University of Groningen

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded two Vici grants, worth €1.5 million each, to two Groningen-based researchers. Prof. Van Vugt and Prof. Koppelman, both from the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), can use this money to…

All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change. Even the ability to evolve can evolve. If we were to understand how this happens and which mechanisms…

A large group of researchers will once again travel to Spitsbergen on a polar expedition under the leadership of researchers from the Arctic Centre of the UG . They will research the rapid warming of the polar regions from the perspective…

The University of Groningen (UG), the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), and Football Club (FC) Groningen have been working together in the field of sports and exercise for many years. Wouter Frencken (FC Groningen) and Koen…

In the latest issue of the scientific journal Ornithology, migratory bird researchers from the Netherlands, the United States and Canada provide a synthesis of all the knowns, and especially the many unknowns about the extreme…

The study was led by the Marine Evolution and Conservation group at University of Groningen’s Institute for Evolutionary Lifesciences, based in Groningen (the Netherlands), in collaboration with an international team of 37 researchers…

Carnival hatGijs, who is deafblind, sits bent over in an electric wheelchair, deep in his own world. His supervisor walks towards him and carefully takes his hands. Gijs springs up and sits straighter. The supervisor gently traces a…

More than one million Dutch people use antidepressants. Before these drugs are put into the market, their effectiveness is extensively studied in clinical trials. Although these trials are considered the gold standard, in 2008 they were…

Municipal residential taxes in the largest municipalities will rise by 2.9% this year for owner- occupied households. The immovable property tax (ozb) will increase the most (by 3.5%), followed by sewerage charges (3.2%). For tenants,…

In total, the NWO has provided Veni funding up to €280,000 each to 89 promising early-career researchers from the NWO Domain Science and the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw). The Veni grants, together…