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Learning for Life – 10 years of empowering global learners

Learning for Life – 10 years of empowering global learners “I believe in a culture where it is the most normal thing in the world to keep developing and to keep learning throughout one’s life” - says Minister Mariëlle Paul. With these words, the Dutch Minister for Primary and Secondary Education addressed distinguished guests, speakers and TU Delft staff at the Learning for Life symposium held on 4 April to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the TU Delft Extension School for Continuing Education. And what a difference ten years can make! Vice-Rector Magnificus and Vice-President Education Rob Mudde echoed Minister Paul’s remarks that lifelong learning and development are now more essential than ever before, in a world that is changing at a rapid pace and facing major challenges that we must tackle together. “We believe this is so important that we have made it an official core task at TU Delft – to provide adult learners with quality and accessible learning opportunities for professional and personal development throughout their lifetime with an aim to build a better society together.” Government Education Agenda A goal that links strongly with the core of the government’s Education Agenda for Lifelong Learning – an agenda, said Minister Paul, that demonstrates the willingness to take steps – “whether by exploring how educators and the business community can work together even better or by examining the possibility of embedding continuous education in Dutch law." One example of such government support is the LLO Katalysator initiative whereby universities, colleges and secondary vocational schools are collaborating with business and governments to give a strong boost to continuous education. This has just awarded the Extension School €2 Million in funding to further professionalise the organisation, making it ever more demand-oriented and responsive to the needs of employers, workers, and job seekers. Driven by passion “Creating and sharing knowledge is at the essence of what we do” stated Mudde, “and we are passionate about highlighting the power of science, engineering and design as agents of transformation". With this passion at the core, the Extension School launched as an innovation programme to offer TU Delft’s open and online education across the world. Starting with just two MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on the edX.org platform – it has now reached 4.3Million enrolments worldwide and offers a growing portfolio of over 250 (online) courses and 50 programmes. “We have greatly expanded our reach and offer learners across the world a wide range of courses in key areas of expertise, focussing on themes of societal relevance such as the energy transition, sustainable cities and transportation and medical technology,” said Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director. “The portfolio also covers new technologies and developments, such as quantum and AI, data and digitalisation – whilst equipping engineers with interdisciplinary skills and competencies to be the changemakers the world needs". Global impact Ten years on, the Extension School is embedded in the University Corporate Office and responsible for actualising TU Delft's Lifelong Learning Strategy, supporting and collaborating with the faculties and working with industry partners, government initiatives, and innovative educational organisations and consortia. “We are very proud of the positive impact our educational offer continues to have on the personal and professional lives of millions of individuals – and through them on society at large,” asserted Van Valkenburg, “and the benefits have extended to and enriched campus education – for example through an 82% reuse of course materials, exciting new teaching and learning approaches, and insights from learner-analytics research.” With about 35 international awards to its name, the organisation strongly profiles TU Delft as a leader in the field of lifelong learning – a position and outreach that it is looking to expand even further. Lively discussion and hands-on sessions The recollection address on ‘how it all began’ by Anka Mulder, President Executive Board Saxion University of Applied Science and former Vice-President TU Delft Executive Board, was followed by the inspiring symposium’s keynote by Norman Jackson, Emeritus Professor at the University of Surrey. Professor Jackson talked about the significant role that educators play at this critical junction in human history in helping people develop in ways that not only fulfil present personal, economic, and societal needs but also ensure that they contribute to a sustainable future beyond their own existence. A series of breakout sessions on innovations and best practices in lifelong learning led by internal and external experts generated lively discussions – contributing to reflections on the challenges and opportunities that face educational institutions and their partners in industry and society with regard to the current and future offer of Learning for Life. The interactive art installation ‘infrared projector’ by the student collective Emergence Delft added a creative layer to the collaborative, inspirational and innovative spirit of the symposium. Thank you to all who shared in the celebration – and to all our academics, educational experts, industry and educational partners, and our learners. Here's to another 10 years! Happy anniversary to you all. See the symposium page – for the detailed programme, including video, photos, and presentations. Read more about the TU Delft Extension School or explore our courses and programmes .

