VU Amsterdam - A Better World@VU

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In this 5-part series VU Press officer Marieke Theunissen explores the latest projects on sustainability at VU Amsterdam. This series is part of exhibition A Better World@VU. The main goal of the exhibition is to show projects of VU students and employees that contribute to a more sustainable world. Both near and far from VU Amsterdam.

Episodes

  1. 05/23/2022

    5. A response to climate change based on hope (Hope for Climate)

    In this final episode Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, economist and theologian at the Faculty of Religion and Theology of VU Amsterdam explains that views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. But that’s not constructive, Hasselaar argues. There is a third way to deal with radical uncertainty in the context of climate change: that of hope.

    5. A response to climate change based on hope (Hope for Climate)

  2. 05/23/2022

    4. Education for everyone (Right2Education)

    In this episode Esme Smithson-Swain and Lidewij van der Vaart elaborate on the Right2Education project. Together with a group of ten students, they want tohelp refugees (guest students) integrate and make higher education more accessible to all because they firmly believe in equal chances for everyone.

    4. Education for everyone (Right2Education)

  3. 05/23/2022

    3. Science without animal testing (RatBrain)

    In this episode we meet Beatrice Guastella, a 25-year-old Italian. She just finished her masters on Bioinformatics & System Biology at VU Amsterdam. Now she’s working as a junior researcher on predictive pharmacology, and she dreams of a world without animal testing. To reach that goal, she’s implementing a three-dimensional mathematical model that represents a rat brain.

    3. Science without animal testing (RatBrain)

  4. 05/23/2022

    2. Make doing good fun and easy (CollAction)

    In this episode Tom Siebring and Niklas Schumacher, both students of VU Amsterdam, explain how you can contribute to a better world in a fun and easy way. Together with their fellow students Ruben Horn, Tom Tetteroo, Liya Wang, Karlijn Gernaat and Ed Reinoso they are developing an app called CollAction. It is their goal to connect people that want to act. Whether it’s to clean up the local neighbourhood or to tackle big problems like climate change.

    2. Make doing good fun and easy (CollAction)

  5. 05/23/2022

    1. Why doctors should care about environmental change (CO2-assistants)

    In this episode Philip Elders, Sarah Djurfi and Gabrielle Cepella, all former or current medical students of VU Amsterdam, talk about environmental change. Together with their fellow students Lieke Noij, Jip van Trommel, Eva van der Heide and Amber van Haaster they call themselves CO₂-assistants. It is their goal to raise awareness for the impact of environmental change on our health. And that requires a radical change of the medical curriculum.

    1. Why doctors should care about environmental change (CO2-assistants)
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In this 5-part series VU Press officer Marieke Theunissen explores the latest projects on sustainability at VU Amsterdam. This series is part of exhibition A Better World@VU. The main goal of the exhibition is to show projects of VU students and employees that contribute to a more sustainable world. Both near and far from VU Amsterdam.

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