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Op 24 april 2024 heeft ENTRANCE – Centre of Expertise Energy de nieuwe podcastserie ‘Groen geld verdienen’ gelanceerd die is opgenomen tijdens ESNS in het House of Connections.

De ENTRANCE Award -ter waarde van EUR 100.000- staat open voor nominatie van individuen, maatschappelijke organisaties of bedrijven in Nederland die een innovatie of prestatie leveren die bijdraagt aan de energietransitie.

Cooperation proved to be the key word during Stellenbosch University's visit to the University of Groningen. During the visit, which took place last week, ties were strengthened and plans were made for the future.

GroenvermogenNL’s first R&D project HyTROS celebrated in the afternoon of April 11 in Amersfoort its formal start per early March. This project, an initiative involving 32 parties from research and industry, is contributing to the aim to accelerate the scaling up of green hydrogen in the Netherlands.  

How can we balance between the energy transition and protecting the environment? That question took centre stage at the WOS event last week, where Milan Meyberg and Jessica den Outer discussed the Anthropocene, the Rights of Nature and artificial intelligence.

Will you join us (again) this year with an experiment, mini-lecture, installation, workshop, debate, science show or other?

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Gravitation grant to ANION, the research programme that Professor Moniek Tromp of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering, UG) is a partner in. ANION, Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands, will study the electrochemical processes that are important for large-scale energy transition. Tromp has been awarded 2.9 million euros for her research in ANION.

Aravind Purushothaman Vellayani, professor and chair of Energy Conversion at the University of Groningen, has been appointed director for hydrogen economy at the Wubbo Ockels School for Energy and Climate from February. As director, he wants to focus above all on interfaculty and interdisciplinary cooperation.

The Wubbo Ockels School for Energy and Climate will celebrate its one-year anniversary on 28 March with a special WOS event at DOT Groningen. Director and professor of energy law, Lorenzo Squintani, looks back on the School's first year in this interview. According to him, a solid foundation has been laid for the future.

Negatief nieuws haalt sneller de voorpagina, terwijl er ook een ander verhaal te vertellen valt. Hoe vinden we een balans tussen positieve en negatieve berichtgeving over klimaatverandering? Dit artikel werd geschreven door Merel van Helten, masterstudent Science Education and Communication.

The book Strange Bedfellows: An experiment in Student-directed Interdisciplinary Research is now available online and open access at University of Groningen Press (UGP).

Marc Esteve Del Valle has been appointed as Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission (DG Clima). As ambassador of the Climate Pact, he plans to counter climate disinformation by increasing the public's social media literacy.

For the next two years, Groningen will again 'host' the European Researchers' Night, to celebrate and showcase science.

Are you working to make learning more inclusive? Or have an idea to mitigate and adapt to the ongoing climate crisis? Are you improving access to quality health care? How about solutions that build peaceful and prosperous economies? Or strengthen Indigenous communities?