All services and faculties of TU Delft have to cut back by 10 percent, but according to the Works Council, more is needed than this ‘cheese slicing method’. The council is asking the Executive Board for ‘vision’ and ‘courageous choices’, for example about Campus Rotterdam.
Michael van der Meer, Director of the TU Delft Science Centre, will step down shortly. ‘Different knowledge, skills and management’ are said to be needed for the public centre.
Currently, there are no plans for a strike against higher education budget cuts in Delft, but this could change. This was stated by Fred Veer, chairman of the internal trade unions at TU Delft, when asked. In various cities, there are concrete plans for strikes by university staff. The trade unions and action group WOinActie
The Dutch Open Government Act and the European AI Act. These currently relevant subjects were on the programme of the second congress of the Lawyers Consultation Committee (Landelijk Juristenoverleg). The Legal Services departments of all Dutch universities met at the congress in Delft on 14 November. “Government information does not belong to Government, but to the people.”
TU Delft's Innovation and Impact Centre (I&IC) has a new director as of 1 January: Kenneth Heijns. Until June 2024, he was general director at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS). He stayed at AMS for a while, until he transferred to I&IC in September. As an employee there he is supporting the
Despite the cutbacks that will also affect TU Delft, the preparations for the Rotterdam Campus are going ahead. The Executive Board has approved the so-called Development Plan which will bring the TU Delft branch a step closer. One challenge now is to attract millions of euros from external investors, another is to address concerns among staff and students.
In a new update, TU Delft outlines measures to increase social safety. Meanwhile, the representation bodies are still not satisfied about communications, Students & Staff for Safety is once again speaking out, and a ministerial letter was leaked.
Tobias van Oort, a TU Delft security officer, rescued a man that had landed in the water in his car close to campus on Monday 11 November. How did he keep his head and take action? “I have experienced traffic accidents before.”
Tim van der Hagen, rector magnificus and chairman of the TU Delft, expresses his disapproval of the cutbacks in higher education on LinkedIn. He was supposed to go to the national demonstration in Utrecht. Now that that has been cancelled, he and other university representatives will go to The Hague on Thursday afternoon 14 November
The VSSD Delft students union is coming back to action after a couple of ‘sleeping’ years. The protests against the cutbacks in higher education have put the wind in the union’s sails. The students are calling on everyone at TU Delft to join the protest in Utrecht on 14 November. Delta spoke to its Secretary, Sam de Jong.
