Delft Female Impact Community
30% of students at TU Delft and over 20% of Delft alumni are women. These are numbers that matter. At the same time, female engineers not infrequently face unique challenges in their education and work because of being female. A group of female Delft alumni wants to highlight and address those challenges.
Female Empowerment | For and by female alumni
These Delft engineers are launching the Delft Female Impact Community, with the mission to connect female Delft students and alumni of various generations. To help inspire, empower and support around leadership and entrepreneurship, so that even more impact can be made in our society.
In addition, the community aims to help create awareness of (un)conscious barriers for female students and young alumni in the TU Delft ecosystem. And thus inspire key figures to take a proactive role in encouraging more diverse and more female leadership.
This is what the community does:
- Networking, to enlarge and deepen the community, to learn from each other, especially also from the innovations of younger generations. Passing on knowledge to the next generation, inspiring as role models and using contacts from one's own network.
- Facilitating (and sometimes organising) master classes, workshops and mentoring for students and young alumni around leadership and entrepreneurship.
- Helping to actively raise awareness around the topic of challenges to female leadership and entrepreneurship (within TU Delft, among students and among alumni).
- Propose and encourage interventions in the TU Delft ecosystem that contribute to opening up to more diverse and more female leadership
- Establish and expand a dedicated fund, the Delft Female Impact Fund, to strengthen the community's mission and financially support community initiatives where necessary.
Flywheel for positive change
The Delft Female Impact Community and the Delft Female Impact Fund want to set a flywheel in motion that enables lasting positive change for female students and alumni. In doing so, we help each other and make a greater social impact.
Join the community
This community is for all of us, female alumni of TU Delft. Here we can network, learn from each other, inspire, help each other and work together. During our events, we also meet current female students of TU Delft.
How can you contribute?
By putting time and energy into the Delft Female Impact Community by, for example:
- Inspiring students and young alumni, mentoring them or opening up your network to them
- Giving lectures or master classes in your field as a guest lecturer
- Using your expertise to develop leadership or entrepreneurship
- Coach female founders as an entrepreneur
- Donate money to the Delft Female Impact Fund
- Contribute ideas on how to stimulate players in the TU Delft ecosystem to develop more diverse and more female leadership and entrepreneurship.
Registration for the Delft Female Impact Community is done via TUDelftforLife.nl.
- Do you have a TU Delft for Life account? Then you can join the group directly.
- Do not have an account yet? Register at TUDelftforLife.nl, find the Delft Female Impact Community group and become a member!
Didi te Gussinklo Ohmann
TU Delft alumna and board member Delft University Fund
“By connecting as many female Delft students and alumni as possible, sharing knowledge and experience, with strong interaction between different generations, finding each other, working together and helping each other. This way we can make a difference in all the organisations where we work and increase the impact 'for a better society'!”
Karin Sluis
TU Delft alumna and chair Delft University Fund
“The world is facing major challenges such as the energy transition, circular economy and good healthcare. We believe that more involvement of female alumni leads to more impact 'for a better society'. Because the best solutions for complex challenges come from teams with diversity and inclusion.”
Floor van Wingerden
TU Delft alumna
"Despite an extensive ecosystem in and around TU Delft that facilitates start-ups and scale-ups, there are relatively few female students and graduates who become entrepreneurs. Why is that? And above all, what can we do about it?"
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