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In Nature Partner Journals, ten researchers advocate the use of imagination in tackling the climate crisis. They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable to climate change. "We scientists should not merely outline doomsday scenarios," says Professor Chris Zevenbergen. "Create a vision for people to believe in and work towards.”

During the Teaching Academy's Education Day, the awards were presented for Educator of the Year and Education Team Award. The team that developed the Personal Development Weeks (Persoonlijke OntwikkelingsWeek or POW) of the Bachelor Renewal won the award for TU Delft Education Team of the Year.

DigiPedia is a new digital platform designed to offer comprehensive tutorials on software and computational methods to students and life-long learners around the globe. All conveniently housed in one location for easy access.

How do we want to live in the 21st century? Society is changing rapidly, but housing is still organised according to traditional family models. Alternative forms of living based on sharing and collectivity challenge this paradigm. Darinka Czischke has received a VIDI grant for her project 'InCommon: Reconceptualising individual and collective housing preferences' in which she explores what motivates different types of people to live collectively.

TU Delft aims to become carbon-neutral, climate-adaptive, and fully circular by 2030, with a strong focus on biodiversity and quality of life. Each faculty plays a role in this mission, with a dedicated Local Sustainability Coordinator. As of mid-October, Sultan Çetin has stepped into this role for our faculty, bringing her expertise in circular and sustainable construction to the forefront of TU Delft's sustainability goals.

NWO has awarded 102 researchers a Vidi grant in total 86,7 million euros. Eight promising TU Delft researchers from the domains Exact and Natural Sciences (ENS), Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Applied and Technical Sciences (ATS) have been awarded. This Vidi grant up to 850,000 euros will enables the laureates to develop an innovative line of research over the next five years and further expand their own research group.

Relax with a book in an easy chair or on the sofa, reading light on and cup of tea by the side, play a game with fellow students and teachers in the living room. A fireplace would not have been out of place. From Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 November, the Oostserre will be the focal point for the Personal Development Week (POW) for our Bachelor students. Kristel Aalbers, POW programme coordinator, explains what these reflection days are for.

The water and soil system has traditionally been an important basis for the development of mostly densely populated delta areas. Climate change also changes the existing conditions of the water and soil system; this has an impact on the future spatial economic compositions of deltas and their land use. On 8 November, Professor Anne Loes Nillesen (Urbanism) will give her inaugural address ‘Climate Adaptation; an Act of Design’.

During the festive closing ceremony on 8 October, the nine participants for the National Archiprix 2025 were officially announced. The carefully selected projects, chosen by a jury, will compete in this prestigious competition for talented young designers. The National Archiprix annually showcases the best emerging design talent in the Netherlands and will be on display at our faculty in March.

Two years after the first ideas about transforming the courtyard of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment into a Urban Climate Grove, was ready to be opened. On Tuesday 1 October 2024, during a festive opening, Dean Dick van Gameren, Frank van Vliet (Delft alderman for Climate, Culture and Public Space) and Renate Geven (Asset Manager Buitenruimte at campus real estate CREFM), planted the final plants.