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Come to the European Researchers' Night on Friday, 26 September 2025! We are organizing a vibrant science festival full of music, dance, shows, science battles, and a fun get-together. For all the curious!

De provincie Groningen draagt €10.000 bij aan het 'Jouw Technologie van Morgen' onderwijsprogramma, een van de twee lesprogramma’s die wordt aangeboden in een de wetenschapstruck van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

The AIWitness project has been nominated for the Computable Awards 2025 in the ‘Partner Project’ category. Laura Peters, Associate Professor at our faculty, is the initiator from the University of Groningen for this innovative collaboration between Capgemini, Scotty AI, and the UG.

The grants give a boost to interdisciplinary research within the four Schools for Science & Society at the University of Groningen.

A brand-new team from the University of the North is gearing up again for the 2025 edition of the RDW Self Driving Challenge (SDC). In this team students from educational institutions Noorderpoort, Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Hanze UAS), and the University of Groningen (UG) are working together to build a self-driving car.

JTS celebrates birthday with award for early-career researchers

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Saturday 3 May, we will celebrate World Press Freedom Day—a day on which we are reminded of the importance of press freedom and our duty to respect and uphold freedom of expression.

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.