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Smoothies with duckweed and free bus tickets at the Bachelor's Open Day
Prospective students visiting the Bachelor Open Day on 15 March will be given free bus tickets to travel to and from Ede-Wageningen train station, and between the campus and the city centre. The student club market will be held at SSR-W in the city centre. They can also taste a smoothie with water lentils (duckweed).
Thus states Kimberly Pastoors, who coordinates the promotion activities. ‘Students with jackets will be posted at the train station in Ede-Wageningen and the bus stop at Forum. They will hand out bus tickets. We hope this will convince prospective students that Wageningen is easily accessible.’
An investigation reveals that prospective students often expect Wageningen to have poor accessibility as it lacks its own train station, Pastoors says. ‘But the bus trip from Ede-Wageningen train station to the campus takes approximately as long as the trip from the central station in Utrecht to the Utrecht Science Park. And we aim to use the programme in the city centre to show students that Wageningen is a great place with plenty to offer.’
On a 'smoothie bike,' prospective students can mix their own smoothie, with the special ingredient of 'water lentils' or duckweed. Since it's still quite expensive to produce, they can add a small spoonful. Water lentils have recently been approved for production and consumption as fresh vegetables within the EU. It is a particularly sustainably grown and protein-rich plant: calculations from WUR show that they can produce more than six times as much protein per hectare as soybeans, a crop that already contains a lot of protein.
For those still hungry after the smoothie: all visitors to the Open Day can also get a 10% discount on a meal at De Pizzabakkers at the market in Wageningen.