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Job market in Groningen gasps back to life: open vacancies doubled since last year

It’s early August, but Groningen’s already thinking of Christmas

Groningen Airport Eelde’s old air traffic control tower re-built into tiny house in Leeuwarden

Sustainable take-away startup in Groningen, TakeAware, sees huge growth in popularity

Lack of hospitality staff in Leeuwarden leads to recruitment of people living in Spain

Green Airlines to stop all flights from Groningen Airport Eelde, due to lack of planes

Asylum Seeker’s Centre in Balk, Friesland, re-opened due to overcrowding in other locations

Local politicians call for action as Drenthe becomes unlikely home of organised crime

A win for animal rights as horse racing comes to an end in Groningen
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Lifestyle
Caravans and Camper Vans surge in popularity as more people seek post-Covid ‘#vanlife’

Beerwalk Groningen tours available to book now: discover the city’s secrets through local beer!

Flights from Groningen Airport Eelde to Gran Canaria available again from August 16

Oosterstraat in Groningen to welcome new restaurant by renowned chef Yvette Dorsiel

Club Kokomo is gone- Palace to rise from the sweaty, sticky ashes

The best ice cream in the Netherlands? Head to Lemmer

Akerk in Groningen hosts Kidsweek- summer holiday fun for all ages

Tour de Drenthe coming with 4-day event for amateur cyclists

Forum Groningen re-starts International Movie Nights: all the latest non-English language releases, with subtitles!
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Culture
Minerva Graduates Crowdfund and Build Studio from Scratch

Sit down Hollywood: Emmen plans its own ‘walk of fame’ for Northern heroes

Drenthe’s ‘Veenkoloniën’ get UNESCO World Heritage status

Welcome to the Village festival might be cancelled, but the ‘village of the future’ ethical hackathon will go on!

Nobel Prize winner Ben Feringa donates clogs to Clog Museum in Eelde

Princessehof Palace in Leeuwarden to come to life this weekend with live-projection show about Princess Maria Louise to kick off Friesland’s ‘Summer of Culture’

Prins Claus Conservatorium Summer Concerts to take place in July (with an audience)

Monty Python alumnus John Cleese to dust off material for one last show in Groningen

10-kilometre long artwork planned for Wadden Coast
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People
ESN/ISO: “International students neglected in higher education in the Netherlands”

ESN launches ‘buddy programme’ for students in Groningen

‘University of Groningen must do more for the mental health of students’

From a WhatsApp group to a community: BLOG offers a ready-made social space for Black Ladies in Groningen

Dutch student grades rise during pandemic whilst mental health suffers

New students in Leeuwarden get ‘Coronaproof’ introduction week

King visits Drenthe, ignored by window cleaner

The freshest of threads: send in your designs and become the next sustainable fashion sensation

“We were hoping to start making friends in the summer”
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Opportunities
New IND residence permits available for start-up ‘key workers’

PhD Day goes online with ‘Make it in the North’ themed extravaganza

RUG Campus Fryslân to start second Bachelor’s programme: ‘Data Science and Society’

New online career event for Internationals: Meet Your Future in Energy to be held on April 22

University of Groningen CEO: “Mass lectures for students will not come back”

Province of Drenthe wants a new train connection to the east of the Netherlands: Nedersaksenlijn

Gasunie wants to make Northern Netherlands leading in green gas and hydrogen

Groningen professor awarded with European prize for ‘exceptional achievements as an astronomer’

Van Hall Laurenstein University acquires ‘Henryetta’, the world’s most sophisticated artificial insemination teaching tool
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RUG to forcibly relocate Confucius Institute

RUG to forcibly relocate Confucius Institute

by Thomas Ansell

The Confucius Institute will now be housed in a non-RUG building The University of Groningen wants to adopt a more...

Groningen’s Great Tit population falls as food runs out

Groningen’s Great Tit population falls as food runs out

by Thomas Ansell

Too few insects mean that the population of these and other birds are falling Groningen’s Great Tits and other garden...

RUG to research 5000 year old dolmen in Drenthe

RUG to research 5000 year old dolmen in Drenthe

by Thomas Ansell

The Bronze Age monuments are hugely popular, and attest to the length of time that Drenthe has been inhabited The...

Dutch football ‘super-fan’ has home vandalised after festooning it with flags

Dutch football ‘super-fan’ has home vandalised after festooning it with flags

by Thomas Ansell

The house in Emmen was completely covered with orange flags to support the men’s football team at Euro 2020 (2021)...

No flights from Eelde to Brussels

Groningen Airport Eelde revived: four new destinations announced, including Ibiza and Mallorca

by Thomas Ansell

Green Airlines will be offering flights from the North’s only airport to Corfu, Mallorca, Ibiza; and Faro from 1 July...

PhD Day goes online with ‘Make it in the North’ themed extravaganza

PhD Day goes online with ‘Make it in the North’ themed extravaganza

by Thomas Ansell

A day packed full of presentations, symposia, and discussions awaits By Thomas Ansell PhD Day will take place online on...

Groningen gets Oktoberfest for two days on Grote Markt

Groningen gets Oktoberfest for two days on Grote Markt

by Thomas Ansell

Like Bavaria, but flatter Groningen will have an Oktoberfest for twoo weeks in October, with a huge tent to be...

Three top researchers at RUG/UMCG receive Vici grants worth 1.5 million euros

Three top researchers at RUG/UMCG receive Vici grants worth 1.5 million euros

by Thomas Ansell

Lidewijde De Jong, Jingyuan Fu and Inge Zuhorn have received the money to help their research efforts over the next...

Northern Netherlands get 8 million euros of funding from Dutch government for Water Tech

Northern Netherlands get 8 million euros of funding from Dutch government for Water Tech

by Thomas Ansell

The NEW consortium has received the money to develop the sector in Groningen, Friesland, and Drenthe The Netherlands Enabling Water...

Museum Belvédére in Heerenveen gets six giant Tony Cragg sculptures

Museum Belvédére in Heerenveen gets six giant Tony Cragg sculptures

by Thomas Ansell

Cragg’s works have been exhibited at such events as the Venice Biennale, and he won the Turner Prize in 1988...

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