Due to the Covid-19 outbreak the AUAS Summer School 2020 has been cancelled.
For the past few weeks we’ve been living in a different reality in the Netherlands and at the AUAS. We work at home and this will be the case for a while. This raises questions: how can AUAS employees work well in ...
Reint Jan Renes, Professor of Psychology for Sustainable Cities at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, is currently seconded to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) for four ...
The Dutch government has announced that the current measures will be extended until (and including) 28 April 2020. It’s also evident that it’s going to take some time for normal life to resume, if, in the most ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences will carry on with working from home and offering distance education after 6 April. In principle, there will be no on-campus education for the rest of the academic year ...
Master Digital Design student Matthijs Nolst Trenité created the online History lessons series Meneer Goedknegt in 2017. Overnight, it became a success in the Netherlands. He explains his design vision and shares ...
He wasn't supposed to officially start in his role as Digital Transformation Officer at the AUAS until next week. However, Ivo van der Werk is already fully on board. "Had you told me a month ago that the schools ...
Considering the exceptional circumstances due to the corona crisis, the AUAS understands that our international students may prefer to be at home with loved ones during this time. If this applies to you, we advise ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is postponing the BSA (binding study advice) due to the corona crisis. AUAS aims for education and exams to continue wherever possible. The degree programmes are ...
The Dutch are being forced to break their ingrained habits due to the emergency measures taken in the fight against the coronavirus. It’s not easy, as behavioural scientist and AUAS professor Reint-Jan Renes knows. ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has decided to no longer offer the AMFI Master Fashion Enterprise Creation as of 1 September 2020. This means that the degree programme is no longer accepting new ...
The collaboration platform U!REKA is strengthening its presence in Europe with the addition of two new institutional partners: Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL) and VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO). By ...
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) alum Fiere Bonnerman has won the thesis prize of the Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement (scriptieprijs van de vakbeweging) in the universities of ...
The Executive Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (AUAS - Hogeschool van Amsterdam) has appointed Troy Nachtigall on 4 February 2020 as Professor of Fashion Research and Technology. The professorship ...
During this academic year (2019-2020), a total of 13,766 first-year students started studying at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). This represents an increase of 5.2 percent compared to the ...
The Executive Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has appointed Martijn de Waal Professor of Play & Civic Media as of 1 February 2020. In his research, De Waal focuses on the relationship ...
The renowned British economist Kate Raworth praised the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences community and Amsterdammers who attended her inauguration on Thursday. "In no other city do I see so many good ...
Huib de Jong, Chairman of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ Executive Board, has announced that he will leave the AUAS on 1 July 2020. He plans to retire. The Supervisory Board will now start the ...
Due to the increasing digitisation of society, the role of digital technology in innovation is becoming more and more important. Professor of Digital Life, Dr Somaya Ben Allouch, at the Amsterdam University of ...
The Executive Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has appointed Tamara Witschge professor of Cross Media as of 1 January 2020. This position had become vacant after the departure of Harry van ...
The prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize has been awarded to the paper ‘Everyday life after a hip fracture: what community-living older adults perceive as most beneficial for their recovery’. The paper by AUAS ...
The Executive Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) has appointed Ineke Bussemaker as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), following consultations with the representative ...
Amsterdam's knowledge institutes, including the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), are joining forces and investing EUR 1 billion in the development of responsible artificial intelligence (AI) ...
The transition to sustainable energy and mobility in the Netherlands is faltering, despite advancing technological developments and the clear economic benefits of such a transition. To change this, the Dutch Research ...
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences recently organised Going International 2019. The Kohnstamm building was buzzing with activity: fascinating speakers, diverse workshops, a student meet & greet and an ...
In theory, proactive behaviour by employees helps an organisation to move forward or protects it from threats and mistakes. However, in reality, a significant proportion of managers are insufficiently open to ...
At the request of Amsterdam’s Zuidoost district council, 130 students from seven faculties at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) worked together to come up with creative and innovative ideas to make ...
Soraya Wahjudi, physiotherapy student at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and gold medallist at the World Taekwondo Beach Championships, has been nominated for the VIVA400. Soraya juggles many ...
Amsterdam will be one of the host cities of the European Football Championship (UEFA EURO 2020) in June and July 2020. What will Amsterdam’s residents and visitors think of this event, and what will volunteers and ...
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 ...
