SENSE Research School is a joint venture for integrated environmental and sustainability research and multidisciplinary PhD training:
SENSE is a partnership involving nine Dutch universities and two institutes.
To date, many different scientific concepts and approaches of sustainability exist. What are the differences and what do they entail? What is your role as a scientist in achieving sustainable develop-ment? How can you apply sustainability in your own research? And in doing so, how can you deal with facts, uncertainty, values and opinions? > Read more
Earth system and climate scientists focus their research on multiple Earth spheres (ocean, atmosphere, biosphere and soils) and the interactions between them. At the Earth System Science PhD Conference 2019, organized by SENSE members, you can meet with experimentalists and modellers from all spheres to view your very specific or broad and multidisciplinary topic, in a broader context. > Read more
In Europe young people take to the streets to demand more climate ambition from their governments. Based on the facts generated by climate science, the activists are quite right. Radical action is required to quickly and drastically reduce greenhouse gasses and prevent climate change to cause major changes on earth. On the day of the Dutch school strike for climate 350 Dutch scientists publish an open letter in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, titled: "Climate agreement: time for political leadership!" > Read more
Economic modelling of the bioeconomy 18 February - 14 March 2019, Wageningen |
Florian Beyer Microbiological and process technological aspects of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane biofouling Wageningen University, Microbiology Graduation date: 22 February 2019 |
High level conference on climate change and ocean conservation 19 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium |