EM TV newsflash: Two-million-year-old fossils, pilot against Big Tech and EM wins awards

Every Monday, an overview of the most important news about Erasmus University. This week: Two-million-year-old fossils have been found on campus during a drilling on campus, around a hundred employees can take part in a pilot with a alternative for Microsoft from July on, and Erasmus Magazine has won two national journalism awards.

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During a drilling on campus to 250 metres under ground, two-million-year-old fossils have been found. Conservator of Rotterdam’s Natural History Museum himself was sieving the enormous stream of mud coming out of the drill and found a whelk and a sea bean that lived here during arctic times, proving that Woudestein was once the bottom of a sea.

In other news, around a hundred employees can take part in a pilot with an alternative for Microsoft from July on. One of the main goals is to become less dependent on big tech from the US. A year long, staff members can use ‘Nextcloud’. That’s a German open-source software that offers alternatives for software like Word, Excel and Sharepoint.

Erasmus Magazine has won two national journalism awards. An article by Tessa Hofland won the Kring Award for best background story in higher education. She investigated why it is so hard to expel medical students that are clearly unfit to become doctors. Columnist and student Giselle Maria Timmers won the Kring Award for best column in higher education for Shirtless in a newly built kitchen.