Caterer Appèl, the University of Twente and sustainable food experts from Greendish team up to create the menu of the future. The goal is to ensure that the food served on campus is not just tasty and healthy, but that it is also produced in a way that respects the earth’s natural limits. Specifically, that means we must reduce our carbon emissions by 15% in 2023 and 50% by 2030. We will also have to reduce our land use, water use and waste. The partnership will last for at least one year, after which it could be extended.

The University of Twente's Honours programme has an enormous added value for the professional development of the participating students. That is the picture that emerges from the recent peer review of this UT excellence programme. A committee made up of students, honours deans and education staff from various universities recently took a close look at the UT programme, and presented its results this week.

UT professor Mariëlle Stoelinga has been awarded the Test of Time Award at the International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR), a highly regarded worldwide scientific meeting in the field of theoretical computing. The award is given for historical scientific publications that still have relevance in their field today.

For building quantum computers, making use of both electronics and photonics – technology that works with light – on one and the same chip, is promising. Thanks to silicon technology that we know well from today’s electronic devices, quantum devices could be better protected from influences from the outside world. Another advantage is that they can be scaled up to larger systems. Unfortunately, light and silicon are not the best friends. That is, unless you add germanium to it, in a fully new hexagonal crystal structure. In that case, electronic and photonic quantum bits can indeed be combined. The new European research project ONCHIPS, led by the University of Twente (MESA+/QUANT) in The Netherlands, will work on this ‘best of both worlds’ technology.