English Als kersvers lid van de Jonge Academie geeft Bio-ethicus Karin Jongsma van het UMC-Utrecht aan dat ze het gesprek over Erkennen & Waarderen verder wil verdiepen. Ze grijpt de kans om zelf een accent toe te voegen, namelijk de vraag: wat is een goede wetenschapper? In een vraaggesprek licht ze toe. Karin Jongsma - foto Fabian Landewee Goed om te horen dat Erkennen & Waarderen bij de Jonge Academie de komende jaren hoog op de agenda ...
Nederlands As a fresh member of the Young Academy, bioethicist Karin Jongsma of UMC Utrecht says she wants to further deepen the discussion on Recognition & Rewards. She seizes the opportunity to add her own perspective, namely the question: what makes a good scientist? She elaborates on this in an interview. Karin Jongsma - photo by Fabian Landewee Great to hear that Recognition & Rewards will remain high on the agenda at the Young Academy...
Long before “Erkennen & Waarderen” became a program, Prof. Dr. Sarah de Rijcke raised questions in her academic research about the functioning of academic assessment dynamics. In late 2025, De Rijcke took office as rector of Leiden University. As an administrator, how does she envision the future of the program? One of the recurring themes in Sarah de Rijcke’s academic career is research on measurement methods for responsible and ethical res...
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Ben je erbij? In de PhD of the future gids laten Promovendi Netwerk Nederland (PNN), The Young Academy en NEWS zien hoe zij de toekomst van het promotietraject voor zich zien. Met inspirerende voorbeelden van promovendi die hun PhD samen met maatschappelijke partners vormgeven, en waarbij deze samenwerking ook wordt erkend in hun promotie. Een pleidooi voor een promotietraject waarin wetenschap en samenleving structureel verbonden zijn, waarin...
Quoted from @sanlifaez newsletter on Substack: Utrecht University has a very active Young Academy. Four of its members, Verena Seibel, Marij Swinkels, Gerbrand Koren, and Chiara Fresia have performed a survey on one aspect of the recognition and rewards programme: the TRIPLE model for promotions. Their results, reveal a mixed picture on the perception of young academics who are subject to this evaluation system. According to these researchers...
By @brigitspan at the TU/e website “The new Code of Conduct helps clarify what desirable behavior looks like in day-to-day practice.” Photo: Bart van OverbeekeThe CORe values of our university, Curious, Open, Respectful, and Responsible, or CORe for short, were established at the end of 2024. But how do we work, study, and live together at our university? Our values have now been translated into a new Code of Conduct for the entire TU/e co...
Interview with Henk Kummeling, former rector magnificus of Utrecht University at the time of roll...
Source: Univers, independent news source of Tilburg University ‘Universities are expected to deliver measurable results: faster degrees, more graduates, and research with economic outcomes,’ writes Yeşim Topuz. ‘The question of what the value of education is gets lost.’ Yeşim Topuz. Beeld Ton ToemenLately, education has been talked about in terms of what it produces rather than what it is or does to us. For example in the 2024 OECD PISA report...
Source: sciencebusiness.net Voluntary model contracts could boost researcher mobility and set standards for career development, says Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva By Martin Greenacre Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva responded to MEPs’ questions on the upcoming ERA Act. Photo credits: Fred Marvaux / European Union The European Commission is exploring the feasibility of issuing model employment contracts for European researchers, t...
source: website TU/e Wellbeing series: @andreakis dealt with a burnout and personal change during her PhD. Now, she’s pursuing change in the academic world through conversation such as the event Responsible Research Conversations on Thursday, September 18. Photo: Bart van OverbeekeAs a third generation PhD researcher from Hungary, Andrea Kis was following a family tradition when she arrived at TU/e in late 2019 to start her PhD. Her resea...
februari 2026, bron: website KNAW Wetenschap is tegenwoordig meer dan publiceren en subsidies binnenhalen. In het landelijke programma Erkennen & Waarderen (E&W) staan bijvoorbeeld ook het belang van leiderschap, samenwerking en maatschappelijke impact centraal. De KNAW ondersteunt dit programma als aanjager van de wetenschap én als werkgever van twaalf instituten. Samen met Leo Lucassen, directeur IISG en oud-voorzitter van de Stuurgroep E&W...
February 2026 TU/e door @brigitspan “Innovation is the holy grail of science, but the drive for novelty has taken on obsessive forms.” Engineer-philosopher Krist Vaesen wrote a book on neomania in science: Krist Vaesen with his book Neomania. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke Science is driven by an insatiable hunger for innovation. But this fixation on novelty does not make science stronger. It makes it more vulnerable, argues engineer-philosop...
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