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More than 1,000 users for the AI transcription tool Whisper06 October 2026
XR Hub 29 October: now also order in the virtual classroom in 'groep 7/8', and identifying physical violence using VR 16 September 2026
The University of Groningen explores alternatives to Qualtrics11 September 2026
AI gives US Founding Fathers back their voices01 July 2026
Klopt de reistijd voor fietsers op Google Maps wel?29 June 2026
Building Bridges Across Differences: ActiPLEx reflects on results and expands its outreach18 May 2026
UG Explores Possibilities of EduGenAI12 May 2026
XR Hub 21 May: VR applications for aphasia, at the dentist’s, and handling radioactive sources in the lab10 April 2026
Celebrating five years of the UG Digital Competence Centre09 April 2026
Smart computing power for healthier water plant management13 March 2026
Dutch Universities Mutually Recognize the Senior Teaching Qualification (STQ)24 February 2026
1.5 million NWO grant for open science platform for orbital calculations12 February 2026
Geodienst develops navigation app for university buildings30 January 2026
University of Groningen introduces new timetable software19 January 2026
BDAIRR on NWO list Large-scale Research Infrastructure12 December 2025
High turnout for first practice session of digital exams in the Aletta Jacobshal09 October 2025
True Ortho aerial photographs provide new impulse for energy and infrastructure research29 September 2025
Free secure AI transcription tool now available for everyone at the UG22 September 2025
UG teachers start with renewed UTQ programme19 September 2025
XR Hub 2 October: Safer cycling thanks to bicycle simulator and a virtual dog against dog fear30 June 2025
Financial Aspects of Sustainable Research Software: UG DCC project results06 June 2025
Bringing buildings to life: how VR technology can enhance student learning and future employability28 April 2025
“Who do we want to be?” SURF in conversation with Nolda Tipping-Griffioen on the future of technology at the UG10 April 2025
Review of cyber crisis exercise OZON 202504 April 2025
Director CIT: ‘Digitisation is not merely a tool, but a goal in itself’01 April 2025
NWO Funding call 2025 for thematic DCCs19 March 2025
XR-hub April 3: Story Maps in the Reality Theatre and 3D Masks of the Sierra & La Piragua Transmedia18 March 2025
Nolda Tipping-Griffioen: Digitization is crucial for the university of the future10 February 2025
The UG Digital Competence Centre receives an NWO grant to strengthen its services20 January 2025
The Geodienst: Viking swords, journalistic scoops, and cholera09 January 2025
Map Geodienst awarded at GIN Cartography Competition 202429 November 2024
Prestigious HPC Wire Reader's Choice Award for innovative software solution from EESSI21 November 2024
Lustrum CIT: Sixty years of computing at the University of Groningen12 November 2024
XR Hub December 5: Virtual reconstruction of a prehistoric tomb and research into lecture attention via VR04 November 2024
From development to sustainable open-source software: an interview with Sebastiaan Mathot on OpenSesame23 September 2024
The University of Groningen renews strategic partnership with CBS (Statistics Netherlands)19 September 2024
Virtual Kindergarten wins Dutch Education Prize 202427 June 2024
Nolda Tipping new director CIT18 June 2024
Figures construction of new houses 2024 available in RUG Construction-monitor (‘Nieuwbouwmonitior’)10 June 2024
Geodienst digitaliseert gipskaart van Groningen uit 182723 May 2024
XR HUB May 23: The Virtual Seaport Designer and the virtual classroom manager13 May 2024
New blog: Data autonomy: A student’s perspective of the future23 April 2024
Learn to manage students in secondary education with VR glasses28 March 2024
DCC Event Recap - FAIR Research Software: from policy to practice27 March 2024
Interview with Tommaso Caselli on the DALC (Dutch Abusive Language Corpus) dataset21 March 2024
Good practices for FAIR data management - an interview with Kasper Meijer12 March 2024
PhD students explore the world of GIS08 March 2024
XR HUB March 14: spatial design in 3D and the virtual judge01 March 2024
Looking back on successful workshop Storymapping26 February 2024
Encryption for research: safeguarding sensitive data15 February 2024
New blog: Data Autonomy and Academic Freedom14 February 2024
How to use Stable Diffusion in research and teaching?18 January 2024
XR HUB January 18: using VR in classroom management secondary education and body image in anorexia nervosa08 January 2024
New blog! (Critical) Data Autonomy: digital archiving for an uncertain future20 December 2023
New IT courses January - April 202414 December 2023
Join the 'Language and AI' community11 December 2023
Inspiring workshop on Story Mapping: 'The craft of telling a story'07 December 2023
Celebrating 10 years of empowering research: a decade of data management services at the UG30 November 2023
The UG Digital Competence Centre (UG DCC) receives two NWO grants to enhance its services02 November 2023
New blog: GÉANT and its contribution to Data Autonomy31 October 2023
The CIT joins global initiative to support research software sustainability23 October 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: Open-source versus SaaS: Educational applications at the University of Groningen12 October 2023
XR HUB 2 November: saving patients via XR and virtually visiting the Proton Therapy Center10 October 2023
UG project Data Autonomy at Beyond Data Protection Conference 202322 September 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: Take back control of research communication, embrace Mastodon14 September 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: Overpaid bankers? Think again. Scientific publishers top the charts31 August 2023
