News 11 December 2023 TU Delft ranked 14th worldwide on Sustainability On Tuesday 5 December, QS World University Ranking ranked TU Delft in place 14 for the theme Sustainability worldwide. Last year, the university ranked 23 for this theme. The rise shows the university's sustainability ambition. 08 December 2023 An Education Hackathon Pilot – working together to make education more sustainable Since early December, some locations on campus have been working with Too Good To Go. This is an initiative which aims to fight food waste by offering left over meals for a reduced price. 30 November 2023 The new food waste monitor 'Orbisk' provides insight into food waste at TU Delft Since the start of the academic year 2023/2024, the new food waste monitor 'Orbisk' has been integrated in the Aula, within the Foodsquare restaurant. This innovative system monitors the food that is been thrown away. A third of global emissions are attributed to food waste, so reducing food waste has a positive impact on the climate. 28 November 2023 Seed funding TU Delft climate Action Programme awards 13 researchers For the first half year of 2023, the TU Delft Climate Action Programme has granted 9 applications for the Seed Fund. The researchers come from the faculties CEG, TPM and 3ME. 22 November 2023 Successful launch of whitepaper “Repair in the Circular Economy” We look back on a successful launch of the white paper “Repair in the Circular Economy”, which took place on 13 November. One hundred and twenty scientists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, administrators, students, and people from repair cafes joined the conversation. 21 November 2023 Join the pilot of the Education Hackathon on 30 November 2023 - sign up! Are you excited to think about creating better education? Would you like to share your ideas about education of the future? Then we are asking you to participate in the pilot of the Education Hackathon at TU Delft on 30 November. 01 November 2023 From bare bricks to tree-wadi: Bouwkunde renovates its courtyard In 2024, the courtyard of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment will be transformed into an Urban Climate Grove, in the form of a tree-rich 'wadi' (Arabic for riverbed). This wadi will not only become a nicer place for students and staff, but also facilitate a whole range of new research projects. Dr Nico Tillie: "We will study all levels, from the ground to the sky and from emissions to biodiversity." And according to Dr René van der Velde, "we are going beyond the state-of-the-art... we are inventing a new type of forest." 17 October 2023 National Tree Day On 15 March we wil plant 40 new trees on our campus to make a greater biodiversity. 11 October 2023 Disassembly: Essential to repair Legislation can stimulate repair. But screws hidden so deeply in a product that they are nearly inaccessible are a repair nightmare. Bas Flipsen encourages circular product design by developing tools for designers and engineers. 10 October 2023 TU Delft celebrates Sustainability Day with discussion on sustainability in education 10 October 2023 is Sustainability Day. During the previous academic year, Monika Roeling, researcher Sustainability in Education at TU Delft, conducted research on the number of sustainable subjects at TU Delft in 2022/2023. On the 10th of October, she will share the intermediate results of this research, together with students from GreenTU. They created a a digital database for sustainable courses at TU Delft. These results will be the basis for discussion with the entire community of TU Delft. Page 1 Page 2 You are on page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 ... Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page