{"id":155401,"date":"2023-05-26T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?post_type=dossier&p=155401"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:48","slug":"occupations-of-the-erasmus-building","status":"publish","type":"em_special","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/specials\/occupations-of-the-erasmus-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupations of the Erasmus Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

During 2022 and 2023 three occupations of university buildings took place. The movement OccupyEUR made four demands: end ties with the fossil industry, end precarity of staff contracts, end student debt and make the university accessible to all.<\/p>\n

After the last protests in November 2022 were stopped by police intervention, around sixty students began to occupy the a university building for the second time in February 2023. Their protests were directed, among other things, against the university’s entanglement with the fossil fuel industry. Protests also took place at other universities.<\/p>\n

Read about the history of OccupyEUR below.<\/p>\n

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After the university acknowledged the climate emergency and announced their related measures in February, students started to occupy a university building for the second time this academic year since they believed the measures were not enough. This time, they didn\u2019t occupy Sanders, but the Erasmus building.<\/p>\n\n\t

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