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INNOVATIVE & INSPIRING
education
Lijst Bèta strives for innovative and inspiring education, so that you can become a well-rounded Delft engineer.
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FUTURE-PROOF education
Lijst Bèta strives for innovative and inspiring education, so that you can become a well-rounded Delft engineer. Therefore, we believe that:
- Education should be about improving yourself instead of proving yourself
- The curricula should challenge students to develop themselves, by teaching them the necessary 21st century skills such as programming, reflecting, critical thinking and (multidisciplinary) collaboration.
- Motivating education offers autonomy, so that students can choose their education in a structured manner.
- Our teachers define the way students experience their education at the TU Delft. This is an important role that should not be taken lightly, by the university nor by the teachers themselves.
- High quality education is only possible when educational tasks are rewarded equally, instead of the current prioritization of research activities. Researching teachers should have the possibility to excel in their didactic skills.
Furthermore, there is a practical side to education. Our student population continues to grow, which puts pressure on already limited resources. Lijst Bèta wants to the university to:
- As an internationally recognized institution, offer new innovative forms of education such as blended learning to be able to offer students the best of the best
- Provide more and better study places, also for master thesis students
- Provide better and more fruitful ways of providing feedback, where the implementation of it is immediately visible
DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE community
Since TU Delft offers world-class education, its community is very diverse. The university provides international students with excellent education, but more attention should be given to the integration of students.
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DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE community
Since TU Delft offers world-class education, its community is diverse in culture, language, gender, religion and physical abilities. The university provides international students with excellent education, but more attention should be given to the integration of students. As Lijst Bèta, it is our vision that:
- Intercultural communication skills should be taught to every student
- Representative bodies such as the student council should be representative of the whole student population.
- Attention should be paid to matters of international students such as living costs, loneliness and stereotypes.
- The start of your studies is focused on providing you with the right information and tools to have a good and encouraging start.
- The university should offer an open and safe environment for all.
- Every layer of the organisation should be representative of the TU Delft community.
- The university and its members take their social responsibility seriously.
- The course content is diverse, inclusive and representative. We make solutions that work for all members of society.
PERSONAL
growth
It is our vision that education should aid students in independent and critical thinking. In addition, students should be allowed space for personal development and activities within the curriculum.
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INDEPENDENT & CRITICAL Delft engineer
It is our vision that education should aid students in independent and critical thinking. In addition, students should be allowed space for personal development and activities within the curriculum.
We support the cultural change initiated by TU Delft and strive for:
- An integration of soft skills in the curricula.
- Sufficient support services that are accessible for all, such as student psychologists and counselors.
- A shift from curative towards preventative measures.
- A less anonymous university where students are seen.
- Normalization of failure, asking for help and self-reflection.
- Better thesis supervision.
- Clear and accessible information, so that you know where to go to with what question.
- Curricula designed to facilitate a healthy study balance.
SUSTAINABLE
campus & curricula
Climate change might be the biggest challenge of this era. Today’s students can make a difference for tomorrow! That is why Lijst Bèta calls for more attention towards sustainability, both in courses and on campus.
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SUSTAINABLE campus & curricula
Climate change will be the defining challenge of this century. Today’s students can make a difference for tomorrow! That is why Lijst Bèta calls for more attention to sustainability, in education, campus and finance. Therefore, we strive for:
- Sustainability as an integral part of your curriculum
- The learning environment provides students with the necessary tools to engineer sustainably.
- The many existing innovations to be translated into a sustainable campus.
- Ensuring that the TU Delft achieves the goal of being net-zero in 2030.
- Scrutinizing the indirect emissions of the TU, that stem from other activities, such as finance.
- TU Delft and its organisation to lead by example and show what is possible through great leadership.
- A healthy study climate
- Sustainability in courses and on campus
- Engineers who act conscientiously towards society
- A university where everyone feels welcome
- The experience of a physical campus, especially in the era of digitalisation
- Educational innovation as the foundation of top-notch education
- Cultural integration as a two-way street
- More and better study places
- Flexibility to study on your terms
- TU Delft to lead on sustainability
Why did you come to TU Delft in the first place? For its world-class education of course! Studying is what makes you a student. Lijst Bèta wants you to be able to get the most out of your education. The student council, with all its legal rights, is in the unique position to fight for that and contribute to the education given at TU Delft. That’s why Lijst Bèta believes education should be the highest priority for a student council party. Good facilities, like sufficient study places, are essential for this!
All students benefit from excellent education
All students benefit from excellent education. Therefor, Lijst Bèta aims to continuously improve education for all students. To get the most out of your education, you need to have the freedom to study in the way you want. In order to grow, your studies should be challenging. You need a clear goal as well; how do you use the knowledge you gained in your future job?
As a young party, we are not bound by tradition
Because of this, Lijst Bèta looks at the decisions made at TU Delft with a critical eye, and we always ask ourselves, “is this good for all students?” With a fresh perspective and flexibility, we come up with innovative ideas that are aimed at improving your education.
That way, you can focus on why you came to Delft: getting the most out of your education!
What we've achieved...
Click on the little arrows to read more about what Lijst Bèta has achieved!
Practice is essential when learning something new. Courses are no exception, so to be well prepared for your exams, you should be able to practice enough. Thanks to Lijst Bèta, lecturers are required to provide practice exams (with answers!) for all courses.
