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The UG awarded different prizes to excellent researchers and students during the Ceremony of Merits on 4 July 2025.

Quota-based open access publishing agreements: caps expected in 2025 for LWW, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, and ACS

How does organized crime infiltrate our institutions? What is the cost of delivering justice under threat? And what can we learn from Italy, a country with decades of experience fighting the mafia? In the eight-part podcast series 'De strijd tegen de maffia' (The Fight Against the Mafia), university lecturer and host Mr. Laura Peters speaks with leading experts from both the Netherlands and Italy. The result is a compelling documentary about subversion, moral boundaries, and the resilience of the rule of law.

During the RUG Ventures Innovation Day, Prof. Erik Heeres of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (RUG) was awarded the Impact Innovator Excellence Award.

In all municipalities in Groningen and North Drenthe, there will be room to train people with a distance to the labor market to become digital coaches. The initiative for this comes from the Digital Literacy Coalition (DLC): a network of organizations that are committed to increasing digital skills in the region.

A large consortium receives 6,8 million euros from the Dutch Research Council as part of the Dutch Research Agenda to put art at the center of climate justice, from Aruba to the Wadden Islands.

Portal Biotech, a pioneer in nanopore-based protein identification and sequencing technology, has raised € 30 million in Series A funding. The funding will support commercial rollout and team growth.

The Minister of Education has reappointed Relinde Weil for a second term as a member of the Supervisory Board of the University of Groningen.

The annual report of the University of Groningen for 2024 is now online. In this report, the UG presents text and figures to account for the policy pursued in the calendar year 2024, as well as for the expenditure of its government funding.