On 9 July, Aurelia Strauss will defend her PhD thesis, titled "Variation in avian chronotype: causes and consequences".

On 25 June, Claire Hermans will defend her PhD thesis, titled "Bats in the spotlight: Spatiotemporal response of foraging and commuting bats to anthropogenic light at night".

The Rector Magnificus of the University of Twente would like to announce that Prof.dr. Lisette de Senerpont Domis appointed by the Executive Board of the University of Twente as Professor of Pervasive Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), and the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), will be giving an inaugural lecture in the Prof. ir. M.P. Breedveld Room, Waaier Building, at 16.00 hrs. on to mark the occasion of her appointment.

Watch the Klokhuis episode airing on 28 May, where NIOO will put soil animals in the spotlight. The episode will air between 18:40 and 18:55 on NPO3, or you can watch it later on hetklokhuis.nl or NPO start.

Under the banner of the National Science Agenda, a broad programme of three living labs and an umbrella project started in 2021. During the symposium at Hotel Zuiderduin (Egmond aan Zee), interim results of the research programme will be presented, two external keynote speakers will share inspiring experiences and there will be time in the workshop sessions to reflect and give input.

The 10th edition of the IVN Dutch Ditch Days will take place between 10 and 16 June 2024. During these days, IVN guides children in taking a closer look at the aquatic animals and plantlife in Dutch ditches. NIOO uses the observations the children make to study the water quality.