About TU Delft
With nearly 27,000 students, 3300 PhD students and 1350 fte Faculty staff in 2023, TU Delft (founded 1842) is the largest and the oldest university of technology in The Netherlands.
TU Delft succeeds in attracting high-quality students and researchers from the Netherlands and abroad: 25% of students and 69% of PhDs are non-Dutch nationals. Also, 57% of TU Delft’s scientific staff are non-Dutch nationals, and the majority have lived and worked abroad for some time at some point of their career, which ensures multiple connections with top institutes all over the world and easy integration in a rich-multicultural environment.
Rankings
TU Delft is 48th in the overall Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024. In the global THE Engineering and Technology rankings, TU Delft comes in 16st, and it is 40th on the 2023 THE World Reputation Rankings list.
Horizon Europe
At TU Delft we have a success rate of ~21% for Horizon Europe, with a received budget portfolio of 260M€ (dd 24-1-’25), we are at the 6th position of Net EU contribution receiving organisation.
European Liaison Office services
· European research and innovation policy
· European funding intelligence and promotion of opportunities, throughout whole
Horizon Europe
· European project guidance (pre- and post-award) and active scouting for ERC and
MSCA
· Support on Research and data management, open science
· ICT aspects
· Contract management
· Knowledge Security
· Ethics and research integrity
· Researchers training and development