Campus Fryslân blog

A few decades ago, the lower Yavero Valley of the Southern Peruvian Amazon was densely forested and inhabited mostly by Indigenous Matsigenka people. These people lived mostly from hunting, fishing, foraging, and gardening. But since then, roads have been...

“Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” said Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, ahead of the June 2025 The Hague summit, where European NATO members pledged to raise their military spending to 5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 

^{This spring, students and staff from Campus Fryslân travelled to Virginia Tech in the United States to participate in Eurosim 2026, an annual simulation organised by the Trans-Atlantic Consortium for European Union Simulations and Studies. Bringing...}

^{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.}

^{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...}

^{How does it feel to start university in a new country, in a new city, surrounded by people from all over the world? For many first-year students in the Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL) programme at Campus Fryslân, these past months have been filled...}

^{Carol is an ecologist from Colombia and an assistant professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Campus Fryslân. Her expertise lies in the use of spatial tools to understand ecological dynamics, as well as in science and technology studies (STS)...}

_{What drives a young leader to dedicate her career to global sustainability? In this interview, Sakura, a German-Japanese graduate of the Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL) programme at Campus Fryslân, reflects on how her studies, international...}

_{Sustainable tourism is more than a buzzword: it is about balancing cultural preservation, environmental responsibility, and the well-being of local communities. In this post, Rada, a recent graduate of the MSc in Cultural Geography, track Sustainable...}