Migrants are people who, for various reasons, decide to seek a new home in another country. In some major Dutch cities, more than half of the population has a migration background, meaning that they themselves or one of their parents were born abroad. Research shows that this group of newcomers is vulnerable: many struggle to
Mark your calendars for 19 June 2025, as Utrecht becomes the center of groundbreaking innovations at TEKNOWLOGY: NWO’s annual innovation festival. At TEK25, you can interact with the demos at our Innovation market or join one of the collaborative workshops and become inspired by participants with an academic, entrepreneurial and policy background.
RENT XXXIX. Responsible Entrepreneurship and Technology.
Combining the local and the global.
Insights from Erasmus Initiative ‘Vital Cities and Citizens’ theme leaders Photo: Researcher Warda Belabas and community researcher Renso Borrebach of the Wijkwijs research project My Beverwaard. In the 21st century, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Globalisation, new technologies, mass migration and increasing inequality – the city of the future is not
From June 25-28, 2025, the Philosophy and Ethics Group of the Faculty Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences of the Eindhoven University of Technology will host the 24th biennial international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.
This annual event is the meeting place for professionals, entrepreneurs, experts and policymakers who are making AI workable for the Netherlands. With the theme ‘Getting started with AI’, we focus on concrete AI applications that are already making an impact today – from the workplace and healthcare to the energy and agriculture sectors.
The 43rd Conference of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation (IWPLMS) will take place at Utrecht University on 8-9 September 2025. This year’s conference will explore how to strengthen labour market institutions and construct policies that can improve job quality, build inclusive labour markets, and develop genuine social market economies.
The fourth edition of the National Science Communication Day will take place on 6 October at the Railway Museum and has the theme ‘The art of understanding’: How do science communication and journalism really bridge the gap between relevant scientific insights science and society? Do science communicators and journalists really master the art of connecting as well as understanding a large audience? From a two-way street?
Join the debate in Utrecht, during NWD 2025.
On September 20, 2024 the first national meeting on the sectorplan theme of ‘Cultural Heritage & Identity’ was held in Rotterdam, to share knowledge and discuss developments. During the day, promising ideas for collaboration emerged. What is a sectorplan theme? The Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) are united in a ‘domain’, which consists of four
The SSH Council of the Netherlands has written a position paper, outlining several priorities andrecommendations for the new European FP in order to increase the impact of EU investment in Research and Innovation (R&I). This position paper serves as a foundation for the positioning of the SSH in new European FP. Furthermore, the SSH Council