After 75 years, members of the Dutch fraternity Utrecht Student Corps (USC) will no longer be allowed to keep watch on the beaches of Texel during the summer months. On Wednesday evening, a majority of the Texel municipal council voted to end the collaboration with the student association. This decision follows several reports of sexually
TU scientists Cees Dekker, Pier Siebesma and Leo de Vreede have been awarded synergy grants for the research projects they are leading. The grants are worth up to €10 million and will run for six years. In total, the European Research Council (ERC) is making €684 million available to 66 international teams. The grants are
Science funding body NWO is awarding 149 Vidi grants this year to talented researchers. Sixteen of these grants have been awarded to scientists from TU Delft. Each recipient will receive up to €850,000. In total, NWO is awarding nearly fifty more grants than last year. Of the 778 proposals submitted, 19 percent were successful. Women
Together with trade unions FNV and AOb, action group WOinActie will set up a large screen on Dom Square in Utrecht on Monday to watch the EenVandaag party leaders’ debate (in Dutch), broadcast from Ahoy Rotterdam, with as many demonstrators as possible. Prior to the debate, there will be a programme featuring political speakers, followed
Working more hours, taking out additional loans or choosing to save? With a new tool developed by the Dutch National Institute for Family Finance Information (Nibud), students can get a clearer picture of their income and expenses. The online tool WatKostStuderen (What does studying cost?) was created by the independent information institute Nibud for students
More than 160 concerned scientists are urging political party leaders to place the fight against the global climate crisis at the heart of their election campaigns. Among them are eighteen researchers from Delft. They are calling for an end to new gas drilling and fossil fuel subsidies. So far, the ecological crisis has played a
University lecturer Harry Pettit of Radboud University Nijmegen is filing a complaint against Education Minister Gouke Moes. Moes believes that Pettit should be prosecuted. A week ago, outgoing Minister Moes put pressure on Radboud University Nijmegen during the talk show Café Kockelmann. He said the university should file a complaint against the fiercely pro-Palestinian university
The interest rate on student loans will fall from 2.57 to 2.33 percent next year, after three years of increases. This has been announced by DUO (in Dutch). Every year, a new interest rate is set for student loans. For years, this rate was zero percent: students could, in principle, borrow “for free”. But this
Planetary scientist Daphne Stam, former associate professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, has been nominated as unconventional thinker of the year 2025. According to the Stichting Dwarsdenkers, she resigned ‘to raise awareness of the structurally unsafe culture for women in the sciences’ and ‘consciously chooses transparency and restoration, even if that comes at a
It could cost the Netherlands several billion euros if universities in the Randstad are allowed to admit far fewer foreign students. That is the view of five universities in the run-up to the elections. What would happen if three-quarters of international bachelor's students stayed away from the universities of Rotterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, and Amsterdam? And
