2022

Dairy goat farming is a young and relatively small sector that is striving to produce dairy products in a sustainable and responsible manner. Wageningen University & Research was commissioned by Platform Melkgeitenhouderij, an…

European forests are being increasingly affected by natural disturbances, a new ground-based observation study shows. An international team of forest scientists from Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the European Forest…

Six new projects are to receive funding from Wageningen University & Research’s Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund (INREF). The funding will be applied towards research that combines different scientific disciplines. Thus,…

According to the 2022 GreenMetric ranking of Universitas Indonesia (UI), Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is again the most sustainable university in the world. The ranking compares the sustainability of 1050 universities in 85…

Vegetable gardens for prisons to reduce recidivism, a circular CO2 system for small breweries, and vaccines in the form of a pill; these are some of the innovative ideas that were presented last Thursday during the semi-finals of the…

The Executive Board has appointed Marnix Medema as professor holding a personal chair in Bioinformatics in the Plant Sciences Group at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The appointment is effective from 1 December.Marnix Medema…

Many people in Ukraine have barely had access to clean drinking water for months. The University Fund Wageningen therefore started a crowdfunding campaign in October to finance water filters for Ukrainians, an initiative of four WUR…

The ministers of OCW and LNV have appointed Professor Elbert Dijkgraaf (1970) as chair of the Supervisory Board of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) from 1 December 2022. Dijkgraaf succeeds Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who was installed…

Australian wild zebra finches sing more with others around when breeding conditions are favourable. Their song also changes based on their breeding stage and it attracts other zebra finches. A possible explanation for this behaviour is…

On 19 December, nearly 200 countries signed a historic agreement to protect the world’s biodiversity at the COP15 UN summit in Montreal. WUR researchers Jelle Behagel, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen and Liesje Mommer closely followed the…