News overview

Thursday 2 April 2026, we hosted our annual award ceremony at HAL4 aan de Maas. The event was hosted by our dean, prof. dr. Esther Rozendaal.

Education and research institutions must pay millions more for open-access publications

Researchers of Erasmus University Rotterdam, in collaboration with Erasmus MC and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, investigated the effects of live music.

The History Department launched the new History@Erasmus series, which aims to invite leading academics from across the world to discuss their work.

Dr Daniel Trottier was interviewed by NRC and RTL Nieuws about 'jumping', the new Snapchat trend of random teenagers being attacked and filmed.

Simone Driessen explains how the media shaped Ali B’s image. Her research will soon be published in the academic journal First Monday.

Anne Heslinga talks about her PhD research, in which she shows that digital platforms do not necessarily guarantee sustainable growth for tech companies.

The Brand Potential Academy is on is way! Our students write a blog about there experiences every week. This week by Floor Tielens, the last of five blogs.

The tenth edition of the conference, themed ‘Boundless History: Migration Through the Centuries’, took place at the Rijksmuseum.

Dreijer’s book sheds light for the first time on Rotterdam's involvement in the Scramble for Africa in the late nineteenth century.