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The joint TU Delft and NWO-WOTRO funded research project ‘Addis Ababa Living Lab’ kicked off one year ago, in May 2019. Over the last year, a team of researchers from TU Delft and the Ethiopian Institute for Architecture Building Construction and City Development (EiABC) have been working together on the first research outputs to achieve the project’s goal: to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s resettlement dwellers.

During his research career, Yask Kulshreshtha has been on a quest to invent new building materials that are affordable, locally available and help to reuse organic waste materials. He has for instance developed solutions to make traditional mud houses in rural India water resistant.

While China, Europe and the United States are currently hit hard by the Corona crisis, there has been limited attention so far for the situation in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

A low-tech ventilator, developed and built by the Project Inspiration team, has reached Guatemala where it will double the national stock of ventilators.

Op woensdag 6 mei verdedigde Tepitome 'Tope' Agbana met succes zijn thesis 'Smart Optics Against Smart Parasites' aan de TU Delft (3ME). De verdediging vond plaats in de senaatszaal van de Aula, de vier commissieleden sloten aan via Skype. Agbana's onderzoek betreft de vroegtijdige opsporing van malaria, de belangrijkste doodsoorzaak onder zwangere vrouwen en jonge kinderen: jaarlijks wordt 11% van de moeder- en 20% van de minderjarige sterfgevallen toegeschreven aan malaria.