Thanks to the input Lijst Bèta received from many students, we saw the opportunity to add extra study places in Pulse. Together with the Facility Management at Pulse, we looked at utilizing the available space more efficiently. Two years ago, 60 extra places were realized!
For many students, LaTeX reports and group projects go hand-in-hand. Overleaf is a great tool for collaborating on reports, but the free accounts don’t always give you everything you need. Lijst Bèta made sure all students at TU Delft can now use Overleaf Premium! Click here to set up your account now!
Doing your minor abroad is a well-known option, but previously, you could only pick courses related to your field of study. Lijst Bèta thought this was a missed opportunity and arranged the option of doing a minor outside of your field of expertise abroad.
When coming to Delft to study, wanting to learn Dutch is a logical step for many students. But the study load is high during the semester and courses in the summer are expensive. Lijst Bèta and the language center have worked together to offer a summer Dutch course with the same depth as the semester course, for free!
Thanks to Lijst Bèta, many readers are now available as PDFs on Brightspace, so you don’t have to buy them on paper.
When you give feedback on a course, it shouldn’t disappear into the void as soon as you hit “Submit”. Thanks to Lijst Bèta, you can now view old course evaluations on Brightspace. We also want to make it possible to submit evaluations halfway through the course, so you yourself can benefit from your feedback.
Mechanics courses are taught all over the university, and are often quite difficult to pass. To make these courses more doable, we’ve set up a programme called PRIMECH: PRogramme of Innovation in MECHanics education. This program will be combining the power of all the teachers in mechanics courses at the different faculties, in order to significantly improve the courses by using new education techniques such as blended learning and flipped classrooms.
The university offers quite some support for students with questions, concerns or complaints. However, it is not always clear to whom they should go with their questions. When students cannot find the help they need, it could have a negative impact on their studies and their wellbeing. Therefore, we have been working in close cooperation with the entire Student Council and Career & Counseling Services to improve the findability and accessibility of the support. A roadmap highlighting the different support points you can access and where to find them, instruction videos and an online platform where you can learn anywhere at any time are some of the projects that Lijst Bèta has been involved with.
It can be sometimes hard for (international) students to meet new people, especially when everyone was stuck at home because of corona measures. That’s why we have made sure that UniLife, the new app for student events, extended their functionality to give students more opportunities to meet each other face to face. By allowing individual students to post invitations to eat together, and creating chatgroups for people that want to run or bike together, we’ve brought students a bit more closer to each other, even in these isolated times!
Since the start of the pandemic all student council meetings have been held online which was a great opportunity to make them more public. In the beginning you were only able to attend these meetings by specifically asking the secretary of the student council. We thought this could be much better and now the link is available for everyone at lijstbeta.nl/OV! We’re also working on becoming even more public by for example having a website or Brightspace page with important information about the student council.
Motivated lecturers should get the opportunity to see their innovative ideas realized. Therefore, thanks to Lijst Bèta, €50.000 grants are available to promote these educational initiatives. This year, Sjoerd van Dommelen, Timon Idema and Mauricio Aniche were awarded these grants.
From 2021 onwards, FlexDelft had to choose a new pension fund. We have initiated a letter to the Executive Board in which we ask them to choose for a sustainable pension fund. Due to this letter and the conversations that followed, the new pension fund implemented sustainability requirements for the investments of the fund! This was not just achieved for FlexDelft, but also for the payrolling. services of five other universities! Furthermore, we have talked to FlexDelft and they will re-evaluate their choice next year to see if there is an even more sustainable option.
When you graduate, you should be able to find solutions for relevant societal problems, like sustainability. But unfortunately not all programs give much attention to this important matter. This is why Lijst Bèta has worked together with GreenTU to start up student teams at each faculty which focus on making the education and faculty more sustainable. The students themselves are the closest to their own curriculum and know best where possibilities lie to make a meaningful impact at TU Delft and eventually in society. Currently, 7 out of 8 faculties have their own GreenTeam!
As sustainability impacts all choices that we make as engineers, we can’t be taught about it in just one course in the bachelor; it needs to be an integral part of our education, woven through the curriculum like a green thread. That’s why we worked together with GreenTU this year to set up a project where student assistants work together with professors to make their courses more sustainable by adding green examples or giving more focus to the environmental impact of certain techniques. The first pilot has already started at Civil Engineering this year!
...and working on now
“CSC” means that we’re working on a project with the entire Central Student Council (Lijst Bèta & ORAS)!
Various groups and individuals at the TU Delft, ranging from students to staff members and others, are working hard to implement Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) policies at the university and to improve the overall community regarding D&I matters. The Diversity Office, is essential for making and implementing D&I policy at all levels, including the highest organizational levels. However, like with sustainability, having a central office that is appointed for specific themes is not sufficient. D&I is a delicate topic that needs a unique approach for every situation. There is not one solution that fits all. Therefore, we are working to implement D&I teams at every faculty, just like the already existing GreenTeams. The D&I teams will consist of both students and employees to ensure sufficient representation.
