Second Call for Proposals Seed Grants 2024
University of Amsterdam's Sustainability Platform is announcing the second round of Seed Grant calls for 2024.
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UvA Sustainability Platform (USP)
An interdisciplinary UvA wide community for generating knowledge on sustainability within our planetary boundaries
USP Associates in the spotlight
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'There will always be clean drinking water running from the tap in the Netherlands, it's just a question of at what price.'
An interview with Annemarie van Wezel, professor at the UvA and scientific director of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, on the poor quality of Dutch surface water. -
‘Let us make no mistake: the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.’
Colin Sterling, an Assistant Professor of Memory and Museums at the UvA, critically examines heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology. -
Joyeeta Gupta: “What I could do at the UN? Maybe less than what I can do in a scientific paper, but at least I can push the political agenda forward.”
An interview with Prof. Joyeeta Gupta, who has been appointed as co-chair of the so-called United Nations 10-Member-Group.
Impact
What politicians and society expect from science is changing rapidly. They openly ask what scientists do for society, what they do to reverse climate change and to stop our environment from becoming even more polluted. These 3 researchers do just that: creating impact!
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How we can improve our poor water quality
What role does technology play in the work of scientists at the University of Amsterdam? In this series, we will discuss this with researchers from the Faculty of Science. This time, we talked to Annemarie van Wezel, ... -
Second Call for Proposals Seed Grants 2024
University of Amsterdam's Sustainability Platform is announcing the second round of Seed Grant calls for 2024. -
Making wind energy safer for birds
Scientists have been studying how birds move and migrate for hundreds of years. Recently, understanding this complex phenomenon has become much more important because countries are building thousands of wind turbines ... -
Microorganisms are essential to achieve global sustainability goals
The United Nations' sustainable development goals can be achieved by relying extensively on the use of micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. This was written by an international group of scientists, ...