This inaugural volume, Breaking Barriers: Accelerating Transitions, brings together papers and abstracts presented at the Conference on Energy, Livestock, and Mobility Transitions, part of the New Energy Forum in Groningen. The publication reflects both the rapid development of the energy transition …

Afsluitende keynote tijdens Gemeentelijk Vastgoeddag 2026 over sociale infrastructuur en de verschuivende rol van de publieke vastgoedprofessional.

Presentatie op de warmtetransitiedag 2026 van de Provincie Groningen, over het thema Koeling in het warmteprogramma.De presentatie gaat in op comfort en oplossingen voor woningen: airco en warmtepompen met toevoegingen.

Aletta Smits, professor in Human Centred Technology, zoomed in on human-AI interaction: how to give people autonomy and control. She introduced us to terms like recommender systems: any tool that helps you select one or more from a host of options; and decision support systems: any tool that helps you …

The NO-GIZMOS project has shown that decentralized assets in the low-voltage grid can effectively resolve congestion problems at the medium voltage (MV) level. Our pilot in Ansen demonstrated that a community-based and algorithmically driven Virtual Power Plant of nine household batteries can reduce …

The research project The New Illuminators: Women in Search of Spiritual Authority and Resilience provides us with a remarkable level of access to the work of women bible journallers. In addition to questions about gender, agency and interpretation, the project demonstrates once more the enduring dynamics …

This article focusses on the rise of agrogeological soil science in the early 20th century, especially in a Dutch-imperial context, as generating a novel geobiopolitical epistemology for the governance of natural and social worlds. Specifically, this article seeks to understand the consequences of agrogeologists’ …

The transition towards a sustainable and competitive European economy requires new analytical and decision-support frameworks capable of integrating industrial innovation, environmental constraints, and policy governance. This concept note introduces a multi-level approach to understanding the role of …