When making posters, reports, videos or renders for your (design) project, the Adobe Creative Cloud applications are very useful to have access to. Moreover, often they are even essential, and teachers just expect you to have access to those programs, even though you have to pay for them on a yearly basis. Lijst Bèta believes that those essential programs should be freely accessible to everyone at TU Delft. Therefore, we are in talks to get a university-wide license for students!
Lijst Bèta is a progressive party and we recognize the necessity of an inclusive campus community. Biases exist and awareness is the first step to a more inclusive TU Delft community. For the first edition of our lunch series called Bèta talks we paid attention to intercultural communication. This is an important topic because students from all over the world are thrown into one classroom and are expected to work together smoothly. Some master programs spend time on this at their Master introduction program, but not all. It is our initiative to make intercultural communication a mandatory part of all master introduction programs.
In the ideal situation the percentage of international TU Delft students is reflected by the same ratio in the student council. Statistically, at least 2 of the 10 seats should be taken up by international students. However participating in TU Delft student council is harder for international students in comparison to their Dutch peers. Some international students pay very high tuition fees, which are not fully compensated. This is a big obstacle for them to candidate themselves for (faculty) student councils. Lijst Bèta strives for equal treatment of Dutch and international students. Voices of international students should be heard. For that reason we will continue our lobby for the position of international students at TU Delft and on a national level. We already accomplished more bilingual activities at the umbrella organization of Dutch student councils.
Grammarly is a writing assistant that many students and employees already use. The premium version offers a lot more features than the free version. Having a contract between the TU and Grammarly would not only provide Premium licenses for all students and employees, but the TU can then also make agreements on how the data of its users is being handled, which is important for an educational institution where a lot of research is being done.
The university has a wide variety of (online) courses and training on offer to help you develop soft skills and academic skills. Unfortunately these are scattered around different locations and webpages which makes them hard to find. Lijst Bèta is working on improving the findability and quality of these courses. Soon you’ll be able to find them all in the SkillsLab!
Privacy is becoming an increasingly important issue as more and more information is being recorded about what you do as a student. Especially in this year of online education and exams, this has become specifically relevant. From the start we’ve always believed that proctoring regulations should only be used when absolutely necessary. In part thanks to our efforts, proctored exams have become the exception, instead of the rule! We will continue to monitor the developments in this area. In addition we will work on ensuring only relevant information about students is recorded.
Too often as a student you start in a minor program, but it’s not really what you expected it to be. Lijst Bèta is working on a system where students can evaluate their minor program. With this, other students can make a more informed choice, and the TU Delft can be consistently improving the minor programs.
The employee pension fund (ABP) of the TU Delft still invests a lot in fossil fuels and other business that are not in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, nor TU Delft’s own 2030 goals. Many students will be part of this fund later in their academic career. Therefore, we want ABP to adhere to the requirements as formulated by Andy van den Dobbelsteen and have opened the dialogue with the Executive Board on this.
A big contributor to the carbon footprint of the TU is the food consumption: there is a lot of meat used by the caterers. When meetings or events are catered for, the food almost always contains meat, except for when asking explicitly for vegetarian options. Lijst Bèta wants to flip the situation: instead of having to ask for vegetarian, we propose to make the default catering vegetarian.
To attract students to come study at TU Delft, the university has an outreach program at high schools.
Unfortunately, the university only focuses on a small group of high schools in this outreach, leading to a group of students that isn’t very diverse. In the past there used to be an employee that specifically focused on diversity in outreach but unfortunately the role doesn’t exist anymore. Together with the entire Student Council, we’ve been working on bringing this role back and setting it up in a longstanding and sustainable way!
Study advisors are the first point of contact at the university. However, not all the questions they get are specifically meant for them. Some can maybe be easily answered by a chatbot, some are actually meant for another person at the university, like the psychologist. That’s why the student council wants to fund a chatbot that can fulfil this function of answering easy questions and referring students to the right person, so everyone’s costly time is spared!
As a society, we’ve grown a lot these past years. However, on some points there is still a lot of room for improvement. This is sadly also the case when it comes to our understanding of consent. At student parties, especially when there is a lot of alcohol involved, lines get blurred and personal boundaries are crossed or not respected. It is therefore important that everyone starts with the same baseline, and become conscious about how their actions can effect others. That is why we want to have training or workshop on this right at the beginning of the Introduction Week, so everyone can feel safe and respected.
Finding the right master thesis project can be overwhelming. Where do you start? What if you want to look beyond your faculty? To help, Lijst Bèta is working on a master thesis platform where you can search for available projects and find something that sparks your interest.
Sometimes it’s also needed to talk about harder topics in life; motivation, study life balance, perfectionism, fear of failure, you name it. The Student Council wants to create more space for these conversations by creating support groups (working title) on program level. Guided by a professional trainer, students can have an open conversation about also about the less pretty parts of life. We’re hoping to start a pilot coming year at the Civil Engineering faculty.
What we've achieved...
Click on the little arrows to read more about what Lijst Bèta has achieved!
Practice is essential when learning something new. Courses are no exception, so to be well prepared for your exams, you should be able to practice enough. Thanks to Lijst Bèta, lecturers are required to provide practice exams (with answers!) for all courses.
Thanks to the input Lijst Bèta received from many students, we saw the opportunity to add extra study places in Pulse. Together with the Facility Management at Pulse, we looked at utilizing the available space more efficiently. Two years ago, 60 extra places were realized!
