Twenty climate scientists and economists from eight Dutch universities are calling on politicians to end tax benefits for large consumers of fossil fuels. Fossil subsidies are the most extreme inconsistency in government policy ever, write leading economists and climate scientists in an opinion piece (in Dutch) in national newspaper Financieele Dagblad. “It is like turning on…
Event dedicated to Daphne Stam Dewis, the women’s network at TU Delft, is dedicating its annual event to planetary scientist Daphne Stam. She revealed in late August that she had left the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering because of what she referred to as the ‘macho culture’. In an interview with Delta a week…
Support after earthquake Morocco Many Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences are trying to assist staff and students dealing with the effects of the earthquake in Morocco. They are organising meetings and offering psychological support. TU Delft, in a short message on its website, announced that student advisors and supervisors (for staff)…
New Supervisory Board member The TU Delft Supervisory Board has a new member: Paul Verhagen CFO and member of the Management Board of chip producer ASM International. Verhagen studied at Tilburg University in the 1980s and worked for Philips and Fugro. As usual, he was appointed by the Minister of Education for a…
Elections at only one Personnel Committee, though, more candidates Elections will be held at only one Personnel Committee (the local Works Council) on 3 and 4 October, and that is at QuTech. There are as many seats as candidates there, but because one seat is standardly occupied by a member of the central…
New communications director has started Carola de Vree-van Wagtendonk is TU Delft’s new communications director as of 1 September. She already knows TU Delft as a resident of Delft and former head of communications for the municipalities of Rotterdam (2019-2023) and Delft (1998-2005) and her position as team head of communications at research…
The representation bodies for TU Delft staff members – both the central and the local ones – have deployed a last offensive to find candidates for the forthcoming elections.
Aspiring Delftsch Studenten Corps members made Delft a little greener (Photos: Roel Dijkstra / De Papaver) The introduction periods (KMT) at the student associations take place largely out of view of the cameras, so when prospective members volunteer in the city, it provides unique footage. The Delftsch Studenten Corps sent forty prospective members…
Pact against sexual misconduct with Delft touch Student associations and organisations in the Netherlands need to do more against sexual misconduct, they say. Therefore, on Thursday 25 August 25, they launched the student pact (in Dutch), a series of agreements they made together with Amnesty International. At the launch, in addition to…
