Outreach

Within the institute we continuously push towards socially relevant research. We are constantly guided by needs, requirements, and bottlenecks that we observe in people's daily lives. As a result, our work is regularly picked up by the media. You can read a selection of interesting appearances below.
Three NWO TOP grants for computer science and mathematics
Computer scientists Marc van Kreveld and Ronald Poppe and mathematician Carel Faber have received an NWO TOP grand, enabling them to do innovative research in the coming years.
Dual PhD programme: municipality of Utrecht gets 'ICT-PhD Candidate'
Utrecht University offers organisations such as municipal governments the possibility to let young employees get PhDs.
Utrecht crowd simulation software enters market
Roland Geraerts and Marc van Kreveld will develop a crowd simulation engine for game developers and companies specialised in simulating large flows of people.
Crowd control
In this movie, Roland Geraerts explains (in Dutch) how crowd simulations can be created.
AI Labs
At the AI Labs, Utrecht University collaborates with public and private organisations as well as other knowledge institutions on societal issues pertaining to AI and data science.