For many students, LaTeX reports and group projects go hand-in-hand. Overleaf is a great tool for collaborating on reports, but the free accounts don’t always give you everything you need. Lijst Bèta made sure all students at TU Delft can now use Overleaf Premium! Click here to set up your account now!
Doing your minor abroad is a well-known option, but previously, you could only pick courses related to your field of study. Lijst Bèta thought this was a missed opportunity and arranged the option of doing a minor outside of your field of expertise abroad.
When coming to Delft to study, wanting to learn Dutch is a logical step for many students. But the study load is high during the semester and courses in the summer are expensive. Lijst Bèta and the language center have worked together to offer a summer Dutch course with the same depth as the semester course, for free!
Thanks to Lijst Bèta, many readers are now available as PDFs on Brightspace, so you don’t have to buy them on paper.
When you give feedback on a course, it shouldn’t disappear into the void as soon as you hit “Submit”. Thanks to Lijst Bèta, you can now view old course evaluations on Brightspace. We also want to make it possible to submit evaluations halfway through the course, so you yourself can benefit from your feedback.
Motivated lecturers should get the opportunity to see their innovative ideas realized. Therefore, thanks to Lijst Bèta, €50.000 grants are available to promote these educational initiatives. This year, Sjoerd van Dommelen, Timon Idema and Mauricio Aniche were awarded these grants.
When you graduate, you should be able to find solutions for relevant societal problems, like sustainability. But unfortunately not all programs give much attention to this important matter. This is why Lijst Bèta has worked together with GreenTU to start up student teams at each faculty which focus on making the education and faculty more sustainable. The students themselves are the closest to their own curriculum and know best where possibilities lie to make a meaningful impact at TU Delft and eventually in society. Currently, 7 out of 8 faculties have their own GreenTeam!
From 2021 onwards, FlexDelft had to choose a new pension fund. We have initiated a letter to the Executive Board in which we ask them to choose for a sustainable pension fund. Due to this letter and the conversations that followed, the new pension fund implemented sustainability requirements for the investments of the fund! This was not just achieved for FlexDelft, but also for the payrolling. services of five other universities! Furthermore, we have talked to FlexDelft and they will re-evaluate their choice next year to see if there is an even more sustainable option.
The university offers quite some support for students with questions, concerns or complaints. However, it is not always clear to whom they should go with their questions. When students cannot find the help they need, it could have a negative impact on their studies and their wellbeing. Therefore, we have been working in close cooperation with the entire Student Council and Career & Counseling Services to improve the findability and accessibility of the support. A roadmap highlighting the different support points you can access and where to find them, instruction videos and an online platform where you can learn anywhere at any time are some of the projects that Lijst Bèta has been involved with.
Since the start of the pandemic all student council meetings have been held online which was a great opportunity to make them more public. In the beginning you were only able to attend these meetings by specifically asking the secretary of the student council. We thought this could be much better and now the link is available for everyone at lijstbeta.nl/OV! We’re also working on becoming even more public by for example having a website or Brightspace page with important information about the student council.
It can be sometimes hard for (international) students to meet new people, especially when everyone was stuck at home because of corona measures. That’s why we have made sure that UniLife, the new app for student events, extended their functionality to give students more opportunities to meet each other face to face. By allowing individual students to post invitations to eat together, and creating chatgroups for people that want to run or bike together, we’ve brought students a bit more closer to each other, even in these isolated times!
Mechanics courses all taught all over the university, and are often quite difficult to pass. To make these courses more doable, we’ve set up a programme called PRIMECH: PRogramme of Innovation in MECHanics education. This program will be combining the power of all the teachers in mechanics courses at the different faculties, in order to significantly improve the courses by using new education techniques such as blended learning and flipped classrooms.
As sustainability impacts all choices that we make as engineers, we can’t be taught about it in just one course in the bachelor; it needs to be an integral part of our education, woven through the curriculum like a green thread. That’s why we worked together with GreenTU this year to set up a project where student assistants work together with professors to make their courses more sustainable by adding green examples or giving more focus to the environmental impact of certain techniques. The first pilot has already started at Civil Engineering this year!
...and working on now
“CSC” means that we’re working on a project with the entire Central Student Council (Lijst Bèta & ORAS)!
Various groups and individuals at the TU Delft, ranging from students to staff members and others, are working hard to implement Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) policies at the university and to improve the overall community regarding D&I matters. The Diversity Office, is essential for making and implementing D&I policy at all levels, including the highest organizational levels. However, like with sustainability, having a central office that is appointed for specific themes is not sufficient. D&I is a delicate topic that needs a unique approach for every situation. There is not one solution that fits all. Therefore, we are working to implement D&I teams at every faculty, just like the already existing GreenTeams. The D&I teams will consist of both students and employees to ensure sufficient representation.
When making posters, reports, videos or renders for your (design) project, the Adobe Creative Cloud applications are very useful to have access to. Moreover, often they are even essential, and teachers just expect you to have access to those programs, even though you have to pay for them on a yearly basis. Lijst Bèta believes that those essential programs should be freely accessible to everyone at TU Delft. Therefore, we are in talks to get a university-wide license for students!