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TU Delft jointly wins XPRIZE Rainforest drone competition in Brazil

TU Delft wint gezamenlijk XPRIZE Rainforest competitie in de Amazone, Brazilië Stel je zich voor: snelle en autonome robottechnologie gebruiken voor onderzoek naar de groene en vochtige longen van onze planeet; onze wereldwijde regenwouden. Drones die autonoom eDNA samplers en netten voor in boomtoppen inzetten, brengen de rijke biodiversiteit van deze complexe ecosystemen aan het licht en onthullen de effecten van menselijke activiteiten op de natuur en klimaatverandering. Op 15 november 2024, na vijf jaar intensief onderzoek en competitie, bereikte het ETHBiodivX-team, waarvan ook Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaartonderzoekers van de TU Delft, Salua Hamaza en Georg Strunck, deel uitmaakten, een opmerkelijke mijlpaal: het winnen van de XPRIZE Rainforest Bonus Prize voor uitmuntende inspanningen bij het gezamenlijk ontwikkelen van inclusieve technologie voor natuurbehoud. Het doel: geautomatiseerde technologie en methoden ontwikkelen om bijna realtime inzichten te krijgen in biodiversiteit - het leveren van noodzakelijke gegevens die kunnen bijdragen aan behoud en beleid, duurzame bio-economieën kunnen ondersteunen en inheemse volkeren en lokale gemeenschappen, die de belangrijkste beschermers en kennishouders zijn van de tropische regenwoudens op aarde, meer macht kunnen geven. Het ETHBiodivX team, bestaande uit experts in Robotica, eDNA en Data Insights, ging de enorme uitdaging aan om de manier waarop we ecosystemen monitoren te automatiseren en te stroomlijnen. Aan het hoofd van de robotica-afdeling, een samenwerking tussen Universitair Hoofddocent Salua Hamaza van de TU Delft, prof. Stefano Mintchev van de ETH Zürich en prof. Claus Melvad en Toke Thomas Høye, ontwikkelt baanbrekende robotoplossingen om autonoom ecologische en biologische gegevens te verzamelen. “We stonden voor de immense uitdaging om robots in het wild in te zetten - en niet zomaar in een buitenomgeving, maar in een van de meest veeleisende en onbekende: de natte regenwouden. Dit vereiste buitengewone inspanningen om robuustheid en betrouwbaarheid te garanderen, waarbij we de grenzen verlegden van wat de hardware kon bereiken voor autonome gegevensverzameling van beelden, geluiden en eDNA in het Amazonegebied”, zegt universitair hoofddocent Hamaza. “Uiteindelijk zal deze technologie beschikbaar zijn voor inheemse gemeenschappen als hulpmiddel om de voortdurende veranderingen in de biodiversiteit van het bos beter te begrijpen, die de lokale bevolking voorziet van essentiële hulpbronnen zoals voedsel en onderdak.” . . . .

