Week in week out Jasper van Kuijk dissects bad designs in the ‘Volkskrant’. Time to fight back, he thought, and explain how to create usable designs in his new book. “If this book makes my column redundant, I will be very happy.”
What is permitted and what is prohibited if you demonstrate on campus? Delta asked Amnesty International, the human rights organisation. Marjolein Kuijers, their expert on the right to demonstrate in the Netherlands, answers.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded the Summit Grants on Friday for the first time. These are large amounts of money for research groups that are at the world’s top. EUR 75.4 million went to two TU Delft projects.
After TU Delft announced that it will not reconsider its ties with Israeli universities on Wednesday, the demonstrators ratcheted up their fourth protest on Thursday. “We get the feeling that this is really needed.”
In the elections debate organised by TU Delft, the new Coalition Agreement weighed heavily in the discussions on the energy transition. “The VVD says they want to use European money for innovations. How does that reconcile with their plans to give less money to Brussels?”
The planned meeting between pro-Palestinian protesters and the Executive Board on Thursday was limited to handing over the demands and setting a date for a new meeting. Afterwards, almost 100 people joined a protest march.
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated at TU Delft on Tuesday afternoon. The students decided to take action after a tented camp of protesters at the UvA was cleared by police Monday night.
At the Democracy Day organised by students on Wednesday 1 May, staff members and students discussed how TU Delft could be governed differently. “We do not have to accept the situation as it is now.”