27 October 2026
In a new essay on Social Issues late Socires-researcher David Oldenhof-Boks see how a centralist policy logic unintentionally turns allies of nature restoration into opponents. No one wins. Not the government, not the residents, not the Wadden.
26 October 2026
The public internet starts locally On Thursday 1 October 2026, the Socires, the KB and The Internet Society a start meeting on LibraryNet which discussed […]
17 October 2026
Socires and Tilburg University announce the establishment of a new special chair: Rijnland's capitalism: characteristics, conditions and possibilities. Bringing this chair together Socires and the university to provide new impetus to academic research and the social debate on the future of our economic order and the stakeholder model.
16 October 2026
Last Friday found The Fenomeen Charlie Kirk place in the Monastery Church, about the attraction of Charlie Kirk, online culture and traditionalism among young people with opening by ds. Fulco Timmers and introductions by Talitha Muusse and Anton de Wit. The first issue of our new magazine Cahier was presented, and the first copies were handed over to the speakers.
15 October 2026
From autumn onwards, Cahier, the new magazine of Socires. The theme of the first edition is 'Het Phenomenen Charlie Kirk'. Cahier will appear twice a year
14 October 2026
With Ziningeld, a new conversation manual for the administration and church councils of religious communities appears. The manual helps them check their own money management against the values the community stands for. Socires is from the program Integral Ecology Development.
9 October 2026
AIVD and NCTV recently warned that right-wing extremist thinking is becoming more and more common, often through language that sounds innocent. That explains how those ideas come into being, but not why so many people are receptive to them. In an opinion contribution in the Dutch daily, Cor van Beuningen seeks the answer in society itself. Much of what used to happen in families, neighborhoods, associations, churches and unions has been taken over by market, state and bureaucracy. As a result, the places where people find recognition and where they learn to deal with differences, trust and responsibility disappear.
7 October 2026
Public libraries have transformed from quiet book houses to successful public spaces full of knowledge, culture and social activities. This magazine shows how libraries promote meeting and democratic citizenship. We let people talk about the library as an important place in a changing society and reflect on the responsibilities, concerns and opportunities associated with it. For enthusiastic employees, volunteers, directors, visitors and anyone who loves the library.
24 August 2026
This morning NRC refers to the research Holiness in the Environment, which Socires in collaboration with liberals Netherlands, museum Catharijneconvent and the CHE.
14 August 2026
Socires Professor Carmody Grey wrote last weekend in the Financial Daily. The AI industry flirts with the humanities, but she asks the wrong questions, writes the philosopher and theologian Carmody Grey in Nijmegen: "It is simply wrong that computers can think. People think, using computers."