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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.

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’.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and KU Leuven have signed an agreement on establishing a joint university wide PhD framework. First Joint PhD Call for proposals.

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). 

Urban Futures Studio organises fifth edition of Mixed Classroom. Application deadline for students: 21 September 2020.

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

Following the outbreak of corona UNESCO called for a worldwide translation of their handbook "Journalism, 'Fake ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ' and Disinformation".

An international research team with among others prof Lucas Lourens created a new reference of past climate over the last 66 million years from ocean sediments.

As of 1 August, Frank van der Stappen is appointed as Professor of Robotics and Automation at UU and ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ College Roosevelt.

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.

Promising researchers are awarded this five-year European grant if they have proven their potential to become independent research leaders.

Prof. Chris Van Den Broeck (Physics) is one of the scientists involved in the research.

Plantenonderzoeker Sjon Hartman vertelt waarom de plant Arabidopsis zo belangrijk is voor zijn onderzoek.

Van Sebille develops software that models ocean currents and can therefore map out the journey of plastic waste in the oceans.

During the Opening of the Academic Year 2020-2021, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ will award two honorary doctorates, to Valerie Masson-Delmotte and Hirokazu Yoshikawa.

New Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ research reveals struggles to move beyond the popular misconception that recycling is always circular and sustainable.

Dynamics of Youth and Pathways to Sustainability call upon you to help understand the dynamics of youth as agent of change.

Melting ice shelves do not directly impact sea levels, but their disappearance may cause land-based ice to flow into the sea, causing sea levels to rise.

Working from home resulted in an impressive 750 metres of cable in the home of Eelke Bontekoe, researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Smart Solar Charging is one of the finalists in the Regiostars Awards, prize for the most innovative best practices in Europe.

The average body size of grazing animals in a landscape affects the balance of nutrients that are available to plants, researchers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ find.

Over a period of 30 years, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) can only play a modest role in reaching the Paris Agreement climate targets.