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.

Fellowship Programme

With the Fellowship Programme, CUCo equips early- and mid-career researchers with the skills, sensibilities and virtues to form unexpected and innovative transdisciplinary collaborations.

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

Special Issue: Plasticity – Here, there, and everywhere

CUCo is proud to announce that the Plasticity team has published a special issue with Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. ...

Residency interim report: Equity in Knowledge Creation on a DUO bicycle!?

In her interim report, Meyke Roosink integrates and documents the preliminary findings and experiences of her residency at CUCo. ...

Recap: 4D Mapping Session @ Mezrab

If both academia and alternative spaces engage with the same communities, how can they work hand in hand to center those communities' lived experience? ...

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