Wageningen University
Budget
€526,803,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
1.05 FTE
EU Grants
€26,000,000
Mission & Goals
WU is part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The strength of Wageningen University & Research lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes and the university. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences. This union of expertise leads to scientific breakthroughs that can quickly be put into practice and be incorporated into education. This is the Wageningen Approach. Collaboration with other parties such as government, business and NGOs is indispensable. This is in line with the Finding Answers Together ambition. Wageningen University & Research aims to contribute to tackle the global challenges and SDG's.
EU Legislative Interests
WU performs Research and innovation in Horizon Europe and other European programmes, collaboration, capacity, demonstration. The research activities of the WUR are contributing to the European Green Deal (with the underlying strategies like Farm2Fork strategy, Biodiversity Strategy, circular economy, zero pollution and digitalization), the UN SDG's and the CAP.
Communication Activities
Wageningen University & Research has been organizing the annual Mansholt lecture in Brussels since 7 years. In the Mansholt lecture we try to challenge the EC and other stakeholders with potential solutions from science for the big societal challenges we face and for the implementation of relevant EU policies in the domain of WUR. Furthermore we organize or join meetings, workshops or panel discussions with representatives from EC, EP and other organizations to come up with ideas from science to implement of further develop EU policies. Wageningen is active in several European Research networks (ATF, EPSO, PEER, Foodforce, EFARO and ICA) and public-private networks (European Technology Platforms: Food for Life, euRobotics, Organic Food & Farming, Manufuture, EIT-Food) which organize communication activities.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
WUR is member of several research / university networks like: ELLS: https://www.euroleague-study.org/en/universities Animal Task Force: http://animaltaskforce.eu/ Peer netwerk: https://www.peer.eu/ FOODforce: https://www.foodforcenetwork.eu/ EPSO: https://epsoweb.org/ EFARO: https://efaro.eu/ ICA: https://www.ica-europe.info/ WUR is also involved in several European Technology and innovation Platforms
Organisation Members
see our website
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.