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New energy partnership New Zealand and Netherlands to help global transition
A partnership between the New Energy Coalition and National New Energy Development Centre, announced by Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday, has the potential to share leading international thinking to help New Zealand reach its low-carbon emissions energy aspirations.
A Waste Separation Campaign for International Students in Groningen – A blog by Ningna Xie
Exploring the Role of Communication in Municipal Waste Management: A Waste Separation Campaign for International Students in Groningen
Reducing the amount of litter – Graduation Assignment
A blog by Daphne Visser. For the last few months I have been working together with the Professorship of Communication, Behaviour, and the Sustainable Society. With the help of the CBSS I recently completed my graduation assignment and graduated from the study programme International Communication.
9th GERG Young Researchers’ Awards
Are you doing a postgraduate research project in the field of renewable or other low-carbon gas? Why not promote your project in front of a high-level audience and possibly win a substantial prize?
Dr. Kviatek about energy transition in New York
From the 27th until the 29th of June the Society's for the Advancement of Socio-Economics conference took place in New York. Dr. Beata Kviatek attended the conference to talk about the energy transition.
TransFuture Festival: a review of the anniversary edition
Sustainability and new energy took centre stage yesterday during the anniversary edition of the TransFuture Festival at the EnTranCe testing ground. This anniversary edition saw an extremely comprehensive and varied programme for visitors, which offered plenty of scope for interaction with the public. Despite yesterday's heavy rain, the majority of the programme was well attended by enthusiastic and interested visitors.
The North of the Netherlands goes down under during Solar Challenge
Students of Hanze University of Applied Sciences (UAS), University of Groningen and Noorderpoort will be competing in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia for the first time, with their own uniquely built and designed solar car called 'Top Dutch Solar Racing'. In the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, student teams race 3,000 kilometres across Australia in solar cars.
TransFuture Festival: new energy for the region
On Wednesday 12 June, the EnTranCe energy testing ground at Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen will be home for the fifth year running to the TransFuture Festival, which is all about new forms of energy. The diverse programme includes lectures and workshops as well as an innovation market where businesses, government bodies and knowledge institutes demonstrate their activities to address the issue of new energy. The festival will also see the Top Dutch Solar Racing Team solar car on their way to Australia.
'We design the world as if there is no future'
EnTranCe regularly welcomes international experts in the field of energy, sustainability and the transition towards a sustainable future. Last month, the Indian professor Anupam Saraph, visited EnTranCe and introduced students and researchers into the concepts of Future Design and System Dynamics Modeling. We asked him a couple of questions about these concepts and their relation to the energy transition.
Hanze UAS receives grants for two European projects
Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen has received a total of €3.7 million in grants from INTERREG Europe, an initiative that supports interregional collaboration throughout Europe. The grants will fund two large multi-year projects led by Klaas Jan Noorman, professor of Energy Transition, and Willem Foorthuis, professor of Sustainable Cooperative Entrepreneurship.
Energiesymposium Vrouwen in Energie Noord-Nederland (VIEN)
Op donderdag 7 maart 2019, een dag voor de Internationale Vrouwendag, viert VIEN de oprichting met een energiesymposium. Dit zal plaatsvinden op een duurzame en inspirerende plek: de EnergyBarn op de Zernike Campus in Groningen.
Barn Talk | Yvo de Boer: Avoiding dangerous climate change
Although President Trump has promised to leave the Paris climate agreement, Brazil can join him. A large minority thinks climate change is a hoax and the actions that people around the world want is a struggle. The emission of greenhouse gases is higher than ever before, our addiction to fossil fuels is persistent.
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