Earlier this week, TU Delft suffered a DDos attack. During the night of Monday 27 May to Tuesday 28 May TU Delft servers were attacked from multiple countries. The attack continued until Tuesday evening and explicitly targeted TU Delft, writes TU News. In a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, servers of in this case
Let students exercise their fundamental right to protest and do not clear any encampment on campus. This is what fifteen TU Delft academic staff members are asking for in a letter to the Executive Board. In their letter, the writers, united under the name TU Delft Faculty and Staff, refer to pro-Palestinian student protests in
The Executive Board submitted the so-called ‘Plan for change: social safety TU Delft’ to the Dutch Inspectorate of Education on 15 May. The latter will later give its first reaction. In its damning report on social safety at TU Delft, the inspectorate demanded that the Executive Board submit a plan of action by mid-May. Earlier,
On Monday 13 May, students and staff of all kinds of universities and universities of applied sciences plan to protest with a 'walk-out': at 11 AM, they will stop their work and walk outside. In Delft, a similar protest has been announced by a group calling itself Engineering Solidarity Palestine Delft and that is supported
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,
The Kring van Hoofdredacteuren (literally the circle of editors in chief) – or Kring for short – rebukes the legal threats expressed by TU Delft to Delta. In a letter [link in Dutch] to the Executive Board, the Kring also asks Saskia Bonger, the Editor in Chief, to not be held liable for any personal
On other days, the director of the international atomic energy agency IAEA is mostly busy managing the crisis surrounding the occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizja. But on Wednesday afternoon, 24 April, Rafael Grossi will visit the TU Delft. The purpose of his visit is twofold: to reduce the female shortage in the nuclear
The so-called Students and Staff for Safety - an anonymous group of people from TU Delft - have opened a poll following their petition. They are also launching a 'call for action'. In a post on Change.org, they ask people whether they think the current Executive Board is capable of bringing about the cultural change
The Works Council and the Student Council will have at least one extra meeting with the Executive Board about the social safety action plan. The making of such a plan is one of the demands from the Inspectorate of Education's report on the lack of social safety at TU Delft. The extra meeting will be
The members of the project team that will guide the drafting of a Social Safety Action Plan were announced in a message on the intranet on Thursday. The project team consists of nine members, including rector magnificus Tim van der Hagen, director of HR Annemieke Zonneveld, director of communication Carola de Vree and deans Henri
