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Starting in September 2026, students will be able to pursue a full bachelor's degree in Frisian at the University of Groningen. This development follows the signing of a new agreement on July 10 by the University of Groningen (UG), the Ministry of Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (OCW), the Ministry Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (BZK), and the Province of Fryslân.

The Thorbecke Academy of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences is going to establish a security campus in the North, in collaboration with the UG. To this end, the UG will appoint a professor at Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden, where one of the air bases of the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force is located as well.

Prof Dr Anna Salvati, Dr Christoffer Åberg and Prof Dr Siewert-Jan Marrink have been granted a National Science Agenda (NWA) funding to further develop life-saving drugs based on nanotechnology with the NanoMedNL consortium.

This year, the University of Groningen will once again open its doors on Wednesday, 28 August in honor of the Relief of Groningen. This year's programme consists of the 28 August speech, also known as freedom speech, in which we will delve deeper into the theme 'The Price of Freedom.'

After summer, the Young Academy Groningen will again welcome eight new members. Their research covers a wide variety of topics, including autism, compromise in political philosophy, oncology in primary care, prevention and management of chronic kidney disease, legal arguments and justification in international legal theory and philosophy, and the influence of popular culture on our world.

To close the academic year and start the summer off right, we have listed all our magazine articles from January to July 2025. So you can read them again at your leisure during the holidays. In each article, a UG researcher talks about their field.

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