Seventy-six percent of households donate to at least one charity annually. 'A thoughtful donation can easily have a 100 times more impact,' says UvA professor of Philanthropy & Sustainable Finance Paul Smeets.

At least 87 million Europeans – almost one in five people - are thought to have disabilities and regularly encounter problems when trying to access or share information. Ultimately, this can lead to social inequality and exclusion. A new and unique research project aims to change this.

If you search for new sneakers on Google just once, you will see sneaker ads everywhere online for a week after that. Many people know that companies collect their data online, but do not always realise how sensitive this can make them to the sales techniques of those companies. What can we do about this?

We express ourselves through clothing, hairstyles and jewellery. And this has been the case for thousands of years. Historian Anique Hamelink examined funerary portraits from the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire to learn about social and cultural changes in the ancient Roman world.