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On Monday, 11 October the Minister of Culture, Science and Education Ingrid van Engelshoven visited the Convergence - a collaboration between TU Delft, Erasmus MC, and Erasmus University Rotterdam. IDE professor Maaike Kleinsmann, alongside her colleagues Eveline Crone (Erasmus University), and Vincent Jaddoe (Erasmus MC), presented their new Convergence flagship project Healthy Start to Minister van Engelshoven.

DCODE has launched five graduation labs. These labs support interdisciplinary collaboration between DCODE researchers and master's students in five areas. If you are a graduate student from one of DCODE’s participating universities and if you want the digital transformation of society to be more responsible... Join a DCODE Lab.

IPD alum Jerry de Vos’ Plastic Scanner has been selected for the James Dyson Award’s Global Top 20. Jerry’s Plastic Scanner, alongside the other 19 inventions, was chosen from over 2,000 entries. Now that he is in the top 20, he has the chance to become the global winner and receive £30,000 to support the next stages of their inventions.

Dutch Design Week (DDW): it’s one of the highlights of the European design calendar and an event in which IDE design research plays a prominent role together with Design United - the 4TU. Federation’s research centre for design. This year Dutch Design Week will take place between 16-24 October. And after a purely digital Dutch Design Week last year, this autumn Design United is back - live and with plenty of in person events.

Last week at the Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, IDE assistant professor Jun Wu was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Solid Modeling Association. Jun was recognised for his outstanding technical contributions at the intersection of solid modelling, physical modelling, and advanced manufacturing.

IDE postdoctoral researcher Guido Giunti Garcia took home the Junior Chamber International’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in the Medical Innovations category.

It's time for another round of Dutch Design Week news, but this time with a focus on CLICKNL’s Design Research & Innovation Festival (aka the DRIVE Festival). Together with Design United – the 4TU, CLINKNL has put together a hybrid and interactive event that can be enjoyed in person or from the comfort of your home.

On Friday (1 October), IDE celebrated its 7500th graduate! It is a milestone that our faculty, staff and students alike, can be proud of. Our dean Ena Voûte, alongside IPD programme director Professor Gert Kortuem, surprised Jose Martínez Castro after his defence. Jose graduated from IPD under Professor Elvin Karana, tenured Assistant Professor Jun Wu, and PhD candidate Alice Buso.

IDE Assistant Professor Abhigyan Singh’s project, ‘Conceptualizing inter-household energy exchanges: an anthropology-through-design approach’, took home third place in the first annual Why the World Needs Anthropologists (WWNA) Apply Awards.