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On Monday 17 June from 13:00-14:00 o’clock, Naomi van Steenbergen will provide an online sessions in which the Utrecht step-by-step plan, a method for moral deliberation, will be brought to attention.

The pro-Palestine demonstration of Tuesday 7 May at the courtyard of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library was terminated by the police around 00:30 because of growing security risks.

A UU building on the Drift occupied by pro-Palestine protesters has been evacuated under police direction. As a precautionary measure, university buildings in the city centre will remain closed until Monday morning.

A ‘national walk-out’ has been announced for tomorrow, Monday, May 13. This action is in support of the pro-Palestinian protests and against police brutality. The action will involve students and staff walking out of the lecture hall at 11:00 a.m. and gathering in front of the Administration Building at noon.

On 14 May, a joint guideline (pdf) of Universities of the Netherlands and Universities of Applied Sciences Netherlands for protests was published. With this, the same arrangements for protests apply at all universities and universities of applied sciences, although each university may articulate the arrangements differently in its own house and code of conduct rules.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has seen various forms of protest in recent months. In the Netherlands and also at UU, tensions are rising. The Executive Board receives many e-mails and questions every day about how the board deals with this. Anton Pijpers explains.

After another tumultuous day and evening, during which all university buildings in the city center had to be closed, we would like to announce that these buildings will re-open on Thursday and educational activities will continue as planned. As Janskerkhof 15a had been occupied, classes planned in this building will be moved to another location.

ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓpaper Trouw published an open letter of the Rectors Magnifici of 15 Dutch universities concerning the situation in Gaza and Israel. Read the letter here.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ wants open information to be the standard and that is why the university has signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

On 28 July, Blackboard will get an update that will give a new look & feel to the navigation and landing page for all users. In addition, some functionalities will change.

Since 2022, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Applied Sciences have been participating together in the Utrecht Canal Pride. This year, 45 members from UU and 45 from HU took to the water with the theme 'Don't let your love go to waste!'.

The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ welcomes its two new fellows: Hanneke van Eijken and Viola Bex-Reimert.

On Tuesday 26 March, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ celebrated its 388th Dies Natalis.

It's the question whether animals experience this the same way as humans do. Dr. Claudia Vinke from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ writes about this topic.

Juliëtte Legler has been awarded a €1 million NWO grant for the project "Animal-free testing for endocrine disruption - from science to legal acceptance".

Addiction is mostly about being resilient, according to neurobiologist prof. Heidi Lesscher. By just playing often, children will develop more confidence.

Playing animals and playing children: that doesn't seem the same! But there are some similarities, prof. Louk Vanderschuren talks about it.

Workshops as part of embedding ethics in research, in this case considering the use of AI in livestock farming.

Scientist from the department Population Health Sciences and CenSAS wrote a report for the European Parliament on alternatives to cage housing in European livestock farming.

Maite van Gerwen at BBC Radio