SENSE highlights

This course brings together PhD candidates from different institutes that are part of SENSE, and that have the ambition to work on environmental issues. During the course, you will discuss your own personal wishes and ambitions, what impact you would like to have with your research, and set personal learning goals for your PhD. We will have open discussions on finding your own way within science, and how inter- and transdisciplinary science can play a role for you. The course will also be an introduction to personal leadership, exploring what is important to you, and talking about how to tackle challenges you may face along the way.

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Toxicological risk assessment is the process of estimating the qualitative and quantitative health risks posed to man and the environment by the use of chemicals. The aim of this course is to familiarise participants with the general procedures followed during a toxicological risk assessment. Emphasis will be laid on the identification of hazards and risk posed to humans and the environment. Furthermore, attention will be paid to problems typical of various categories of chemical substances. The working format of the course is a mixture of classroom lectures and tutorials and computer-aided practicals.

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This week-long PhD course aims to inspire doctoral candidates to critically engage with contemporary scholarship and debates on decolonisation and explore how it can shape and enrich their current research. The course is divided into three segments, each engaging with critical aspects of doctoral research: theory, methodology, and fieldwork. The course also includes a day-long field trip in the Netherlands to understand how colonialism shaped the development of Western science and a screening of a docu-film that opens up questions on modernity and development in the context of the dispossession of Indigenous people and the erasure of plural knowledge traditions.

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This course will examine our current understanding of the diversity and functioning of the relevant microbial communities in the above systems. A limited number of expert teachers will deliver lectures and the students will also have the opportunity for in depth study a topic of their choice from the literature, after which the topic will be put up for discussion with the teachers and other students.

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The aim of this course is to enable early-career (soil) scientists to be equipped with the necessary tools and skills that can help shape the direction of soil science. Transformative soil science puts the scientist at the centre and makes explicit the connections between soil, science and society to address the most pressing socio-environmental challenges of our time. Grounded in transdisciplinary perspectives from natural and social sciences and the humanities, the course will help early-career scientists to understand their own perspectives on soil, and how to connect with other perspectives in an integral way of knowledge generation that contributes to meaningful transformations. Together, we will experience the strengths and limitations of our current ways of thinking and doing soil science, and will become inspired as we break those boundaries.

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This course brings together contributions from different disciplines: bioprocess technology, applied physics, transport phenomena, molecular biology and biomedical sciences. They all address different elements on the coupling between several time and length scales in the simulation of different bioprocesses (e.g. bioreactor and bioprocess operation, microbial strain improvement, tissue and organ cultivation, plant design and integration). Computational methods will deepen the understanding of the connecting principles between different scales.

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Urgent and complex environmental and sustainability research often needs a combination of scientific insights, as well as the support and knowledge of those who can implement the findings or are affected by the changes required. This interactive course is designed to provide participants with foundational concepts, tools, and experiences to translate inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to their own research. Five themes help participants to consider the various aspects of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches: the individual, collaboration, outcomes, the research process and reflection.

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Interviews and Questionnaires in the Natural and Environmental Sciences enable PhDs who do not have a background in the social sciences to design, conduct, analyze and report interviews and questionnaires. Foundational learning objectives are met through participating in a MSc course (YRM31306). In addition to responding to questions during the course that are specific to PhDs’ own projects, enhanced learning objectives for PhDs are met through a) individual consultations with PhDs during and after the course and b) replacement of the written final exam with a delayed critical discussion in which the PhD explains why and how they will integrate what they learned into their own PhD project. The approach to interviews and questionnaires taken in the course is tailored to the themes and purposes typical of research at Wageningen.

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This course is intended for those just embarking on genomics within an ecological setting and teaches the fundamentals of the discipline, while concentrating on ecological questions. The course focuses on four topics, each of which is treated by lectures, case studies and participant presentations. Also, participants are encouraged to apply the principles of the course to their own research. To introduce their own work participants are asked to bring and present a research poster. We have speakers on microbes, fungi, plant and animals, but the concepts taught are universal and many will be applicable to your own species of interest.

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Programming can serve multiple purposes. Purposes like developing applications and working with data are also very useful for research. For dealing with these issues, Python offers many libraries. Getting the skills of working with some of these libraries will enable future learning.
This can be for more advanced programming applications, but also for self-learning to apply different libraries.

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This conference offers leading trainers, researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world the opportunity to share their knowledge, insights, and expertise on the critical issues in inter- and transdisciplinarity needed to build capacity in and through research, education, policy making, activism, and artistic engagement.

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Join online for the second annual symposium of the Water and Development Partnership Programme! Symposium speakers and participants will discuss how development practices can be reimagined by integrating forms of knowledge that are different from the dominant understandings of how water is used, shared and managed.

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A just and sustainable future can only be reached with a feeling of HOME for all. All living creatures need a safe place where they can grow and flourish. But what constitutes HOME? What is a sustainable HOME, in the broadest sense, and how do we achieve that?

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The 7th International Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity for the Water Sector will bring together sector organizations, knowledge institutes and policy makers to explore the significant shifts that have taken place in the water sector over the past decades. Participants will analyze how these changes impact knowledge and capacity strengthening, especially in relation to the new generation water and sanitation professionals, and investigate how knowledge and capacity strengthening can further contribute to water-related improvements. The Symposium will also assess how these developments alter the landscape of knowledge and capacity strengthening in the water sector – and what that means to the way capacity strengthening is organized and implemented. 

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• Dikman Maheng
  Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Urban Temperature, Rainfall, and Flooding: A Case Study of Jakarta
  28 October 2024, TU Delft - IHE Delft
  
• Nazanin Moradi
  Ozone-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Removing Contaminants of Emerging Concern from Digestate Supernatant: Application and Modeling
  28 October 2024, TU Delft - IHE Delft
• Tim Busker
  Anticipating Weather and Climate Extremes: The Value of Early Action to Reduce Disaster Impacts 
  7 November 2024, VU Amsterdam
• Mario Castro Gama
  Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Efficiency and Pressure Management in Large Water Distribution Networks 
  19 November 2024, , TU Delft - IHE Delft
• Borjana Bogatinoska
  Co-creating nature-based solutions supported by integrated environmental modelling 
  6 December 2024, Open University
• Raed Hamed
  Crop impacts from compound weather extremes in major breadbaskets under climate change
  10 January 2025, VU Amsterdam
• Teun Schrieks
  Living with drought: Understanding adaptation decisions in African pastoral communities
  17 January 2025, VU Amsterdam
• Henrique Moreno Dumont Goulart
  Narratives of an uncertain future: Storylines to connect extreme weather events to impacts and decision making
  27 January 2025, VU Amsterdam