Lijst Bèta is a progressive party and we recognize the necessity of an inclusive campus community. Biases exist and awareness is the first step to a more inclusive TU Delft community. For the first edition of our lunch series called Bèta talks we paid attention to intercultural communication. This is an important topic because students from all over the world are thrown into one classroom and are expected to work together smoothly. Some master programs spend time on this at their Master introduction program, but not all. It is our initiative to make intercultural communication a mandatory part of all master introduction programs.
In the ideal situation the percentage of international TU Delft students is reflected by the same ratio in the student council. Statistically, at least 2 of the 10 seats should be taken up by international students. However participating in TU Delft student council is harder for international students in comparison to their Dutch peers. Some international students pay very high tuition fees, which are not fully compensated. This is a big obstacle for them to candidate themselves for (faculty) student councils. Lijst Bèta strives for equal treatment of Dutch and international students. Voices of international students should be heard. For that reason we will continue our lobby for the position of international students at TU Delft and on a national level. We already accomplished more bilingual activities at the umbrella organization of Dutch student councils.
Grammarly is a writing assistant that many students and employees already use. The premium version offers a lot more features than the free version. Having a contract between the TU and Grammarly would not only provide Premium licenses for all students and employees, but the TU can then also make agreements on how the data of its users is being handled, which is important for an educational institution where a lot of research is being done.
The university has a wide variety of (online) courses and training on offer to help you develop soft skills and academic skills. Unfortunately these are scattered around different locations and webpages which makes them hard to find. Lijst Bèta is working on improving the findability and quality of these courses. Soon you’ll be able to find them all in the SkillsLab!
Privacy is becoming an increasingly important issue as more and more information is being recorded about what you do as a student. Especially in this year of online education and exams, this has become specifically relevant. From the start we’ve always believed that proctoring regulations should only be used when absolutely necessary. In part thanks to our efforts, proctored exams have become the exception, instead of the rule! We will continue to monitor the developments in this area. In addition we will work on ensuring only relevant information about students is recorded.
Too often as a student you start in a minor program, but it’s not really what you expected it to be. Lijst Bèta is working on a system where students can evaluate their minor program. With this, other students can make a more informed choice, and the TU Delft can be consistently improving the minor programs.
The employee pension fund (ABP) of the TU Delft still invests a lot in fossil fuels and other business that are not in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, nor TU Delft’s own 2030 goals. Many students will be part of this fund later in their academic career. Therefore, we want ABP to adhere to the requirements as formulated by Andy van Dobbelsteen and have opened the dialogue with the Executive Board on this.
Finding the right master thesis project can be overwhelming. Where do you start? What if you want to look beyond your faculty? To help, Lijst Bèta is working on a master thesis platform where you can search for available projects and find something that sparks your interest.
A big contributor to the carbon footprint of the TU is the food consumption: there is a lot of meat used by the caterers. When meetings or events are catered for, the food almost always contains meat, except for when asking explicitly for vegetarian options. Lijst Bèta wants to flip the situation: instead of having to ask for vegetarian, we propose to make the default catering vegetarian.
To attract students to come study at TU Delft, the university has an outreach program at high schools.
Unfortunately, the university only focuses on a small group of high schools in this outreach, leading to a group of students that isn’t very diverse. In the past there used to be an employee that specifically focused on diversity in outreach but unfortunately the role doesn’t exist anymore. Together with the entire Student Council, we’ve been working on bringing this role back and setting it up in a longstanding and sustainable way!
To attract students to come study at TU Delft, the university has an outreach program at high schools.
Unfortunately, the university only focuses on a small group of high schools in this outreach, leading to a group of students that isn’t very diverse. In the past there used to be an employee that specifically focused on diversity in outreach but unfortunately the role doesn’t exist anymore. Together with the entire Student Council, we’ve been working on bringing this role back and setting it up in a longstanding and sustainable way!
As a society, we’ve grown a lot these past years. However, on some points there is still a lot of room for improvement. This is sadly also the case when it comes to our understanding of consent. At student parties, especially when there is a lot of alcohol involved, lines get blurred and personal boundaries are crossed or not respected. It is therefore important that everyone starts with the same baseline, and become conscious about how their actions can effect others. That is why we want to have training or workshop on this right at the beginning of the Introduction Week, so everyone can feel safe and respected.
Sometimes it’s also needed to talk about harder topics in life; motivation, study life balance, perfectionism, fear of failure, you name it. The Student Council wants to create more space for these conversations by creating support groups (working title) on program level. Guided by a professional trainer, students can have an open conversation about also about the less pretty parts of life. We’re hoping to start a pilot coming year at the Civil Engineering faculty.
The candidates
The wonderful people you can vote for this year!
Saraf Nawar
"Sustainability in all aspects at the university"
Lijst Bèta wants to ensure that the TU Delft achieves its goal of being net zero in 2030, and that sustainability is taken into account in all aspects of the TU Delft. This means all three scopes of emissions should be tackled: direct emissions on campus, indirect emissions from sources such as electricity and heating, as well as other indirect emissions that occur due to activity at the TU Delft. This also includes finance and investments made on behalf of employees and students of the TU Delft. This is why we encouraged FlexDelft to get a more sustainable pension fund and are doing the same for ABP!
