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| Students and employees finally had a chance to voice their opposition to the government's planned austerity measures this Monday, on a massive demonstration in The Hague. The question is whether their efforts will bear fruit. In other news, DUB sat with Rector Henk Kummeling for a long talk about academic freedom and UU President Anton Pijpers also shared his views on the austerity measures and the facility staff being threatened as a result of the conflict in Gaza. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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Thousands of demonstrators in The Hague: 'Stop the Eppocalypse!'
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| Some 15 to 20,000 students, lecturers, researchers, administrators and politicians demonstrated in The Hague, against the austerity measures announced by the cabinet for education and research. Read more
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'If a conversation consists of making demands, that is a complicated way of talking'
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| What is academic freedom and what does it mean for international cooperation? DUB sat with UU Rector Henk Kummeling to talk about this. Read more
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Eva was awarded a PhD after dying from the disease she researched
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| Eva Kremer-Hooft van Huijsduijnen was almost done with her PhD thesis when she discovered she didn't have much longer to live. A melanoma (skin cancer) had metastasized and reached her brain. Read more
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| Facility staff threatened due to university's Israel policy
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| Facility staff are being attacked by people who disagree with UU's policy on the war in Gaza. Sometimes it goes so far that the employees are insulted, threatened or filmed. Read more
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| Only downside: 'More students should have spoken'
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| A DJ, a rap performance, a sing-along, celebrities on stage, wearing earplugs, pushing for a spot in the mud. Students got "loose" while protesting in The Hague on Monday, November 25. Read more
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'Cancelled protest shows the right to demonstrate is under pressure'
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| Annelien de Dijn, History Professor at UU and an activist in the action group WOinActie, thinks that the municipality "panicked" when it decided to cancel the demonstration of November 14. Read more
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Austerity measures jeopardize education and research
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| Blog - UU President Anton Pijpers explains why the university opposes the cabinet's plans while preparing for them. This is the first in a series of blog posts in which the three members of the Executive Board will reflect on current events. Read more
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Minister of Education sticks to austerity measures
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| Minister of Education Eppo Bruins is unfazed by the thousands of protesters who gathered in The Hague. "The reality is that the cabinet has made different choices." Read more
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'If senators reject the budget, the old budget remains in place'
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| Opposition parties warn that the austerity measures against higher education and research will not pass in the Senate. However, the four coalition parties are not bothered by this. "We have opted for safety." Read more
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| Left-wing block wants all austerity measures against education off the table
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| Last weekend, the parties D66, CDA and JA21 came up with a plan to reverse more than half of the budget cuts in education. However, the left-wing opposition wants everything off the table. Read more
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| Click on the image above to read the rest of the comic strip.
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No need to audition to live at Baobab
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| Video - The new Baobab complex houses 206 students in 126 individual studios and 80 shared apartments for four students each. The complex is completely gas-free and exclusively powered by electricity. Though that's more sustainable, residents might get emails telling them not to shower for a while. Read more
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An ode to a submerged city
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| Blog - Do you like poetry? If you do, you're in luck because our blogger Nerea has written two beautiful poems: one about the city of Utrecht and the other about renting a room in a shared home for the first time. Can you relate to those experiences? Read more
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Can the municipality enforce a larger supermarket at Utrecht Science Park?
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| PvdA has put the discussion about whether or not there should be a supermarket at Utrecht Science Park on the municipal council's agenda. The party has had enough of the university's wait-and-see attitude. Read more
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| Social Sciences considers fewer teaching weeks per term
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| The Faculty of Social Sciences is considering teaching for seven instead of eight weeks per term (or block, as the Dutch say it). This should ease lecturers' workloads at a time when the faculty also has to cut back on staff due to austerity measures. Read more
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| UU wants to scrap honours programmes. Do you get it?
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| DUB Panel - UU is considering axing the honours programmes offered by faculties at the Bachelor's level. What do the students and employees from the DUB panel think about that? Read more
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UU researchers launch Artificial Intelligence helpdesk
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| Members of the Utrecht Young Academy have launched an AI Helpdesk. If you have a question about artificial intelligence, you can now ask it online and scientists from all over the country will answer it. Read more
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Europe is also taking money from scientific research
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| While Mario Draghi advocates huge investments in research and innovation, the EU decided to reduce its budget for the sector. Next year, 130 million euros will be cut from it and another two billion will probably be taken away in the next two years. Read more
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EDI programme to be overhauled next year
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| The EDI Programme as we know it is being overhauled and its end was marked with a festival in October. Hundreds of employees came together. A new strategic plan is being developed, the financing model is changing and several positions will be abolished. Read more
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Court approves investigation into former directors' financial structures
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| Utrecht Holdings, from Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht, has rightly claimed e-mails and other evidence against two former directors. This was necessary to prove illegal financial actions by former directors Oscar S. and PVV senator Gom van Strien. Read more
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‘I felt right away that something was wrong’
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| Monica van de Ridder was the winner of this year’s campus columnist competition. She was supposed to write columns every three weeks for the English page. However, she only wrote two. Read more
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The exorbitant privilege of trust
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| Blog - Institutional trust has been a hot topic in recent times, especially now that Donald Trump has been reelected as the president of the United States. Lecturer John Tang reflects on this theme: who gets to trust institutions and why? Read more
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'Taking it out on colleagues is simply unacceptable'
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| Blog - Anton Pijpers, Chair of Utrecht University's Executive Board, understands that the situation in Gaza affects Utrecht students and staff, but he thinks it is unacceptable to take it out on employees who have nothing to do with it. Read more
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Mayor: Unknown pro-Palestine group threatened demonstration
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| In a letter answering questions from the municipal council, the mayor says she based her decision to call off the protest on "reliable" information received by the police. Read more
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| Coming up: Israeli scholar banned from Atgender conference | Part 2 of the interview with the rector about academic freedom
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