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Oppline-app: vrienden vinden zonder mobiel netwerk

Stel je voor, je bent op een festival en raakt je vrienden kwijt. Appen of bellen lukt niet omdat door de aanwezige menigte het mobiele netwerk platligt. Wat doe je dan? UT-onderzoeker Okan Türkeş werkt aan een app die dit soort problemen op moet lossen.

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Hacking or solving to win free summer school tickets

Do you want to participate in the University of Twente summer school CuriousU? The organization is challenging students to win a 100% discount code, by hacking or solving a puzzle. With that code you can register for free for CuriousU.

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Hacken of puzzelen voor gratis CuriousU-tickets

Gratis deelnemen aan UT-summerschool CuriousU? De organisatie daagt UT-studenten uit om door middel van hacken of puzzelen een code te bemachtigen. Met die code kun je je gratis inschrijven voor de summerschool.

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UT verstrekt ook ‘kwartstudiebeurzen’

Met nieuwe ‘kwartstudiebeurzen’ hoopt de UT meer studenten uit Zuid- en Oost-Europa te trekken. Het verschil in prijspeil tussen hun thuisland en Twente is net te groot om zonder subsidie te komen, maar te klein voor een volledige beurs.

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Summerschool krijgt grotere opzet

De Summerschool CuriousU, die afgelopen zomer voor het eerst op de UT werd gehouden, krijgt niet alleen een vervolg, maar wordt ook grootser opgezet. Het aantal courses wordt uitgebreid van acht naar circa veertien.

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Interesting, entertaining and exhausting

Today is the last day of the first edition of CuriousU. This unique summer school in festival style, organized at the UT campus, welcomed 180 participants of 28 nationalities from all over the world. How did they enjoy their week at the University of Twente and is there anything they would change about the experience?

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Afwisseling en ontspanning bij CuriousU

Intensief, maar vooral heel leuk. Zo ervaarde Kim Bruil, marketingmedewerker en medeorganisator van CuriousU, de allereerste summerschool op de campus.

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´Chemicals may not be sustainable´

Chemical industry is threatened. ´People are leaving it like rats leaving a sinking ship,´ said Edward Cussler, professor of chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, whose inspirational speech was on today´s program of CuriousU summer school.

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Amuse-bouche for 180 people

Food is a product that needs to please all of our five senses. As such, designing food can be very challenging. Participants of the ´Design the Future´ track at CuriousU had a chance to experience this challenge first hand. They had to design and prepare amuse-bouches for all other students at the summer school.

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Don´t trust anyone who uses 3D-graphs

Another day of CuriousU is here and another inspirational speaker is here with it. Today the main stage of the summer school festival belonged to Ionica Smeets, a famous mathematician who likes to bring science closer to the general public.

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How to become happier?

Today´s program of CuriousU summer school carried the theme "happiness". And so how better to start the day than with an inspirational speech by Nic Marks, a world-renowned researcher of happiness and wellbeing? ´Quality of life shouldn´t be measured in GDP per capita, but in Happy Life Years,´ he says.

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Playing the Game of Games

If you walk into the UT´s Classroom of the Future this week, you will probably find people playing all kinds of board games. Make no mistake, though. They are not there to rest. They are actually working on developing their own games as a part of the Serious Gaming track of the CuriousU summer school.

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