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Blame culture an obstacle to safety in the chemical sector

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Motorway speed limits of 100 km/h largely advantageous

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Breaking habits for a green world

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Resilient water management in India through adaptive policy analysis

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Are we ready for the upcoming technological storm?

Are we, as a society, ready for developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G and The Internet of Things, creating a ‘perfect technological storm’? Researchers of the Delft University of Technology study this matter.

Kateřina Staňková receives Vidi grant

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant worth up to 800,000 euros to Kateřina Staňková, a scientist of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. The grant provides her with the opportunity to further elaborate her own research idea and expand her research team. Kateřina explains what her Vidi research entails.

TU Delft researchers develop model for green, energy independent Europe

Researchers from ETH Zurich and TU Delft have developed a model to generate hundreds of ways in which Europe’s energy system can become green and self-sufficient by 2050.

Best teachers of the year 2021-2022

Donderdag 19 mei heeft Neelke Doorn, director of education, in samenwerking met studievereniging Curius de “Teacher of the Year Award" van faculteit Techniek, Bestuur en Management overhandigd aan de winnaar Tom Vroegrijk. Ook Roel Dobbe (I&C), Jan Anne Annema (T&L), Rob Stikkelman (E&I), Haiko van der Voort (MSc EPA), Roland Ortt (MSc MOT), Caspar Chorus (MSc CoSEM) vielen in de prijzen.

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Echo, the sustainable education building, is almost ready

Vanaf 30 mei wordt het duurzame, interfacultair onderwijsgebouw Echo in gebruik genomen door docenten en studenten. Vanaf het nieuwe collegejaar zullen alle zalen ingeroosterd worden en is de horeca volledig in bedrijf.

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TU Delft has launched the Digital Ethics Centre for fair and safe AI

Our society is digitising itself more and more. That offers opportunities, such as more efficient working, but it also raises many ethical questions – the sort of questions now being addressed by TU Delft’s new Digital Ethics Centre. Together with government agencies and companies, the centre’s researchers are looking at the ethical side of AI and digitalisation, such as fairness, safety and transparency, and seeking to develop the best solutions and applications.

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Rico Herzog receives thesis award from the Society for Public Administration

On Tuesday 10 May 2022 the H.A. Brasz thesis prize of the Society for Public Administration (Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde) was awarded to Rico Herzog for his thesis "Cities for Citizens: Identification of Public Values and their Conflics in Urban Space".

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Caspar Chorus appointed Dean of Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE)

Caspar Chorus appointed Dean of Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE).

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Millions in funding allocated to research into ‘the algorithmic society’

In the framework of the Gravitation programme, the cabinet is awarding 21.3 million euros to the research project ‘The algorithmic society’, led by UvA University Professors Natali Helberger and Claes de Vreese. Seda Gürses is one of the Co-PIs on the project. One of the focus points will be on the implications of the growing use of automated decision making and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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Royal Honours for Professor Kornelis Blok

Professor Kornelis Blok, Professor of Energy Systems Analysis at the Faculty of Technology, Management and Policy (TPM), was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in Houten.

Roland Ortt endowed professor Urban Innovation Management

Dr Roland Ortt is appointed endowed professor in Urban Innovation Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam as of 1 May 2022. Real change in a city requires a combination of new policies, new behavioural patterns of interest groups and new business models of involved companies and organisations. How can these different types of innovations be combined in practice? This is one of the central questions of this chair, which has been established by the Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends (STT) and will be embedded in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities.

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Janna van Grunsven receives Veni grant

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant worth up to 280,000 euros to Janna van Grunsven, a scientists of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. The grant provides her with the opportunity to further elaborate her own research idea during a period of three years. Janna explains what her Veni research entails.

Veni grants for nine leading TU Delft researchers

Another 78 promising young scientists receive Veni funding of up to 280,000 euros from NWO. This concerns sixty researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW) domain and eighteen from the Applied and Technical Sciences (TTW) domain, who can further develop their own research ideas over the next three years. The Venis for the ENW and ZonMW domains were announced in December 2021.

TU Delft makes global top 10 of QS Engineering & Technology universities for the first time

TU Delft is ranked 10th for Engineering & Technology in the QS World University Rankings by Subject published on 6 April 2022. TU Delft also made the top 20 in ten of its categories.

Letter to parliament on long-term strategy COVID-19 mentions the use of PVE

In the letter to Parliament, Minister Kuipers indicates that the results of the PVE and the other studies of the Behavioral Unit will be used in the further specification of the long-term strategy of the corona policy.

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Using science to unlock the secrets of cybercrime

With everyone spending so much time online during the coronavirus crisis, cybercrime has also been on the rise. Criminals are attempting to take advantage of these unsettled times. But not if scientist Rolf van Wegberg and Master's student Jochem van de Laarschot have their way. They are working with the FIOD (Fiscal Information and Investigation Service) to help combat cybercrime.

