The fire brigade extinguished a small fire on Wednesday afternoon 13 May at the Faculty of Applied Sciences on the South Campus. Given the date, the incident brings back memories of the devastating fire at the Faculty of Architecture on 13 May 2008. (Photo: District8) The fire at the Chemical Engineering department within Applied Sciences
Carin van der Hor has stepped down as an external confidential advisor at TU Delft. She is leaving behind an organisation where transgressive behaviour is reported more often, yet where cultural change is progressing slowly. “If the behaviour does not change, confidential advisers will remain very busy.”
TU Delft is leasing two buildings to the Ministry of Defence for an innovation centre for security and resilience. Start-ups and SMEs are to collaborate there with Defence on so‑called dual‑use technology. According to the Executive Board, this fits within ‘the university’s societal mission’.
For the first time ever, TU Delft has won the Batavierenrace university competition. The student team completed the world’s biggest relay race in 10 hours, 16 minutes and 43 seconds. Waiting for the result was particularly nerve-wracking.
TU Delft is on the right track to achieve lasting improvements in social safety, according to the Education Inspectorate, two years after it identified mismanagement there. What exactly did that first report say, and what happened after that? A recap of a turbulent period in six acts.
The care for employees has been sufficiently restored and the mismanagement at TU Delft has been resolved. This is the conclusion reached by the Education Inspectorate. The Executive Board endorses these findings and pledges to continue improving social safety.
TU Delft employees who voice concerns about sensitive partnerships, governance decisions, or workplace conduct often find themselves on their own. That is the view of three organisations that believe things need to change. In an open meeting on 22 April, they aim to explore how. The organisers of ‘Our right to integrity and safety’ on
The Communications Department will only be recruiting temporary staff in 2026. The department wishes to retain the flexibility to ‘organise things differently’ once it is clear how it will proceed with artificial intelligence (AI).
The damage caused by recent vandalism to TU Delft buildings could amount to EUR 1 million, according to the Executive Board. It has reported the incident to the police.
The Delft Young Academy (DYA) says that assistant professors in the Academic Career Track (ACT) can get caught in the crossfire due to shifting power dynamics. The DYA has identified sixteen cases in which disagreements between ACTs and their PhD candidates or students escalated into social safety complaints. In these instances, procedures were unclear and managers took abrupt action. The DYA is calling for more transparent reporting and investigation processes.
