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Our last stop - Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

We, Bich, Jonatan and Rozemarijn, enjoyed our last CAT meeting in April 2026. For this last and fourth meeting, we were hosted by the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in Amsterdam. The CAT programme – Constructive Advanced Thinking – provides the opportunity to work up to two weeks at four different Institutes of Advanced Studies in Europe. We travelled to...

So models have a social and political life. What does this mean for a modeller in practice?

How do you see your responsibility as modeller for the influence a model can have? What were you proud of, and what would you avoid in the future in relation to your modelling practice?

These were the questions we shared with speakers and participants of a conversation hosted at IHE Delft on 12th February. The topic especially attracted early-career modellers,...

From controversial tools to models for just water transformations

From 30 September to 10 October, we were hosted by MAK’it in the context of the Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) programme. MAK’it was the third Institute of Advanced Studies that hosted us, after Uppsala and Paris. Taking time to think is somewhat rare in the rat-race that science can be sometimes [1]. The CAT programme is offering us time away...

Our last stop - Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

We, Bich, Jonatan and Rozemarijn, enjoyed our last CAT meeting in April 2026. For this last and fourth meeting, we were hosted by the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in Amsterdam. The CAT programme – Constructive Advanced Thinking – provides the opportunity to work up to two weeks at four different Institutes of Advanced Studies in Europe. We travelled to...

From controversial tools to models for just water transformations

From 30 September to 10 October, we were hosted by MAK’it in the context of the Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) programme. MAK’it was the third Institute of Advanced Studies that hosted us, after Uppsala and Paris. Taking time to think is somewhat rare in the rat-race that science can be sometimes [1]. The CAT programme is offering us time away...

So models have a social and political life. What does this mean for a modeller in practice?

How do you see your responsibility as modeller for the influence a model can have? What were you proud of, and what would you avoid in the future in relation to your modelling practice?

These were the questions we shared with speakers and participants of a conversation hosted at IHE Delft on 12th February. The topic especially attracted early-career modellers,...