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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
