Four questions for Jan Lintsen (CvB) on the ties with Shell

Jan Lintsen, Executive Board - In recent weeks, demonstrations against collaboration with Shell have been held at various universities. An occupation at Erasmus University was broken up, while a similar action is still in progress at TU Eindhoven. At the UvA, Milieudefensie (the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth) placed a pumpjack on campus. What is the UvA actually doing? - Protesters are calling for transparency, for the University to be clear about the exact nature of its dealings with Shell. I think that's entirely fair. We must be transparent; the Central Student Council recently asked this of us as well. To be quite specific: the UvA is participating in three project on for Scientific Research (NWO), and Shell is one of the partners in the consortium because they are contributing to the research.