Allow a VAT of 0% for all fresh fruit and vegetables or ban the marketing of foods high in fat, salt or sugars to children. These are just a few of the measures which the EU could put forward to create healthy food environments.
Build onshore wind turbines, raise gas prices or maybe impose a meat tax? What does the Dutch population think about Dutch climate policy? Researchers from TU Delft and Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ invite Dutch people to contribute their ideas.
In the Student op School (Student at School) programme, Faculty of Science students assist secondary school teachers to reduce their workload, gain teaching experience - and earn a bit of extra cash.
Marleen van Rijswick, professor of European and national water law at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ gave a lecture to farmers about sustainable water management.
UU has brought into use an electron microscope that can image individual atoms in nanoparticles, and offers possibilities to develop new sustainable materials.
Open Science is becoming a global phenomenon that aims to change science, but how is the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ contributing to this process and can students get involved as well?
Physical chemist Martin Haase is developing nano-structured membranes obtained from ‘bijels’, They enhance the efficiency of turning seawater into drinking water.
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Emergency responses across the world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very short period of time. Dr. Giuseppe Feola and his fellow researchers propose five priorities for political strategies to achieve meaningful, sustainable and equitable transformation.
UU researchers have published an article in the Dutch journal Milieu en Recht (Environment and Law), titled ‘Bodemdaling in Nederlandse veengebieden: knelpunten voor solide beleid en besluitvorming’ (Soil subsidence in Dutch peat meadow areas: challenges for solid policy and decision making).
Young people might choose to grab a hamburger at McDonalds after attending a climate rally. While some might find this hypocritical, developmental psychologist Sander Thomaes feels such criticism is disingenuous.
Anna Maria Biletta started as a PhD candidate at the Centre for Complex Systems Studies and will work on the subject of Spectral Analysis of Random Graphs.