European Green Deal: greenhouse gas emissions will fall in the EU, but rise even more elsewhere

The European Union aims to be carbon-neutral by 2050 as part of the comprehensive Green Deal that was agreed upon four years ago. However, an analysis of the policy documents outlining the practical measures of the Green Deal shows that it will decrease carbon emissions in Europe, but also increase carbon emissions outside of the EU. This increase is more than double the amount of carbon emissions saved by the Green Deal. This analysis was published in Nature Sustainability on
20 September by an international team of scientists led by Klaus Hubacek, Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Groningen. Read more.

PHOTO: © DEYVID ALEKSANDR RAFFO SETTI E ELOY OLINDO SETTI

Noorderlicht Photo Exhibition
Pixel Perceptions, Into the Eye of AI

How does Artificial Intelligence (AI) influence our perception and visual culture? That question is the focus of Noorderlicht’s new photographic exhibition, Pixel Perceptions, on view from October 26 to January 19 in the Akerk in Groningen. In the fringe program Digital Mirror, later this year, one or more RUG researchers will also discuss the subject.

As the cover story on fashion and AI in this Broerstraat 5 shows, research on and with AI is being conducted at the RUG in a variety of fields. At the Jantina Tammes School, much of it comes together.

How a failed switch won the Nobel Prize

In 2016, University of Groningen Professor of Organic Chemistry Ben Feringa and two of his colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for having created ‘the world’s tiniest machines’. Feringa had built a light-driven motor comprising one single molecule. The scientific article describing this molecular motor was published 25 years ago, on 9 September 1999 , in the prestigious journal Nature. The Faculty Science and Engineering has made an overview article about the research of Feringa and his group.

The woman’s body in a man’s world

Professor of Health and Humanities prof Rina Knoeff (on the right on the photo) and assistant professor of Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Early Modern History Dr Karen Hollewand make a case for gender health equality between men and women in medical sciences. “I believe we need to add some nuance to the huge tirades against the patriarchal society.” Read more.

PHOTO: REYER BOXEM

Practising with VR preschool class wins Dutch Education Award 2024

The project ‘De Klas op Orde met Virtual Reality’ [Order in the classroom with virtual reality] of the University of Groningen won the Dutch Education Award 2024. The Dutch Education Award is the highest award in secondary vocational and higher education. The project is a collaboration between Jolien Mouw, assistant professor of Educational Sciences, the UG’s Center for Information Technology (CIT), and others, and it has been awarded an amount of € 1.2 million. Read more.