Kees Koedijk joined Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ last year as professor Sustainable Finance. He studies the effects of climate change on the investments in shares and bonds of large investors such as pension funds and insurance companies.
A new tool to share data about plastic pollution in the ocean has won this year’s edition of the Blue-Cloud Hackathon. The team, led by Delphine Lobelle, wins a €25.000 cash prize.
Bert Weckhuysen and assistant professors Eline Hutter and Freddy Rabouw reflect on rewards and incentives. What consequences do the changes have for them?
The empowerment and protection of children. That's what Charlotte Mol is promoting with her research. She received het doctorate degree in Family Law cum laude.
Law researchers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ's NILOS institute participate in EU project to map and evaluate the regulation of (competing) environmental and economic uses of our seas
Incluusion organized a welcome meeting for 9 status holders who recently started a traineeship at UU. During the meeting, they shared their highlights and hurdles of the first weeks.
Alex Oude Elferink and Lan Ngoc Nguyen of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ edited the volume 'International Law and Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction', published in January 2022
Catherine Blanchard of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ's Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) contributed to the article Mining the riches of the deep sea: an interdisciplinary challenge
They are developed in a context of international collaboration, trade and governance, but is the legal and normative framework we see today sustainable over time?
Concerning plastics, Dutch policy focuses too much on technological innovations and loses sight of the big picture of a sustainable future, researchers say.
Mirko Noordegraaf was consulted on the design of the parliamentary inquiry into the 'toeslagenaffaire' and suspects we will see a different type of inquiry.
The Deep Transitions Futures research project has developed a global crowdsourcing initiative, the project introduces the three scenarios and asks participants to choose which future they want to live in.
Communication scientists Jan ten Thije and Inge Versteegt studied how asylum seekers value the information they receive from COA upon arrival. Student Houda Al Kalaf also contributed to the research.
Hans Clevers, group leader at the Hubrecht Institute, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the KU Leuven for the development of mini organs in the lab.
