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Assessing and Mitigating Micro- and Nanopollutants in Hemodialysis
Combining environmental science, medical research, and biotechnology to tackle a challenge that affects countless patients undergoing dialysis worldwide.
Communicating Plasticity
Can the concept of plasticity, which resonates with resilience, identity and time, contribute to other scholarly fields that currently do not use it?
Living Foams
Can we extend our symbiotic relationship with microbes to develop sustainable and waste-free cleaning practices?
How Glucose Shapes Thinking
Turning self-tracking into a living laboratory for understanding how metabolism and thinking interact in real life.
Moo-d Swings
Investigating how animals express complex emotions, and developing innovative approaches that go beyond traditional methods focused solely on fear and stress.
Unbox Unleashed!
Unpacking and co-creating collaborative research processes for shared learning, purpose and impact.
Previously funded Unusual Collaborations
Better Wave than Worry
Identifying the shared characteristics of early-warning signals across various disciplines, and to assess their impact in a wider context, i.e. beyond our respective domains.
Complexity and digital health monitoring
Taking a complexity-science approach to study health technology adoption, and integrating qualitative methods with quantitative ones in the process.
Dismantling Disparities
Aiming to understand whether there are inequalities in academic success and if so, whether unusual collaborations can tackle these inequalities.
Imagining More-than-Human Communities
Robots? What are they doing? Working? Or playing? And who decides? This project explores ways of imagining a more equitable community of humans and nonhumans.
REL-AI-BLE
Exploring (dis)trust in AI for different groups within several domains of expertise, including climate science, nutrition and health, and
teaching.
Smart Food
Developing novel edible smart origami for programmed release and treatment of the gastrointestinal system and consequently improve the lives of patients.
Dirty Work, Clean Future
Identifying the factors that can help to shed light on issues of wellbeing that workers in so-called dirty work experience.
FAIR-Battery Challenge
Developing an open-source electrochemical battery technology for residential users, small-scale commercial use, and rural health posts.
Frozen in Time and Space
What new ethical and social aspects of human and animal applications of cryopreservation emerge when we integrate the two discourses?
All in the Same Boat
Advancing interdisciplinary integration within and among water security pillars. Only with this integration can we secure water from raindrop to tap.
iPOP-NL – Interdisciplinary Pain Research Platform
iPOP-NL takes a multidisciplinary, multifaceted approach to (re)define and understand chronic pain, and to develop better treatment.
Playing with the Trouble
In an institutional context, games can help to explore different roles, perspectives, and rules, and expand collective imagination and agency.
The Power of One
Examining how the needs of unheard and unseen individuals in the contexts of the hospital, the workplace and the neighborhood are identified, and to what extent the current strategies succeed in reaching that goal.
Structures of Strength
Creating a platform where a team of researchers work together to combine their knowledge and create veritable solutions related to health, food, energy, cultural and environmental issues.
Towards a data-driven dashboard
Reorienting agriculture towards a sustainable future is a major societal challenge. Circular agriculture has been put forward as a promising vision on how to produce sufficient food while mitigating sustainability problems.
