An all-encompassing climate agreement is around the corner. In The Hague tension is mounting around the negotiating table. The stakes are high, but one thing is clear: it’s going to be a very tough job to actually ...
Following the launch of the Digital Society School in September, applications for its Spring 2019 Trainee Programme are now open. This 20-week internship runs from February through June 2019. It is offered in English ...
The prestigious Media Architecture Biennale 2020 (MAB20) will be jointly organised by various AUAS faculties, including the Play & Civic Media research group (DMCI Faculty) and Frank Suurenbroek’s Construction ...
Pay a fine, prove yourself and take tests are the messages expressed most frequently in Dutch folders and brochures for refugees. This is the observation of Nadine Blankvoort, lecturer-researcher at AUAS and ...
The new Sport and Nutrition Campus at the AUAS was recently launched on Dr. Meurerlaan. The eye-catcher is the new restaurant, which has been transformed into a luxury food court. Students and staff can taste the ...
Amsterdam will install smart ‘blue-green’ roofs on social housing buildings. These roofs allow for extra (blue) water to be stored beneath the green surface, better protecting the homes and their environment against ...
The Bajes Quarter (Bajes Kwartier) in the South East of Amsterdam, a new neighbourhood being created on the site of the former Bijlmerbajes prison complex, will be the first new ‘healthy’ housing development in the ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has started recruiting 40 trainees with bicultural backgrounds. In partnership with these ‘young professionals’, the AUAS wants to bridge a gap towards its student ...
When it comes to embedding entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education institutions, the Netherlands is ahead of its European peers. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is one of the ...
More than 80,000 residents of Amsterdam feel seriously lonely. This has a negative impact on their participation in society and their health. 27 September marked the launch of national loneliness week, a theme that ...
The first week of September saw the launch of the Digital Society School: the new form of education within Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) that sees students, researchers and businesses work side by ...
Sixteen refugees with residence permits, a background in the sciences and teaching experience in their home countries have started an introductory course this September for teacher training at the Amsterdam ...
The care in relation to giving up smoking offered to smokers following a heart attack is not effective. Patients who have stopped by themselves need something completely different, and those continuing to smoke ...
Available to all, free of charge: an increasingly important requirement for all academic articles financed using public funds. But how, as a university, do you organise this? Librarians Jaroen Kuijer (AUAS) and ...
Photographer and artist Olga Permiakova (Ukraine, 1988) will be Photographer in Residence for the upcoming academic year at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). In this role, she will create artistic ...
In 2017, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) awarded over 7,500 Bachelor's degrees and obtained € 14 million in grant funding to support its applied research. These figures are from the 2017 AUAS ...
The City of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) are joining forces to tackle challenges involving exercise, nutrition, health and professional and recreational sports in the city. The ...
A study conducted on the largest EV charging transactions dataset worldwide revealed insight in what rollout strategy for charging points can best be applied by policy makers. The research was conducted by Jurjen ...
Today, 2 July, marks the start of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Summer School 2018. This year it includes eight international courses, each lasting two weeks. Over 100 international students from 28 ...
Over the next four years, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) will conduct a European study into how policy can be organised in such a way as to provide optimum support for cooperating entrepreneurs ...
In March 2018, AUAS Engineering alumni Neil van den Haak and Kevin Kesteloo closed a deal with bicycle tyre manufacturer Schwalbe for their airless bicycle tyre. The tyre will be available from specialist retailers ...
From the coming academic year, students at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences who set up a business while studying will have greater opportunities to successfully complete their studies while running their own ...
AUAS-teacher Youssef el Bouhassani was named Lecturer of the Year 2018 nationwide today. El Bouhassani was elected in Utrecht from five finalists. The prize is an initiative of the Interstedelijk Studenten Overleg ...
AUAS Engineering alumni Neil van den Haak and Kevin Kesteloo have closed a deal with bicycle tyre manufacturer Schwalbe. While studying at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, they designed an ...
The Forensic Science (Forensisch Onderzoek) programme of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences is a partner in the large-scale SHUTTLE study, which is receiving 10.5 million euros in funding from Horizon 2020, ...
As far as AUAS alumna Suzanne Eikmans is concerned, plastic tokens used to pay at festivals can be banished to the dustbin of history. With her Festival Wallet app, you can just whip your telephone and pay digitally ...
For the second year in a row, the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is organising a SweatShop. On 27, 28 and 29 November, the sewing room on the third floor of ...
