News
26 April 2018
Safe drinking water for all with smart, new drinking water technologies
Access to safe drinking water is a global challenge, particularly affecting the rural poor in developing countries. This urgent problem requires new, smart solutions for the removal of a wide range of contaminants of global concern, such as arsenic, fluoride, pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes.
06 April 2018
How Master student Alberto contributes to impact
Master student Alberto Gancedo from Spain got the opportunity, via Delft University Fund, to start his Master’s programme Microelectronics at TU Delft in September 2017. Besides studying, he is also working on his own project ‘Amplitude-integrated EEG measurement system (aEEG)’. Alberto’s goal: to develop a small, portable and cheap monitoring device to detect babies unusual brain activity directly after birth.
27 March 2018
Catching up with... Jetty van Ginkel
This year's Marina van Damme Scholarship will be awarded on 16 May 2018. Dr. Marina van Damme will again be attending in person to welcome all the nominees. Last year's presentation of the grant, in June 2017, had a highly unexpected result. Because of the exceptionally high level of the nominees, Marina van Damme decided to reward not one but two of them with the full grant of €9,000.
20 March 2018
Save the date: 7 June
Alumni & Relations Event
20 February 2018
Extra funding opportunity for TU Delft bachelor students
Delft University Fund has made €25.000 extra available for TU Delft bachelor students. All bachelor students who plan to do something special or extraordinary but lack the financial means to do so, can now submit an application.
20 February 2018
Great start ‘Virtual Referee’ project
Vinay Balaji is a master student at the EEMCS faculty at TU Delft. Vinay came up with the idea of ‘Virtual Referee’, a technology which helps the referee to accurately and quickly determine whether or not it’s offside or a penalty during a football game.
20 February 2018
Crowdfunding update
In January, Delft University Fund launched the crowdfunding platform supporttudelft.nl. The platform was launched with four inspiring projects, all aiming to impact society.
20 February 2018
Delft University Fund supports 'Studenten hebben Dorst'
Delft University Fund has supported the book ‘Studenten Hebben Dorst’. This book provides useful personal leadership tools for students ‘how to get the most of out of their study time’.
15 January 2018
Crowdfunding for 4 inspiring Delft projects
Delft University Fund launches a crowdfunding platform to enable extraordinary projects at TU Delft.