Life isn’t easy for starting researchers, says the Rathenau Instituut. They deserve better supervision and more understanding in case of illness or pregnancy. They haven’t noticed a whole lot of the ‘recognition and rewards’ scheme yet.

Peter Gill, China Advisor at TU Delft, wrote West meets East. In this book he compares China, Taiwan and Singapore to Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark respectively.

For the last time, a researcher from the GSE Department earns a doctoral degree for research into oil production. It was a long journey to this point, says the Department Chair. “If we would continue oil-based research, we would uphold the status quo. But don’t say we should not work with the fossil fuel industry at all.”

It is perhaps the most pressing issue in the Netherlands: the housing crisis. The TU Delft Vision Team Wonen has come up with some stimulating ideas in the form of a temporary exhibition.

The new education building GO Zuid that TU Delft is planning to build is supposed to be the centrepiece of the southward expansion of the campus. A natural air conditioning system would have fit in well with the sustainable concept, but was scrapped when the objections outweighed the green intentions. The following is a reconstruction of the events starring an 89 year old alumnus.

Non-cemented stacked blocks of stone and concrete bridge the waterway to The Green Village. The prototype reusable arch bridge is being field tested here for five years.

An app that lets children take a sneak peek at a hospital received the most votes from the Klokhuis audience on Sunday 17 March. The ‘take a peek’ module was the IDE graduation project of Britt Müller at the Hospital Hero foundation.

In the battle against climate change and for protecting biodiversity, seaweed and kelp forests are of incalculable value around the world. Team Epoch designed a winning AI model to monitor them.

Despite repeated requests for support, the outgoing Minister of Education is still refusing international PhD candidates with scholarships a helping hand. Unjustly, believe PhDs with scholarships at TU Delft and PNN, the national advocacy body. “PhD candidates with scholarships add great value to the Netherlands.”

Withdraw from the Future-proof Aviation for the Netherlands manifesto. This call is made by TU Delft alumnus Boris Schellekens in a petition to TU Delft, the University of Twente, and TU Eindhoven. He believes that they are ‘letting themselves be taken advantage of by the aviation lobby’. TU Delft views this differently. “This manifesto is a compromise. And we need it as nothing will happen otherwise.”