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Autimelody, a team that uses music as a communication tool, won the Advanced Award of €2,500 at the first edition of the UG Impact Challenge on Thursday afternoon at the Academy Building. The Ideation Award of €1,500 was awarded to Neighborly. During the final of the UG Impact Challenge, students of the University of Groningen presented their solutions to major societal challenges.

Grid congestion poses a major problem. There is little to no capacity to connect new households and businesses to the power grid and it risks halting the energy transition. Michele Cucuzzella, Associate Professor of Energy Systems & Nonlinear Control, researches how we can use our current energy infrastructure more efficiently.

Impact in Focus is a new video series that takes you along into the inspiring world of research at the University of Groningen. Discover how our researchers bring about change and what impact they want to make.

Een delegatie van kennisinstellingen en het ministerie van Wetenschap en Cultuur (onder leiding van minister Falko Mohrs) uit het Duitse Nedersaksen bracht op 23 en 24 april een bezoek aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). De nadruk lag op de gezamenlijke uitdagingen van de twee grensregio’s.

The European Researchers' Night (ERN) and Zpannend Zernike (ZZ) are science festivals where researchers interact with a broad audience. ERN is aimed at adults, while ZZ is designed for children. In this two-part series, UG researchers talk about their experiences last year. ‘We were in the right place with our stand, right next to the bar.’

Our data usage is at an all-time high. But concerns regarding our online presence are on the rise. Who governs the spaces we access online and how do they do this? How can government regulations help manage the consequences of their decisions for the privacy and safety of internet users? These are central questions to the research topics of Oskar Gstrein, associate professor of Human Dignity in the Digital Age.

On 19 March 2025, Evgeni Moyakine, Associate Professor IT Law, organized the workshop ‘Command and Control under the Cyber Radar: Untangling the Complexities of Attribution of State-Driven Cyber Operations’. He did this together with his student-assistant Wendy Grooten and the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI.

Transforming Interaction: A Workshop on AAC, Social Robotics, and Conversational AI

The Netherlands has plans to invest in an AI Factory, with financial support from Europe and the region. This initiative is an important step to further strengthen the region and the country in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

We, the undersigned, express our concern about the University of Groningen’s increasing reliance on services from big tech companies

In the event The Hardware That Fuels the AI Revolution the role of hardware in AI is put front and center: from graphic processing units (GPU’s) to high performance computing (HPC).

Nieuwswijsheid is cruciaal voor burgerschap en democratische participatie van jongeren.

Technology and digitisation play an ever greater role in society, says Nolda Tipping-Griffioen, Director of CIT and Chief Information Officer at the University of Groningen. According to her, it calls for a leading role of the university. As such, she stresses the importance of cooperation with the Jantina Tammes School for Digital Society, Technology and AI.

Professor Ming Cao receives an ‘AiNed’ Growth Fund grant of EUR 2.4 million for research that will contribute to faster adoption of AI at SMEs in the technical industry in the Netherlands.

Grid congestion poses a challenge to our electricity network, and expanding the infrastructure will take time and money. ‘What we can do right now, is manage and optimize what we have as best as we can,’ says Michele Cucuzzella. For example by using peaks in electricity generation to heat and store water which can then be used to heat houses in the city at a later stage.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced on March 28 that it will fund the research project of ELSA Lab for Technical Industry led by UG researchers.

Het afnemen van getuigenverklaringen in strafzaken met behulp van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI), dat is in een notendop het idee achter AIWitness. Het project is een voorgenomen samenwerking tussen de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), Capgemini en Scotty AI. Afgelopen woensdag kwamen bestuurders van de drie partners bijeen in Groningen.

To bring the future of autonomous transport a little closer, the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW) organizes the annual Self Driving Challenge, in which students compete with their self-programmed self-driving cars.

Can you imagine a world where speech technology is not just about asking your smart speaker about the weather, but one where it gives a voice to those with speech disorders, helps support endangered languages, and understands sarcasm?

The European Researchers' Night (ERN) and Zpannend Zernike (ZZ) are science festivals where researchers interact with a broad audience. ERN is aimed at adults, while ZZ is designed for children. In this two-part series, UG researchers talk about their experiences last year. ‘I can definitely recommend other researchers to participate in these events.’

Een romantische komedie om op een laagdrempelige manier Gronings te leren. Dat is in een notendop het idee achter de gratis Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): ‘MOI! Welkom in Grunnen!’. Afgelopen week werd de online cursus officieel gelanceerd in House of Connections door de Groningse Commissaris van de Koning, René Paas. De Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI tekende mede voor de organisatie.

Good ideas were at the heart of the event in the House of Connections last week. During the Speeddate Event of the UG Impact Challenge, students were paired with partners from the business community and other organisations to pitch their ideas. An inside look from the event floor.

Learning facts at school is something hardly anyone likes. The day before a test, pupils cram as many words or names as possible into their heads, only to hopefully remember them the next morning and then forget them again after the test.

2,5 miljoen Nederlanders worstelen met onvoldoende digitale basisvaardigheden en nog eens 2,5 miljoen volwassenen missen de kritische vaardigheden om de mogelijkheden en gevaren van digitalisering te kunnen overzien. Nu digitalisering, artificiële intelligentie (AI) en misinformatie een vlucht nemen, rijst de vraag hoe we digitale inclusie kunnen garanderen.

René Paas, the King’s Commissioner for Groningen, launched the Groningen Language MOOC at the House of Connections in Groningen. In this free four-week course, participants can learn the Groningen language in an appealing and innovative way.

We are delighted to announce the first winners of the 2025 Grassroots Grants! After careful consideration and evaluation, the winners were selected through a lottery.