Julian van Dijk
"A true international university, not just in name"
TU Delft is becoming increasingly international and also prides itself in its international character. Unfortunately, many facets of the university are still very Dutch such as different events, signage and official documents. That is why we believe the university should become more bilingual in its approach. To accomplish this, we think the university should set up a taskforce to investigate all problems surrounding language. In this way the TU Delft can start to truly become the international university that they claim to be!
Khalid El Haji
"More recognition for educating"
The TU is not just a place for studying, it is also a place for research. Teachers are currently rewarded more for doing good research, making it difficult to build up a career through providing high-quality education alone. Lijst Bèta argues for the equality of research and education because they make each other stronger. Furthermore, we think the career path for full time teachers should be improved, to make sure that people with a passion for education get the same reward and acknowledgement as researchers at the TU Delft.
Anna Bazarova
"Personal attention, even as the TU grows"
With a growing student population, the quality of education is increasingly at risk. For example, because of the larger cohorts there is less time for individual guidance. Lijst Bèta believes that the TU Delft should not be a factory, and instead deliver tailor-made solutions, both in education and guidance outside of it. Students should be more than just their student number!
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1. Saraf Nawar
"Sustainability in all aspects at the university "
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Sustainability in all aspects at the university
Lijst Bèta wants to ensure that the TU Delft achieves its goal of being net zero in 2030, and that sustainability is taken into account in all aspects of the TU Delft. This means all three scopes of emissions should be tackled: direct emissions on campus, indirect emissions from sources such as electricity and heating, as well as other indirect emissions that occur due to activity at the TU Delft. This also includes finance and investments made on behalf of employees and students of the TU Delft. This is why we encouraged FlexDelft to get a more sustainable pension fund and are doing the same for ABP!
2. Julian van Dijk
"A true international university, not just in name"
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A true international university, not just in name
TU Delft is becoming increasingly international and also prides itself in its international character. Unfortunately, many facets of the university are still very Dutch such as different events, signage and official documents. That is why we believe the university should become more bilingual in its approach. To accomplish this, we think the university should set up a taskforce to investigate all problems surrounding language. In this way the TU Delft can start to truly become the international university that they claim to be!
3. Khalid El Haji
"More recognition for educating"
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More recognition for educating
The TU is not just a place for studying, it is also a place for research. Teachers are currently rewarded more for doing good research, making it difficult to build up a career through providing high-quality education alone. Lijst Bèta argues for the equality of research and education because they make each other stronger. Furthermore, we think the career path for full time teachers should be improved, to make sure that people with a passion for education get the same reward and acknowledgement as researchers at the TU Delft.
4. Anna Bazarova
"Personal attention, even as the TU grows"
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Personal attention, even as the TU grows
With a growing student population, the quality of education is increasingly at risk. For example, because of the larger cohorts there is less time for individual guidance. Lijst Bèta believes that the TU Delft should not be a factory, and instead deliver tailor-made solutions, both in education and guidance outside of it. Students should be more than just their student number!
5. Sue van Deursen
"Give every student the opportunity to study abroad "
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Give every student the opportunity to study abroad
Studying abroad provides a unique opportunity for each student to develop themselves. Lijst Bèta is committed to making studying abroad accessible to every student. The majority of students say they want to get experience outside their field of study, which is exactly why Lijst Bèta has made this possible! Students at all faculties are now able to do a minor abroad in a subject they find interesting, regardless of their own field of study.
6. Nick Coes
"Studying in a humane tempo"
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Studying in a humane tempo
The TU Delft is a top-class university that understandably asks a lot from its students. There is a limit however to how much you can ask of students when it comes to workload. Lijst Bèta finds a humane study schedule essential for good mental wellbeing. That’s why, among other things, on initiative of Lijst Bèta the Student Council is lobbying for the prohibition of deadlines during holidays. Let’s prevent that it becomes normalized in study programs to work through the night to finish a project, or that teachers still set deadlines during Christmas!
7. Sophie Vredenbregt
"Well-prepared for the job market"
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Well-prepared for the job market
As many students know, companies nowadays expect much more from students than just academic knowledge; we’re supposed to have developed ourselves on many different levels. Therefore, it is the job of the university to adapt to this changed demand, and to give you more space within the curriculum to also develop yourself in other fields than technical skills. That’s why Lijst Bèta argues for the creation of more space in the curriculum for soft skills and extra development, to offer students all the opportunities to enter the job market well prepared.
8. Lys Schiereck
"More and better study places"
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More and better study places
Lijst Bèta is committed to more study places, especially in these times, where we’ve noticed how valuable it is to be able to study on campus. Everybody recognizes how important appropriate and sufficient study places are. The solution is not always constructing new buildings however. Instead, we should also look at optimizing the existing space, for example by having sockets in the cafeteria. Additionally, Lijst Bèta achieved that there were 60 extra study spaces added in Pulse. Also given that the student population is still growing, this is still a very important topic.
9. Neil Alwani
"Structural attention for student well-being "
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Structural attention for student well-being
A healthy student is a happy student. Unfortunately, we see more and more students who encounter psychological problems and stress during their studies. Lijst Bèta is deeply concerned about this. That’s why, next to ensuring that there are enough psychologists for students that need them, we want to explore how we can organize the university in such a way that students aren’t pushed to the point that they need a psychologist in the first place.
