Nederland kan iets leren van andere landen in de strijd om kennisveiligheid, blijkt uit een rapport van adviesraad AWTI door het Leiden Asia Centre.
In biotechnology, safety regulations are much stricter than in chemistry, Britte Bouchaut noted as a PhD student and that stands in the way of becoming sustainable.
The boost to the otherwise unambitious COP27 climate summit was the establishment of a climate fund for poor countries. Is this justice, Delta asks Climate Ethicist Taebi.
More than half of the PhD candidates at Dutch universities are in employment. The rest are trying for a PhD at their own expense or for example with a foreign grant.
The China Scholarship Council and Groningen University will raise the scholarships for PhD candidates with scholarships in 2023. Utrecht University is considering it too.
From murder and violence to intimidation: Scholars at Risk counted 391 attacks on academic freedom in 65 countries between September 2021 and September 2022.
The nitrogen crisis is harming the Netherlands and is causing farmers to rebel. MEZT, a TU Delft start-up, hopes to reduce the nitrogen from cattle farms by a quarter by 2030.
Climate justice is one of the themes emerging from the Climate Summit in Egypt. Delta spoke to TU Delft ethicist Udo Pesch about compensation for climate damage.
The Dutch universities must hand education minister Dijkgraaf a plan outlining how they will create a register for professors’ side jobs by the end of 2022.
