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Waarde bezoekers van onze jaarlijks Nieuwjaarscongres, alias de Vakantiecursus. Onder normale omstandigheden zou op 8 januari 2021 de 73ste editie van onze Vakantiecursus plaatsvinden. Helaas kan door de Covid-19 maatregelen de komende vakantiecursus geen doorgang vinden. We zijn in goede hoop op betere tijden en hopen de 73ste VC in januari 2022 te kunnen organiseren.

Doris van Halem heeft van NWO een VIDI-financiering van 800.000 euro toegekend gekregen voor haar voorstel om kennis te ontwikkelen over duurzame waterzuiveringstechnieken. Hiermee kan Van Halem de komende vijf jaar een eigen, vernieuwende onderzoekslijn ontwikkelen en een onderzoeksgroep opzetten. Van Halem: “Ik ben ontzettend blij met de kans om aan dit belangrijke en uitdagende onderwerp te kunnen gaan werken!”

The founders of MEZT, Adriaan van Lieftinck and Edward Sibeijn, together with professor Jules van Lier, talk about the innovative electrodialysis technique with which nitrogen can be transformed from a headache case into a source of income for the farmer. They have won HiTMaT 2020.

Prof. Zoran Kapelan was interviewed by the International Water Association about AI Solutions for the Water Sector.

Our AidroLab proposal was chosen as the first Artificial Intelligence laboratory hosted by the CEG Faculty as part of the Kick Start Call of TU Delft’s DAI-Labs initiative. AidroLab is led by the Department of Water Management and the Department of Intelligent Systems (EEMCS), in collaboration with the Department of Hydraulic Engineering (CEG), and the departments of Software Technology (EEMCS) and Microelectronics (EEMCS).

TU Delft has reached the age of 178 and celebrates this occasion with Delft primary school pupils. On Wednesday 29 January, 25 TU Delft professors gave a guest lecture to pupils from group 7 and 8 at various primary schools in Delft as part of Meet the Professor, an event organised by the WIJStad programme and the TU Delft 'Wetenschapsknooppunt'.

Prof Kapelan became a member of KWR’s External Scientific Advisory Council (ESAC) in 2019.

The first project, WIDER UPTAKE, was awarded under the circular economy call CE-SC5-04-2019. The project is led by SINTEF in Norway and it involves 18 partners from across Europe.

A next group of trainees has reached the second year of the PDEng programme Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). This programme focuses on the development of innovations for the civil industry in PDEng projects by converting results from fundamental research into solutions for environmental and public transport issues.

The TAPP-BDP project aims to develop a smart phone application to improve operation and maintenance, water quality and hygiene awareness, trust, and acceptance of piped water supply (PWS) systems within the Bangladesh Delta Plan (BDP).