18 February 2026
Not so long ago, one in 20 children needed some form of youth aid. Now one in seven children get professional help. With the legislative proposal Scope, missionary Secretary of State Thielen wants to reverse the huge increase in the use of light youth care (failure training, dyslexia care). Too expensive and not necessary. In addition to a law, this requires a cultural change. And that's not that simple.
30 January 2026
Libraries are essential meeting places in society. Their meeting and information function is important for villages and neighbourhoods. In difficult times, that may become much more important. This is what Hans-Dieter Hiep and colleague David Oldenhof argue today in the Volkskrant.
23 January 2026
19 January 2026
Since the late 1960s, the number of Dutch believers in God has fallen sharply. According to the Social and Cultural Planning Bureau, a majority claim to be agnostic or atheist. However, this does not mean that small and large life questions have become irrelevant. Libraries play a surprising role in conducting conversations about those questions.
14 January 2026
Food aid and food exports are increasingly used as instruments of geopolitical power struggle. In the latest edition of DEVISSUES, Oane Visser, Stefan Voicu and Paul Bosman show how the war in Ukraine marks a turning point. The combination of conflict, climate change, speculation and weakening international institutions creates instability, price increases and shifting power relations worldwide.
25 December 2025
17 December 2025
Organised on 9 December 2025 Socires a round table in the context of research into the societal significance of public libraries. The immediate reason was the publication of the magazine Windows on Connection. Participants of the meeting were library directors and staff, scientists, officials from different ministries, a chairman of a national school umbrella and representatives of the ecclesiastical diacony.
17 December 2025
5 December 2025
'Integral Ecology is about the mission to be human on this earth." These words were at the heart of Professor Carmody Grey's inaugural speech on Friday 21 November, in the auditorium of Radboud University. With this she officially initiated her professorship as a special professor Integral Ecology to the Laudato Si hindered institution. Prior to the lecture, the symposium took place 10 years Laudato Si'. Various research results from the Laudato Si Institute were presented.
1 December 2025
In a new episode of the New World, Ad Verbrugge talks to philosopher Ger Groot about his contribution to the book Thinking about film.