Edinburgh Napier University has hosted a conference aimed at developing a network of research excellence with five European partners. The event marks the first anniversary of the formation of the Urban Research and ...
Amsterdam is a city in which everyone should be able live comfortably, no matter what their age. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) investigated how senior citizens feel about the quality of life in ...
What exactly does the average Dutch wardrobe contain? How often do we buy new items – and do we then actually wear them? Or do they just lie around in the bottom of the wardrobe gathering dust? The survey Measuring ...
This week the Amsterdam School of International Business (AMSIB) at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) was awarded international EPAS accreditation of its Bachelor degree programmes International ...
Around 130 young people gathered together at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ (AUAS) Amstelcampus Wednesday evening, where speakers with different backgrounds talked about how Generation Y, the (student) ...
Seven different summer courses, more than 100 students from 26 countries and a 'social programme' varied in theme and content; the ingredients of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' third AUAS Summer School.
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) Executive Board has appointed Nanda Piersma as professor by special appointment researching ‘Urban analytics’. Piersma's appointment will start on 1 September 2017 ...
Four AUAS students have designed a shredder with which vegetables, fruit and garden waste (known in Dutch as GFT) can be shredded and fed to worms. This would mean that GFT waste from local residents in Amsterdam can ...
Holograms in the jeweller’s shop window, a VR headset to watch the production process of the bonbon you are eating, and an interactive bar at the off-licence: for a period of one year from today, Amsterdam’s ...
Electric cars can function as power plants for solar power. The technology already exists, but is not being widely applied at street and neighbourhood level. The main reason is the lack of financial benefits for ...
Two Amsterdam universities and one University of Applied Sciences have joined forces to launch the Amsterdam School of Data Science, opening this March.
In September 2017, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) will start the first Master’s degree programme in Digital Design in the Netherlands. This international programme offers ambitious digital ...
Some electronic energy meters can give false readings that are up to 582% higher than actual energy consumption. This emerged from a study carried out by the University of Twente (UT), in collaboration with the ...
At the beginning of February, more than 700 international students landed at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, with study destinations at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) or the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences ...
Ding-dong! The doorbell rings and we know someone is at the door. But this is not true for Jorrit Overweg, who has impaired vision and hearing. Five ICT students at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) ...
Hemelswater, literally ‘water of heaven’, is a beer brewed with rainwater. This week Hemelswater won the Innovation Award at the Horecava, the national catering trade fair. Hemelswater was created by the Amsterdam ...
One lamppost in Amsterdam is definitely different from all the others. This lamppost seems to be ‘run’ by a small light accommodated in the post. It also reacts to passers-by. The ‘light’ artwork, called Translucent ...
Results of publicly financed research need to find their way into education, to researchers and to the professional field unhindered. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) wishes to aspire to a 100 % ...
An exercise programme for muscle strength and endurance, a balanced nutrition programme, respiratory muscle strength training, and above all: the physiotherapist as the coordinator for both physical and psychological ...
Six institutes of higher education have come together and launched a consortium called Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance (U!REKA). The six institutes will cooperate internationally with regard to ...
The successful retraining project ‘Make IT Work’ by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), in which Bachelor’s or Master’s graduates spend a year retraining as fully qualified ICT experts, is being ...
AUAS Applied Psychology student Anita Abaisa has won the 2016 Higher Professional Education ECHO Award. This prize is awarded annually to the most promising student in higher professional education from a non-western ...
‘A highly promising design talent’, was how Laura Brussaard who studied Product Design at AUAS was described. In the first year of her programme, Laura unexpectedly and tragically died as the result of thrombosis. ...
As of 1 December 2016, Jacomine Ravensbergen, Dean of the Faculty of Sports and Nutrition (FSN) at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), will become a member of the Executive Board of Avans University of ...
Six universities of applied sciences have established a joint Consortium of European universities and universities of Applied Sciences. These institutions have been brought together around the shared themes of ...
Five European cities, led by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) will launch an experiment in storing and delivering solar energy in electric cars. The project lasts 3 years, total costs sum up to 5 ...
ISMB-student Jerry-Roy Karg, along with his international student team, won the EASM Student Seminar on 9th September in Warsaw. Eight groups presented their strategic plan to renew Orliks: free accessible ...
Amsterdam-based knowledge institutes and the municipality of Amsterdam are investing heavily to make scientific knowledge and technology available for societal and economic applications.
