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At Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, every student should be familiar with sustainability issues, regardless of their major. A group of lecturers and researchers founded a community called Sustainability Education & Engagement, which is using the game Utrecht2040 as a tool to achieve that goal. The game focuses on finding solutions to sustainability issues, which helps mitigate students’ fears about the climate.

UCERF provided legal comment at Argentina's request to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on care as a human right, based on national and European law.

If you are starting a new research project and want to read specific scholarship, we invite you to suggest a reading circle within our Open Cities events.

On 27-28 February 2024, Seline Trevisanut and Catherine Blanchard participated in a workshop organized by The New Institute in Hamburg to view ISA from a planetary perspective.

The UYA connects young academics from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ who have obtained their PhD less than eight years ago to exchange critical perspectives on academia, policy, and society.

Throughout history, people have tried to give shape to the future. This piece offers no comprehensive tour of this history. Yet it does share some glimpses of how we might see the future in different ways, or rather different worlds. Here we begin our journey around the future in eighty worlds, even if we visit just a few for now…

To get a better understanding of the topics that the people of S4S do research on, we initialized a project on
community network analysis.

Present at the signing of the Stop Ecocide NL Manifesto by the municipality of Utrecht on 6 March was Daan van Uhm (criminological and legal researcher on ecocide)

With the election of Tim Schuring as Alumnus of the Year 2023, the university emphasises the importance of good and inspiring education. He received this honorary title on Tuesday 26 March 2024 in the Dom Church during the celebration of the university's 388th anniversary, the Dies Natalis.

Mark Bovens elaborates the importance of the unwritten rules to uphold democracy. He gives this speech at the 388th anniversary of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ on the future of democracy on March 26th 2024.

Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and others, aims to find out how to best make sense of postcolonial theory in Europe in the present.

Paleontologist Jimmy de Rooij receives his PhD title from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ on his Triceratops research. Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and Naturalis Biodiversity Center work closely together.

Peter Pelzer, associate professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, had been elected as Teacher of the Year by the jury of the Dutch National Student Association (ISO).

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Centre for Global Challenges and UMC Utrecht Global Health have joined forces at confronting global health inequities.

Call for abstracts of papers and posters for the Tropical Horizons Conference 2024.

Roxana Roos, senior researcher at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ’s Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, set out to discover what the most important barriers to the participation of local and indigenous communities are.

An international team of researchers have created 9 dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice can contribute to sustainability transformations.

Under the name Adapt!, an interuniversity team of researchers will research the cultural, social, and policy capacities needed to deal with crises.

Five Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development researchers were recently awarded impressive grants by the European Research Council (ERC) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

An interview with Kei Otsuki and Daan van Uhm about the Critical Pathways community of Pathways to Sustainability.

On 20 March, 106 professors introduced over 2,300 pupils from groups 6, 7 and 8 to research and science.

Introduction IMAU newsletter by Guus Velders

'Despite the winter chill of last December, I’ve been warmly welcomed as assistant professor into a new family at IMAU.'

On 21 November 2023, Sandrine Bony received the Buys Ballot Medal for her groundbreaking research into clouds and their role in our changing climate.

'It is a great job, acting as coordinator between the forecasters/users, the developer Deltares and the ICT people at Rijkswaterstaat.'