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At the OnderwijsFestival on Thursday 7 March, the winners of the prestigious Teacher Awards were announced.

Sabine Fuchs, paediatrician in metabolic diseases at the UMC Utrecht/ WKZ has received a prestigious Vici grant from ZonMw.

Rens van de Schoot has received a Vici grant of one and a half million euros. This grant enables him to expand his research group over the next five years.

NWO has awarded Vici grants to six researchers from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, the UMC Utrecht, Princess Máxima Centre and the Hubrecht Institute.

Honorary Doctorate Matthew Flinders, a professor of politics at the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Sheffield, on the future of democracy and on his connection to Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

Academic freedom is under threat around the world, including Europe. Rising trends in illiberalism and authoritarianism threaten universities as institutions of open societies.
Their autonomy as a condition to uphold academic freedom in teaching and research is weakened as a result of political, financial, and social pressures. How can universities resist these challenges?
This requires to advance our understanding of academic freedom, and the trends and mechanisms that put it at risk.
The Institutions for Open Societies (IOS) Platform Openness Challenged: ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� at Risk? launches a series of dialogues to tackle these burning questions.

The interdisciplinary consortium Deliberate Genre Literacy in Secondary Education will receive almost 1 million euros from the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research.

Since Laura became part of the Dynamics of Youth community's Future Think Tank 'Becoming Adults in a Changing World', she has had the opportunity to make herself heard.

The Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed Daniela Salvatori as a new member.

Paulina Nunez Bernal spent her PhD developing a new technique called volumetric bioprinting, which is faster than 'traditional' layer-by-layer bioprinting and safer for cells.

The Contesting Governance UGlobe Flagship seeks to hire new core team members

NextGen is a collaboration between 21 academic, clinical, technical, and commercial partners across Europe and the United States. NextGen aims to build novel and synergistic tools to enable portable multimodal, multiomic and clinically oriented research in high-impact areas of cardiovascular medicine.

Screening with organoids offers perspective for people with Cystic Fibrosis who do not respond to medication. Lisa Rodenburg received her doctorate for her research on this topic.  

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research Community welcomes all ecosystem friends to join their series of monthly meetings.

It is important for climate change to become a structural part of the curriculum in our schools. Honest information transfer, action orientation and the creation of hope all go hand in hand, say Andrik Becht, Elma Blom and Sander Thomaes.

As of January 2024, and after several years of successful interdisciplinary collaboration, the Special Interest Group (SIG) Open Statistical Software JASP and R has ceased to exist.

The 3Rs Centre Utrecht is excited to announce that Professor Hans Clevers will deliver a keynote presentation at the conference "3Rs and NAMs: all inclusive?"

These pharmacologists will participate in four innovative training networks.

Three Utrecht-based researchers who have recently received their PhDs can do their research at institutes abroad thanks to a Rubicon grant from NWO.

Xarray-regrid can regrid (geospatial) data to a new coordinate system.

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has appointed Christian Kaiser as professor of Biophysical Chemistry of Membranes and Proteins. Kaiser and his team will explore the way biological proteins are produced, processed and transported in the cell.

The Focus Area Migration and Societal Change has received an extension from 2024 to and including 2027.

The Focus Area Migration and Societal Change has a vacancy for a Student Assistant.

Jasmijn van Harten, Jantien van Berkel, Janna Besamusca and Joop Schippers (all Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��) are leading a part in the 'Autisme works' research.

This special issue aims to gather a diverse and comprehensive range of perspectives on International Community Engaged Learning (ICEL).