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Get the most out of your education
Learn more about how Lijst Bèta envisions your education!
INNOVATIVE & INSPIRING
Education
Lijst Bèta strives for innovative and inspiring education, so that you can become a well-rounded Delft engineer. Furthermore, the university should provide excellent (educational) facilities for your needs as a student.
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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 & Well-being
It is our vision that education should guide students towards independent and critical thinking while also supporting their well-being and personal development during their time as a student.
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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 in education, campus, and finance.
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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
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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. Therefore, 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...
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.
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 free summer Dutch course with the same depth as the semester course, for free!
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 that students at various faculties are now able to do a minor abroad in a subject they find interesting, regardless of their own field of study.
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. Three years ago, 60 extra places were realized!
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 GreenTeams 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, all faculties have their own GreenTeam!
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 who needs it for their study. Thanks to Lijst Bèta IDE and Architecture students will have a free Adobe Licence starting from the next academic year (2022/2023).
Motivated lecturers should get the opportunity to see their innovative ideas realized. Therefore, thanks to Lijst Bèta, a total of €50.000 in grants are available to promote these educational initiatives. This year, Sjoerd van Dommelen, Timon Idema and Mauricio Aniche were awarded these grants.
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!
Diversity and inclusion remains an important but underfunded issue within the university. Thanks to Lijst Bèta a Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Grant open for all students has been created to give students and organizations the ability to apply for funds to support grass-root initiatives that intend to improve the overall state of diversity and inclusion within the university in whatever way possible.
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!
Many students follow a mechanics courses at some point in their study, and those courses are often quite difficult to pass. To make these courses more doable, we’ve set up a program 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.
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.
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. Finally, thanks in part to a letter send to the Executive Board by Lijst Bèta, ABP (the employee pension fund of the TU Delft) now no longer invests in fossil fuels and other business that are not in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, nor TU Delft’s own 2030 goals.
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!
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.
As Central Student Council we have brought up the issue of lack of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus despite the existent need among certain students. The Central Student Council has successfully lobbied for the introduction of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus and the Executive Board will introduce these types of bathrooms on campus in all educational buildings by 2025.
...and working on now
“CSC*” means that we’re working on a project with the entire Central Student Council!
...and working on now
“CSC*” means that we’re working on a project with the entire Central Student Council!
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.
Canteens at various faculties are quite pricey and often don’t offer food which is attractive to buy for the average student. Lijst Beta sees this as a missed opportunity, and we want catering in the future to be more affordable for the average students!
The issue of consent and social safety has been an increasingly important issue among students. That is why Lijst Bèta together with the university is organizing a large campaign in Delft to inform students on how to deal with transgressive behavior and inform them about practical information and tips regarding different kinds of harassment.
We have created a database of all the Entrepreneurship courses available for all bachelors and masters students studying in the university, highlighting the differences between the courses available in the different faculties and the opportunities available outside the curriculum to increase knowledge about intra- and entrepreneurship in education. We are busy with the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship, YES!Delft Students and the TU Delft Valorisation Centre to see how more of these courses are made accessible to Bachelor students, investigating the possibility of introducing credits for these courses as well. We have also enhanced the Delft Entrepreneurship Journey by adding to the info available there with the added information about the faculties. We also launched the survey to learn about student demand for such courses and want to restart the discussion about integration of entrepreneurship in the existing curriculum to produce well-rounded Delft Engineers, allowing students to get the most out of their education!
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.
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.
Revamping existing canteens with more sofas, board games, table-top games, and comfortable seating arrangements, giving it more of a chilling vibe instead of an area where you only sit down for lunch, can allow more space to students to take a break from their daily routine, grab a bite with their peers and take their minds off by engaging in some fun board games. The chill spaces become like a shared large living room for all students. The Student Council is working towards realizing more chill spaces on campus.
During the pandemic many students dealt with mental health issues and often did not have access to sport facilities due to the restrictions. The Central Student Council is working together with X to try and realize a free voucher for all students to give a discount on for example memberships of associations or a sport subscriptions!
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.
