Travel Beyond the ‘Gram
It’s that time of year again in Leeuwarden. The rain has stopped (for now), the sky is blue, and while our plates are full with end of the year obligations, our thoughts turn already to the summer and beyond.
Is a master in Sustainable Entrepreneurship for me?
Sometimes people choose a city. Sometimes the city chooses them. That is how Brigitta’s story with Leeuwarden began. Originally from Indonesia, she came to the Netherlands after a path that already crossed different worlds: first studying Agro-industrial...
"Leeuwarden is boring". These Campus Fryslân students disagree.
There is a funny thing that happens when you tell people you study in Leeuwarden, especially as an international. Someone almost always reacts with a small pause, followed by something like: “Oh… Leeuwarden. Isn’t it kind of quiet?”
Local Veggies, Global Recipes
Between Grou and Jirnsum, a small farm is rethinking what food systems can look like. The vegetables grown there do not travel far. In fact, some of them end up just a short drive away, at Campus Fryslân, where students and staff pick them up each week as...
Celebrating International Women’s Day: Standing for All Women, Everywhere
Every year on March 8, the world marks International Women's Day: a day to celebrate the achievements of women and to recommit ourselves to the ongoing struggle for equality. It is a day of pride, gratitude, and solidarity. But it is also a day of honesty....
From theory to tap water: Ditmer's internship experience at Vitens
Ditmer is a third-year BSc Data Science & Society (DSS) student at Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen. Next to his studies, he works as a working student data science and also writes stories, both in text and comic form. In his free time, he enjoys...
“I couldn’t imagine myself being anywhere else”: First-year GRL students on finding their place in Leeuwarden
How does it feel to start university in a new country, in a new city, surrounded by people from all over the world?