Campus Fryslân blog

^{In Global Responsibility and Leadership (GRL), we find passionate and impact-driven students who come and seek for the creativity and skills needed to imagine and create local solutions to global problems.}

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.

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...

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?”

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...

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....

How does it feel to start university in a new country, in a new city, surrounded by people from all over the world?

A conversation with Carol, Assistant Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Campus Fryslân

_{As part of the curriculum, second-year Data Science & Society students complete a six-week project designed to develop their group work skills, problem-solving abilities, creativity, and capacity to apply their knowledge to produce a functioning outcome....}

_{What happens when Data Science & Society (DSS) students set out on a “technology safari” across Friesland? A day full of discovery, innovation, and inspiration! Students from all years of the programme explored the facilities and met representatives from...}