In the last few months, TU Delft students and employees have shared their views on collaboration with the fossil fuel industry in various initiatives. These have now been collected in a report. The main recommendations? Ensure transparency and set clear conditions on partnerships.
Just before the summer holidays, the Plan for Change on social safety was deemed inadequate by the Inspectorate of Education on the grounds that it was too vague and incomplete. The Executive Board said that it sees that assessment as an encouragement, but also felt disappointed and hurt. What is the situation now? “I have left the resentment behind”, Tim van der Hagen said.
When Vice-Rector Magnificus Rob Mudde steps down on 1 October, the recruitment of a successor will be well underway. The Supervisory Board hopes that his successor can start in the first quarter of 2025.
Students and Staff for Safety have reported to the Inspectorate of Education, they write on the Change.org website. They criticise the performance of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board in terms of social safety.
The CNV trade union has started a campaign on social safety at TU Delft. There are posters at bus stops on and around campus that inform people about a contact point, and trade union staff will walk around campus at lunchtime and talk to people.
Success stories and complex problems, along with music and dance, were the ingredients of the opening of an ‘honest and sustainable’ academic new year for TU Delft on 2 September.
On Thursday, the last day of the introduction week, all the participants gathered in the Mekelpark for the Your Own Frequency festival. They wandered along the info stands and screamed in the carousel.
Where is the quietest space on campus? And what is ‘the beast of TU Delft’? The campus has secrets from everyone, even from students and staff members who have been here for years. It is time to explore them during the Backstage Campus Tour on day four of the OWee.
A workshop on making friends, a Dutch lesson, an explanation about the Dutch health insurance system, preparing to cycle in the Netherlands. Participants in the Introduction Programme (IP) could choose out of 11 workshops to get to know the Netherlands and TU Delft.
