Today: Scorion goes international

For the past few years, Scorion has also been used internationally, especially in Germany, South Africa and the United States. This growth has allowed us to support educational institutions around the world with different holistic forms of education. Our company name has been changed to Scorion, in line with our flagship product. Today, about 30 […]

2017: Market leader Netherlands

Scorion has become an important player and market leader in the field of digital (development) portfolios in medical education in the Netherlands. Almost all medicine and dentistry programs now use Scorion. Many other (para)medical programs like physiotherapy, midwifery or occupational therapy also use it. Scorion has also proven its value outside of medical education. In […]

2012–2016: Scorion becomes successful

After Isala and UMCG, the general practitioner (GP) training program joined. They also wanted a way to track the progress of doctors in specialist training. One challenge was that this GP program was offered at seven different universities, each with small differences in their training plans. But Scorion could handle that too. Then more medical […]

2009 – 2012: Programmatic Assessment

In 2009, TU Delft asked if we could rebuild a peer-review tool they had created themselves using Scorion. With some changes, it was possible. The platform started to grow. More and more assessment-like processes in real work situations could now be supported. At TU Delft, the problem was that project teams were working more and […]

2006 – 2008: Beginning of Scorion

In 2006, Bas Aalpoel and Robert Smeenk joined Parantion. Bas, as the new managing director, brought a safe and innovative infrastructure. Robert added a strong educational vision. Together with Roel, they built the foundation for the Scorion portfolio platform. At that time, the ideas of ed-tech and programmatic assessment were still unknown. But in 2006, […]

2003 – 2005: Starting-Up

The ‘bubble’ had a big impact on this young start-up. Between 2003 and 2004, the internet lost some of its shine. But even during this difficult time, Parantion kept going. They believed strongly in their mission: using data to understand behavior and support personal development. The first idea was to build an HR portal where […]

1999: Garage startup

In 1999, when the internet was starting to grow, Roel Smabers and Roelf Sluman started our company, which was then called Parantion. This was just before the first internet bubble. Roelf was a writer and internet expert. Roel was a planner with a strong interest in human development. They both loved innovation and saw new […]