Carin van der Hor has stepped down as an external confidential advisor at TU Delft. She is leaving behind an organisation where transgressive behaviour is reported more often, yet where cultural change is progressing slowly. “If the behaviour does not change, confidential advisers will remain very busy.”

TU Delft is leasing two buildings to the Ministry of Defence for an innovation centre for security and resilience. Start-ups and SMEs are to collaborate there with Defence on so‑called dual‑use technology. According to the Executive Board, this fits within ‘the university’s societal mission’.

An association for TU members interested in artificial intelligence — that was still missing in Delft, thought a group of seven students from different faculties. And so they set up Delft AI Hub. The first lecture is next Wednesday at EEMCS. “We want to reach as many people as possible.”

For those following the bird webcams at the Faculty of Architecture, it’s been an exciting time. When would the three eggs in the nest box hatch? This past Monday, it finally happened! Three tiny white fluff balls can briefly be seen whenever the mother leaves to grab a bite.

The feeling at the Our Right to Integrity and Safety event last Wednesday was that speaking out against TU Delft’s links with Israeli institutions is not free of danger. But what can staff members do about it?

It is impossible to determine whether sharing the names of four students and one employee with the police ‘might have been justified’. This is stated by the Executive Board, which declines to reveal which agency it has tasked with further investigating the matter. Experts have previously made it clear: the sharing was not justified. Despite the apologies offered, those affected react critically.

The Delft-based student union VSSD is calling it quits for good after 63 years. The current board is abandoning its fruitless search for new board members. Former and current board members fear this bodes ill for other student organisations.

TU Delft is on the right track to achieve lasting improvements in social safety, according to the Education Inspectorate, two years after it identified mismanagement there. What exactly did that first report say, and what happened after that? A recap of a turbulent period in six acts.

The care for employees has been sufficiently restored and the mismanagement at TU Delft has been resolved. This is the conclusion reached by the Education Inspectorate. The Executive Board endorses these findings and pledges to continue improving social safety.

The government is calling on universities and universities of applied sciences to do more to combat antisemitism and is allocating €350,000 for this purpose. This follows a report by the taskforce on combating antisemitism, which states that Jewish students and staff are more likely to feel unsafe. TU Delft says that the recommendations largely align with existing measures.