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Can walking and cycling make us healthy and happy?

Do walking and cycling make people healthier, or are healthier people more inclined to travel actively? And how does the coronavirus affect our travel behaviour? These are the kinds of questions that scientist Maarten Kroesen is investigating. In his view, situations are often not as simple as they might seem at first glance. He is nevertheless convinced of one thing: we should be walking and cycling more.

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The voice of Solotvyno

Former salt empire Solotvyno is located in western Ukraine. Today, the area suffers from the effects of salt extraction: an unstable subsurface resulting in massive sinkholes that threaten the life of the community. Two researchers from Delft University of Technology participated in a consortium to develop a disaster risk reduction plan together with the community. With the aim of giving the population a voice and building on a safer future. This short documentary provides insight into the process.

Defossilising chemical industry: from molecule to large-scale system integration

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Defossilising chemical industry: from molecule to large-scale system integration

90% of raw materials used today in the EU chemical industry are still from fossil origin. The energy transition therefore has far-stretching implications for chemical companies.

Avoiding division in climate adaptation

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Avoiding division in climate adaptation

The government has growing expectations of citizens when it comes to climate adaptation, but not every citizen or neighbourhood is able to live up to these expectations. Neelke Doorn, Professor of Ethics of Water Engineering, is studying ways of avoiding social divides between neighbourhoods.

Dialogue with residents creates a pleasant living environment

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Dialogue with residents creates a pleasant living environment

When residents feel connected with their neighbourhood, they feel more responsible for creating a pleasant atmosphere. But how do people connect with their living environment and how can you support that process? This is what Geertje Slingerland researching: "I find it fascinating how people live together in the city and would like to establish a dialogue between policy makers and residents in order to create a pleasant living environment."

Designing for darkness

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Designing for darkness

Days are short in December and January, but this does not mean darkness sets in early in the Netherlands. On cloudy nights, light pollution turns the night sky of Delft a bright orange. Let’s start designing for darkness, Dr Taylor Stone proposes in his research.

The hydrogen car as a crucial link in a sustainable energy system

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The hydrogen car as a crucial link in a sustainable energy system

Conventional cars that run on fossil fuels no longer meet today’s needs, certainly not in view of the Dutch government’s target of being CO₂ neutral by 2050. A combination of hydrogen cars and battery electric vehicles, are the way forward as stated by the TPM researcher Samira Farahani. She and other researchers at TU Delft are working on Professor Ad van Wijk’s concept of the 'Car as a power plant' (CaPP). In this concept, hydrogen cars will act as power sources in a sustainable energy system in which electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power is converted into hydrogen.

The responsibility gap with self-driving cars

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The responsibility gap with self-driving cars

Who is responsible when self-driving cars are involved in accidents? Recently a self-driving Volvo in Arizona collided with a pedestrian who did not survive the accident. And in 2016 there was a fatal self-driving Tesla incident. Filippo Santoni de Sio of the TU Delft analyses the ethical issues around self-driving cars.

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09 August 2022

Bert van Wee in Fehactiviteiten over kilometerheffing in 2030

Bert van Wee in Fehactiviteiten over kilometerheffing in 2030

Na aankondiging van het rekeningrijden in 2030 is het stil gebleven. In FEHAC deelt Bert van Wee zijn gedachte over de vraag 'Hoe het rekeningrijden er over acht jaar uit gaat zien'.

08 August 2022

Georgios Smaragdakis bij RTL Nieuws over cybersecurity bij energietransitie

Onlangs kon een ethisch hacker zonder problemen duizenden omvormers van zonnepanelen hacken. Georgios Smaragdakis vertelt bij RTL Nieuws waarom er meer aandacht moet zijn voor cybersecurity bij de energietransitie, waarbij niet alleen wordt overgestapt naar duurzame systemen, maar daarmee ook naar digitale systemen die bijvoorbeeld verbonden zijn aan het internet.

08 August 2022

Kornelis Blok bij BNR Radio over heropening Nord Stream 1

Kornelis Blok bij BNR Radio over heropening Nord Stream 1

Na tien dagen van onderhoud ging de Duits-Russische gaspijpleiding Nordstream 1 tóch open. Een meevaller voor degenen die dachten dat Poetin ná het onderhoud de pijpleiding niet meer open zou draaien. Maar "het is goed om die afhankelijkheid van het Russisch gas zo snel mogelijk te bepwerken", zegt Kornelis Blok bij BNR.

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Agenda

August

TU Delft Introduction programme

September

EPA introduction programme

CoSEM introduction programme

Introduction programme Exchange students

MOT introduction programme

Thesis defence S. Noori

HCAIS Deep Dive: A Crowd Computing Perspective

Laurens de Vries at European Energy Market conference

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