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Care2Change. A large consortium with just about all northern hospitals, local governments, knowledge institutions such as the University of Groningen and the Hanze university of Applied Sciences, and a number of healthcare companies, will cooperate in a project on sustainable healthcare.

Professors Jingyuan Fu, Lisa Herzog, and Helga de Valk of the UG have been appointed members by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Prof. Petra Hendriks, professor of Semantics and Cognition at the Faculty of Arts and director of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), has been elected a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea.

Thousands of demonstrations take place in the Netherlands every year. These demonstrations raise many questions about the right to demonstrate. This topic is the subject of the Public Academy for Jurisprudence on 22 May at 07.30 p.m. - 9 p.m. During this evening, we will look through a legal lens at the right to demonstrate.

Psychologist Kirsten van den Bosch has known for a long time: sound is much more than just background noise. Now she has the opportunity to demonstrate this on a large scale.

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.

On 4 May, the UG commemorated all the students, staff members, and others who lost their lives during the Second World War. Members of the Board of the University, staff members and representatives of student organizations held a moment of silence and laid flowers.

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.

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.