10. Reinier van der Leer
"Student Council members with experience and knowledge about rules and regulations "
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Student Council members with experience and knowledge about rules and regulations
A lot of students’ rights are captured in regulations. It is vital for council members to know and understand these regulations in order to effectively change them for students. In the faculty student council you can gain experience with these topics, which can be very useful when doing a full time student council year. That’s why we strive to have candidates with experience that understand their legal rights and duties in order to get the best results for students. In addition to that, council members must be fully financially supported in order to their job effectively, which unfortunately isn’t always the case. That’s why we fight for a full financial compensation, also for students with previous board or FSC experience and non-EER students!
11. Eef Bosveld
"Learning lessons from the corona crisis"
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Learning lessons from the corona crisis
In the past year, the university had to quickly adapt itself to organizing education at home. A lot has changed in little time, and now that we are getting closer to the end, we need to carefully analyze what we have learned from these strange times. More than ever do we realize how important interactivity between teachers and students is, just like interaction amongst students themselves. Some lectures could potentially remain online, but we need to use the campus more effectively for organizing work groups and interactive sessions. Furthermore, we have learned that the campus is not just a place to study: it’s a place to meet people. We believe the TU should take these lessons in the implementation of the campus strategy for next year.
12. Khalid El Haji
"Providing useful licenses for students "
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Providing useful licenses for students
As the world gets more modern every day so should our education and the tools we use for it. Therefore, Lijst Bèta is committed to providing students with the tools that help them reach their education goals. We have worked on multiple useful licenses, some of which are already available! As a TU student you have access to a free Overleaf Pro license, a multi-collaborating report making tool for students. We are also in talks to get Adobe CC, Grammarly Premium and more tools to come! We’re also working on integrating intelligent features in the study planning tool such as recommendations for courses to follow based on courses you found interesting in the past.
13. Suze van Santen
"Innovative, top-notch education"
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Innovative, top-notch education
A lot of research is being done within the field of education. That offers space for innovation within the current curriculum. Especially problematic courses could significantly be improved with new education techniques such as blended learning, flipped classrooms and better visuals. Lijst Bèta supports these techniques enthusiastically, and has therefore set up a program called PRIMECH that will innovate the mechanics courses with the help of an interfaculty teaching team. In this way, we’ll hopefully never have a pass rate of 17% for Dynamics again!
14. Jort Huitink
"Engineering engaged with society"
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Engineering engaged with society
As an engineer you will be making many decisions that impact the world around you, either directly or indirectly. It is important that the TU Delft challenges you as a student to think about the consequences of your actions in society. Because of that it's important that the TU Delft pays attention to topics like ethics, philosophy of technology and problems relevant to society such as diversity & inclusion and sustainability. Besides the regular content, every program should also take into account societal impact. Lijst Bèta strives to educate the students from Delft to be engineers firmly embedded in society!
15. Sterre Lutz
"Have your feedback be heard and implemented immediately"
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Have your feedback be heard and implemented immediately
Do you sometimes feel that your teacher does not do anything with the feedback that comes from the evaluations? Or do you have no idea what happens to the feedback because you are only giving it at the end of the course? We think the feedback system could be significantly improved. Lijst Bèta wants to make it possible to also provide feedback halfway through the course. In this way you yourself can still benefit from the feedback you gave!
16. Laura van Klaveren
"Great lectures in understandable English"
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Great lectures in understandable English
As the world gets smaller, more studies are becoming relevant on an international level, certainly within technology. This results in, for example, better scientific literature in English and more international students, but also entire programs that switch to English. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always mean that teachers are able to give an understandable lecture in English. The quality of education shouldn’t suffer because of language skills. To prevent this, together with the entire Student Council we have suggested looking at a minimum level of language abilities, with speaking skills being the most important.
17. Jayanti Pos
"More sustainability in education"
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More sustainability in education
To further improve the future proofness and quality of the education at TU Delft, Lijst Bèta believes that sustainability must become an integral part of education for future engineers. With top-quality education from TU Delft, we can tackle the major problems facing society, such as climate change. Lijst Bèta advocates to give sustainability a structural place in the curricula, as if it were a green thread woven through all of the education. Last year we worked with GreenTU on implementing this Green Thread, and the second pilot has started at Civil Engineering!
18. Dana Janssen
"No MSc selection criteria for TU BSc students"
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No MSc selection criteria for TU BSc students
If you complete a bachelor’s degree at TU Delft, you should be able to follow the successive master’s program at TU. This sounds like a no-brainer, but if there are selection criteria for your master’s, it might not be possible to follow this program. Lijst Bèta believes that a bachelor’s degree at TU Delft should give you enough preparation for the master’s, without any extra selection criteria!
19. Yasir Aydemir
"Power in diversity"
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Power in diversity
While the number of students at TU Delft is increasing at rapid pace, the diversity within the student group is less so. We believe there is power in diversity. By working together with people from different backgrounds, you can gain new insights in different problems. Different people also have different perspectives, so you can address issues from new sides. Therefore, the university should put effort into attracting a diverse group of students. This is why we want to expand the high school promotion program to involve more diverse high schools and to encourage more girls to follow a technical study.
