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From 10 to 20 December, the Dining Room in the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Library City Centre will be made extra cosy.

The national annual quota for OA articles at Taylor and Francis has been reached. See what you can do when you are publishing at Taylor and Francis.

In the summer of 2022, 100 Dutch farmers parked their tractors outside of the Asylum Seekers’ Centre in Ter Apel, on the Netherlands’ north-eastern border with Germany to protest that they “no longer feel welcome” in the Netherlands. With right-ring populists being elected across the world, the action offers lessons that progressive environmentalists sorely need to hear.

Researchers receive Biodiversa+ funding for research into nature-based solutions for biodiversity, human well-being and transformative change.

On Thursday 6 March, the annual OnderwijsFestival will take place again. This event is the stage for the UU education community to come together

Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (UU) and the Innovation for Policy Foundation (i4Policy) have formalized their commitment to supporting African entrepreneurial ecosystems

Introduction IMAU newsletter by Michiel van den Broeke.

This year, seven Utrecht researchers will receive an ERC Consolidator Grant of approximately 2 million euros each. The European Union provides these grants support excellent scientists and scholars at the career stage where they may still be consolidating their own independent research teams to pursue their most promising scientific ideas.

Bijels - pronounced "bye-gels" - are relatively new gels with unique properties. In her PhD research, Mariska de Ruiter has taken significant steps toward the industrial application of these promising materials, with potential uses in – among others - filters and batteries. De Ruiter will defend her PhD on 25 November at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

The two-day event brought together students and faculty through engaging “Climate Challenges” revolving around real-world research, data analysis, and community building.

With around 300 attendees, BNAIC 2024 was a huge success, offering a variety of technical sessions and presentations that fostered innovation and collaboration in the AI and data science communities.

Innovation policy for circular agriculture can benefit from the ideas and involvement of 'challengers'—people and groups who are willing to question and rethink existing way of working.

This issue of Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities invites critical reflections on relationships, resistance, and solidarity that challenge and inspire.

The new and free database OpenAlex seems to fit in with the Open Science ambitions of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. An interview with Jeroen Bosman about the options OpenAlex has to offer.

The Board for the Conferral of Doctoral Degrees (BCDD) of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has assessed that a doctoral thesis dating back to 2008 does not meet important principles. This means that the doctoral degree was unjustifiably granted.

Congratulations to the poets whose work stood out from 66 entries!

For the first time, evidence has been uncovered for the end-Triassic mass-extinction in the subsurface of the Netherlands.

Vinicius Stein Dani, a researcher at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, has found that while there is plenty of evidence that process mining can effectively help organisations, this is not always the case.

The number of companies offering some form of employee ownership is increasing slowly, according to researcher of the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� School of Economics (U.S.E).

'The Lion King' introduces us to a society where the weak have learned to worship at the feet of the strong.