Dossier
Knowledge security
How do you screen new employees from outside the European Union? Should you work with international partners or not? And what scientific areas are being scrutinised closely? Knowledge security involves constantly trying to find the balance between academic freedom and security. As the biggest technical university in the Netherlands, TU Delft believes it has a duty to lead the way. Is that the case? And if so, what is its policy, the issues it has to weigh up and what sometimes goes wrong? Read all about it in this dossier.
Despite criticism from academia, there will be a nation-wide screening of foreign students and researchers. TU Delft started its own screening last year. How is it going?
To increase knowledge security, screening of researchers from outside Europe is in the making. Not a good idea, says KNAW President and TU Delft professor Marileen Dogterom.
Half of TU Delft research is viewed as ‘key technology’. This means that the new Knowledge Security Act will have major consequences. “This is not the right approach.”
The security services have prevented an Iranian researcher from gaining knowledge at a Dutch TU that could have been used for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.
Which scientists can we work with and how careful should we be? Over the course of almost 12 months, the national Knowledge Security Helpdesk received 148 questions.
Dutch only Op dinsdag 13 december houdt de TU Delft een hybride symposium over Kennisveiligheid. “Daar willen we wetenschappers van de TU bijpraten over wat we doen op het gebied van kennisveiligheid en hoe zij daar zelf mee aan de slag kunnen”, vertelt TU-programmadirecteur kennisveiligheid Peter Weijland. Wetenschappers kunnen zowel digitaal als fysiek deelnemen. …
The House of Representatives wants educational institutions to be more critical when it comes to analysing knowledge security. The House of Representatives passed a motion.
Universities need to “clean up their act” when it comes to partnerships with autocratic countries, and will be subjected to an external review, Minister Dijkgraaf announced.
The threat of espionage was “as great as ever” last year, the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) writes in its annual report.
At least nine international TU Delft students were the victim of telephone fraud. It has caused a lot of financial and psychological damage. “I don’t trust anyone anymore.”
