29-September-2025 – CurveBend Online
Those new to CurveBend can find us online at curvebend.org, on LinkedIn and Bluesky as CurveBend, and on Instagram as @curvebendproject.
24-June-2025 – The CurveBend Kick-Off
On June 24th, CurveBend ‘kicked-off’ with members from Argentina and Kenya joining their colleagues in the Netherlands for a packed three days of introductions, project planning, and field trips. Dutch cooperation partners joined the festivities on Wednesday at Bezoekerscentrum Reitdiep in Groningen.
1-May-2025 – The CurveBend program has started!
9 PhD students and 2 postdocs have started their jobs. In addition, Lou Kruger-Zwart has been appointed as project manager, to support the project lead Han Olff. Lou can be contacted at curvebend@rug.nl
8-Jan-2025 – Open positions in CurveBend: we are looking for 8 PhD students and 2 postdocs – open for application until 13 feb 2025
Join the CurveBend Project! We’re hiring 8 PhDs and 2 Postdocs to promote biodiversity restoration and a nature-positive future through collective action at the landscape scale in the Netherlands, Argentina, Kenya and Tanzania. Focus is on livestock-dominated landscapes. Excited to make an impact? Contact us now! More details: https://shorturl.at/nOdhb
8-Nov-2024 – CurveBend program funded with 7 million Euro by the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
The funding is linked to the Green Route of the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). The research program will start on 1 April 2025.
Press release by the University of Groningen
Press release by NWO
Coverage by RTV Noord (Dutch)
More information on the NWA
More information on the NWA Green Route