They are small, but not harmless: algae are increasingly plaguing waters in the Netherlands. Four students in the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) Engineering, Design and Innovation bachelor's ...
There are many good examples of partnership between the UvA and AUAS in teaching and research, but the administrative union has been of limited added value in this regard. As for the service units, the partnership ...
The AUAS Summer School 2016 has come to an end. Over the last two weeks, almost 100 students from 19 different countries immersed themselves in one of the six summer courses offered. And last week, they showed what ...
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) have taken note of the current situation in Turkey and stand ready to offer advice and support to their students and staff.
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is organising the AUAS Summer School for the second year in a row. Rector Huib de Jong opened the Summer School on Monday, 4 July in the presence of all ...
Product Design students from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) created designs to improve the quality of life of refugees in emergency shelters and asylum seekers’ centres. The final results were on ...
Students, lecturers and professors were all very positive about the premiere of the Research Lab Symposium of CEDIS (Centre of Entrepreneurial Dynamics and International Strategy). The well-attended Research Lab ...
As of 1st July 2016, the International Business School of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences changes its name to Amsterdam School of International Business (AMSIB). The name change is part of a wider ...
About thirty students from various faculties completed the masterclass for outstanding students in June. This masterclass consisted of eight evenings with inspiring, successful and ambitious Amsterdam residents such ...
The new ‘Access, Equity and Identity in Sport’ (AEIS) research programme of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) got off to a great start this month by receiving funding from the International Olympic ...
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have joined hands to organise an open day for refugees to be held on 20 June, World Refugee Day. Relatively, there are a ...
Second year Amsterdam School of International Business (AMSIB) student Moreno Weilenmann had the honor to be country delegate at Change the World New York 2016: an international conference organised by Rotaract ...
An intelligent paving slab is being used to warn children at a primary school on Nassaukade in Amsterdam of approaching traffic on a busy cycling path. The solar-powered interactive slab lights up with LED images ...
On 1 June 2016, Dr Ingrid Wakkee will take on the role of professor of Entrepreneurship at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS).
Studying at the International Business School and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, is studying in the innovation capital of Europe, Amsterdam, according to the European Committee. The European Committee ...
Travelbird has announced an exciting opportunity to win an internship at their main offices in Amsterdam. Current students at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences are now eligible to participate.
For the first time in the Netherlands, ‘beacons’ are being used to encourage people to exercise more. At public locations in Amsterdam, for example the Marineterrein and Oosterpark, these small transmitters have been ...
Last Friday April 15, the third edition of International Talent Event Amsterdam (ITEA) drew more than 900 international talent attendees of which many students of the International Business School and the Amsterdam ...
Information from the Supervisory Boards to the UvA-AUAS community on the current appointment procedure and the resignation of Hans Amman as vice-president of the Executive Board
On Monday 14 March, the International Business School (IBS) held a celebratory event dedicated to the launch of CEDIS, its own research Centre of Entrepreneurial Dynamics and International Strategy.
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and childcare organisation Impuls Kinderopvang will enter into a partnership from 25 February to promote a healthy lifestyle among young children. The AUAS is ...
Starting September 2016, international students who do not yet meet the requirements for the international bachelors’ programme of the International Business School (IBS), can join a pre-bachelor Business and ...
A virtual jungle in Amsterdam’s Zuidas district? Alderman Eric van der Burg of the City of Amsterdam is enthusiastic about this idea developed by students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). In an ...
‘How does entrepreneurial orientation affect decisions and trade-offs on sustainability impact?’ This is the question Lori Divito (AUAS, IBS) and René Bohnsack (UCP, Catholica) are answering in their working paper ...
On Wednesday, 13 January, the AMFI clash – a fashion show organised entirely by second-year students at the AUAS Amsterdam Fashion Institute –took place in the Kohnstammhuis.
Following a successful pitch, prospective professor Lea den Broeder will present the project ‘Look! A healthy neighbourhood’ (KIJK! Een gezonde wijk’) on 16 and 17 April 2016 at the Global Health Innovation ...
A new interactive installation has made it possible to experience a refugee's journey in virtual reality. The player sits inside a replica of a lorry, and wears a mask and VR glasses, so that all the senses are ...
In the week of 7 – 11 December, IBS students will organise the second “YES, we care, so let’s share”! food drive.
International Project Week takes place each year: three days during which second-year students in Civil Engineering work with fellow students from various countries. The host country changes each year. Because the ...
