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AUAS and UvA launch logistics hub for sustainable deliveries
29 June 2017 | CommunicationThe 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 ...
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Nanda Piersma professor by special appointment Urban Analytics
7 June 2017 | CommunicationThe 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 ...
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More compost from underground worm hotel by AUAS students
23 May 2017 | CommunicationFour 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 ...
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AUAS researches world’s first Shopping Street Innovation Lab
19 May 2017 | CommunicationHolograms 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, ...
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Solar power storage by citizens stagnating
9 May 2017 | CommunicationElectric 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 ...
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Amsterdam gets new education platform for future data specialist
24 March 2017 | CommunicationTwo Amsterdam universities and one University of Applied Sciences have joined forces to launch the Amsterdam School of Data Science, opening this March.
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AUAS launches first Master’s degree programme in Digital Design
16 March 2017 | CommunicationIn 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 ...
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Electronic energy meters’ false readings almost 6 times too high
7 March 2017 | CommunicationSome 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 ...
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MUAS and AUAS sign memorandum of understanding for cooperation
16 February 2017 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesAt 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 ...
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International melting pot increases quality of AUAS education
1 February 2017 | CommunicationAt 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 ...
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Smart doorbell works through vibration
30 January 2017 | CommunicationDing-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) ...
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‘AUAS beer’ heavenly water wins catering award
20 January 2017 | CommunicationHemelswater, 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 ...
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'Something alive' occupies lamppost in amsterdam light festival
23 December 2016 | CommunicationOne 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’ ...
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AUAS aims for 100 percent open access
22 December 2016 | CommunicationResults 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 % ...
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Global consensus on the care for intensive care patients
8 December 2016 | CommunicationAn 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 ...
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U!REKA, collaboration platform for European higher education
28 November 2016 | CommunicationSix 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 ...
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AUAS project ‘Make IT Work' gets spin-off in Utrecht
7 November 2016 | CommunicationThe 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 ...
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AUAS student Anita Abaisa wins ECHO-award
28 October 2016 | CommunicationAUAS 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 ...
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Launch of the ‘Laura’ chair in commemoration of AUAS student
28 October 2016 | Communication‘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 ...
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Dean of FSN, Jacomine Ravensbergen, leaves AUAS
3 October 2016 | CommunicationAs 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 ...