Skip to ContentSkip to Navigation
About us Latest news News

Sharing a house: making it work

13 January 2016

More and more often, people of all ages are choosing to share their living quarters. Examples include student houses, communes for the elderly or legalized squats. The Groningen housing corporation Nijestee, for example, rents out about twenty houses where people who are not related to each other live together or share facilities. Communal living has pros and cons, so how can you ensure that that it stays fun for everyone? How can you turn the pros into reality and limit the cons? Researcher Marc Pauly of the Philosophy Knowledge Centre, together with Nijestee and CareX, has developed a manual for communal living.

More information

Last modified:08 January 2024 09.52 a.m.
Share this Facebook LinkedIn
View this page in: Nederlands

More news

  • 07 January 2025

    UG students dive into the European music industry

    Next week, the annual Eurosonic Noorderslag music festival (ESNS) will kick off again. Two groups of students from the UG Science Shops will participate in the event. During the ESNS festival, they will investigate various societal themes.

  • 06 January 2025

    Lodi Nauta nieuwe vicepresident KNAW

    Lodi Nauta per 1 april vicepresident KNAW

  • 17 July 2024

    Veni-grants for ten researchers

    The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant of up to €320,000 each to ten researchers of the University of Groningen and the UMCG. The Veni grants are designed for outstanding researchers who have recently gained a PhD.