The ‘Magic Interactive Painting' is a recent addition to the living room of the Amsta's Jan Bongahuis nursing home. This installation featuring videos, photographs and music from the past has had a far greater effect ...
On the one hand, the Amsterdam region is struggling with large numbers of graduates of universities and higher professional education who can’t find work, while on the other hand there is a chronic shortage of highly ...
AUAS Computer Science student Bas van Otterloo will be going on his graduation work placement at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, which carries out research into the particles of matter.
Every academic year a new group of international students arrive in Amsterdam to take part in an exchange programme or to do a complete degree programme. On Friday, 14 August and Monday, 17 August the University of ...
This year for the first time Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences offered international students the opportunity to attend academic courses at the AUAS Summer School. During lunch students from many different ...
Brianne Hanson from Alaska is the first student to graduate from the International Sports Management and Business (ISMB) programme of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences – and with an excellent grade, too: ...
Jiske Griffioen, wheelchair tennis player and student at the AUAS Cruyff University, now has a second Grand Slam title. Last Friday, she won the wheelchair tennis Roland Garros tournament, having taken first prize at ...
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) will be recruiting 200 new lecturers in the months ahead. Rector Huib de Jong: “We announced back in January that we would be investing in lecturers. A lot of hard work ...
AUAS’ Leeuwenburg building has recently acquired a mobile studio for start-ups, made from recycled materials. Six architecture students designed and built this mobile office, which will soon allow start-ups at AUAS ...
On 23 May, six students from the teacher training for secondary education, second level, in Dutch, together with a student from the University of Amsterdam, won the Anéla encouragement award for their poster ...
On average, AUAS students rate their education and the way this is organised at 3.79 out of 5. This represents a slight increase in student satisfaction as compared to the previous academic year, results from the ...
Over the next four years five AUAS (HvA) research proposals will be receiving RAAK PRO subsidy from the Taskforce for Applied Research SIA. This is a subsidy of a maximum of €700,000 per research project. With this ...
Three students from the MediaLAB at AUAS are developing prototype smart eyewear that will allow the Port of Amsterdam to manage and maintain the public space. The students are working on an application of the Google ...
Enrolments with AUAS are up 2.5% on 2014. These figures are based on the number of students enrolling for a Bachelor’s degree programme for the first time. Prospective students enrolling for more than one programme ...
“This is a lecturer who has a very progressive approach to teaching. He is also a charismatic man who exudes passion.” The jury report is clear: Charlie Mulholland is the AUAS Lecturer of the Year. The winner of the ...
Cloud services are ever more popular, resulting in expanding server parks and an increasing energy footprint for ICT. To contribute to making this sector more sustainable, a research project named Greening the Cloud ...
Nutrition and Dietetics students Carla van Aller and Inge Krul have won the 2015 NVVL (Network for Food Experts) award with their final thesis on the energy requirements of children with an indication of a ...
As a hub of business, technology and creativity, Amsterdam attracts many international students. Starting this year, students can also take courses in the summer through the Summer School programme of the Amsterdam ...
We constantly buy new IT devices and discard them again within a short space of time. But our ‘old’ computers and iPhones contain raw materials, and toxic materials such as lead and arsenic. What happens to our ...
Consumers increasingly expect businesses and organisations to be transparent and honest in the way they operate. But how do consumers respond when a brand itself states that a product has limitations, or that – for ...
HvA researcher Anne-Marie van Beijsterveldt has won the Sport & Medicine stimulation award 2014 for young researchers for her article on football injuries. Van Beijsterveldt was awarded the cash prize following ...
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture finances the new Holland Scholarship, together with Dutch research universities and universities of applied sciences. Amsterdam AUS is one of the participants.
Amsterdam is well on the way to becoming the number one ‘smart city’ in the world. Under the umbrella of the Amsterdam Smart City cooperation, more than 70 projects are already helping improve the quality of life in ...
On Wednesday, 28 January, a throng of students in suits fills the fourth floor of the Leeuwenburg. Groups of second-year ED&I students about to present the innovations they have developed for clients and businesses ...
Amsterdam is a global leader in casual design. Nevertheless, fashion designers have a tough time here due to the fierce competition in a small market. Around 50 European students are offering a solution: on Friday, ...
On 22 December, former Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) students of illi Engineering presented their new interactive wall for people with dementia. They now have their first customer: from tomorrow, ...
