Faculty of Spatial Sciences University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands

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Faculty of Spatial SciencesUniversity of
GroningenGroningenThe Netherlands

• Prof.dr. Jouke van Dijk
• Dean of Research
• Director Urban and Regional Studies Institute

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Groningen
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University of Groningen

• Established in 1614
• 21.000 students, 1.200 from abroad
• 6.000 employees, 250 professors
• 650 PhDs
• 10 faculties
• 60 International Masters programmes
• taught in English
• Budget 500 mln Euro
• First Dutch astronaut
• First President European Central Bank
• A Nobel Prize winner

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University of Groningen mission

• The University of Groningen provides high quality
  research and education, is internationally
  oriented, respects differences in ambition and
  talent, works actively with business, the
  government and the public, and ranks among the
  best universities in Europe.
• The University of Groningen wishes to realise
  three goals in the 2003-2010 period.
• Investment in the highest quality
• recognition of differences in talent and ambition
• the stimulation of cross-border research and
  education.

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The Faculty of Spatial Sciences

• Staff 60 45 Fulltime Equivalents
• 15 professors
• Four Departments
• Cultural Geography
• Economic Geography
• Demography
• Planning
• 4-10 PhDs per year (and growing)
• About 700 students (and growing)
• 2nd largest Faculty of Spatial Sciences in The
  Netherlands

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Education

• 2 three-year Bachelors
• Social Geography
• Environmental and Infrastructure Planning
• 6 one-year Masters
• Cultural Geography
• Economic Geography
• Real Estate Studies
• Demography (100 English)
• Planning
• Environmental and Infrastructure Planning (100
  English)
• 2 two-year Masters
• Top master Regional Studies Spaces and Places,
  Analysis and Intervention (100 English, strong
  focus on research, PhD)
• Geography and Education (strong orientation on
  teaching)

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Internationalisation

• 65 of our students go at least three months
  abroad
• Excursions Mexico, South-Africa, US, India
• Double Degree Master Programme Environmental and
  Infrastructure Management met ITB Bandung,
  Indonesia
• Participant of NEURUS Network for European and
  US Regional and Urban Studies
• Participation in European Master in Integrated
  Coastal Zone Management, North Sea University?
• English version of Real Estate Studies?
• PhDs from abroad sandwhich construction

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Sarbani Banerjee PhD student at the Population
Research Center of the Faculty of Spatial
Sciences I will go back to India after I have
completed my PhD. India needs young researchers.
I want to establish a new research centre along
the lines of the Population Research Center in
Groningen.
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Research organisation

• Urban and Regional Studies Institute (URSI)
• Part of the national Graduate School Nethur in
  which all Spatial Sciences Faculties in The
  Netherlands participate
• Centre for Development Studies (CDS)
• Population Research Centre (PRC)
• Increasing focus on research, PhDs

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URSI Research themes
    Economic geography
Firm demography / regional labour markets
Demography
             
     
   
 
Family formation / birth control
Complex decision making / Governance
Regionale identities
Planning
    Cultural Geography
Heritage planning
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Examples (1)

• Firm migration patterns in the Netherlands, UK
  and Italy
• Locational preferences of entrepreneurs
• Regional labour market dynamics and the gender
  employment gap
• Rural regions in the EU exploring differences in
  economic development
• City branding
• The operationalisation of the concept of world
  heritage
• Heritage management of public pasts in Africa

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Examples (2)

• Environmental planning at the local, national
  and European level
• Watermanagement
• Households and their spatial-energetic practices
  searching for sustainable urban forms
• Reproductive health India, Bangladesh
• Reproductive career, first birth, comparison
  Netherlands-Japan
• Monitoring demographic change migration,
  fertility and mortality in Europe
• Demographic scenarios for Indonesia a
  multiregional analysis

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Thank you

• Faculty of Spatial Sciences
• P.O. Box 800
• NL-9700 Groningen
• The Netherlands
• www.rug.nl/frw