The Superbus, a 15-metre-long limousine developed by Wubbo Ockels, is getting a new home near Groningen. The National Bus Museum in Hoogezand has acquired the futuristic vehicle from the collection of the now-bankrupt Dutch Transport Museum in Nieuw-Vennep, where it had been on display since the end of 2020. It seems a fitting location, as
Dutch government spending on research and development will fall by fourteen percent in the coming years. Spending will go from 9.7 billion in 2024 to 8.4 billion in 2029, according to the annual measurement by the Rathenau Institute. Cabinet policy The causes lie with cabinet policy. The government is making significant cuts to the National
This Monday marks eighty years since Delft was liberated from the German occupiers. To commemorate this, everyone is welcome to take part in a special weekend program hosted at the D.S.C. student association on Phoenixstraat in Delft. The home of the traditional student association, the 'Phoenix' society, served as a meeting place for the student
Over the coming years, €25 million will be made available to attract scientists from the United States (and other countries) to the Netherlands. This is stated in the ‘supplementary budget’ that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has released on Friday. Due to ‘growing global tensions’, more and more scientists are considering relocating to…
170 American higher education institutions are resisting political interference from the Trump administration. They demand the free exchange of ideas “without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation”. Leaders from institutions including Princeton, Yale, and MIT have spoken out “against the unprecedented government interference and political meddling that currently threaten American higher education”. The American Association
Harvard University rejects the Trump administration's demands and sees 2.2 billon dollars in federal funds frozen. The university doesn’t want to “surrender its independence”. In response to Donald Trump’s anti-science policies, fear seemed to reign supreme amongst American universities until now. Not at Harvard University, however. By refusing to give in to the demands, this
On Monday, pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the Maagdenhuis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). There’s also an ongoing occupation at Radboud University. Police stepped in in Amsterdam, but in Nijmegen that wasn’t necessary this afternoon. Around midday on Monday, between 50 and 100 masked pro-Palestinian activists entered UvA’s main administrative building. The staff inside were told
President Donald Trump has signed an order aiming to eliminate the Department of Education. According to the US President the department is wasting billions of dollars. He wants education to become a matter of individual US states again, as it used to be. This affects, among other things, US student funding. Trump believes that the
On Tuesday evening, a big fire broke out at a house on Nieuwstraat in the centre of Delft. Around midnight, the fire was largely under control, but the fire brigade expects to be busy for hours with debris clearance. The fire started around 20:30 in an upstairs unit on the Nieuwstraat and quickly spread to
The Delft Hyperloop team was named the winner of the KIVI Engineering Student Team 2025 award last week and also took home the Audience Award. The award ceremony of the Royal Society of Engineers (Kivi) took place on Wednesday 12 March at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, in the presence of Princess Beatrix, Princess
