News

Living on a tropical island for free

They were living busy lives just like so many others: commuting to work, running from meeting to meeting, building careers. Then one day they decided it was time for a change, sold everything and began travelling the world while working remotely. Today Diana Zwerink-Vermeij and Steven Vermeij, a married couple also known as the Digital Nomadz, gave a lecture at the UT to share some tips on how to live on your own terms.
News

Dine with the Dutch

Are you an international living in Twente and is it difficult for you to mingle with the locals? Would you like to change that? It´s simple. Dine with the Dutch!
News

ECIU team: Top-notch runners flying in for Bata

A unique international team is participating in this year´s Batavierenrace. It includes only international students from ECIU universities, alias the European Consortium of Innovative Universities that the UT is also a member of. Many runners from the ECIU team are semi-professional athletes and are coming to the Netherlands solely to participate in Batavierenrace.
News

Issues with international housing

Finding a suitable accommodation near the UT is often problematic for international students. They usually don´t speak Dutch, they come from different continents and completely different cultures and they often need to travel. To find a person, who is willing to rent to them, is therefore extremely difficult. According to students, this situation is not made easier by the university, which provides internationals with maximum of one year of accommodation.
News

Taiwan: "Country that doesn´t exist"

Taiwan has its own government, its own currency, its own capital city. Yet, it is not a recognized country, at least not in the eyes of the United Nations and most states in the world. What is it like to run a country, which technically doesn´t exist? That was the main topic of yesterday´s Studium Generale lecture by Maite Vermeulen, a journalist who had investigated this issue.