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An interactive debate at a climate regulation conference in Wroclaw was concluded with some policy advice for the international climate negotiators (COP24) who will gather in Katowice in December 2018.

On 1 July 2018, Dr Martijn Wieling was appointed professor by special appointment of Low Saxon / Groningen Language and Culture. Wieling, born in Emmen in 1981, is also an associate professor in Information Science at the University of Groningen. In this new role, he will be devoting one day a week to researching Low Saxon in general, and the variants of Low Saxon spoken in Groningen in particular. The appointment is for four years initially, based at the new Centre for Groningen Language and Culture (CGLC) at the Faculty of Arts, to which Jan Glas, Theo de Groot, Henk Scholte, Patricia Ottay and Goffe Jensma are also affiliated.

Cisca Wijmenga, Full Professor of Human Genetics at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG), was appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. This royal distinction, which is awarded for exceptional service to the community, was presented to her by the deputy mayor of the province of Groningen, Mattias Gijsbertse, on 19 September.

The passage of a small galaxy, some 500 million years ago, has seriously disrupted the trajectories of stars in the neighborhood of the sun. This surprising finding shows that external influences on the Milky Way are much more important to its current shape than astronomers had assumed. ‘We will have to find a way to accommodate this in our models of galaxy evolution’, says University of Groningen astronomer Amina Helmi. Together with astronomers from the university of Barcelona, she led the publication of these findings in the journal Nature on 20 September.

This autumn, the Center for Information Technology (CIT) offers various computer courses. In addition to last year's courses, there are several new and improved courses on the subject of Data Management and programming.

The Smart Energy Region Emmen-Haren (SEREH) project is initiated by the Municipality of Emmen (in the Netherlands) and the city of Haren (in Germany), and aims to create the preconditions for the realization of a decentralized, cross-border and sustainable energy market.

In the past months, pupils from various primary and secondary schools in the city of Groningen have formulated ideas for future urban logistics in cooperation with students of the University of Groningen.