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| What's it like to be a landlord renting out to students in Utrecht? Not everyone is a slumlord, of course, which is why DUB sat with three landlords to hear their side of things. In the past ten days, we've also delved into work matters: we investigated the reasons for the departure of the Data Protection Officer and why long-term corporate employees are frustrated. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| ‘They’re making us out to be criminals’
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| Truth be told, landlords don't enjoy the best of reputations: slumlords dominate the news and they're often blamed for the skyrocketing prices. DUB spoke with three homeowners renting their properties out to students in Utrecht. Read more
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| Why independent supervisor Artan Jacquet had to leave UU
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| The Data Protection Officer left UU in February after a long legal battle. It’s not usual for the Executive Board to enforce the departure of an independent supervisor but the two parties couldn't find common ground. Read more
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| Only sustainable companies at UU's career days
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| Shell won’t be present at the UU career days this year. However, the fossil industry can still recruit UU students in plenty of other ways: through its links with the Utrecht Earth Sciences Association, for example. Read more
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‘Loyal and high-performing UU employees are not appreciated enough’
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| Frustrations are mounting among long-tenured UU employees, concludes the Works Council of the University Corporate Office. New colleagues are being offered higher wages and more opportunities for growth. Read more
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| Are you not afraid to express your opinions? Do you care about the university, your studies and student life in Utrecht? Then you should definitely consider joining the DUB panel, a group of students and employees frequently asked to comment on what's going on at UU. Learn more.
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UP Community: looking to eliminate barriers faced by first-generation students
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| The recently-founded University Pioneers (UP) aims to offer a helping hand to students who are the first in their families to go to college. "Most initiatives offer mentors but we are similar to a study association." Read more
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| A Bunch of Old, Close-Minded Boomers
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| Blog - People often ask our blogger Chiara, from Italy, why she decided to move to the Netherlands to pursue a Bachelor's degree. In this blog entry, she explains one of her main reasons: "it feels good to feel accepted for who you truly are." Read more
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| Plant for Tomorrow is a foundation launched by four students, of whom two are from Utrecht. Its aim is to increase the sustainability and livability of prisons by teaching inmates gardening skills and then cooking a meal with the vegetables grown. Read more
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| Do you want plant-based milk in UU's coffee machines too?
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| Opinion - The Vegan Student Association initiated a petition in favour of coffee machines that use plant-based milk instead of dairy. According to them, this would be more sustainable and inclusive. Read more
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| Teaching staff now allowed to copy a maximum of 40 pages
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| A new agreement has been signed between Dutch universities and the organisation that manages copyright in the education sector. The number of pages teachers are allowed to copy has been reduced. Read more
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| Borrowing books from other libraries no longer free
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| UU students interested in borrowing books from external libraries are having to pay for the service all over again. A temporary agreement made during the pandemic was allowing students to do it for free. Read more
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More Dutch students heading abroad for their degree
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| In 2019, around 20,000 Dutch nationals were pursuing a degree abroad, which was almost twice as many as ten years earlier. Even so, the Dutch are less inclined to study abroad than the average European. Read more
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| Seven Utrecht-based researchers getting Vici grant worth 1.5 million
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| The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is giving Vici grants worth a maximum of 1.5 million euros to 34 researchers, of which four are from UU and three are from the University Medical Centre Utrecht. Read more
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| UU researcher founds start-up to reduce methane emissions
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| Methane is estimated to be responsible for 30 percent of the rise in global temperatures. UU researcher Hossein Maazallahi founded a start-up to help detect, attribute and reduce methane emissions. Read more
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| NWO invests 140 million euros in large research equipment
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| The Dutch Research Council (NWO) distributed 140 million euros to nine large-scale research projects with topics as varied as sensors in space, virtual ecosystems and measurements in the Dutch Delta. Read more
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| Summit to benefit 'world-class' multi-year research
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| The Summit grant, which has just been announced by NWO, aims to provide ten years of financial security to research consortia that are among the very best in the world. Read more
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'Please get the UK and Switzerland involved in European research again'
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| Dutch universities and research institutions would like Switzerland and the United Kingdom to come back to the European research programme Horizon as soon as possible. Read more
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| ‘People don’t even realise the psychological impact such a disaster can have’
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| The earthquake in Turkey and Syria takes a heavy toll both physically and psychologically, says Assistant Professor Almila Akdag, who comes from one of the cities affected. Read more
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| Part of municipal council wants an external person to become UU counselor
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| Several parties in the municipal council find it undesirable that UU only has internal counsellors to deal with inappropriate behaviour. They also criticised UU for not signing Amnesty International's manifesto. Read more
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| A string of temporary contracts? 'Embarassing,' says Minister of Education
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| It is ‘embarrassing’ that there are researchers and teachers in the Netherlands who spent twelve years going from temporary contract to temporary contract, declared the Minister of Education, Robbert Dijkgraaf. Read more
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| Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for the latest news about UU and university life. If you would like to share something with us, please feel free to send us a message. Prefer sending an e-mail? No problem. Write to dubredactie@uu.nl.
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| Read much more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. Coming up: Russian researchers in a sorry state a year after the invasion of Ukraine; international employees about the process of learning Dutch.
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