Researchers from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) are involved in the development of a toolkit with an advanced microscope. This will enable forensic investigators to carry out more detailed ...
The Faculty of Health at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the College of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Manitoba are about to embark on an intensive cooperation. They will join forces to ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), ING, the City of Amsterdam, and the ROC have launched a new innovation district, Cumulus Park. It is a profound cooperation uniting partners that traditionally ...
Collaboration between universities of applied sciences and school boards is a prerequisite to effectively tackle the teacher shortage in the Netherlands. Amsterdam serves as an example of this. To see how this works ...
Professor Valérie Lamontagne passed away on 4 October. She was 51 years old. The AUAS appointed Dr. Lamontagne, a Canadian, as professor of the Fashion Research and Technology research group at the Amsterdam Fashion ...
Dr Michiel Horikx was appointed professor by special appointment in Structural Safety at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), effective 1 September 2019, . This concerns a new research group that ...
Ice cream that is high in protein and really tastes good: that’s what elderly people want to see on the menu in their care homes. With this in mind, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) Nutrition and ...
Fifteen new trainees started at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) this academic year. They are part of a special traineeship aimed at creating more role models for students with a multicultural ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ (AUAS) Executive Board has appointed André Henken acting dean of the Faculty of Technology (FT), effective immediately. Henken succeeds dean Gerard van Haarlem who is ...
The Digital Society School, part of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), and the United Nations (UNDP) are organising the fourth edition of the Global Goals Jam on 20-21 September. During this two-day ...
Electric flight will help make aviation more sustainable; it is cleaner, quieter and more economical than conventional aviation. Knowledge institutes, research institutes and the business community are working with ...
Growing nationalism, migration, a shrinking welfare state: all these changes have a particularly strong effect on vulnerable groups. Occupational therapy, a care- and welfare-oriented profession, is increasingly ...
Some 450 new first-year students from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) harvested soot yesterday in the most polluted places in the city. This wasn’t an everyday ...
The new academic year was officially opened yesterday by Amsterdam’s Deputy Mayor, Sharon Dijksma and AUAS Executive Board Chairman Huib de Jong. In his speech, De Jong touched on the digital, social and ecological ...
Today, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' Executive Board Chairman, Huib de Jong, announced that Kate Raworth has been appointed Professor of Practice effective January 2020. The Faculty of Business and ...
A group of approximately 70 new Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) students yesterday experienced a first for the Netherlands, participating in Tune In – a new three-day summer introductory programme ...
Gender, age, socio-economic background, nationality, worldview and religion. No two of the 46,000 students at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) are the same. What they do have in common is that they ...
Diversity Talks is a non-profit organisation focused on promoting inclusive education in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. Devised by Artur Moeijes, who studies HBO-ICT at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences ...
Students at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) are the most satisfied when it comes to the atmosphere, class size, content and lecturers. These are the findings of a student satisfaction survey ...
Research by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) into Dutch festivals shows that the number of festivals in the Netherlands has decreased by more than ten percent over a two-year period. Professor ...
Four research teams from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) have been awarded RAAK-PRO grants. Each of these teams will receive an amount of 700,000 euros to start or continue research into the need ...
The Social and Economic Council (SER) is calling for a more intensive fight against functional illiteracy. However, according to Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) researchers Krispijn Faddegon and Eelco ...
The collaboration platform U!REKA intends to participate in the second European Universities pilot in 2020, as soon as the application guidelines are announced. This is a grant programme for cooperative European ...
AUAS student Oumaima el Hammouti has been appointed as the new student assessor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), effective 1 August.
Photographer and artist Tobias Groot will be Photographer in Residence for the upcoming academic year 2019-2020 at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). In this role, he will create artistic ...
Amsterdam appointed a new Junior Bicycle Mayor today – 10-year-old Armin Taheri. This initiative was devised by Katelijne Boerma, lecturer and programme manager at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). ...
In the major shopping cities in the Netherlands, almost one in four retail establishments is a restaurant, hotel, bar or cafe, and this number is increasing. These thousands of hospitality entrepreneurs receive their ...
The summer of a lifetime starts today for over 180 international students who are attending the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Summer School 2019. This year’s group spans students with 36 different ...
In 2018, the AUAS awarded degrees to 7,210 students. Some 13,105 new students began their studies at the AUAS and a total of € 15 million in grant funding was obtained to support applied research activities. You can ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences struck the first pile today for the Conrad building. By building the ‘Conradhuis’, the AUAS will complete the Amstel Campus, a bustling urban campus at the heart of the ...
How can we work together to make the cities of the future better? From 17 through 23 June, researchers and students at AUAS will be sharing their latest ideas and insights at the WeMakeThe.City festival – a festival ...
AUAS students Kethia Barigenera (Applied Psychology) and Artur Moeijes (HBO-ICT) have been nominated for the 2019 ECHO Award on behalf of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS).
Amsterdam has received a European grant for the development of an ‘energy-positive’ district in the Buiksloterham neighbourhood. Part of this grant, amounting to 1.3 million euros, will go to research programmes at ...
