Societal outreach

Connect your students with the society to help addressing societal needs!

“The university brings together various partners in knowledge ecosystems in which knowledge users and knowledge providers create new ideas by sharing their expertise and perspectives.” (Utrecht University Strategic plan 2016-2020)

Good students’ research contributes to the societal outreach and the impact of the work of the University. Connecting the work of students to pertinent societal challenges moreover contributes to academic citizenship.

Students could be asked to advice external partners, public and private organizations and NGOs, who may lack research support. They could help developing (online) public sources of information, like Wikipedia. Finally, academic courses could be organized in such a way so that the learning process and the research results thereafter contribute to addressing (contemporary) pressing societal problems.