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ESHCC’s Aviv Barnoy and his team won the EU TikkunTech hackathon with 4Sight, a prototype for detecting emerging coded antisemitic language.

The 2026 Culture Barometer shows support for ‘Recognition & Rewards’ and progress towards cultural change in academia, but this is not yet evident everywhere.

Under realistic market conditions, Olga Kuryatnikova and co-authors show, storage operated for profit can increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them.

In early October 2026, RefWorks will become EndNote Fusion. No action is required from people with a RefWorks account.

Erasmus School of Law research: VAT and customs rules discourage electronics repair. A lower VAT rate won't fix it; a package of measures is needed.

Karin van Vuuren shares her perspective on why it is important to extend the Recognition & Rewards culture change to PhD candidates and postdocs.

NWO highlights how the Take-off grant helped the ROOM team offer the ROOM app beyond EUR as well.

After 16 years in the private sector, Margarita de Vries Mecheva researches childhood obesity and policies to improve diets in low- and middle-income countries.

Sabine Go holds the J.E. Jurriaanse Chair in the History of Rotterdam from 1 September, succeeding Paul van de Laar.

ISS Professor Dirk Jan Koch discusses how global aid cuts are shifting development cooperation from long-term support towards life-saving emergency relief