Students Amos Yusuf, Mick Dam & Bas Brouwer winners of Mekel Prize 2024

Master students Amos Yusuf, from the ME faculty (Mick Dam, from the EEMCS faculty and graduate Bas Brouwer have won the Mekel Prize 2024 for the best extra scientific activity at TU Delft: the development of an initiative that brings master students into the classroom teaching sciences to the younger generations. The prize was ceremonially awarded by prof Tim van den Hagen on 13 November after the Van Hasselt Lecture at the Prinsenhof, Delft. They received a statue of Professor Jan Mekel and 1.500,- to spend on their project. Insights into climate change are being openly doubted. Funding for important educational efforts and research are being withdrawn. Short clips – so called “reels” – on Youtube and TikTok threaten to simplify complex political and social problems. AI fakes befuddle what is true and what is not. The voices of science that contribute to those discussion with modesty, careful argument and scepticism, are drowned in noise. This poses a threat for universities like TU Delft, who strive to increase student numbers, who benefit from diverse student populations and aim to pass on their knowledge and scientific virtues to the next generation. It is, therefore, alarming that student enrolments to Bachelor and Master Programs at TU Delft have declined in the past year. Students in front of the class The project is aimed to make the sciences more appealing to the next generation. They have identified the problem that students tend miss out on the opportunity of entering a higher education trajectory in the Beta sciences – because they have a wrong picture of such education. In their mind, they depict it as boring and dry. In his pilot lecture at the Stanislas VMBO in Delft, Amos Yusuf has successfully challenged this image. He shared his enthusiasm for the field of robotics and presented himself as a positive role model to the pupils. And in return the excitement of the high school students is palpable in the videos and pictures from the day. The spark of science fills their eyes. Bas Brouwer Mick Dam are the founders of NUVO – the platform that facilitates the engagement of Master Students in high school education in Delft Their efforts offer TU Delft Master Students a valuable learning moment: By sharing insights from their fields with pupils at high school in an educational setting, our students can find identify their own misunderstandings of their subject, learn to speak in front of non-scientific audiences and peak into education as a work field they themselves might not have considered. An extraordinary commitment According to the Mekel jury, the project scored well on all the criteria (risk mitigation, inclusiveness, transparency and societal relevance). However, it was the extraordinary commitment of Amos who was fully immersed during his Master Project and the efforts of Brouwer and Dam that brought together teaching and research which is integral to academic culture that made the project stand out. About the Mekel Prize The Mekel Prize will be awarded to the most socially responsible research project or extra-scientific activity (e.g. founding of an NGO or organization, an initiative or realization of an event or other impactful project) by an employee or group of employees of TU Delft – projects that showcase in an outstanding fashion that they have been committed from the beginning to relevant moral and societal values and have been aware of and tried to mitigate as much as possible in innovative ways the risks involved in their research. The award recognizes such efforts and wants to encourage the responsible development of science and technology at TU Delft in the future. For furthermore information About the project: https://www.de-nuvo.nl/video-robotica-pilot/ About the Mekel Prize: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/our-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethics-philosophy-of-technology/mekel-prize

Veiligere en efficiëntere bloedvatbehandelingen door innovatieve kathetertechnologie

Wereldwijd worden jaarlijks meer dan 200 miljoen katheters gebruikt voor de behandeling van vaatziekten zoals hartaandoeningen en slagadervernauwing. Hoewel essentieel, brengt het gebruik van katheters risico’s met zich mee: wrijving tussen de katheter en de vaatwand kan complicaties veroorzaken. Een nieuwe technologie, ontwikkeld door Mostafa Atalla en zijn team, biedt een oplossing. Met één druk op de knop kan de wrijving van de katheter worden aangepast, van maximale grip naar volledige gladheid. Deze innovatie belooft niet alleen veiligere, maar ook efficiëntere endovasculaire procedures mogelijk te maken. De resultaten zijn gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift IEEE. Slimme katheter met instelbare wrijving Het nieuwe katheterprototype is uitgerust met geavanceerde technologie die de wrijving tussen de katheter en vaatwand nauwkeurig reguleert via ultrasone trillingen. Dit mechanisme zet via ultrasone trillingen de dunne vloeistoflaag onder druk waardoor de wrijving dynamisch kan worden aangepast: lage wrijving voor soepele navigatie door bloedvaten en hogere wrijving voor optimale stabiliteit tijdens een procedure. Tests tonen aan dat deze techniek de wrijving op harde oppervlakken met gemiddeld 60% vermindert en op zachte oppervlakken met 11%. Veelbelovende resultaten Bij experimenten op dierlijk aortaweefsel heeft het prototype zijn potentieel bewezen. Deze innovatie kan niet alleen bij vaatbehandelingen worden ingezet, maar mogelijk ook bij andere medische procedures, zoals interventies in de darmen. De onderzoekers zijn nu bezig de technologie verder te ontwikkelen en te testen op bredere toepassingen. Meer informatie Publicatie DOI: 10.1109/TMRB.2024.3464672 Toward Variable-Friction Catheters Using Ultrasonic Lubrication | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore Mostafa Atalla: m.a.a.atalla@tudelft.nl | Aimee Sakes: a.sakes@tudelft.nl | Michael Wiertlewski: m.wiertlewski@tudelft.nl Wil je een demonstratie bijwonen of in contact komen met een van de onderzoekers neem contact op met: Fien Bosman, persvoorlichter TU Delft Health: f.j.bosman@tudelft.nl/ 0624953733