What an incredible day of learning, networking, and career exploration at the SHIFT Career Fair! 🎓✨ 🏛️💡 Academia: Ivory Tower or Catalyst for Change? We had the privilege of engaging in an insightful panel discussion with esteemed CML researchers, including the legendary Dr. Ester van de Voet! Their truth about Read more…
Physical lectures, Bouwpub, stale machine coffee and small talk in the bike shed made room for browser issues, quarantines, muted educators and Zoom showers. Concentration problems, motivation loss and lack of interaction are at the order of the day. In case you haven’t managed to lose your study motivation over Read more…
Book review by Lowik Pieters: Prosperity without growth by Tim Jackson It seems like the world is changing rapidly, but one thing has been stable for centuries: our need for (economic) growth. To date, the EU and the UN stick to the mantra of ‘green growth’, arguing that over time, Read more…
By Ankita Singhvi. A quarter of the world’s population lives within 100km of a shoreline, with urbanisation on the rise. Coastal space is scarce and valuable, but it is becoming increasingly vulnerable due to climate change. The main hazards that the coast needs to be protected against are erosion (the Read more…
By Lowik Pieters & Quirien Reijtenbagh. It is often assumed that profit is to capitalism as sand is to a beach. The constant growth of resource extractions, essential in a for-profit economy, is aggravating ecological and social crises. Currently, many organizations are adopting a not-for-profit structure. How can these structures Read more…