New insights and reflections to link WUR’s past, present and future
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Wednesday 22 April 2026, 13.00-18.30 including welcome tea and drinks & bites afterOmnia, Podium, Hoge Steeg 2, Campus WUR
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Participants abroad can connect online; we send the link upon registration.
Gender+ Equality in Academia & Research Wed. 22 April 2026
Preliminary programme
13.00 Coffee/tea and occasion to read the posters13.30 Welcome
13.45 Presentations on New Insights with Short Q&A
- Change-Makers in Academia and Research: lessons learned on the significance of change agents and their needs of support and care, Dr. Marcela Linková, Head of the Centre for Gender and Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Member State Co-chair of the ERA Forum Sub-group on Inclusive Gender Equalit
- Towards Intersectionality in Policy-Making at EU Academia: Insights based on Case Studies including WUR
Prof. dr. Yvonne Benschop, Organisational Behaviour, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen; chair of Dutch Network of Women’s Professors - Climate Coloniality: Revisiting Education and Research
Prof.dr. Farhana Sultana, Research Director (Environment) Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC), Geography and the Environment, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA.
16.00-17.15 Positioning New Insights within WUR Past, Present and Future
- Looking back and forward based on 50 years change at WUR
Dr. Margreet van der Burg, Intersectional Gender Studies, KTI, Wageningen University, Farewell address including her own WUR experiences - Discussion with WUR panel (tbc) and audience: what resonates, what to add, and what to act upon
- Presentation on Storm-van der Chijs Fund, link Fund
- Awarding of poster winner(s)
- Thanks to all contributors
www.wur.nl/nl/over-wur/university-fund/fondsen-op-naam/storm-van-der-chijs-fonds