Collection of Projects
The projects listed below are from before 2020
Over the last few years UCG students worked on some really cool projects.
Students in the Secret Groningen project operated as ethnographers, urban archaeologists, psychologists, and philosophers of everyday life, unpacking the city’s hidden narratives and layers of meaning. One team investigated sex work in Groningen, looking beyond the laws and policies to uncover a number profound questions about society, economics, and human rights. The team also isolated a particular sub-issue about which they made recommendations, namely the safety and wellbeing of sex workers.
In the UCG Cookbook project a group of 16 students created an educational Dutch student fusion cookbook with central themes in Sustainability, Health, Food Ethics and Migration.
The project Gaming the Planet designed and built a computer simulated planet complete with an artificial population, to explore survival in times of conflict and famine. Students gathered and implemented knowledge on human behaviour, climate, agriculture, and fisheries in a deep interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Mars Project is the ultimate sustainability challenge. Students explore not only the technical-scientific questions of how humans will get to Mars and survive the harsh local conditions, but also the role of laws and civil society in such a highly contained and alien environment.
In 2018, Third Year students developed, produced, and edited the documentary Pulse of the North, which investigated Groningen’s famous electronic music scene. A deeper, fascinating story came to light during the research, about the tight-knit community that has grown up alongside the electronic music scene. Also, in 2019 six Third Year students traveled to Ghana to conduct interviews and do background research for a documentary that examines the ‘fairness’ of the international fair trade chocolate industry.
More examples of projects students worked on are:
| The Noorderbrug Project | In this project, UCG students collaborate with art students from Academy Minerva and clients from De Noorderburg, an organisation that provides care and housing for people with acquired brain injuries. |
| Helping Hands Exhibition | One of UCG's first year projects collaborated with medical staff at the University Hospital to create a photo exhibition called Helping Hands. |
| The DIY Health Project | This project made a contribution to public health with designs for new self-monitoring technologies, developed in the course of the project |
| Neighborhood Priorities Project | Team members in this project conducted interviews in Groningen neighborhoods to gather opinions of local residents regarding sustainability and other global challenges |
| The Refugee Project | Participants built an understanding between the Groningen community and refugees, and researched by executing interviews and other activities |
| Energy Transition Project | This project demonstrated what can go wrong - and sometimes right - when lawmakers, energy producers, and consumers make the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy |
| Deep Time project | Developed strategies to help policymakers and scientists think about crises occurring many generations in the future |
| Designer Humans project | This project took up the technology, and the ethics, of altering human physiology to address global challenges |
| Rome project | Team members focused on the social arena in Rome and the interactions between locals and tourists. Our students travelled to Rome to perform research on the spot |
| Last modified: | 31 May 2023 10.39 a.m. |