From 2025, the Dutch government plans to greatly increase the childcare allowance and make it independent of income: all parents will be reimbursed for 96% of the costs. Thomas van Huizen and Janneke Plantenga were invited to the round-table discussion to answer questions from members of the House of Representatives.
We at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ want to learn from each other by sharing stories from those actively engaging in transdisciplinary research and how they went about their journeys. In this field story, we share the experiences of the SustaIndus team.
In this field story we highlight the 'Mixed Classroom', an educational innovation developed by the Urban Futures Studio in which students from different disciplines and policy makers are part of one classroom where they learn from and with each other.
The Netherlands has an ambitious goal of having a 100% circular textile industry by 2050. Will second-hand clothing get us there? No, says recent research by Denise Reike and others.
The Global Education Lab flagship at UGlobe partners with societal partners from around the world to address inequalities in education globally. Four sub-projects provide an update on their activities.
Laura A. Weiss and Tina Venema were awarded Pathways to Sustainability seed funding for the project ‘Saving the climate and being happy – Can we have it all?’.
Study shows that, while achieving the UN ambitious SDG for wastewater treatment would cause substantial improvements in global water quality, severe water quality issues would contain to persist in some world regions.
Maykel Verkuyten has very recently retired from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ/ISW/ERCOMER. As a farewell gift, Jochem Thijs and Anouk Smeekes have composed a Liber Amicorum which takes the form of an edited volume titled: “Migration and Ethnic Relations".
If every country complied with all the environmental treaties that exist in the world, would we end up in a better place? Dr. Rak Kim is investigating.
Diversity and inclusion should be top of the agenda in strengthening public engagement and transdisciplinary science as part of the broader Open Science movement, say researchers
Many municipalities have the ambition and intention to take measures to make cities climate-proof, but often implementation is still lacking. Why does this happen?
The Focus Area Migration and Societal Change at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is launching a fourth call for proposals to be awarded seed money funding for new research initiatives.
The production of renewable fuels can be increased by more than 40 per cent without having to cultivate a single square metre more of land, this study shows.
