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From most people’s gut perspective, belonging is rooted in a kind of from-ness. Like a tree, you are rooted in a place. Though it’s not easily admitted in liberal society, one’s rootedness is usually detected by skin colour and facial features. Even amongst the most welcoming of insiders, there is an unspoken assumption that those here first get to decide how things ought to be. On a secondary level, cultural behaviour confers belonging. “Okay, their grandparents aren’t from here, but at least they get our way of life.”​​​​​​​ But what is this “our” anyway?​​​​​​​

Art-science collaborations are on the rise everywhere. Yet, what these relations constitute in practice is less clear. The very term “art-science” is itself limiting. Many collaborations seek to go beyond this simple binary, exploring the potential that exists at the intersection of artistic and research practices.

Would you like to gain more insight into the way your students learn? Then the SoTL Grant is probably for you.

Researchers from the Copernicus Institute put together a performing and visual arts performance around the theme of hope in times of crisis.

Experimenting is an approach where radically alternative ideas can be tested and scaled up. But how transformative is it?

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…

A group of Dutch academics release a manifesto with five key post-neoliberal policy strategies necessary to move in the post-Covid-19 future.

Smart Solar Charging (SSC) is helping Utrecht become the first region in the world that can balance its energy needs using bi-directional charging technology.

Nine outstanding academics, amongst whom Jarno Hoekman and Joost Vervoort, have been selected to join the Utrecht Young Academy in 2020.

What needs to happen to make consumers switch from meat and dairy products to plant-based alternatives?

Three Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� PhD researchers have launched a podcast exploring science and society and life as early career researchers in today’s university.

The project will test the feasibility of transforming harbour sediment into a building material with neutral or negative CO2 footprint in the Port of Rotterdam.

Kieran Campbell Johnston and Niko Wojtynia explain why COVID-19 can provide the context to transform travel in the sustainability research community.

Working from home resulted in an impressive 750 metres of cable in the home of Eelke Bontekoe, researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

A new study analysed how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level - the majority of payments go to regions causing most environmental damage.

Sanne Akerboom nominated for Teacher Talent Award

New report indicates the public sees a circular future to be more socially and environmentally oriented than the tech-focused approach common in our institutions.

Sixty-five students following the same Master’s programme at the same time, but scattered over and moving between the premises of five different European universities. It might sound peculiar, but this is exactly what CHARM-EU Master’s students do.

Prof. Ellen Moors, director of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, dives into what she enjoys most about the job, as well as her hopes for the institute.

In his PhD, Paul Stegmann shows we need to drastically improve recycling efforts and switch from fossil to biogenic resources if plastics are to fit in a sustainable future.