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The Van Old noar Jong teaching programme will be launched on Thursday 28 October. This is the first time that digital tools are being deployed locally to promote the sense of community between the different generations in a village in the province of Groningen using the regional dialect.

Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen revealed how to design lightweight but very stiff porous materials.

Join our online event on 28 October 2021 to celebrate the many ways in which academics make their research more accessible, transparent or reproducible.

Carlijn van Beek has won the 2021 Golden Master Award for her Master’s research. She is Master’s student in Chemistry at the University of Groningen (UG). The award has been granted by the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) since 2009.

The Vikings were active in North America in the year 1021 AD. This now represents the earliest – and only – known year in which Europeans were present in the Americas prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1492 AD. It also represents a definitive point in time by which the Atlantic Ocean had been traversed and human migration had finally encircled the globe.

Newspapers first made their appearance in the Netherlands as early as 400 years ago. They mostly consisted of eyewitness accounts, which were as reliable or unreliable then as they are today. Historian Joop Koopmans talks about the news in early modern times and points to differences from and similarities with today’s news. In those days, newspapers mostly reported on international (political) news – which sometimes led to a reprimand.