Uitgave van 180 Degrees Consulting Delft–Rotterdam · est. 2019

De Consultant Courant

Engineering meets business — all the strategy that's fit to give away

Delft & Rotterdam · 2026 edition Prijs: €0 — altijd (pro bono, like everything we do) Oplage: every non-profit that needs it
Front page · the lead

Students offer serious strategy to organisations doing good — fee stays at zero

First multi-city branch of the world's largest university-based consultancy pairs TU Delft engineering with Erasmus Rotterdam business; quality guarded by a review system anyone may inspect.

From the newsroom in Delft & Rotterdam

The proposition, printed plainly: a team of 4–6 trained student consultants takes one scoped question from a non-profit or social enterprise and returns, ten to twelve weeks later, a board-ready answer — at no fee, ever. The branch, founded in Delft in 2019 and expanded to Rotterdam, is the first multi-city outfit in the 180 Degrees Consulting network.

Its pitch to skeptics is unusual for the trade: don't take our word for anything. Every deliverable passes an AI-assisted senior review the branch built itself and published in the open — evidence, logic, and clarity checked against professional standards before any client sees a page.

The rule underneath, as this paper's own rulebook would put it: a finding must quote the document verbatim, or stay silent. The consultant does every rewrite; the reviewer only teaches. Readers wishing to audit may do so — the whole system is public.

Asked why students, the answer is the masthead: engineers from Delft, economists from Rotterdam, and the discipline to say no to scopes they cannot do well. "Radical thinking, professional discipline" — youth as an asset, never an apology.

Read Katern 2 — place an assignment

Second story · quality desk

Branch publishes its own quality system; auditors welcome

Quality desk · verified against the public repository

No student consultancy known to this desk can show its quality system rather than claim one. This branch does: an AI-assisted review, run on every deliverable, with a hard noise budget and a coaching rule that locks suggested fixes until the consultant attempts their own.

The honest limits are printed too: the consultants are students; engagements take a semester; scopes that cannot be done well are declined. The "no," the branch argues, is part of the system.

first case study — in preparation with client consent; this paper prints no case it cannot source

Classifieds · gevraagd & aangeboden

Kleine advertenties

Gevraagd — consultants

Engineers, designers, economists. No consulting experience required. One semester, one real client, a trained team around you; leave with a board-ready deliverable you helped build. Learn structured problem-solving, client communication, and AI-assisted consulting methods no other student club teaches. Both campuses wanted — the Delft×Rotterdam mix is the brand.

application window — opens with recruitment season

Aangeboden — partnerships

To recruiting partners: access to a self-selecting pool of ambitious students from two top universities — the ones spending their evenings on pro bono strategy.

To knowledge partners: trainers, mentors, and pro-bono experts raise the bar of our client work and get a front seat on how the next generation consults.

partner announcements — this paper prints no logo it hasn't earned

Redactie & bestuur · every branch is entirely student-run

The executive board, 2026

Portraits follow the photo session — this paper prints no stock faces