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Education By the TU Delft Safety & Security Institute Free & open for participants from all Dutch universities & universities of applied science PhD & postdoc course ‘Safe by Design’ Safety is becoming increasingly relevant in various fields. The renewed focus on Safe by Design (SbD) tries to identify and include safety (along with other important values such as sustainability, security, and circularity) at an early stage of design. Each year we offer PhD course that offers a general outlook on SbD, then dives into different disciplinary perspectives on SbD and its industrial applications and ends with (ethical) reflections on SbD. By other TU Delft units Online course Road Safety Road traffic accidents currently result in about 1.25 million deaths each year and leave between 20 and 50 million people with non-fatal injuries. In addition to the impact on human life and safety this also results in significant economic losses. This course will enable the design of safer roads, develop better road safety plans and policies and ensure the presence of the human factor in both policy and design. offline course for professionals, in Dutch only Management of Safety, Health & Environment Good working conditions and safety on the work floor, managing processes with minimal impact on the environment and balancing safety and security levels with conflicting values and uncertainties are important aspects of efficient and sustainable business operations. The program Management of Safety, Health & Environment (MoSHE) prepares professionals to play a central role in the day-to-day implementation of safety requirements and the development of future safety policy at companies and institutions. Online course Cybersecurity for Managers and Executives: Taking the Lead If you are a leader, or preparing for a leadership role, you are accountable for the cyber maturity of your organization. This course will equip you with the framework, vocabulary and understanding of cyber risks, and will give you the confidence to take the lead in cybersecurity initiatives. Online course Economics of Cybersecurity: Solutions Cybersecurity breaches are the outcome of bad incentives. This course teaches you how to think about rational security investments, aligning security with the business strategy, insurance, incident response and much more. As well as individual organizations, it also covers solutions to address market failures. online course Risk in Modern Society This course sheds light on the broad concept of risk. It closely examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy, safety and medical science. Developed in collaboration with scholars from three universities (Leiden, Delft and Erasmus), this course will search for answers to questions such as: “what is risk?”, “how do we study and deal with risk?”, “does ‘perceived risk’ correspond to 'real' risk?”, and “how should we deal with societal perceptions of risk, safety and security? Online course Forencis Engineering: Learning from Failures What do collapsed buildings, infected hospital patients, and crashed airplanes have in common? If you know the causes of these events and conditions, they can all be prevented. In this course, you will learn how to use the TU Delft mind-set to investigate the causes of such events so you can prevent them in the future. Online course Economics of Cybersecurity: Users and Attackers Are humans the weakest link in cybersecurity? Using an economics perspective, this course will give you the latest insights into the behavior of users, and how they and their criminal adversaries fit into larger systems, so that you can design the best responses to guard against your most critical risks.

Organisation structure TU Delft Safety & Security Institute

Organisation structure Executive Board Justin Dauwels Scientific co-director Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science AI and machine learning, with applications to autonomous systems and national security (e.g., crime prevention and detection, counter-terrorism) Eleonora Papadimitriou Scientific co-director Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management Transport safety (road, maritime, rail, aviation), human factors in transport safety, quantitative methods and AI in transport safety, ethical issues in transport safety Arjo Loeve Board member Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Forensic engineering: analysing failures of medical-technological systems and trauma mechanisms in biomechanical system, engineering for forensics: developing forensic technology. Maria Nogal Board member Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Resilience of the built environment, climate change adaptation (e.g., wildfires), integration of social aspects (e.g., human capacity of adaptation or behavioural change during stressful situations), performance of engineering systems, informed decision-making processes Simon Parkin Board member Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management Cybersecurity, specialising in human-centred security - usability and perceptions of security-related technologies, security behaviour change, security economics, and decision-making in security management. Alexei Sharpans'kykh Board member Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Artificial Intelligence, multiagent systems, safety, security, aviation, sustainable air transport, automation, resilience of the air transport system Eveline Vreede Executive manager Tarik Bousair Student assistant Steering Committee The Steering Committee consists of the deans of the TU Delft Faculties that participate in the Safety & Security Institute. Advisory Board The advisory board provides non-binding solicited and unsolicited strategic advice to the Executive Board. By providing unbiased insights and ideas regarding Safety and Security matters, a deeper understanding and discussing relevant trends in the broader Safety & Security ecosystem can be achieved. The advisory board is a ‘wise counsel’ on issues raised by the Executive Board, in doing so they encourage and support the exploration of new ideas, research topics and relevant networks. Margot Weijnen Bas Jonkman Annemieke de Vries Pieter van Gelder Max Mulder Mauro Conti Aleksander Yarovoy Ruud van Ommen Past directors Behnam Taebi Scientific director 2019-2024 Pieter van Gelder Scientific director 2014-2019

Resources

The Strategic agenda 2024-2030 lays out eight developments which affect the university today and will continue to do so in the near future. By using foresight, we are helping the TU Delft to navigate those developments. Our approaches are nonlinear, agile and adaptive. We are not the only ones using foresight to tackle these challenges, however. There is a plethora of organizations, institutes and think tanks – nationally and internationally – which apply foresight into their work to analyze developments such as climate change , Deep Tech innovation , the national political environment , societal polarization, geopolitical developments , the talent race or intergenerational relations . If you want to get further acquainted with foresight and be introduced to both Dutch and international foresight organizations, we have selected the following examples. Dutch examples: The Rathenau Institute The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) SURF International examples: The Institute for the Future (IFTF) The Futures Lab (UNESCO) International Futures Forum (IFF) Demos Helsinki RAND Corporation Interested in diving into academic foresight journals and getting a better grasp on foresight as well as the way in which foresight is studied? We have selected three to help you on your way: Futures (Journal of Future Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy) Journal of Strategic Foresight Journal of Futures Studies We have also picked three foresight institutes which deliver foresight reports and articles on a regular basis, which are either available through purchase on their websites or ready for download. You will immediately get access to their databases by clicking below: The Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends (STT) Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS) Freedom Lab

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