Sat 05 June 2021 10h00 OUTDOOR POST – The Municipality of Achtkarspelen will now actively include space in the new zoning plans for the so-called “little houses”. The PvdA tabled a motion to this effect on Thursday evening and the city council adopted it unanimously. The reason for the ‘Lytse hûskes’ came from Derk Jan Pilat, who recently spoke at …

A Talent Scout Day is part of this year’s PotatoEurope 2021 program in Lelystad, Flevoland. The aim is to put students and the business world in contact. DLG Benelux, the organizer of PotatoEurope 2021, and Agrofoodcluster d’Emmeloord take the initiative of the Talent Scout day, which is scheduled for September 2. It is the second day of the international potato …

Microbiology professor Peter Palese said on Friday that “disturbing information” had erased his belief in a natural origin of the coronavirus. ‘Conspiracy’ Palese was one of 27 scientists who published a very influential letter in the scientific journal The Lancet last year. In the editorial, they made ground beef with “conspiracy theories” about a possible escape from a lab or …

During our walk on Terschelling, I tell my children about the game of water, sand and nature. I am proud to explain what we have done in the Netherlands to be able to live in the delta. Sometimes to fight against the water with dikes and barriers, but also to cooperate with the water by inviting it and giving it …

Can we still deviate from the norm in the Netherlands? The question arises when listening to the story of the caravanners Mélanie and Bernadet Duister, last weekend in an article and a podcast by NRC. The sisters have lived all their lives in a family camp in Heesbeen, a village in the municipality of Heusden in North Brabant, where they …

The fact that Epke Zonderland had extra space to combine his medical studies with obtaining an Olympic gold medal seems the most natural thing in the world, but it is not so obvious to students with exceptional talent for entrepreneurship. See the video. Text continues below. “data-revoke =”“> TOR Status Along with four other talents from HAN, Gerjan received a …

As White House medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci on Thursday called on China to release the medical records of some people suspected of having contracted a similar illness before the coronavirus pandemic. This could help determine if the virus may have come from a lab. The theory long considered probable of a laboratory leak has resurfaced in recent weeks after …

AMETELVEEN The municipality of Amstelveen is renewing its studio policy. A dynamic climate will be created for local artists in which opportunities for development and innovation are central. Artists, studio users, and the Visual Arts Advisory Committee (ABK) have provided input into a widely supported studio policy. The municipality wants artists to have the opportunity to develop as well as …

From the registration of Aletta Jacobs in 1871 as Tine Tammes in 1919: there are countless stories to be told about women at the University of Groningen. The new city promenade of the University of Groningen (RUG) brings together some of these stories. The walk allows walkers to follow in the footsteps of the first women of the University of …

The Groningen city council wants more students to live on the Zernike campus. In order to keep student accommodation up to standard, 1,000 to 2,000 additional accommodation will be provided. According to the municipality, this does not mean that the students are gradually being driven out of the city towards the north campus of Zernike. “This is expressly not the …