Centre for Unusual Collaborations – alliance of Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Utrecht University and University Medical Centre Utrecht

CUCo’s aim is to bring together and support early- and mid-career academics in unusual inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations, serving as a breeding ground for breakthrough research that addresses pressing challenges of the age.

Grants

Our Spark grants offer initial financial support to build a committed project team. Our Unusual Collaborations grants take ideas further through enabling outside-the-box interdisciplinary research.

Meet us

Meet our team and our board members.

Toolkit

Our toolkit offers a set of methods, approaches, people and like-minded initiatives that facilitate working across boundaries: across ideas, disciplines, institutes, types of knowledge and personalities.

Current

News

Researchers wanted for the Dismantling Disparities team!

The Dismantling Disparities team is looking for two or more ...

Interview: Uniting Disciplines: A Journey Towards Understanding Chronic Pain

CUCo spoke with Hanneke Willemen (UMCU) about the collaborative process of the Defeating Chronic Pain team which evolved into the iPOP-NL Interdisciplinary Pain Research Platform. ...

Researcher-in-residence blog: What is a good life?

As part of my researcher-in-residence position at CUCo, in recent months I have been interviewing (and will continue to interview until 2025) ten mid-career researchers. ...

Current

Agenda

Registration deadline: PhD course Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges

Several CUCo-affiliated researchers will be involved in the Utrecht Summer ...

Symposium & workshop: Emerging technologies and smart materials for food nutrition and health

In collaboration with the VLAG Graduate School and the Centre ...

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