Open Day 2019

On Saturday 5 October, we are opening NIOO's doors and grounds to everyone. Do you want to know how nature works and how it is changing? Come to the NIOO Open Day and discover what we can already do for the nature of the 21st century.

Visit NIOO on Saturday 5 October. Find out how animals, plants, fungi and bacteria live and work together. Check out how we as humans can use this knowledge for the benefit of 21st century nature. For example, how should we handle extreme weather and climate change? How can we get wild nature back and protect our crops in a nature-friendly way?

Activities

Expect a wide range of activities throughout the day. You can play the Fat Geese Game, make your own water quality measuring device and have your picture taken as a microbe. Are you a good one or a bad one? In addition you can see the labs, do experiments, play games, ask researchers anything, and much more.

Solutions from NIOO for nature

NIOO is trying to provide solutions for the nature of the future. In and around our building, we are testing new inventions for society. Take a look at the experimental high temperature storage, at our large nature roof, or at our 'Poop = Gold' project. And by the way...when you use the toilet in our building, you are contributing to that project yourself. Through natural processes, NIOO recycles everything you flush. What we finally end up with? Clean water that can go right back into nature!

Activities

Be surprised by our many topics and activities:

• Changing climate
  • Plants from Southern Europe love it here
  • Play the Fat Geese Game
  • Online game Climate Pursuit - survive 100 years of climate change
• New landscapes
  • Making nature with soil transplantation
  • Man and nature living together in National Park 3.0
  • Delta Plan Biodiversity Recovery on the political agenda
• Modern city
  • A green roof for isolation, biodiversity and water storage
  • Poop = Gold - recycling the toilet 'yield' directly
  • New neighbours - oystercatcher and box tree moth on your roof and in your garden
  • A braided hedge as a nature-friendly fence
• Sustainable agriculture
  • Using green fertiliser to absorb greenhouse gases
  • Parasitoid wasps as biological pest control
  • Bacteria and fungi for a healthy soil
• Ecology in the 21st century
  • Same DNA, but different anyway - turning a gene on and off with epigenetics
  • Citizen science - Count the ground animals and auto-analyse the water in your pond
  • Predicting evolution
  • Monitoring birds flight with rings that weigh only 2 grams
  • Breaking down microplastics ... with micro-organisms of course!

Practical information

The NIOO Open Day is from 11:00 – 17:00.

Our address: Droevendaalsesteeg 10, Wageningen.

Check this webpage regularly for updates to the programme.

Want to know more? Please call or email Froukje Rienks: f.rienks@nioo.knaw.nl or +31-317-473590/+31-6-10487481.