Faculty of Spatial Sciences - University of Groningen

Students in the master Environmental and Infrastructure Planning presenting their work for the Living Lab course in which they work on a real-life planning issue

This week the first year’s bachelor Human Geography and Planning students went on fieldwork to Aurich, East-Frisia (Germany) for the Rural Geography course. Using Christaller's central place theory, they performed a spatial analysis of ‘what you find where, and why you find it there’, for different topics such as supermarkets, public transport, GPs, the fire brigade, sports, and regional identity.
During the fieldwork, the students used input from a presentation by the Landkreis Aurich (Regionalplanung) and they gathered primary data to create excellent posters of their project.
On to the next edition!

An excursion (by bike, of course) with our current exchange students in the Stadspark Groningen

Some more pictures of our Human Geography and Planning fieldwork trip to Thessaloniki earlier this month

The second group of Human Geograohy and Planning students did their fieldwork in Thessaloniki this year

Spring has arrived at Zernike campus! 🌸

Human Geography & Planning students on a city walk focussed on murals in Warsaw, one of the new destinations for Fieldwork Abroad

On Tuesday our first year bachelor Spatial Planning and Design students presented their work for the course Spatial Design Atelier with lecturer Niels Grootjans

Our current group of exchange students are exploring the former island of Schokland during a water management excursion with Chris Diederiks and Reinier Schoep

A special day at the office for our students of the Master Population Studies! Last Wednesday, they attended (and some even presented their research) at the Dutch Demography Day, the annual meeting of all Dutch demographers from academia and beyond (notably CBS and Planbureau).