News & In the media

The NWO Executive board has appointed TPM prof. Bartel Van de Walle as member of the Steering Committee of WOTRO Science for Global Development. WOTRO is very pleased to welcome Van de Walle, also because of his efforts to take science beyond the university walls and into society. At TU Delft, Van de Walle is also a member of the steering committee of TU Delft | Global Initiative.

Delft University Fund announced the eight TU Delft Best Graduates of 2019. Each faculty has named their Best Graduate 2019, totalling a number of eight talented recently graduated engineers. Chris van Bergen is best graduate of TPM and will vie for the prize with her thesis on public support for tradable peak credits as an instrument to reduce traffic jams. On November 12, during the TU Delft Best Graduate Award Ceremony 2019, the Best Graduates will present their excellent master theses.

For the first time seventeen selected students from the TU Delft master Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA) will participate in the World Class Program organised by the Municipality of The Hague.

Scott Cunningham and Cees van Beers received 154,000 euro funding for the BigProd project (total budget of 1 million euro), which was funded by H2020.

NWO has selected four projects to receive funding in the first round of the Connecting Worlds of Knowledge call of the Urbanising Deltas of the World (UDW) research and innovation programme. All four projects are led by main applicants from the global south. TPM researchers are involved in three of these projects. The projects are aimed at enhancing the use and translation of UDW research results for innovation and implementation in delta management and policies.