of the Foundation and the realisation of the statue of Christiaan Huygens.