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  • 3 Apr
  • Claartje Chajes
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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...

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  • 30 Mar
  • Claartje Chajes
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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...

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  • 26 Mar
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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...

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  • 13 Mar
  • Claartje Chajes
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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...

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  • 23 Feb
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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...

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  • 23 Feb
  • Claartje Chajes
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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...

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  • 23 Feb
  • Claartje Chajes
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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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  • 16 Dec
  • Claartje Chajes
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OPROEP deze podcastserie is EXPLICIET bedoeld voor de mid-career wetenschapper die het Erkennen & Waarderen programma nog niet volledig heeft doorgrond. BEN JIJ zo iemand of nog beter: KEN JIJ (via via wellicht) zo'n keihard werkende (en juist vanwege al dit fantastische toegewijde werk) moeilijk te traceren academicus? Deel dit bericht, luister de podcast en verzeker jezelf of de ander van een plunjezakje bagage dat verrijkt op weg naar een t...

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  • 16 Dec
  • Claartje Chajes
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CALL TO ACTION This podcast series is SPECIFICALLY intended for mid-career academics who do not yet fully understand the Recognition & Rewards programme. Are you such a person, or better yet, do you know (perhaps through others) such a hard-working (and precisely because of all that fantastic dedicated work) hard-to-find academic? Share this message, listen to the podcast, and ensure yourself or the other person a wealth of knowledge that will...

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  • 8 Dec
  • Claartje Chajes
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bron: UToday Edwin Zondervan is hoogleraar Process Systems Engineering aan de Universiteit Twente, en speelt graag een potje rugby met zijn studenten. Hij schrijft een maandelijkse column over de dynamiek van systemen, wetenschap, onderwijs en samenwerking. Maar ook over de zin en onzin van het academische. PHOTO BY: RIKKERT HARINK Er zijn van die momenten waarop een universiteit even in de spiegel moet kijken. De afgelopen weken was zo’n ...

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