This summer the University of Twente hosts two internationally oriented summer schools in a festival-like atmosphere on campus. During CuriousU and InspireU many international university students, professionals and high school students come to the campus for a summer full of inspiration.

As of 1 July, the Centre for Security and Digitalisation (CVD) is officially a foundation. During the first Supervisory Board meeting, the initiators Municipality of Apeldoorn, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Police Academy and the University of Twente decided positively on the accession of two new partners to the centre: ROC Aventus and the Netherlands Institute for Public Safety (NIPV). A good start for Ben Kokkeler who started as director of CVD on 1 July.

For the Panoptis project, researchers from the faculty of ITC finished two pilots for detecting road abnormalities. After extensive testing at Twente airport, the drone has been tested above real roads in Spain and Greece. In the future, the drone will fly besides road infrastructure and monitor different typologies of anomalies such as car accidents, landslides and other objects obstructing the lane.

From 29 to 30 June, the European Robotics Forum took place in Ahoy Rotterdam. With over 1000 visitors from all over the world, this is one of the most influential robotics and artificial intelligence events in Europe. The University of Twente was present to show its latest robot innovations!