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The Green Village: living lab for sustainability

Where the Architecture building stood until 2008, a sustainable village emerged three years ago. In it, TU Delft researchers, businesses and government bodies are testing sustainable technology in practice.

Teslas, vegan burgers and democracy

“We must design things that provide short-term pleasure and long-term benefit for health, animal welfare and the planet”, argued Professor Paul Hekkert at the 178th Dies Natalis.

The university needs to facilitate silence

However tragic, the fire in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (2008), gave Alexandra den Heijer an opportunity to test her ideas on university real estate in practice. Since then, the campus has been her living lab.

View of Adriaan van Noord

Lawyer Adriaan van Noord is Head of IP (Intellectual Property) in the Valorisation Centre. Of all Dutch universities, TU Delft manages by far the most patents, he explains. He also predicts that the role of intellectual property rights will only increase at TU Delft in the decades ahead.

Online learning

TU Delft offers many courses on subjects that matter that build on the strengths of our faculties. The online academic courses below are developed for entrepeneurs.

The facts about patents

TU Delft manages around 200 patents, or more accurately ‘patents families’. Strictly speaking, the university has even more patents because the same invention can be protected by separate patents in different countries.

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