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Urban Rewilding: Restore Your Local Ecosystem (edX)

Would you like to see your neighbourhood become more liveable and sustainable? To alleviate city-specific challenges – from urban heat islands to mental health issues – we need to first change our minds. From wanting to control nature to leveraging its power, we need to allow nature to do [...]

Catalytic Conversions for Biobased Chemicals and Products (edX)

Design new (bio)catalytic conversion routes that allow you to use biobased feedstocks to their highest potential as building blocks for chemicals, materials and fuels. Biomass is the only renewable feedstock which contains the carbon atoms needed to make the molecules to create chemicals, materials and fuels. However, the majority [...]

The Science of Beer (edX)

Are you interested in more than just the taste of beer? Discover what's in your beer, how it's made and marketed and the effect it has on your body and health. Have you ever taken a sip of beer and wondered why it tastes a certain way or what [...]

Co-Creating Sustainable Cities (edX)

Learn how citizen’s co-creation is key in making cities worldwide more sustainable. Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and [...]

Sustainable Urban Development (edX)

Learn why cities are key in resolving global urbanization and sustainability challenges and how you can engineer tomorrow’s cities today. Did you know that cities take up less than 3% of the earth’s land surface, but more than 50% of the world’s population live in them? And, cities generate [...]

A starter’s guide to Open Science (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
A starter’s guide to Open Science (Coursera)
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Welcome to the Erasmus University Rotterdam Open Science MOOC! This course aims to empower researchers and research support professionals with foundational knowledge to conduct, support, and disseminate research efficiently and responsibly.

Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (Coursera)
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Build your knowledge of Indo-European languages, how they changed through time, and how to reconstruct ancient languages. Every language belongs to a language family; a group of languages that are genetically related to each other. Indo-European is the name of the language family to which English belongs, along with [...]

Reality Bites: Introduction to metaphysics (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Reality Bites: Introduction to metaphysics (Coursera)
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Speculative metaphysics is challenging, but this course will whet your appetite for it, because it explains fundamental metaphysical problems and views in terms of what you can find in your kitchen and what happens in it when you cook and enjoy food.

Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) (Coursera)

Welcome to Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA). NCA analyzes data using necessity logic. A necessary condition implies that if the condition is not in place, there will be guaranteed failure of the outcome. The opposite however is not true; if the condition is in place, success of the outcome is [...]

The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology (Coursera)
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The introduction of the internet and of social media has drastically changed our information position. We live in a time of ‘truth decay’: the distinction between opinions and facts is blurred, opinions have more impact than facts, and sources of factual information are increasingly distrusted. Since philosophers love truth, [...]