The number of private student houses in Delft is decreasing fast as landlords are selling their properties. This emerged from the results of two investigations that were published last weekend. Projects in Delft to build new rooms are not getting off the ground easily. Why is this?
Digital autonomy is not a luxury, it is essential. This was the message communicated this summer by researchers from the Rathenau Institute to Dutch knowledge institutions in a report about digital dependence on foreign technology companies. Delta asked ICT director Erik Scherff about the university’s position on this. His reply: “The current geopolitics forces us to negotiate.”
Have you ever wanted to programme your own robot? See drones moving in perfect synchronisation? Or attend a lecture in the historic Architecture building? You can do all this on TU Delft Science Day on Sunday 26 October. This year, the Faculty of Architecture has been added as a new location. TU Delft has been
TU Delft top athletes Roos de Jong (now an alumna), Willemijn Mulder and Tessa Dullemans won gold at the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai. On Friday, De Jong won the world title as part of the double sculls. Mulder and Dullemans finished first in the women's quadruple sculls on Thursday. This is the first time
Owners of houses that have been vacant for a long time may soon be fined, the Dutch House of Representatives decided on Tuesday 23 September. ‘It's a good first step,’ says the National Student Union (Landelijke Studentenvakbond or LSVb in Dutch). Due to the ever-increasing housing shortage, the LSVb, CNV Jong, FNV Young & United
To celebrate the start of construction on the new building for the Laga rowing club, Laga members buried a time capsule on Friday 19 September. The capsule contained, among other things, a bottle of Bokma gin. “That’s our house drink,” says external commissioner Babeth Sterk.
Will the Works Council and the Student Council have enough of a say in the austerity plans? The representation bodies fear not. This is why, at a public meeting with the Executive Board last Thursday, the Works Council Chair, Ronald Kuil, pushed for sufficient time and opportunity to express their views.
‘Reclaim control of your research’. This call appears above an invitation to the event ‘European Cloud Providers for Research’, where Delft scientists can meet European cloud providers. The event will take place on Thursday in the Echo education building. During the meeting, cloud providers will give presentations about their services and scientists will have the
Now that important academic data in the United States of America may disappear, a large group of European academics have started duplicating and sharing that data. Henrik Schönemann, the initiator, is even looking beyond this. “Universities must have digital sovereignty.”
