EU geothermal energy programme in Delft The European Commission is investing €3.4 million in a research programme on the safe and efficient use of geothermal energy. A total of 13 PhD students are involved in this programme at four universities, five of which are PhD students in the geothermal research group at the TU Delft…

Salary increase of 3.0% as of 1 June Thanks to a final agreement between negotiators from the employers’ association VSNU and the trade unions, university employees will receive a pay increase of 3% as of 1 June. In addition, employees will also receive a one-off payment of 750 euros gross on the basis of a…

Free mooc certificates popular at TU Delft Nearly a thousand students and over 700 TU Delft staff have used the opportunity in recent months to obtain a free certificate for a mooc from edX. Moocs are open online courses. EdX is a platform on which TU Delft, but also institutions such as Harvard and MIT,…

Research energy built environment bundled Many people think of energy as electricity, but in households three quarters of the energy consumed is heat – mostly from natural gas. The phasing-out of gas production combined with climate targets is putting pressure on the large-scale development of climate-neutral buildings. As of 1 June, TU Delft is…

TU Delft is looking for a lot of AI talent Can artificial intelligence (AI) accelerate scientific progress? TU Delft is going to investigate this question across a large number of disciplines using the same number of TU Delft AI Labs. The research will start with eight research groups in the fields of materials science,…

Leuven: exams in an old brewery Hundreds of Flemish students at the same time are already taking exams on campus. The University of Ghent, for example, is organizing no less than 143 thousand exams in 200 different halls until the beginning of July, reports Het Laatste Nieuws. By far the largest location is the specially…

Currently no ombudsperson for students With the retirement of Niek Graafland, TU Delft students are currently without an ‘ombudsperson’. This person can act as an independent intermediary between the complainant and the subject of the complaint. A recruitment procedure for a replacement has not yet started, as became clear during a meeting of the Central Student Council with…

Project March produces podcast Despite the corona crisis, some TU Delft Dream Teams keep going. Project March took this time to develop and produce MARCH On Air. In this fortnightly podcast, team members Stijn van Weegberg and Margriet Klinckhamers talk with a guest about various topics, from the origins of Project March to the future of biomedical technology. …

Het ministerie van Onderwijs stelt 1,4 miljoen euro beschikbaar voor online onderwijs. De toekenningen voor projecten kunnen oplopen tot 175 duizend euro. Het is geen bliksemsnelle regeling. De deadline voor de projectvoorstellen ligt in december en het duurt nog tot mei 2021 voordat het ministerie het geld daadwerkelijk verdeelt. Toch zal deze regeling van ict-stichting SURF…

Mechanical engineering students Sweder Reuchlin (l) and Daan Kerssenmakers are working on a fine summer project: the solar water heater. The parabolic mirror concentrates sunlight on the tube in its focal point and heats the water that flows through it. This produces 9 litres of water at 55 degrees Celsius per hour. Together…