20. Loïc de Weert
"Creating a community where everyone feels at home"
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Creating a community where everyone feels at home
The community at the TU Delft is becoming increasingly diverse. As Lijst Bèta we want to create an open and inclusive community where everyone feels accepted. To accomplish this, everyone should be taught about intercultural communication at the start of their program. Additionally, there should be faculty D&I teams that can address the specific issues at the respective faculties.
21. Jilles Andringa
"Motivated teachers to improve quality"
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Motivated teachers to improve quality
All teachers at TU Delft are experts in their own field. However, their passion and expertise should also come across to students in the lecture hall. Lijst Bèta supports that all teachers, in addition to obtaining their teacher qualification, are encouraged by the TU to continue developing their education skills. By doing this, we ensure that all teachers will give high-quality lectures. We also believe that more action should be taken towards courses that repeatedly get evaluated badly.
22. Yasmin van der Velden
"Exchanging knowledge with other universities"
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Exchanging knowledge with other universities
Last year, the TU Delft announced that the university will strengthen and broaden its collaboration with the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus Medical Centre. The three institutions all have expertise in different fields that are steadily growing in importance. With their complementary knowledge combined, they can offer both students and researchers multi- and interdisciplinary education that will enable us to find solutions for the pressing issues that we are facing as a society. Lijst Bèta sees great benefits in those collaborations and believes in the opportunities it can offer the students, especially by combining arts, natural sciences and social sciences. We will keep working to ensure that the collaboration will provide actual improvement of the education, that cultural differences will be mitigated sensitively and that the identity of the Delft engineer will be protected.
23. Francesca Kessler
"GreenTeams: decentralised sustainability heroes"
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GreenTeams: decentralised sustainability heroes
Two years ago Lijst Bèta initiated the idea of GreenTeams at all faculties. As of this moment, they have been set up at already 7 out of the 8 faculties! These GreenTeams work on improving local sustainability problems that are specific to their faculty. Lijst Bèta supports all of the GreenTeams and we are looking forward to seeing the great things that they will achieve.
24. Ellenoor Rijn
"Better master thesis supervision"
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Better master thesis supervision
The MSc thesis project is where all your university knowledge is put to the test. Whether you’re already a seasoned researcher or setting foot in a lab for the first time, everyone should benefit from high-quality supervision that fits their needs and helps develop the necessary skills. Too often poor supervision leads to unnecessary delays, and Lijst Bèta wants to ensure that all MSc students have the opportunity to get as much out of their thesis project as possible.
25. Emma Boelen
"A sustainable campus, in every single way"
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A sustainable campus, in every single way
The attention for sustainability is growing at TU Delft. The university has set out to be CO2 neutral by 2030, but to accomplish this, much work is yet to be done. Just constructing new carbon-neutral buildings will not be enough to reach the 2030 goal. That’s why we keep pushing for the university to be sustainable in all ways on campus: old buildings should be renovated to have a smaller carbon footprint and a true biodiverse campus should be created that is more than just green concrete.
26. Max van der Most
"Protecting students’ privacy"
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Protecting students’ privacy
Privacy is becoming an increasingly important issue as more and more information is being recorded about what you do as a student. Especially in this year of online education and exams, this has become specifically relevant. From the start we’ve always believed that proctoring should only be used when absolutely necessary. In part thanks to our efforts, proctored exams have become the exception, instead of the rule! We will continue to monitor the developments in this area. In addition, we will work on ensuring only relevant information about students is recorded.
27. Ashwin Tomy Pulikunnel
"Providing more sustainable catering options"
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Providing more sustainable catering options
A big contributor to the carbon footprint of the TU is the food consumption: a lot of meat is used by the caterers. When meetings or events are catered for, the food almost always contains meat. Vegetarian options have to be explicitly asked for. Lijst Bèta proposes to flip the situation: instead of having to ask for vegetarian, we propose to make the default catering vegetarian, except if someone explicitly asks for meat. The beauty is that nobody’s choices are limited with this solution, but the carbon footprint can be decreased!
28. Arend Viëtor
"All information you need to get settled"
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All information you need to get settled
Starting your studies at a new university is exciting but comes with its challenges. Especially at the TU Delft, where you immediately get a lot of information in a very short amount of time, it’s not always easy to tell what’s most important. Lijst Bèta wants to help by working with (international) student associations to create an infographic that students, new and old, can use to find all important information about the TU Delft from the moment you set foot on campus.
29. Nima Salami
"A diverse representation in the student council"
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A diverse representation in the student council
Since the student council discusses many issues that are important for all students, we think it’s vital that the council consists of a representation of different student communities. This is why we always strive to have international council members and to hold public meetings in English. In this way each student feels represented and is involved in the processes that govern the university.
Sustainable campaign?
Lijst Bèta always strives to practice what we preach. That’s why for years we’ve been running a sustainable campaign!
One of the biggest sources of campaign waste were the flyers. They are only useful for one year, and it’s difficult to predict how many you will need, so we usually overestimated and then threw away hundreds each year.
Last year because of the crisis we had a fully digital campaign. This year, now that we can study on campus a bit again, we’re bringing back our seedpaper flyers! These flyers will grow into beautiful flowers if planted, instead of negatively impacting the environment as trash.
Now more than ever, it’s also important to look at our digital footprint. That’s why we use a fully green-energy powered web-hosting provider! You can click on the green button at the bottom of the page to learn more about Green Hosting.
