Warning about scientist misconduct is not easily allowed Universities are not obligated to warn each other about the misconduct of a researcher who moves to another institution. This would run afoul of privacy laws, explains outgoing Minister Dijkgraaf. Last month, Algemeen Dagblad reported on a professor who was dismissed from Utrecht University…
Wubbo Ockels Innovation awards for sustainability ideas Jury (left) and winners (right) of the Wubbo Ockels Innovation Prize gathered behind the winning laundry rack. Sustainability Coordinator Andy van den Dobbelsteen (second from left) is a member of the jury. (Photo: Marcel Bilow) Sustainability organisation De Groene Grachten presented the Wubbo Ockels…
Twelve TU Delft staff members become Academy of Engineering fellow The Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE), founded earlier this year, has appointed 62 fellows: people from the ‘top of the engineering ecosystem’. Twelve of them are connected to TU Delft. Besides rector magnificus Tim van der Hagen and dean of Applied Sciences Paulien…
Delft-based student Dream Team Epoch has won the Computable Award 2023 for Sustainable Tech. They received the award for their achievement in the Artificial Intelligence Bio-masters competition. They developed an AI model to predict the amount of biomass in forestland in Finland. Currently, this information is collected based on a technique using lasers, which is
Five Delft researchers received European Research Council grants. A total of 400 grants have been awarded, 44 of which are to staff from Dutch universities and research institutes.
Dutch research financier NWO has awarded 97 scientists a Vidi grant of up to 800 thousand euro.
More university of applied sciences lecturers on permanent contract Teachers at universities of applied sciences are slightly more often on permanent contracts again. Support staff, on the other hand, are more and more on temporary contracts. For several years, the share of lecturers on temporary contracts hovered around 15 percent, but in…
Gearing up for open science With 184 million euros, the new governing body ‘Open Science NL’ will accelerate the rise of open science until 2031. That is what the Ministry of Education agreed on with universities, universities of applied sciences and other organisations such as NWO and KNAW on 29 March. They did…
Ten million for better science communication Education Minister Dijkgraaf wants to lay a ‘solid foundation’ for science communication in the Netherlands. A new national centre must contribute to confidence in science. The new centre will gather and share expertise to make science communication more effective. Minister Dijkgraaf has made more than 10…
No time or money for open science Terug naar Nederlandse versie Most researchers agree that it is important to make scientific data freely available to everyone. But in practice only half of them do so, research financier NWO reports on the basis of its own research. …