The design for the new educational building of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) at Rhijnspoorplein has been honoured with a four-star New Construction Design Certificate by BREEAM-NL. It is the ...
Recently it has become possible to experience virtual reality on your mobile phone using Google Cardboard, a cardboard holder that transforms your smartphone into virtual reality glasses. The Amsterdam University of ...
Eight Engineering, Design & Innovation students are working on a multi-purpose drone for Waternet, which can be used to take water samples and to inspect dykes.
Elite athletes from all over Europe need to be able to successfully combine their studies or work with their careers in sports (dual careers). This ambition has received special attention from the European ...
For the Amsterdam Light Festival, eight students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) are making a large illuminated sphere that uses colours to reflect the mood of the city. From Thursday, 27 ...
Harry van Vliet, Professor of Experience Design for Crossmedia Content (Crossmedia), gave his inaugural address on 4 November 2014. He opened with: “This professorship should never have been created,” and spent the ...
The Communication and Multimedia Design Amsterdam (CMD) programme of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is starting its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). From April 2015, CMD will be the first ...
Damrak is not exactly what you would call the showpiece of Amsterdam. But located between the dodgy hotels, falafel and chip shops there is one notable exception: Hotel The Exchange. AMFI students designed 30 rooms ...
From now on, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) will be making higher education more widely available and accessible for high performing athletes. The launch of TAA (Topsport Academie Amsterdam, the ...
Challenge is a hot topic in education in the Netherlands. Underachievers form a neglected group in this respect. Challenge is crucial for this group in particular, as discovered by AUAS student Wietse Jelles who is ...
The dance industry is one of the Netherlands’ great successes. Dutch entertainment company ID&T has been taken over by an American investor, and over the next five years the Netherlands will become the biggest music ...
Students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), VU University Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) are working together to develop a drone that ...
Amsterdam is leading the way internationally in the use of electric cars and wants to further expand the number of charging points in the city, as do other major Dutch municipalities. Jurjen Helmus of the HvA is ...
Three projects are being launched in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district to help citizens become self-reliant. The Nieuw-West district and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) are going to assist and guide ...
This year sees the launch of the pilot ‘Vehicle2Grid’. This will allow households to store power produced by their solar panels in the battery of their electric cars. This is innovative: currently households return ...
AUAS student Arjen Reinders has developed a tricycle for charity Cycling out of Poverty (CooP-Africa). Arjen is a fourth-year Product Design student who developed the tricycle to contribute to a self-sufficient waste ...
As of Wednesday 10 September, the new Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) website is online. The new website offers prospective students outstanding assistance in making all the best choices, whilst at ...
Nowadays you can find a superfoods section in every supermarket: more and more people are eating healthily and consciously. Therefore food was the theme of the opening of the HvA’s academic year 2014. The chairman ...
The first wave of recent teacher graduates will start work as junior teachers at various primary and secondary schools in Amsterdam from September. In order to provide teachers with a better start, the teacher ...
From 10 July, Amsterdam will have its own Institute of Sport Science, which will study practical issues concerning sport, exercise and health. The Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science (AISS) is a partnership between ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has studied road-based alternatives to air cargo on behalf of KLM Cargo. Six Logistics students interviewed 30 air cargo companies around Schiphol airport and ...
A delegation representing the HvA’s Academy for Physical Education (ALO), the City of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam recently visited Brazil. One of the reasons for their visit was to strengthen the ...
Cloud services are gaining ground. We want to be able to access our data with various devices at any given time. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has today been awarded a RAAK (Regional Attention ...
A collision, short circuit and sleepless nights: it wasn’t easy for Solarteam HvA during this year’s Dong Energy Solar Challenge. But the HvA students persevered, worked on the boat at night and came to the aid of ...
The injury to Nigel de Jong during the World Cup was a major blow to the Dutch football team. This was not an isolated incident: groin injuries are occurring more and more frequently in professional football.
Some 300 Commercial Economics students from the AUAS and Fachhochschule Dortmund have drawn up export plans for Dutch and German SMEs. The AUAS students and their German counterparts presented their detailed ideas ...
Three HvA Civil Engineering students plan to improve the water supply in a slum area in Bangladesh. On behalf of development organisation Simavi and water supply company Vitens, the students travelled to Dhaka in May ...
The vast majority of homeless people are already in debt. Once they wind up on the streets, this debt is often increased by lifestyle fines for things like urinating in public. A budget course can help break this ...
