Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology, also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technological university, located in Delft, Netherlands. With eight faculties and numerous research institutes, it hosts over 19,000 students (undergraduate and postgraduate), more than 3,300 scientists and more than 2,200 people in the support and management staff.

The TU Delft group involved in the NUCLEUS project is the department ‘Science Education & Communication’. This department hosts the MSc programme ‘Science Communication’, and carries out research in the area of communication and innovation. Its mission is to develop strategic communication in support of innovation. Starting points for this include communication design; professionalisation of researchers and communication professionals; collaboration network support; tool development to support innovation and communication practice; and responsible research & innovation.

Within the NUCLEUS project, TU Delft will host one of the mobile nuclei, and supports the integration of initial research results within the NUCLEUS project into a roadmap for the institutionalisation of responsible research & innovation practices.