Struggling entrepreneurs suffer twice the shame and the stigma around failure, because making problems the subject of discussion has direct consequences for cooperation and doing business. In addition, it is in the ...
Judith Metz, professor of Youth Spot at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, has been elected chair of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA). For the next two years, she will lead this ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has been awarded four Comenius fellowships. These are associated with grants amounting to a total of €500,000 to stimulate innovation in education.
The HBO Monitor 2018 shows that 89% of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) alumni successfully found a job within three months of graduation. This is an increase of 3% compared to 2017.
Robert van Mulligen, PABO lecturer (teacher-training college for primary education) has been named AUAS Lecturer of the Year. This was announced during the annual AUAS Education Conference, which was held at Theater ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has been informed that there is currently a waiting list for completing the State Exams ‘Dutch as a Second Language’ (NT2). Students who require this diploma in ...
The expanding group of migrant entrepreneurs are translating their specific background and experience into innovation, frequently managing to find niche areas to successfully exploit through new business ideas. In ...
Jumping Joey, Comebek and Kubby. These are just a few of the products designed by students. Curious about what they are exactly? You can stop by SPOT, the pop-up store on the Spui 23 in central Amsterdam, to find ...
Didi Griffioen, professor of Higher Education, Research and Innovation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, is the first Dutch academic to be accepted into the small international group of Principal ...
The Master’s programme Occupational Therapy at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences has been named the best Master in the field of health sciences. This was announced in the annual Master’s Guide (Keuzegids ...
The Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance (U!REKA) consortium has launched a bid to take part in the 2019 European Universities pilot project.
In 2025, the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA) will open a new mega library (OBA XL) in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district. How can this become a place that brings cultures together, where young and old are challenged to ...
On 7 February, high school students will again take to the streets for a climate protest. Are they representative of their peers? Lecturer-researcher Adwin Bosschaart of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences ...
The first students with their own businesses have been selected for the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ (AUAS) Entrepreneurship Scheme. In the same way that the AUAS enables talented athletes to work on ...
The research by Cynthia Boomkens, Judith Metz and Jolanda Sonneveld was recognised as the best AUAS research of 2019. This was announced during the AUAS Research Day 2019, where awards were also presented for the ...
AUAS is receiving a total of 900,000 euros in RAAK Public Subsidies for three research projects. This has been granted for research into the promotion of a healthy lifestyle among toddlers, cooperation concerning ...
If we want to continue to feed 10 billion people sustainably and healthily in 2050, then we will have to learn to adopt a radically different way of eating. This message from 37 renowned academics got tongues wagging ...
The number of expat children in primary education is set to increase in the years ahead, meaning that levels of multilingualism in classes will also rise. Not only is the number of expats in the Amsterdam region ...
By 2050, Dutch society must have transformed into a circular economy. In this sustainable recycling economy, there is no waste and raw materials are used again and again. The Dutch government aims to achieve this and ...
A large proportion of Dutch children have poor motor skills. Researchers at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) have developed a programme to give these children the support they need. The intention ...
It’s likely that one third or more of the people in debt counselling or whose finances are administered by a trustee suffer from a moderate mental handicap. If special counselling remains unavailable, this number ...
'Shaping Urban Communities. Smart and Sustainable Solutions' – this was the motto of the U!REKA (The Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance) consortium’s third annual conference, hosted this year from 26-28 ...
The Make IT Work retraining track offered by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has won the Pro-Motor Award 2018. This annual award for an ambitious idea was presented on Wednesday evening by Mariëtte ...
Are push notifications desirable in a news app for children? Should Airbnb be designed community-centric rather than user-centric? Would you ever create a platform which helps to deport millions of immigrants?
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 ...
Dirk Reynders has been appointed the new director of Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) with effect from 1 February 2019. Located in the Dutch capital, the renowned fashion institute is part of Amsterdam University ...
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 ...
U!REKA partners Edinburgh Napier University and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) are collaborating to strengthen their expertise in Dual Careers (DC). This programme gives elite athletes the ...
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 ...
Following a previous, tentative excursion to Hilversum, Make IT Work will officially move in with MyBit at the Media Park in Hilversum on Monday, 12 November 2018. The new site for AUAS’s retraining track will be a ...
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 degree programme of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences is a partner in the large-scale Shuttle project, which has received a €10.5 million grant from Horizon 2020, the European ...
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 ...
MediaLAB Amsterdam, part of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), together with the United Nations (United Nations Development Programme) is organising the Global Goals Jam on 15 and 16 September. During ...
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) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are working together to achieve smart and sustainable deliveries for their 80 buildings, spread over five campuses throughout ...
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 ...
At a ceremony in the Mucca Halle in the historic centre of Munich on Tuesday 14 February, the Department of Design of Munich University of Applied Sciences, represented by Prof Ben Santo and the Faculty of Digital ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The European MSc in Occupational Therapy underwent two re-accreditations at once: the programme accreditation according to the standards of the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Institute NVAO (NederlandsVlaamse ...
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 ...
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 ...
