It was my first attendance of the EU-Spri conference. I have to admit, it first appeared on my radar last year only. EU-Spri stands for European Conferences on Policies for Research and Innovation and was founded in Paris in 2010. While the innovation space is not new to me, the policy space is. So I knew, attending the conference, I would learn many new things. Together with a great team at the Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, we submitted an abstract about

Unleash the power of microbiomes to save the planet! This is what I am currently working on. I successfully started to make kombucha. I also experimented with water kefir and natural fermentation. The latter two were not yet successful. But this is not what this blog is about. Although, it might merit a blog post as well. This blog is about the program I am now part of. The Holomicrobiome. I am a sustainability transformation researcher. I am still struggling with this label.

My last blog post was about how to survive as a postdoc. In this blog post, I want to explain how I became the lead guest editor of a...