Utrecht University

Utrecht University may offer 200 temporary, newly completed studio apartments from Holland2Stay to international Utrecht University students with priority. Priority means that Utrecht University can offer the housing 'exclusively' for a…

To mitigate climate change, our society must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and find solutions to move away from fossil resources, while undergoing a gradual transition from a linear to a circular economy. To this end, the deployment…

The ongoing nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands and Flanders illustrates how ineffective management of nutrients can lead to both serious ecological damage and political and societal upheaval. To halt ecosystem breakdown and limit costs of…

Global warming has a particularly pronounced impact on the Alpine region. Like the Arctic, this European mountain range is becoming greener. Writing in the journal Science, researchers from Utrecht University, among others, have now used…

Associate professor Robert de Vries has been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The 150.000 Euro grant allows De Vries to bridge the gap between his pioneering research into influenza virus receptor…

The public debate about young people with a refugee background is mainly about this group. But the young people themselves, how do they experience their situation? And what do we actually know about the steps they take to find their way…

River deltas are drowning in the face of rapidly rising sea-levels. To keep up with sea-level rise, delta land needs to be raised with sand and mud from rivers. But sand and mud supply from rivers is decreasing globally, and doesn’t make…

Millions of farmers in South Asia depend on meltwater from the Himalayas. Melting glaciers, rainwater and groundwater allow farmers downstream to irrigate their crops. Using a novel model, an international team of researchers determine…

The pharmaceutical sciences could be a lot more sustainable. This is what three lecturers and a Master's student from the Pharmacy programme at Utrecht University realised. Last year, they started a project to make their courses more…

Conservationists have long been hoping for it: a positive relationship between biodiversity and CO2 storage in tropical forests. If you can protect a forest that stores a lot of CO2 and is also home to many different plant species, you…