Do you want to know how politicians plan to solve major social problems in the coming years? TU Delft, Leiden University and Erasmus University Rotterdam are organising the election debate “Futureproof, the Netherlands in transition”, which will take place on Thursday 9 October in the auditorium of TU Delft. Experts will introduce three topics, after
No forced redundancies, vacancies that will not be filled, and doing less maintenance of equipment. These measures are how the faculties and services are planning to meet their cost reduction requirements as can be read in plans that were published last week. Staff members are concerned about increasing workloads, not having a voice, and losing control.
A merciless Inspectorate report, cutbacks, and a relationship with the former Chair of the Supervisory Board. Marien van der Meer’s first and only term as an Executive Board member at TU Delft was everything but tranquil. “I am now more aware that I am high in the hierarchy, which means that some things can come across as hard.”
The tallest building on the TU Delft campus is one of 15 sites nominated as a listed monumental building on Thursday. And this while the Executive Board wanted to have the building demolished a few years ago.
From 1 September, Ernst Kuipers will be the new Chair of TU Delft’s Supervisory Board. Delta spoke with the former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport. How will he combine his position as Chair with his job in Singapore?
TU Delft scientist Sophie Hermans, who is building the world's first quantum network at QuTech, is one of fifteen nominees for the title of greatest scientific talent in the Netherlands and Flanders. The election is organised by science magazine New Scientist and is intended to give young scientists a platform for their research. The nominees
After their first-year weekends, the new students from the different faculties got to compete against each other loudly. Then it was time to get wristbands and get a good spot at the Schie dinner. Check out the photo report of OWee Sunday.
TU Delft’s ‘no, unless’ strategy means that it will review its partnerships with Israeli institutions more strictly. But plenty of partnerships are falling along the wayside in this new policy.
Things are quieter on the editorial staff for a while: we are away for the summer holidays and continue working behind the scenes on our research articles. In the week before the OWee (from Monday 11 August), we will pick up where we left off.
The very last paper edition of Delft Matters has been published. The magazine has a long tradition of informing alumni and other external relations, which will now be continued digitally. The exact form this will take is not yet fully determined. In the last paper edition of DM, the editors look back on a history
