Utrecht Young Academy voices concerns over Van Rijn-report

The Utrecht Young Academy (UYA) is dedicated to multidisciplinarity and diversity in research and education. The advice of the Van Rijn-Commission - the redistribution of money - would be disastrous for alpha, gamma, and medicine majors due to the break-even demand. 

These are, according to the VNSU, 'disciplines of great value to society that are already dominated by high workload and other bottlenecks'. The redistribution (retracting money from these disciplines) will only increase the pressure and problems in these sectors. For this reason, UYA argues that extra resources need to become available to facilitate budget increase for both beta/technical and alpha/gamma sciences. 

Only by combining insights from these scientific fields can we face big challenges such as the climate crisis, world inequality, large-scale conflicts, and the increasing digitalisation of our society.