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Team, goals & history


Andries Middag, Jan Joris Midavaine, Mieke Hulshof,

Aniek Hilkens, Carlo Steenbergen, Clemens Driessen, Boudewijn Zuijderhoudt, Gerrie Koops en Gertjan Becx.

This picture isn't up to date, below you can find the people who are now in RUW. As soon as possible we will put a new picture of the RUWteam on the website.

Coordinators:
Boudewijn Zuijderhoudt
 
Dorine Kea

Aniek Hilkens

The board:
Gertjan Becx (treasurer)
Mieke Hulshof (chairman)
Malou Heidekamp (secretary)
Clemens Driessen (board member)
Andries Middag (board member)
Woutine Pauw (board member)
Tobias Rijnsdorp (board member)

Femke van der Lee (board member)

Goals

- Contribute to a critical and socially-oriented vision of students.
- Function as the link between students and practice in the green space.
- Contribute to the personal development of students and the development of acadamic competences of students.
- Seek for a responsible and sustainable use of land. RUW focusses on the different functions in the green space and the tension between them.
- Contribute to social debate on the organization of the green space.
- Provide knowledge and information to students.
 

History

Rural Wageningen Foundation is in a long line of organizing activities for students in Wageningen. Already in 1978 the so called 'Themagroep Regionale Ontwikkeling' (In English: Thematic Group on Regional Development) was founded. Reasons that day were a lack of interdisciplinarity and the idea to involve citizens in planning processes. In 2000 Stichting RUW originated as a result of the fusion of the earlier mentioned Themagroep Regionale Ontwikkeling and the 'Themagroep Landbouw en Milieu' (In English: Thematic Group on Agriculture and Environment), which organized all kinds of activities on for example alternatives for industrialized agriculture. The aim of TLM was to show that agriculture means not only scaling up and increasing of production, but also other developments, as for example bio farming. These groups may not exist anymore, the ideas of interdisciplinair, bottom up and practice based working and thinking are still alive. In a world where everything seems to be about speeding up and increasing everything possible the message of staying close to practice and reality is more valuable than ever.

RUW is a part of www.la13.nl platform


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