News & In the media

In the week of April 16, all 13 international partners of the EU H2020 iTRACK project gathered at the TPM faculty for a full week of technology integration and testing of the ambitious iTrack system, an advanced system for real-time tracking and monitoring to support humanitarian operations in the dire conditions of conflict disasters.

The two year action research programme, 'Schools as Energy Embassies', is supported by RVO, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The aim is to organise support to accelerate the energy transition. In this article Gerdien de Vries and Thomas Hoppe explain what their project is about.

On 19 April dr. Caroline Nevejan, principal investigator, and dr. Scott Cunningham, data director of research programme City Rhythm presented the book “City Rhythm, logbook of an exploration” to alderman Pieter Litjens of the city of Amsterdam and district secretary Bas van Sprew of the Amsterdam Southeast district.

Maandag kwamen de Verenigde Staten en Groot-Brittannië met een gezamenlijke waarschuwing. Volgens beide landen infiltreren Russische hackers op grote schaal apparaten, met als doel het Westen dwars te zitten. Zorgen over spionage door de Chinese overheid zijn er al langer. Michel van Eeten, hoogleraar cybersecurity aan de Technische Universiteit Delft, noemde de beschuldigingen in november nog "onzuiver". "Er is minstens zoveel reden, zo niet meer, om de Amerikaanse apparatuur te wantrouwen", zei hij destijds tegen NU.nl.

Martin de Jong gave a presentation at the 1st Annual Holland Science Network in China Congress. He presented on the topic city branding and urban transformation. Stientje van Veldhoven, State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management participated in the event in which some 50 Dutch scientists currently working in China exchanged knowledge with Chinese academics.