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Eleven research projects involving Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have received a grant from NWO for the SSH Open Competition M 2024. The researchers will be starting work on promising ideas for five years. The projects cover the entire breadth of the SSH research field, some with an interdisciplinary or cross-domain character.

A great deal of the success of the energy transition depends on citizen engagement. Their involvement and actions play a significant role.

Methods to enhance the ocean's uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) are being explored to help tackle the climate crisis. However, some of these approaches could significantly exacerbate ocean deoxygenation. Their potential impact on marine oxygen must therefore be systematically considered when assessing their suitability.

Homeowners are more likely to take protective measures after flood damage-especially when their insurance supports them.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to produce sufficient drinking water, and this process also releases large amounts of the harmful greenhouse gas methane.

Moving toward circular agriculture thanks to nutrient separation from manure. Due to strict environmental regulations, farmers are not allowed to spread all'of their manure on their land.

Organisations that want to successfully adapt to a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment would do well to utilise the knowledge of their own employees.

When formulating climate policy, too little attention is paid to social factors and too much to technological breakthroughs and economic reasons.

The global use of artificial intelligence is growing at a rapid pace. Yet the energy consumption that comes with it remains largely invisible.

HARARA means "heat" in Arabic - a fitting name for a project that addresses one of the most pressing climate challenges of our time.

Through the NWO Open Competition, the NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW) domain aims to offer researchers the opportunity to conduct research on a topic of their own choosing, without thematic restrictions.

The Dutch historic landscape is under threat. Changes in the agricultural sector, rising sea levels, drought, and flooding urgently call for measures that will drastically alter the landscape.

Since last week, a new WOW weather station has been installed on the rooftop of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

OnePlanet Research Center (a collaboration of Wageningen University & Research, Radboud University, Radboudumc and imec) explained today in Nieuwspoort the potential of photonic chip technology for nitrogen measurements.

A new study by climate scientists Raed Hamed and Dim Coumou estimates that one-third of the global soybean production deficit in 2012 is attributable to human-caused climate change.