wire - news in brief

The opening of the academic year on 5 September is themed planetary boundaries. But, what are they? How can you study them, and can you use them in your day-to-day life? Today, episode 4: Sjoukje Heimovaara.

As of 1 September, Utrecht University has a new research institute: the Institute for Sustainable and Circular Chemistry.

The relatively new Science for Sustainability community at Utrecht University has funded four brand-new PhD positions.

The gas prices now exceed 300 euros per megawatt hour - a record. The transition from fossil (natural gas, coal, oil) to renewable energy is needed and soon.

The opening of the academic year on 5 September is themed planetary boundaries. But, what are they? How can you study them, and can you use them in your day-to-day life? Today, episode 2: Jessica Duncan, associate professor and one of the speakers during the opening.

The opening of the academic year on 5 September is themed planetary boundaries. But, what are they? How can you study them, and can you use them in your day-to-day life? Today, episode 1: Hannah van Zanten, associate professor and one of the speakers during the opening.

The biologically productive North Sea impacts the global climate through exchange of carbon and nutrients with the Atlantic Ocean.

Floods and droughts are increasing in many parts of the world and causing serious damage. A new study shows that tailoring risk management measures to the worst flood or drought to date is not enough to mitigate the effects of unprecedented events.

With the NWO Open Competition-SSH , NWO Social Sciences and Humanities wants to offer researchers the opportunity to carry out research into a subject of their own choosing without any thematic constraints.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded over two million euros of 'Perspectief' funding for a consortium including Prof. Bob van der Zwaan at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences.

The Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) has selected the ICE Partnership to establish the EIT Culture & Creativity.

Increasing the sustainability of highly energy-inefficient flats as an alternative to building new ones Symbiotic Urban Movement (SUM) is the name of the TU Delft student team that won third prize at the Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22 on Friday 24 June.

Internet of Things now possible without batteries or continuous power, thanks to the invention of 'intermittently-powered bluetooth' FreeBie If it were up to TU Delft researchers Jasper de Winkel and Przemyslaw Pawelczak, the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) would be one without batteries.

Disasters such as floods cause a lot of suffering, but at the same time they can strengthen national identity.

Three UvA researchers who all recently obtained their doctorates have received Rubicons grant from NWO/ZonMw to conduct research at foreign research institutions.

A first-of-its-kind scientific report detailing the natural emergency unfolding in the Amazon basin was presented today at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.

National and international climate policies are surrounded by huge uncertainties and numerous obstacles.

Last Friday saw the online live finals of the 'profielwerkstuk' competition 'Imagination at Work' of Centrum JongerenCommunicatie Chemie (C3).

Prof.dr. Joyeeta Gupta is Co-Chair of the Earth Commission and professor at the University of Amsterdam.

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has a crucial responsibility in accelerating sustainable change in society.

'Such a thing doesn't exist,' UvA researchers Gadi Rothenberg and Albert Alberts repeatedly heard when they accidentally discovered 100% bioplastic in 2010.

Daniel Pérez Pinedo, graduate of the MSc Biological Sciences at the UvA, is the winner of this year's East-West Seed Graduation Prize for Plant Sciences.

No fewer than 25 researchers from the UvA and Amsterdam UMC have been awarded Veni grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Demand for electric cars has exploded as a result of the energy transition, propelling demand for the main raw material in car batteries: lithium.

On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 the University of Amsterdam celebrated its 388th birthday or Dies Natalis.