Are you a student travelling by public transport on Wednesday or Thursday? Take note, because Thursday is Ascension Day. Students with a weekend pass (ov-kaart in Dutch, public transport card for students) can then travel for free, while students with a weekly pass only get a discount. The Wednesday before is also different (in Dutch).
Protect open and free science in Europe. That call is made by the national academies of science, including the Dutch KNAW, ahead of the European elections on Thursday 6 June. For science, internationalisation is an important issue. After incidents with China and the war in Ukraine, some European member states distrust the international cooperation and
SURF no longer tweets. The ICT cooperative for education is leaving X and opening its own server for education and research on Mastodon. There, users are less bothered by bots, trolls and spam. Since Elon Musk took over Twitter and started calling it X, public 'twexits', as a farewell to Twitter is sometimes called, have
After last year's success, the second edition of the Liberation Festival will take place on the Doelenplein this year. On Liberation Day, which is 5 May, naturally. Organiser is Delft Vrij Foundation, in collaboration with six students. Between 1 PM and midnight, all kinds of artists will perform on the square. 'From big band to
Update 1 May 2024 The professor in question is Corinne Hofman, Dutch newspaper NRC reported (in Dutch) on Wednesday based on interviews with insiders. Sources within the university also confirmed to Leiden university magazine Mare (in Dutch) that Hofman is involved. She is a professor of archaeology and was dean of the archaeology faculty between
The Mira Mí mural is nominated for the Le Comte Prize 2023 for the best art work decorating the town of Delft. Alumni Parya Lotfi and Glenn Weisz worked together on Mira Mí.
In June, TU Delft student Abdelkader Karbache will become the new president of the National Students' Union (LSVb). At the National Students' Association (ISO), Mylou Miché will then take over. Karbache (23) is pursuing two masters at TU Delft (Mechanical Engineering and Sustainable Energy Technology) and was already a board member of the Delft student
Delft student Max Pelsma (23) was honoured with the Erepenning voor Menslievend Hulpbetoon (English: medal for humanitarian assistance) at the town hall in Delft on Tuesday. He was presented with the medal by mayor Marja van Bijsterveldt for rescuing a woman from the water earlier this year. On 18 January, the student saw a car
Submitted by Ruben Wiersma (PhD student at Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) For a few years now, I have enjoyed listening to Esther Perel's podcast 'Where should we begin?'. In the podcast, she talks to couples who encounter problems in their relationships. It could be that one is fighting too much, their partner is
On Friday 19 April 19, Dutch Lower House member Luc Stultiens (GroenLinks-PvdA) asked parliamentary questions about the course of events surrounding an article that Delta took offline in protest. Among other things, Stultiens wants to know whether Outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf shares the view of the Nederlandse Vereniging van Journalisten (Dutch Association of Journalists,
