By Juni Victoria Moe Moltubak Everyone needs to consume, be it food, water, clothes, content or other goods. It is the beauty and the beast of our economic system. Some things are consumed because we need to, and a lot is consumed because we want to. What happens when ‘need’ meetsContinue Reading
By Hannah Vonberg, Arianna Pearlstein, & Helena Reinders As the climate changes towards higher temperatures and less reliable weather, one of the main concerns for governments, non-state actors, and every single one of us is water. Water, especially freshwater, is essential to all forms of life on our planet; weContinue Reading
By Rosalie de Vries Knowledge is power and power is money. These associations are often made and have led to the widespread encouragement to ‘get yourself an education’. A quick search of the Dutch employment market on google – via job searching database Jooble – shows that there are (only)Continue Reading
By Roshnie Soekhoe Can you still remember your dream from last night? If so, chances are high that it included a series of fictive events full of emotions, feelings, and images that played in your head like a story. Sometimes, such dreams seem to have no clear narrative or merelyContinue Reading
By Mara Ciu If you were still in school when the COVID-19 pandemic first turned everyone’s lives around, then you might be very familiar with the concept of “online teaching and learning”. But something extremely obvious underlies that- if you are reading this on a PC/laptop/mobile phone that you haveContinue Reading
By Hannah Vonberg Sustainability as a concept is becoming more and more prominent in our society. It is commonly defined as ‘meet[ing] the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,’ and closely tied to climate change and our way of consuming.Continue Reading
By Helena Reinders More and more students are starting their own businesses. The amount of students with their own (successful) start-up already doubled between 2012 and 2014 from 3% to 6 %. This number has doubled once more between then and 2019. That would put us currently at a percentageContinue Reading
By NVM Emotions are a key factor when we make choices on a daily basis. For example, the decision of whether to cook dinner or simply order pizza can be influenced not only by the ingredients we have at home and our budget. Maybe the kitchen is a mess andContinue Reading
By Chira Tudoran Are you applying for a minor that requires a CV? Do you want to apply for an internship for the elective space next year? Or a job at the end of your studies? And you have no idea where to start? Then this article is for you.Continue Reading
By Hannah Vonberg Climate change has been a major scientific concern since at least the 1960s, yet it is still largely dismissed from political agendas in many countries. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Fridays for Future protestors have had to stay at home while politicians were busy trying to solve theContinue Reading