It was a year of academic achievements, heroes, turbulent education policy in The Hague, and above all, a disastrous report about the lack of social safety. Let’s look back at Delta in 2024. We will be back on 6 January. We wish you a wonderful festive season!
Purple nail polish, drag queen bingo and free poffertjes. TU Delft study associations organised several activities for Purple Friday to raise awareness and acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community on campus.
“Studying is a right, not a privilege!” and “Don’t do it!” resound around campus on Wednesday afternoon. TU Delft students and staff members again demonstrated against the planned cutbacks on higher education worth billions.
Delft Matters (DM), the TU Delft magazine for alumni, staff members and students, will no longer be published on paper from July 2025. Instead, it will be published online. DM’s predecessor, Delft Integraal, was first published in 1984 with a print run of 6,000. The print run is now about nine times more.
The opening of the social safety contact point, that was originally set for 1 October, will be postponed to 2025. This transpired on Thursday 5 December after a consultation meeting between the representation bodies and the Executive Board.
The Dutch Open Government Act and the European AI Act. These currently relevant subjects were on the programme of the second congress of the Lawyers Consultation Committee (Landelijk Juristenoverleg). The Legal Services departments of all Dutch universities met at the congress in Delft on 14 November. “Government information does not belong to Government, but to the people.”
In a new update, TU Delft outlines measures to increase social safety. Meanwhile, the representation bodies are still not satisfied about communications, Students & Staff for Safety is once again speaking out, and a ministerial letter was leaked.
Tobias van Oort, a TU Delft security officer, rescued a man that had landed in the water in his car close to campus on Monday 11 November. How did he keep his head and take action? “I have experienced traffic accidents before.”
About 60 staff members watched the first performance of Mindlab, which will run up to 22 November at TU Delft, on Monday morning. What did they think of the play about the lack of social safety?
