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Our research on sustainability is a work of hope - hope for what we can achieve together. The new year brings us in a geopolitical climate full of challenges: controversies, atrocities and despair. In such times, it becomes ever more crucial to reimagine, enact, and strive for more just and sustainable presents and futures. This is what we as a community are working towards: carving out pathways to sustainability, enacting and amplifying our hopes for better worlds today and tomorrow. Achieving this requires new ideas, new narratives, and new partnerships, with usual and unusual suspects.
Our community has so much to be proud of. The diversity of perspectives, groundbreaking projects, and impactful collaborations that continue to flourish. Together, we are building resilience, not just within our beautiful University but across the systems we seek to transform. So, my message to you is this: remain hopeful. Let Pathways be a space where we nurture resilience, stimulate creativity, and drive sustainability forward.
Happy New Year, full of hope and spark for sustainability!
Niki Frantzeskaki
Scientific Director Pathways to Sustainability |
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Pathways funding deadlines 2025 |
We are happy to announce our funding opportunities for this year:
- Seed funding: 10 March, 16 June
- Signature Projects (for running Incubators): 15 April
- Incubators: 26 May
More information on submitting Signature projects and Incubators will follow soon. |
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Seed funding open call 2025
With our seed funding, we aim to stimulate interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary interactions that can 'plant a seed' and contribute to creating impact. Seed funding is geared towards accommodating small teams of scholars who collaborate on projects with a defined scope.
Application deadline: 10 March
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Other funding opportunities and calls |
Sustainability Fund
Get funding to start your sustainability living lab project
Application deadline: 31 January
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Whose Ocean Assembly - 30 January |
The ocean is vital for life on earth and climate, yet its voice is rarely heard in law and political decision-making. It is completely unclear who is meant when bodies like the UN speak of 'our ocean', who has the right to lay claim to the ocean or represent it in international politics and law. Utrecht University, NIOZ, Embassy of the North Sea and Casco Art Institute organise an Assembly at Theater de Regentes in The Hague on 30 January to discussion these matters. Please send an email to be put on the waitinglist.
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These colleagues were spotted in the media (most items are in Dutch):
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Wednesday 29 January, 17:00-19:30, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Climate Confessional: how can we talk differently about the climate crisis?
Thursday 30 January, 13:00-18:00, Den Haag
Whose Ocean? Assembly
Friday 31 January, 9:30-17:00, Railway Museum Utrecht
National Conference on AI Transformations: Language, Technology, and Society
Monday 24 February, 9:00-17:00, Omnia Auditorium Wageningen
Bioinformatics in Food Science Symposium
Thursday 27 February, 13:00-14:30, Bestuursgebouw room o.33C
Media training 'light' (English)
Thursday 6 March, 9:00-17:00, University Library USP
Utrecht Microbiome Research Day
Tuesdays 25 March - 1 July, 17:00-19:00, Online
Facilitator training Worldview Journey
Friday 4 April, 09:00-17:00, t.b.d.
Interdisciplinary Public Procurement PhD Forum 2025
16 April & 17 April, Utrecht
International Conference on Culture, Crime, and Global Challenges
Thursday 17 April, 11:00-18:00, University Library USP
SIG Community Event
Tuesday 3 June, 9:30-18:00, t.b.a.
World Ocean Day Event
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