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Metropolitan Master’s Underground Zero waste New programme on Exploring the life Students put circular economy urban problems | p.4 | of the soil | p.18 | on the agenda | p.20 | RESOURCE For everyone at Wageningen University & Research no 5 – 6 October 2016 – 11th Volume Ministry of Food Idea falls on fertile ground | p.12 2 >> labour of love >> JOLEIN + ILLUSTRATING Jolein Schoenmaker, Corporate HR, learning and development ‘Expressing the world inside my head’ Marjolein Schoenmaker’s paintings look as though they’ve come straight out of a children’s book. And that is no coincidence. ‘I love children’s books. Fairy tales, animals and humour. One day out at the zoo and my head is full of ideas.’ Schoenmaker, who is self-taught, uses acrylic paint to put this fantasy world onto can- vas in warm colours. ‘It makes me happy. Depicting situations that couldn’t really happen. I like that.’ RK / Photo: Guy Ackermans RESOURCE — 6 October 2016 ILLUSTRATION COVER: PASCAL TIEMAN >>CONTENTS no 5 – 11th volume >> 10 >> 24 >> 28 SPUDS HAIRY HOUSEMATE YOU ON CAMPUS Mister Potato foresees a Meet some distinguished New series: portrait of a student glorious future student house cats INTRODUCTION Whenever the talk turns to hazing I am reminded of the Dutch fi lm Soldaat van Oranje, in which the violent initiation of the main character Erik leads to a close friendship with the leader of the corps. Of course, the kind of initiation which leaves wounded in its wake is completely out of order. But is that a reason to ban it outright? Of course not. Apart from the fact that banning things never works, you always have to be careful that you don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. AND MORE... There is nothing wrong with initiation rituals in themselves. I have never been a member 4 Will there be a Campus West? of KSV Franciscus or Ceres but I did once belong to the student athletics club Tartlétos. 5 YoungWUR is born Our initiation consisted of training like mad. The tough time we went through together 6 Environmental Sciences forged indestructible bonds. Without the slightest need to humiliate anyone or vomit all grows over each other. 7 TNO Food to Wageningen Abuses like what went on in Groningen don’t happen in Wageningen, claim Ceres and KSV. 8 Elephants killed off by drought But disturbing rumours about humiliation do sometimes leak out. Are they true? We don’t 16 A peek into campus rooms know because hazing is surrounded by a strictly preserved secrecy. And that secrecy may 22 How are evening classes well be the real problem with initiation rituals. Ceres and KSV, shall we agree that next going down? year Resource will come along to the introduction and write a nice, truthful report on it? 26 Paying per course credit 27 Meanwhile in Germany Roelof Kleis >> Beer is made more eco-friendly by enzyme | p.8 6 October 2016 — RESOURCE 4 >> news TU DELFT AND WUR START ‘METROPOLITAN MASTER’S’ whether accreditation is granted, so stitute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. AMS. Since then the idea has been • Programme will be off ered at the programme should start in Sep- Students take core courses in the scrutinized to see whether it is suffi - AMS institute in Amsterdam tember 2017. building of the Royal Tropical Insti- ciently distinctive, fi ts the participat- • Students will learn to solve There are no plans for a big stu- tute (KIT) in Amsterdam. For their ing institutions’ profi les, and meets urban problems dent recruitment campaign in the electives and specialist courses they a demand on the job market. One coming year, says programme direc- travel to Delft and Wageningen. course module – Sustainable urban tor Erik Heijmans. Information is More and more of the world’s development - was launched earlier Wageningen University & Research available on the WUR website, population lives in – ever larger – cit- this year as a free online course (a and the Technical University of though, with the disclaimer that ac- ies. The AMS wants to make these Massive Online Open Course or Delft want to launch a new Mas- creditation is still pending. ‘We are cities more sustainable and pleasant MOOC). ter’s programme in 2017. The pro- already noticing that a lot of people to live in. According to the institute, The new Master’s is Wageningen gramme in Metropolitan analysis, are interested.’ Heijmans hopes the this calls for an integral approach in University & Research’s third joint design and engineering addresses Master’s will start small with a co- which experts from a range of disci- programme. WUR is already offer- urban issues such as how to make hort of around 20 students. plines such as ecology, logistics, hy- ing a Master’s programme in Water cities climate-proof. The ‘urban Master’s’ will be of- drology and data science collabo- Technology in Leeuwarden, jointly The universities will submit their fered at the Amsterdam Institute for rate. The AMS is interested in urban with the universities of Groningen application for accreditation to the Advanced Metropolitan Solutions cycles, around the food supply, ener- and Twente. And the Bachelor’s in Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organ- (AMS), which was set up jointly by gy and traffi c, for instance. Tourism is run jointly with the ization (NVAO) mid-October. It Wageningen University & Research, The new Master’s was an- NHTV university of applied sciences should be clear within six months the TU Delft and Massachusetts In- nounced right from the launch of in Breda. RR ‘MAKE BUSINESS AND SCIENCE PARK PART OF CAMPUS’ • Merger would give new impetus to BSPW • WUR is not in favour of a single organization The Wageningen business and science park BSPW should become part of Wageningen Campus, concludes Holland Food Ventures in a study on the future of the industrial estate in the west of Wageningen. But Wageningen Uni- versity & Research does not want to go that far. The BSPW (formerly the Agro Business Park) is in a downwards spiral. There are a lot of emp- ty premises, the space that is available does not match the demands of the market and there is S no vision of the future. The BSPW also faces KERMAN strong competition from the business centre C Y A Plus Ultra on the campus. At the behest of the GU : O municipal council, Holland Food Ventures got T O all the stakeholders around the table to look for GUY ACKERMANS PHOTO: PH a solution. One of thetheb businessesusinesses at BusinessBusiness andandS Sciencecience ParkPark WageningenWageningeni issb biotechnologyiotechnology cocompanympany KeyKeyGene.Gene According to HFV, the solution is obvious: create a single campus with one organization good location for new companies. ‘But setting be possible, she believes, without a far-reaching responsible for the profi ling, strategy and devel- up a single organization for both parks goes a merger. opment of business activities. That would be step too far. That would mean WUR would re- BSPW was started in the 1980s – by WUR good for the further development of the cam- linquish its say on part of its own campus. I among others – to market Wageningen knowl- pus as well. The park would be called Campus don’t see that happening.’ So Caessens does edge. That never really got off the ground. There West, while the existing campus would be not see a future for a Campus East. ‘It is possi- are few starters who came from WUR in the known as Campus East. ble that BSPW will be called Campus West but business park, and there are hardly any links Petra Caessens, manager of campus develop- that doesn’t automatically mean this will be with the campus, according to the report. The ment at WUR, is in favour of closer collabora- Campus East. We will still be called simply Wa- arrival of Plus Ultra on the campus drew away tion in order to profi le Wageningen better as a geningen Campus.’ Better collaboration should some of the companies at the BSPW. RK RESOURCE — 6 October 2016 news << 5 YOUNG STAFF LAUNCH YOUNGWUR OLUMN|STIJN sociation Thalia and was even Thursday. There is no age lim- © • Kick-off event aims to on the board for a year. When it: it is up to people to decide attract 100 guests she got a job at Wageningen for themselves whether they University & Research in 2015, come under this category. All Totalitarian peace she found it harder to meet guests can contribute to the Not all students are darlings, even in Wagenin- EA group of staff at Wagenin- people. ‘People here have discussion and of course have gen. The fact that I regularly cannot sleep be- gen University & Research will worked here for a long time or a drink. ‘We’d like as much in- cause our Ceres neighbours have come up with be launching YoungWUR on 6 went to university here.’ So put as we can get at the kick- some or other earplug-resistant club track may October. A young professionals why, she wondered, wasn’t off event,’ says Walraven. Are qualify as insignifi cant. But clearly even our as- network that aims to link up there a ‘study association’ for staff looking for a chance to so- sociation members sometimes go too far. ‘young staff at the start of their young staff? cialize, for instance, or are they Two years ago, for example, a barman at Argo careers’. Walraven and seven others are more interested in career tips knocked two members of Ceres to the ground. As a student Pien Walraven, an now launching precisely such and development? And what Unlike the most recent victim in Groningen, information analyst with Facil- a network.

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