Nominees Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025
Every year, the University of Groningen presents the Ben Feringa Impact Award to UG researchers and students who have made outstanding achievements in the field of knowledge utilization, i.e. who have connected their research to the professional (non-academic) world and/or societal (including economic) practice. The award will demonstrate the University’s appreciation for their exceptional contribution to knowledge utilization.
The prize will be awarded in two categories: one for researchers and one for students. Find this year's nominees per category below. The award ceremony will be held on 13 May 2025.
Category researcher
| Date: | 29 April 2025 |
In the coming weeks the nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. This week: Francesco Picchioni on his innovative way to recycle rubber.
| Date: | 22 April 2025 |
In the coming weeks the nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. This week: Noor Swart and Berend Roorda, on their online information initiative on the right of freedom to assembly, demontratierecht.nl
| Date: | 06 May 2025 |
The nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025 introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. This week: Tim van Zutphen with his research aimed to create awareness of healthy nutrition in communities with low socioeconomic status.
Category student
| Published on: | 22 April 2025 |
In the coming weeks the nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. This week: Makke Marij Bakker, Annika Zweep, Adriaan Beelaerts van Blokland & Lisette Kamping nominated for their project Collective Memory Dialogue Cards.
| Date: | 29 April 2025 |
In the coming weeks the nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. This week: Andra Cristiana Minculescu on her research project on Human-AI Decision-Making in healthcare.
| Date: | 06 May 2025 |
The nominees for the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025 will introduce themselves and their impactful research or project. This week: Igor Marchenko's research on improving automatic recognition for whispered speech.
| Last modified: | 06 May 2025 11.38 a.m. |
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