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UT students’ fight for gender equality

‘Is He or She?’ That is the name of an event held on Friday in DesignLab. This brainstorm is organized by UT students to support the HeForShe campaign by UN Women and to galvanize corporate diversity.
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‘We start by changing the mindset’

A dozen of UT-students with backgrounds in Engineering, Industrial Design and Business began building two plastic recycling machines a few months ago. Now functional, the machines were disclosed during an inauguration party held in the DesignLab last night.
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Benefits and dangers of digital democracy

Two weeks before the municipal elections and the Sleepwet referendum in the Netherlands, the UT and the Rathenau Instituut came together to give the ‘Digital Democracy’ workshop, held yesterday in the DesignLab.
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SpaceSociety hosts hackathon with NASA

The new UT association SpaceSociety will collaborate with NASA to host a two-day hackathon in DesignLab at the end of May. The event is open for about eighty participants. ‘Our efforts can help to make the concept of space more tangible.’
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DesignLab bridges the gap

Minimizing the number of fatalities and injuries in traffic is not just a key concern for the police and the Public Prosecution Service (OM); countless other parties are involved as well. Jeroen van Leeuwen, head of Policy and Strategy at Parket CVOM, believes that DesignLab managed to bring all these parties together and help them reach new insights.
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DesignLab: one place to connect them all

Open, inspiring, eclectic. Those are some of the words that come to mind once you enter DesignLab. There is a researcher giving a presentation, a group of staff members having a meeting, students huddled together, working on their projects or just playing with Lego, robots beeping in between the desks. All of that is happening there. At the same time and in the same open, connected space.
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Fix-It Session: repair your broken products

A broken camera, a Senseo coffee machine, an old rangefinder, an iPhone and a desk lamp are cluttered over the work bench in the DesignLab. Two bicycles are brought in as well. During the Fix-It Session, held on the 12th of December, these products are all assessed and repaired, by and for students.
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Cannabis Tosti Talk: ‘One plant to rule them all’

Dozens of students gathered in the DesignLab yesterday for a Tosti Talk about Cannabis. Tom Bernhards, an Advanced Technology student from Latvia, led the discussion about the potential that the plant has for solving a number of environmental and health issues challenging modern society.
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Science-Frictions: Let’s talk about biotech!

Biotechnology now allows us to make things that were unimaginable only five years ago. Gene modification, tissue engineering, stem cells, organs-on-a-chip… What can all of this lead to? This and more will be discussed during Science-Frictions, an event taking place this Wednesday in the DesignLab at the UT.
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Refugees at the UT: 'Passionate about my own business'

A group of refugees is working at the University of Twente this week, developing their prototypes and business ideas within the program STAR/T, which was initiated and designed by the UT.
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New University Innovation Fellows introduce themselves

The UT has four new University Innovation Fellows (UIF). These active students, who are participating in the Stanford UIF program, held a Stakeholders Meeting yesterday to present their ideas on how to further improve the University of Twente.
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Brutally honest, partying hard

Dozens of international students attended the Connect Workshop in the DesignLab yesterday. Aimed at those who seek to stay in the Netherlands after the conclusion of their studies, the meeting examined what intercultural challenges might arise when students face the Dutch labour market.
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