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Internationalisation

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Student housing

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Student life

Landlords often overcharge students for service fees

XIOR Student Housing has already been reprimanded hundreds of times by the rent commission for excessive service charges. Students also often pay too much at other large housing providers, NOSop3 observes. A landlord should not make a profit on the cost of cleaning, garden maintenance or a caretaker. Yet this does happen, reports NOSop3. The

Campus development

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Campus

Architecture award for Echo education building

Education building Echo, which opened in May 2022 at TU Delft, has won an architecture prize. It is the Prix Versailles, in the category campus. Criteria included innovation, creativity and ecological efficiency. According to Jérôme Gouadain, secretary general of the Prix Versailles, Echo stands out 'for its architectural unity and overall coherence'. "Its external and

Climate

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Science
Interview Timo Heimovaara

The last oil-based research at Geoscience & Engineering is done

For the last time, a researcher from the GSE Department earns a doctoral degree for research into oil production. It was a long journey to this point, says the Department Chair. “If we would continue oil-based research, we would uphold the status quo. But don’t say we should not work with the fossil fuel industry at all.”