In July, I left my project assistant position at the Anders Utrecht network. For the past eight months, I’ve worked with Utrecht University scholars and students, but most of my engagement has been with grassroots, civil society and community organizers in the city of Utrecht. My tasks as a project assistant involved mostly organizational matters…

How do we envision change and impact? How can we use prefigurative politics in our daily organisational practices? What is your organization’s contribution to social ecological transformation and your place within a collective strategy? How can we build coalitions with each other? On May 24th, we organized a workshop and discussion to ponder about these…

Check out the recent interview with Anders Utrecht initiator Ozan Alakavuklar in which he shares his motivation to start Anders Utrecht and his vision for what engaged fieldwork looks like. Hint: It requires getting your hands dirty, because engaged research “is no remote consultancy: it is truly seeing how societal impact is organized in day-to-day…

As the winter is coming to an end it is about time for the Anders Utrecht winter newsletter. Check out the newsletter to see what the network has been up to in the past months. Contents Organising Social Impact master’s program + Anders Utrecht Master’s thesis at Villa Vrede Call for collaboration Updates on the…

Roxane Stormer is a post-graduate student of the Organizations, Change and Management Master’s program at Utrecht University. In collaboration with Anders Utrecht network member Villa Vrede, Roxane recently finalized her master’s thesis about partnerships between Civil Society Organizations, municipalities and the Dutch state regarding undocumented migration. Roxane’s research shows how the work provided by Civil…

After two years of mapping out initiatives working for socio-ecological transformation in Utrecht, developing a 7-part podcast series featuring many of the inspiring organizers, and creating long-term collaboration with member organisations, Anders Utrecht has exciting news. This academic year, the network is entering a new phase, bringing students and member organisations together. Students from the…

13 May 2022 – At the start of the new year, we visited a number of network members to get a better idea of the biggest challenges that are faced by local organizations and how we can help to overcome these. It turned out that many local organizations struggle with questions around the use of…

Contents Podcast update What have we been up to? Helping Hands Utrecht New teammember Spring workshop Upcoming events

11 November 2021 – Solutions to sustainability challenges entail collaboration between a diversity of actors. Universities are increasingly engaged in transdisciplinary research, supported by the idea that they should partner with citizen initiatives, business enterprises and governmental agencies. In addition to producing knowledge, universities are expected to play an active role and contribute to transformations…

Winnie Ruizendaal is a student at the Utrecht School of Governance (USBO). As part of her master’s in organisations, change and management, she conducted research for her thesis at Anders Utrecht member Dwarsverband. The research was built around Dwarsverband’s project ‘bringing culture to people’, which aims to achieve more diversity in self-management initiatives. It explores…