Hello, my name is Sophia! I recently graduated from Maastricht University with a degree in Economics and Strategies in Emerging Markets. During the last semester of my Master’s program, I had the opportunity to do a Thesis Internship Program (TIP) with SITE4Society. My thesis wa

In this SITE Talk, we had the chance to speak to Nathalie Ummels, the coordinator of Mondiaal Maastricht. A few words about Nathalie Nathalie is leading Mondiaal Maastricht, a local NGO based in Maastricht, which counts almost 40 years of life. She is in charge of the day-to-day manag

We are grateful for the opportunity we had to meet Panos Kouris, the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Vertoro. A few words about Panos Panos holds a BSc. and a MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras  (Greece). In 2015, he obtained his MSc. in Chemical &am

By Prof. Dr. Shyama V. Ramani “The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point is however to change it” reads the tombstone of Karl Marx in London quoting one of his works. Of course, this applies not only to the worldly philosophers but to economists as we

In this SITE Talk episode, we meet Mrs Heidi Solba, President and Head of Global Network at Let’s Do it World. Heidi is leading one of the biggest civic movements of our time, the World Cleanup Day, uniting millions of people across the world to transform our planet into a green

  In this SITE Talk, we had the pleasure to talk with Maayke Damen, the Founder of Excess Materials Exchange. A few words about Maayke Maayke is a circular economy expert who has advocated the reduction of waste through numerous companies and initiatives and has become very influ

Water Source Security: Is desalination the way to go? A Multi-stakeholder Experience-Sharing Forum on desalination featuring academics, firms, public agencies and regulators   Registration form: https://cutt.ly/Yl60z9A Please find here  the event brochure, with speakers’ in

 Digitalisation and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)                    Digitalisation for SDG 5.2 (End Violence): Exploring Implications, Opportunities and Threats   ~ On this International Women’s Day, March 8, 2021, SITE4Society at UNU-MERIT, will team up with Fri

The Sustainable Development Goals Report (2020) notes that we are far from being an open-defecation free world. Since 2015, around 500 million low-cost toilets have been diffused, but still about 2 billion people do not have access to a functioning toilet and about 4.2 billion people 

As many as 2 billion people worldwide do not have access to functioning toilets, and more than 4 billion use toilets that may be contaminating water sources, according to the latest Sustainable Development Goals Report (2020). This matters because sanitation feeds into almost every ot