🇳🇱 DutchSanne
0/10📍 Strijp-S
design, urban gardening, slow Sunday markets, philosophy
🐙 A fruitbody of The Octopus Movement
Project Eindhoven1000 Conversations
Eindhoven is full of incredible people from all over the world. Let's meet some of them — ten coffees, walks and conversations at a time.
€50 for 10 thoughtful matches.
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🎉 When we hit 1,000 conversations, we're throwing a party in Eindhoven.
Three ways to weave the city together
We track three kinds of conversations — because Eindhoven's magic is in the mixing.
🇳🇱Locals meet locals
Dutch ↔ Dutch
Dutch Eindhovenaren meeting other Dutch Eindhovenaren — across neighborhoods, generations and bubbles.
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🌍Newcomers meet newcomers
International ↔ International
The brilliant international community of Eindhoven — meeting each other across countries, languages and stories.
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🤝The bridge
Mixed conversations
Where Dutch and international meet. The conversations that actually integrate a city.
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A glimpse of the mycelium
Some of the humans you might meet
These illustrated examples show the spirit of Project Eindhoven. Once the waitlist opens, real Eindhovenaren take their place — with their own photos, neighborhoods and passions.
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇳🇱 DutchBram
0/10📍 Tongelre
cycling, jazz, repair cafés, Brabantse history
🌍 InternationalPriya
0/10📍 Woensel
AI ethics, dance, vegetarian cooking, climate
🌍 InternationalMarco
0/10📍 Centrum
music production, football, Brazilian coffee, startups
🤝 Both / mixedYasmin
0/10📍 Stratum
community building, poetry, third-culture stories
🌍 InternationalKenji
0/10📍 Eckart
industrial design, tea, long walks, quiet conversations
Illustrated examples — not real Project Eindhoven members yet. Be one of the first.
How it works
Powered by OptiMatch
We use OptiMatch to test the likelihood of a real friendship before we introduce you. No swiping, no small talk roulette — just thoughtful matches with people you were probably meant to meet.
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Join the waitlist
Tell us a little about you and who you'd love to meet.
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Get matched
OptiMatch quietly works out who in Eindhoven you'll click with.
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Meet offline
Coffee, a walk, a borrel — you and your match decide where & when.
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Do it 10 times
Ten conversations. €50. One thicker, kinder city.
Read the stories
What happens over a coffee in Eindhoven
Little dispatches from the mycelium — the moments where two strangers stop being strangers.
Two Eindhovenaren, one bakfiets
Sanne (Strijp-S) & Bram (Tongelre)
They grew up 4 km apart and never met. One coffee at Piet Hein Eek became a Sunday repair café habit — and a plan to fix half of Tongelre's broken bikes.
A Brazilian and a Japanese designer walk into a café
Marco (Centrum) & Kenji (Eckart)
They expected small talk. They got a four-hour conversation about industrial design, bossa nova and why Eindhoven feels like home in a way neither of their home cities do.
The walk that became a community garden
Priya (Woensel) & a local Eindhovenaar
A Stadswandeling, a shared interest in climate, and a vacant patch behind the flat. Six months later: tomatoes, neighbours, a WhatsApp group of 38 people.
Stories from the wider Octopus Movement — Project Eindhoven's first will be written by you.
About us
Who's behind Project Eindhoven
Project Eindhoven is a small group of Eindhovenaren — Dutch and international — who think this city is quietly extraordinary, and that we don't talk to each other nearly enough.
We're a fruitbody of The Octopus Movement: a worldwide, non-profit human mycelium of people growing connection underneath the surface of cities. The Octopus Movement has helped tens of thousands of people meet across more than 100 countries. Now it's Eindhoven's turn.
Our promise is simple: we put €50 of your trust to work matching you with ten humans you'd probably never meet otherwise — using OptiMatch to test the likelihood of a real friendship before we introduce you. No swiping. No networking. Just ten honest conversations, in real cafés, with real people.
We start in Eindhoven. Then, with you, we do it everywhere. 🐙
The bigger picture
A fruitbody of the Human Mycelium
Project Eindhoven is one fruitbody of The Octopus Movement's Human Mycelium — a quiet, worldwide network of people growing connection underneath the surface of cities. We start here. Then we do it everywhere.
🐙 EindhovenNew YorkLondonLisbonParisRiyadhBerlinAmsterdamBarcelonaTokyoSão PauloMexico CityCape Town…a city near you
Join the waitlist
Be one of the first thousand. We'll open matchmaking as soon as the mycelium is dense enough to find you a great first match.