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Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and students in the heart of Utrecht to understand the potential of integrating health and nature in cities.

Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages has a new book published, an interdisciplinary study of medieval thinking about the city in text, image, and material culture.

Wouter de Rijk, PhD candidate at the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� School of Governance, best explained his research to the lay audience.

New research shows that promoting innovation through diplomatic channels can facilitate the commercialization of technologies necessary for the transition to a more sustainable future.

Scholars of religion Joas Wagemakers, Lucien van Liere and Eric Ottenheim discuss the role of religion in the war between Israel and the Palestinians.

Pathways to Sustainability consists of nine thematic communities, each dealing with a different aspect of sustainability. Time to sit down with the three leaders of the Energy in Transition community.

From 3 June onwards Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Repository has a new interface. On the homepage you will find an extensive search function.

Humanities scholars have an important role to play in sustainability issues, students learn in Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s new Environmental Humanities minor.

The means we use to reduce the carbon footprint result in a gold rush for minerals. A focus on a material footprint could connect the climate issue to resource extraction and justice issues, four UU scholars argue.

Are leased products less well looked after than their owned counterparts? Researchers reveal this is often the case and work with designers to come up business model solutions to challenge this.

What is the best way to develop hydropower?

Last weekend, I cried at an academic conference. It’s not normal for me. I look back with part gratitude, part embarrassment. The experience has triggered me to transform how I carry myself in professional spaces. It started off pretty run-of-the-mill…

Report of the student symposium on 8 May, focusing on the North Sea Agreement and three major transitions (nature, food, energy) taking place there.

In block 1 and 2 of the 2024-2025 academic year, UU students can register for online courses at one of the CHARM-EU partner institutions.

Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities in particular is often a big unknown.

Unless the ICC reconsidered the mental element requirements for the existing crimes, the prosecution of people ‘most responsible’ for environmental harms would be (to put it mildly) an uphill struggle.

On 16 February 2024, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr Karim Khan, launched a public consultation to advance accountability for environmental crimes.

The next step in climate change research thanks to NWO Summit grant: climate feedbacks and their interference with present-day climate change

Introducing: The Sustainability Fund. A central fund that enables employees and students of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� to seek funds for establishing green initiatives and living labs on campus, encouraging transdisciplinary approaches to conquer sustainability challenges.

Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic change, disproportionately impacting populations located in the Global South.

PtS launched a special Award for those research projects combining the strengths of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� research with the agendas of external stakeholders for the benefit of a sustainable future for all. Submit a project now!

[Interview] Femke van Esch researches current themes with the aid of Cognitive Mapping.

The world’s seaweed forests transport 56 million tonnes of carbon (between 10 to 170 million tonnes) to deep ocean sinks each year.

From 22 May until 21 June, Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and HU ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Applied Sciences invite you to go outside to discover and register as many species as possible during the BioBlitz 2024.

Perhaps it requires a radically different approach to education to empower students to become ‘agents of change’? Blog by Lisette van Beek