VU Amsterdam - A Better World@VU

By: VU Amsterdam
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  • Summary

  • 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.
    © 2024 VU Amsterdam
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Episodes
  • 5. A response to climate change based on hope (Hope for Climate)

    5. A response to climate change based on hope (Hope for Climate)
    May 23 2022

    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.
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    22 mins
  • 4. Education for everyone (Right2Education)

    4. Education for everyone (Right2Education)
    May 23 2022

    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.

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    21 mins
  • 3. Science without animal testing (RatBrain)

    3. Science without animal testing (RatBrain)
    May 23 2022

    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.
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    19 mins
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