Chess master Anna-Maja Kazarian played a simultaneous chess match against 24 participants at TU Delft’s sports centre X on International Women’s Day. “Men have dominated the chess world for so long. It is inspiring that she is breaking through the stereotypes.”
Delta recently revealed that TU Delft and the police have had a covenant in place for years that regulates the sharing of personal data. What does it say, what went wrong in 2024, and what does Amnesty International think about it? Delta took a closer look.
Former Delta columnist Bob van Vliet was the TU Delft employee whose name was passed on to the police by the Integrated Safety and Security department in 2024. His columns, one in particular, were (partly) the reason for this. Experts and journalists condemn TU Delft’s actions.
Not a world record, but a pleasant afternoon nonetheless: on Tuesday afternoon 3 March, at 3:14 p.m., around five hundred people stood in the shape of Pi on the sports field at X. It was a festive celebration of the number Pi and the retirement of mathematics professor Kees Vuik.
According to its own statements, TU Delft has only shared personal data of protesters with the police once in the past two years. This was in February 2024, as recently revealed by Delta. In a message to staff and students, the Executive Board now acknowledges that mistakes were made at the time.
Delft Mayor Alexander Pechtold wants to know the ‘necessity and relevance’ of the agreement between the police and TU Delft. Delta recently revealed that TU Delft and the police have had an agreement in place for years that provides for the sharing of personal data.
What is the status of the workload and social safety issue at TU Delft now? The Netherlands Labour Authority will visit this week to check these. The inspectors will return in March and April. The investigation is a follow-up to that of 2024 when TU Delft was rated as inadequate.
On Thursday, around twenty TU Delft students and staff gathered in the café of Sports Centre X to watch master’s student Tijmen Snel’s Olympic 1,500 metres race together.
Staff and students at TU Delft can participate in moral deliberation training courses from March onwards. The aim is to teach them how to make decisions about complex issues in a structured manner.
