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A research team from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, KWR Water and ten other European and Israeli institutes developed a social platform to address urban water issues.

Wist je dat rijst niet onder water hóeft te worden gekweekt? In veel landen zetten ze rijst onder water om te voorkomen dat er onkruid gaat groeien. “Maar dat is tijdsintensief: de rijst moet dan plantje voor plantje worden geplant " Ronald Pierik werkte samen met het Filipijnse rijstinstituut IRRI aan het beter bestendigen van rijst tegen onkruid.

By combining underground irrigation systems with waste water, 17-25% of the agricultural water demand can be met, new research shows.

In what way can financial institutions influence global greenhouse gas emission?

NWO has awarded a total of 16 Rubicon grants to young researchers, among which Sjon Hartman, Hebatalla Elnaggar and João Silva.

Online edition summerschool in mathematics education - 2020

The international effort ISMIP6, led by NASA and with several participating researchers from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, have published new results in The Cryosphere

The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI):EU. An overview of EU-level policies influencing food environments in EU Member States.

Book bij Ellen H.M. Moors: Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals Insights from Agriculture, Health, Environment, and Energy

This episode of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��'s Future of Work podcast is about people and technology, with Hajo Reijers, Maria Peeters and Jan Nieuweboer.

On 16 September Anne-Eva Nieuwelink will defend her PhD at both Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Twente (UT).

Utrecht scientists demonstrates a new, non-GMO technology to develop new crops at a fraction of the costs of traditional breeding.

A four-year project analysing the Fashion Value Chain has received a nearly half a million euro grant from the Laudes Foundation.

As of September 15, Tina Vermonden has been appointed as Professor of Biomaterials for Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The Pine Island Glacier and the Thwaites Glacier on West-Antarctica have been undergoing rapid changes, with potentially major consequences for rising sea levels.

The strategic theme Pathways to Sustainability contributes to the future of deltas with essential knowledge about sustainable, long-term delta developments to make short-term decisions in deltas ‘future-proof’.

For their paper The Impact of Transitioning to Shared Electric Vehicles on Grid Congestion and Management, Nico Brinkel, Tarek Alskaif en Wilfried van Sark received a Best Paper Award at the international Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST). 

Researchers have shown that most of Svalbard’s glaciers have lost their protective firn layer. The results are published in Nature Communications.

Heineken Young Scientist Award winner Freddy Rabouw will give a lecture about his research for the general public (in Dutch) on Saturday September 12, 2020 during ‘Open Monumentendag’.

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Even before the study was published, it formed the basis of an article in Die Zeit. German mathematics education 'lags far behind other countries', it said.

As of 1 August, Frank van der Stappen is appointed as Professor of Robotics and Automation at UU and ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� College Roosevelt.

Errikos Kounalis graduated cum laude in the Master’s programme Nanomaterials Science and received the award for his thesis about “expanded pincer ligands”.

NL4XAI is a new European project focused on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Rakhyun E. Kim, dr. James Patterson en dr. Yanliu Lin will each receive 1.5 million euros to carry out their research over the next five years.