From the new Israel policy to painful and heartwarming personal stories. What stuck with Delta’s editors in 2025? You can read all about it in this year in review.
Dozens of residents of the Van Hasseltlaan student flat had to leave their rooms during the night of Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 December due to a fire. The fire started on the eleventh floor. What was that like?
From Monday 8 to Sunday 14 December, there will be fewer trains running around Delft due to engineering works by ProRail. Passengers should expect more frequent changes and longer travel times. Trains will run according to a modified timetable. NS advises passengers to check the NS Travel Planner shortly before departure. ProRail is renewing switches
The occupation of the roof of Mechanical Engineering is over. The police arrested the activists from Delft Student Intifada at 6:10 PM. They had wanted to spend the night on the roof, but TU Delft did not consider this safe.
TU Delft has withdrawn from a research collaboration on artificial intelligence. ‘Delft Student Intifada’ is protesting on 3 December partly against this partnership, because the Israeli company Weebit Nano was involved. Three other collaborations will not go ahead.
‘Delft Student Intifada’ has occupied the roof of Mechanical Engineering. They are demanding an academic boycott of Israel and a public condemnation of the genocide in Palestine. They want to engage in dialogue with the Executive Board, but that has not yet made an appearance.
This article was updated with information about the two new collaborations on 24 November at 2:25 PM. Students believe that TU Delft is not honouring previous promises regarding collaborations with Israel. Action group “Delft Student Intifada” has therefore announced a new protest for 3 December to exert pressure and demand more clarity about these collaborations.
The British QS World Rankings has published its latest ranking of sustainable universities. TU Delft has dropped 20 places, but still performs best in the Netherlands. The list is headed by Lund University (Sweden), the University of Toronto (Canada), and UCL (London). Last year, Delft was ranked 15th, but the university has now dropped to
In addition to all the developments in Delft, work on Campus Rotterdam is continuing at full speed. The Executive Board has hired an external consultancy firm and the programme team will move into the Groot Handelsgebouw (literally the big trade building) in Rotterdam.