Sometimes it’s also needed to talk about harder topics in life; motivation, study life balance, perfectionism, fear of failure, you name it. The Central Student Council wants to create more space for these conversations by creating Meeting Groups on a program level that also allow students to exchange study information and meet new people. Guided by a professional trainer, students can have an open conversation about the less pretty parts of life.
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.
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 of these courses. Soon you’ll be able to find them all in the SkillsLab!
In the ideal situation the percentage of international TU Delft students is reflected by the same ratio in the Central Student Council. Statistically, at least 2 of the 10 seats should be taken up by international students. However, participating in TU Delft Central 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.
We have also had international and diverse student representation in our party this year and in the past, highlighting the importance of sufficient representation in the Central Student Council. We have also stirred the Executive Board to work on a model this year to enable an international tuition waiver for 2 or 3 non-EER students participating full-time in the student council, thereby having to pay only the Dutch tuition fee. The final model is yet to be announced but the work is already in progress.
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 any more. Together with the entire Central Student Council, we’ve been working on bringing this role back and setting it up in a long-standing 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.
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.
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.
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.
Meet the candidates of Lijst Bèta!
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Abdelkader Karbache
"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!
Amy Zijlmans
"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.
Yashasvi Aggarwal
"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!
Lena Trotereau
"More 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.
Sebastiaan ten Broeke
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.
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1. Abdelkader Karbache
"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!
2. Amy Zijlmans
"Creating a community where everyone feels at home"
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Creating a community where everyone feels at home
3. Yashasvi Aggarwal
"A true international university, not just in name"
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A true international university, not just in name
4. Lena Trotereau
"More attention for student well-being"
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More attention for student well-being
5. Sebastiaan ten Broeke
"A sustainable campus, in every single way"
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A sustainable campus, in every single way
6. Yasir Aydemir
"A diverse representation in the student council"
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A diverse representation in the student council
7. Reshma Joseph
"More spaces for socializing on campus"
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More spaces for socializing on campus
8. Lianne Folkerts
"Motivated teachers to improve teaching quality"
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Motivated teachers to improve teaching quality
9. Doris Aafjes
"More attention to prevention and cure of every kind of harassment"
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More attention to prevention and cure of every kind of harassment
10. Reinier van der Leer
"Studying in a humane tempo"
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Studying in a humane tempo
11. 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 successfully encouraged FlexDelft to get a more sustainable pension fund. Furthermore, thanks in part to a letter send to the Executive Board by Lijst Bèta, ABP (the employee pension fund of the TU Delft) now no longer invests in fossil fuels and other business that are not in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, nor TU Delft’s own 2030 goals.
12. Alune Greeve
"Engineering engaged with society"
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Engineering engaged with society
13. Merel Steenbergen
"More sustainability in education"
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More sustainability in education
14. Simone van der Boon
"A true campus university"
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A true campus university
15. Essan Boston-Mammah
"More opportunities for diverse and inclusive initiatives"
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More opportunities for diverse and inclusive initiatives
16. Sarah Meilof
"More and better study places"
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More and better study places
17. Thomas Nooyens
"More recognition for educating"
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More recognition for educating
18. Geeske Gijben
"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!
19. Owen de Waal
"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. Kiki Drenth
"GreenTeams: decentralised sustainability heroes"
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GreenTeams: decentralised sustainability heroes
21. Miles Luxembourg
"Personal attention, even as the TU grows"
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Personal attention, even as the TU grows
22. Thomas Hulshof
"A good introduction period for every student"
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A good introduction period for every student
23. William Horeman
"Better mentorate for all incoming students"
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Better mentorate for all incoming students
24. Wout van Loevezijn
"Well-prepared for the job market"
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Exchanging knowledge with other universities
25. Vivian Kip
"Exchanging knowledge with other universities"
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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. Anna Bazarova
"Lectures in understandable English"
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Lectures in understandable English
27. Bo de Man
"More and better study places"
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More and better study places
28. Nikita Ham
"Adobe and Grammarly licenses for students"
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Adobe and Grammarly licenses for students
29. Mike van Vliet
"Better master thesis supervision"
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Better master thesis supervision
30. Jorrit van Drie
"Give every student the opportunity to study abroad"
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Give every student the opportunity to study abroad
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.
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