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An Extinction Rebellion protester has been sentenced to 25 hours of community service for damaging an automatic sliding door at the TU Delft Aula during a protest in February 2025. According to the court, the activist held the door open with force, causing damage to the automatic closing system.
TU Delft acted in a seriously culpable manner towards an Architecture Faculty employee who had raised concerns about social unsafety. It must pay substantial compensation. That is what the court ruled in April. The Faculty now states that it will ‘do everything in its power to prevent recurrence’ but is not attaching consequences in this case for specific individuals involved.
Trade unions AOb and FNV are calling for a 6-percent pay rise at universities, and for salaries to automatically rise in line with inflation from now on. They also want to improve the situation for pregnant employees.
In addition to all the developments in Delft, work on Campus Rotterdam is continuing at full speed. The Executive Board has hired an external consultancy firm and the programme team will move into the Groot Handelsgebouw (literally the big trade building) in Rotterdam.
This week the national council of student associations LKvV sent an urgent letter to DUWO, the housing association, about the pick your housemate-policy. That’s more than one-and-a-half months after the Delft and Leiden municipal councils adopted motions about the proposed system. What was written in the motions and what will DUWO do next?
The first European conference on research security, organised by universities, attracted 480 participants to TU. During ENCORS, the focus was not only on practical knowledge exchange between universities, but also on what the shifting political direction in the United States means for international scientific cooperation.
Prospective buyers need to be quick to get hold of a secondhand jewel at OWee’s first secondhand market. But it may not work for everyone: “I see a lot of good things! But I don’t have a room so I can’t buy anything yet.”