New blog: Data Autonomy and Open Source: a match for transparency15 August 2023
New blog: Data Autonomy and Data Privacy Workshop at Noorderzon Festival10 August 2023
New IT-courses 2023-202431 July 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: National developments towards more Data Autonomy (1)27 July 2023
Euclid has been launched!14 July 2023
Het gebruik van XR in het onderwijs in beeld12 July 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: Data as the lifeblood of our online lives11 July 2023
Active Learning Classrooms 2023: Sharing experiences and ideas07 July 2023
UG project Data Autonomy at PublicSpaces Conference 202304 July 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: 'Let's do it!' – A review of the Launch Event28 June 2023
Successful launch of Data Autonomy - 'Let's do it'!26 June 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: Feeling seen, heard and respected at a digital university21 June 2023
Hábrók and CoDEX HPC cluster officially inaugurated19 June 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: Countering There is No Alternative (TINA) with a collective skepticism16 June 2023
Experts UG work on Data Autonomy definition14 June 2023
Launch event Data Autonomy 22 June: Let's do it!05 June 2023
New blog on Data Autonomy: The Google Rubicon26 May 2023
Studenten University College Groningen maken kennis met VR-toepassingen25 May 2023
Roadmap to more Data Autonomy: we are on our way!15 May 2023
Nieuwe versie PleitVRij in gebruik12 May 2023
ICT Innovation Fund sponsors 'Jantina Tammes School Early Career Researcher Prize' with 300 hours of technical support02 May 2023
Interactieve kaarten Tweede Kamer geven meer inzicht in regionale politieke onvrede19 April 2023
Een blik op de toekomst van Midden-Limburg11 April 2023
Volle zaal voor Workshop Storymapping voor PhD’ers!29 March 2023
RUG werkt mee aan de-identificatie van onderzoeksdata voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek28 March 2023
Towards more Data Autonomy15 March 2023
XR HUB 6 April: XR in Human Movement Sciences and stress management10 March 2023
Improved compute cluster Hábrók in production at the end of March 202313 February 2023
Polish lecturers trained by UG06 February 2023
Introductiecursus GIS voor PhD’ers smaakt naar meer02 February 2023
5Groningen programme continues with new Connected Solutions Innovation Centre10 January 2023
TIP students in Rotterdam introduced to geo-data09 December 2022
Nieuwbouwmonitor Geodienst ingezet voor uitzending Pointer14 October 2022
Innovation Lab Geo 15 November: Making sense of a changing world13 October 2022
Virtual job interview maps stress19 September 2022
XR HUB 22 September: Linked Data in 3D and Stress resistant with 3D01 September 2022
Improved Hábrók computing cluster increases computing powers of researchers13 July 2022
Evaluatie Nederlandse promovendi-trajecten30 May 2022
Activity report CIT Research 2021 online13 May 2022
CIT annual report 2021 online06 May 2022
12 May 2022: XR HUB meets SURF-XR-on-Tour08 April 2022
Pionieren op het Rekencentrum31 March 2022
Synthetic data speed up yeast research23 February 2022
How the Deen takeover is changing the supermarket map - an analysis by the Geodienst20 December 2021
Name of UG's new data center refers to 'Source of knowledge'16 December 2021
Terugblik event 'Maak werk van 5G'02 November 2021
RUG HPC Datacenter on Zernike Campus Groningen completed20 September 2021
Come to the public day 'Make work of 5G' during the Science Weekend17 September 2021
Meeting XR Hub on October 7: return of the European bison in the Netherlands and Virtual Practicals in practice16 September 2021
Advance notice Call for Proposals 2021-202216 July 2021
Studenten leren virtueel pleiten met PleitVRij02 July 2021
CIT annual report 2020 online21 June 2021
Meeting XR Hub on July 1: virtual brothers and imaging lightning04 June 2021
New edition TechTalks050, June 1: Beneath the southern ring road17 May 2021
SURF innovation project grant Feedback Go17 May 2021
CIT opent deuren voor meisjes tijdens Girlsday 202115 April 2021
Grant Visualization projects 202125 March 2021
Photo update Datacenter: facade cladding with gold lining05 March 2021
Groningen Digital Competence Centre receives NWO start-up grant25 January 2021
Using artificial intelligence to accelerate research into the cell cycle of yeast cells07 December 2020
Data Science: Frisian is not a standard language30 November 2020
Revisiting the philosophical canon using Artificial Intelligence07 September 2020
UG builds new data centre at Zernike Campus19 August 2020
The solution to filter bubbles? Artificial Intelligence!22 June 2020
Comenius Teaching Fellow grant for project 'Keeping order in a Virtual Kindergarten Classroom'19 May 2020
First UTQ certificates for Polish University Teachers14 January 2020
The success of MOOCs and online teaching05 November 2019
Green plastics thanks to Artificial Intelligence17 July 2019
Data Science: a fresh wind through genomics, physics and history12 July 2019
UG presents plans for expanding Aletta Jacobs Hall at Zernike10 July 2018
PleitVRij uses Virtual Reality to improve the teaching of legal skills26 April 2018
Millions for new Groningen Target programme06 April 2018
Expansion of collaboration between UG and Osaka University Japan05 October 2017
Pop-up university at Northern Knowledge Festival25 September 2017
Nieuwe website voor oudheidkundige vondsten hobby-archeologen10 May 2017
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