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Wij kijken terug op een zeer geslaagde bijeenkomst. De open gesprekken, inhoudelijke bijdragen en actieve deelname lieten zien hoeveel energie en bereidheid er is om samen werk te maken van de circulaire transitie. We kijken uit naar de mooie ontwikkelingen en samenwerkingen die hieruit voortkomen en die de komende periode verder vorm zullen krijgen.

The board of the Ubbo Emmius Foudndation has decided not to issue a call for proposals for interdisciplinary doctoral research within the M20 PhD programme in its current form in 2026.

It is not easy to determine how much people have been exposed to a disaster, pandemic, or shocking event. What counts as exposure, and how do you measure it? And once you have done that, how do you assess its impact on people’s well-being or health, knowing that many different factors can influence the outcome? Even when effects seem obvious, researchers must be careful.

Our fellow Prof. Michel Dückers wrote an article on this topic, inspired by the work of the namesake of the Rudolf Agricola School.

Namens de RAS delen wij graag de volgende uitnodiging voor een symposium, georganiseerd door onze onderzoeksgroep Environmental Humanities Network. Voor vragen kunt u contact opnemen met dr. Femke Kramer (ehn@rug.nl).

Na een jarenlange voorbereiding is er recent definitief groen licht gekomen van SNN voor het project Noord-Nederland verdient Circulair 2.0. 

According to Leah Henderson, it is crucial that we uphold the principle that scientific research is based on evidence. She is a professor by special appointment in Societal Trust, and affiliated with the Rudolf Agricola School of Sustainable Development. Henderson studies how we communicate about science. ‘Nowadays, you often hear people say: ‘’Science is just another opinion.’’ I completely disagree with that.’

Nature, who doesn't love it? And yet, structurally, too little money is allocated to it. Jesper Beverdam, like his supervisor Dr Frans Sijtsma, is a nature lover and trained economist. In his PhD research, within the Rudolph Agricola School for Sustainable Development and the M20 programme, he is investigating how financial instruments can be adapted or developed to stimulate nature financing. Part of this research concerns the extent to which citizens themselves are willing to contribute to nature conservation.

With great pleasure we announce that the Responsibility, Language, and Communication (RESPONSUS) research group has published a new position paper, “Critical Language Awareness as a Future Imperative: Seeing the ‘Water’,” in Frontiers - Communication.