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Professors Ajay Kottapalli and Erika Covi have received Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC).

Using high-resolution landscape evolution models, researchers showed that the Mediterranean Sea began filling long before the Atlantic Ocean breached.

Starting in school year 2025-2026, the educational programme MOI: Meertalig Onderwijs in Grunnen en Drenthe (Multilingual Education in Grunnen and Drenthe) will give regional language a permanent place in primary education. MOI brings Grunnegs and Drèents playfully into the classroom, as a structural part of daily teaching practice.

Starting in September 2026, students will be able to pursue a full bachelor's degree in Frisian at the University of Groningen. This development follows the signing of a new agreement on July 10 by the University of Groningen (UG), the Ministry of Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (OCW), the Ministry Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (BZK), and the Province of Fryslân.

The Thorbecke Academy of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences is going to establish a security campus in the North, in collaboration with the UG. To this end, the UG will appoint a professor at Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden, where one of the air bases of the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force is located as well.

Prof Dr Anna Salvati, Dr Christoffer Åberg and Prof Dr Siewert-Jan Marrink have been granted a National Science Agenda (NWA) funding to further develop life-saving drugs based on nanotechnology with the NanoMedNL consortium.

Prof Anastasiia Krushynska has been granted a EUR 600,000 National Science Agenda (NWA) funding to help develop innovative technologies for converting low-grade organic waste into durable, recyclable materials.

After summer, the Young Academy Groningen will again welcome eight new members. Their research covers a wide variety of topics, including autism, compromise in political philosophy, oncology in primary care, prevention and management of chronic kidney disease, legal arguments and justification in international legal theory and philosophy, and the influence of popular culture on our world.