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TPM researcher Leon Hermans has been awarded funding for the international project “H2O -- T2S in Urban Fringe Areas”. It is one of twelve interdisciplinary research projects on ”Transformations to Sustainability” funded by the international Belmont Forum and NORFACE.

Forget spaceships, future travellers could travel between stars on giant hollowed out asteroids, according to a radical new plan. Students and researchers at Delft University of Technology are designing a starship they say will be able to keep generations of crew alive as they cross the gulf between stars. The TU Delft Starship Team is already working with the European Space Agency on the life support systems needed.

In the week of April 16, all 13 international partners of the EU H2020 iTRACK project gathered at the TPM faculty for a full week of technology integration and testing of the ambitious iTrack system, an advanced system for real-time tracking and monitoring to support humanitarian operations in the dire conditions of conflict disasters.

Online onderwijs biedt kansen voor innovatie en kwaliteitsverbetering van het onderwijs en hoger studiesucces. Het ministerie van OCW stelt daarom subsidie beschikbaar voor een jaarlijkse stimuleringsregeling open en online onderwijs.

The two year action research programme, 'Schools as Energy Embassies', is supported by RVO, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The aim is to organise support to accelerate the energy transition. In this article Gerdien de Vries and Thomas Hoppe explain what their project is about.