4TU.HTM News

Utrecht, 29 November 2024

Materials for a Future Society

The closure event of the 4TU. Responsible Sustainabality Challenge 2023-2024 took place in the amazing Botanic Gardens of Utrecht University, on the 19th of June 2024. Master Honours student groups presented their work and got certificated. The event festively marked their 15 ECTS challenge.

On Friday 26th of April, the 4TU.Centre High-Tech Materials took a next step in its organisation and installed a fresh board to build and serve a thriving, diverse and inclusive materials science community. The next4TU.HTM Committee consists of two representatives of each of the universities collaborating within 4TU.HTM.

On the 7th of May, 4TU.HTM and the Honours Programme TU Delft hosted the third live event of the 4TU.Responsible Sustainability Challenge (2023-2024). This milestone event included an introduction by core team teacher Shoshan Abrahami (Materials Science and Engineering, TU Delft) and Arjan Mol (Scientific Director of 4TU.HTM), who told the students about the mission and vision of 4TU.HTM and the role that materials play in the transition to a more sustainable future.

This week, the ‘Groeien met Groen Staal’ programme received official approval, just like the materials related programmes on Circular Plastics, Solar Panels, and Batteries received previously.

Keynote speaker: Max Welling | 4TU.HTM organizes a joint workshop integrating applications in material discovery into machine learning frameworks. Key challenges are the prediction of crystal structures, the discovery of stable functional molecules, and the rational material design process.

Prof. dr.ir. Arjan Mol elaborates on the importance of materials in the Netherlands, and shares with you why he is going to the MaterialenNL Conference in december.

The MaterialenNL Platform organized its first national materials conference. On the 12th of December 2023, the MaterialenNL Conference 2023 was held at the National Sports Centre Papendal, Arnhem.

The Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) highlights the significance of technological innovation with the designation of 62 fellows (members). These experts, originating from the realms of engineering, applied research, and innovation, will play an active role in fulfilling NAE’s mission. Their primary objective is to cultivate an environment of innovation that yields both societal and economic value by furnishing engineering-based solutions to major societal issues, concurrently creating fresh business prospects and avenues for export. The appointment of these 62 fellows marks the formal commencement of NAE’s activities.

On 18 October 2023, the first symposium Additive Manufacturing of Energy Materials will take place at the U Parkhotel (University of Twente) in Enschede. This symposium is a joint 4TU.HTM & M2i initiative in collaboration with the University of Groningen.

On the 22nd of June 2023, the talented master students participating in the 4TU.Responsible Sustainability Challenge got their certificates of the academic year 2022-2023, after presenting their project results. Congratulations!

Since the Kick-off in November, the 4TU.Responsible Sustainability Challenge (4TU.RSC) is taking place, an initiative of three centres of the 4TU.Federation: 4TU.High-Tech Materials, 4TU.Energy and 4TU.Ethics & Technology. It is a 15 ECTS Honours track for motivated and talented master students from the four Technical Universities. Using a Challenge Based Learning approach, they work with industrial partners, researchers, and societal stakeholders on a case involving sustainability. The focus of these cases is on energy, materials, and ethics.

The royal honour was conferred in recognition of Prof. Jilt Sietsma’s exceptional contribution to science, industry and society.

In order to make better use of each other's expertise and network, a number of the centres and institutes of the 4TU.Federation and the University of Groningen (UG) will join forces in research and teaching. The UG will become a partner of the 4TU.NIRICT (ICT) and 4TU.HTM (High-Tech Materials) centres and is exploring cooperation with the 4TU.AMI (Applied Mathematics), 4TU.Energy and 4TU.CEE (Engineering Education) centres.