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How can the student intake of the bachelor’s degree in Dutch Language and Culture become more diverse? This Utrecht Young Academy project answers this questions using two innovative business methods: the Lean Startup Method and Sprint.

Pooyan Tamimi Arab explains in The Conversation that the lack of fair elections is causing many Iranians to refuse to vote.

Erik de Lange receives the Rubicon grant to conduct two years of research at King's College London, on the history of international cooperations at sea.

Media Scholars Nanna Verhoeff and Michiel de Lange give their perspective on the future of our (smart) cities.

With a Rubicon grant researchers can conduct research for a period up to 24 months at an international research institute.

The prize has been awarded to Deneer's research into nineteenth century art from Europe.

In the Washington Post, Ingrid Robeyns argues that it is morally impermissible to own more resources than needed to flourish in life.

Iva Vukusic spoke to different media outlets about Mladic' conviction and the aftermath of the war.

Diana Willemijn Helmich examines (the increase of) domestic violence in the Netherlands during COVID-19.

Bloomsbury published 'A Cultural History of Democracy', of which the volume on the Medieval Age was edited by David Napolitano.

The least surprising news of the week from Syria is that Bashar al-Assad has won another seven-year term, says Ali Aljasem in an article for The Conversation.

The volume “Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories“, edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter van der Veer, has been published in an Open Access-version.

Diana Willemijn Helmich and Emma Post question the way in which the media have written about women leaders' successful handling of the pandemic.

The researchers will receive a grant with which they can realise their ideas for innovative and research-related public engagement activities.

Britta Schilliing, Selin Dilli and Lukas Verburgt will become members of the NIAS fellows, a select community of independent thinkers.

Blog by Jos Philips on an online workshop where researchers from Poznan and Utrecht discussed several perspectives on refugees and religious tolerance in Europe.

The program encourages young researchers to enter into or develop interdisciplinary collaborations in order to achieve new fundamental research insights.

De Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung has awarded a fellowship to Reindert Dhondt.

This month, a research project about the Lausanne Conference was launched, with Ozan Ozavci as one of its convenors.

Bloomsbury published 'A Cultural History of Color', of which the volume on the Renaissance was edited by Sven Dupré.