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AUAS candidates receive scholarship for professional doctorate
31 May 2023 | CommunicationChico Taguba, Nadja van der Weide and Soemitro Poerbodipoero are the first AUAS candidates to receive their scholarships for the national Professional Doctorate (PD) pilot programme. With the PD, higher professional ...
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NSE 2023: Student satisfaction decreases slightly
30 May 2023 | CommunicationStudents rated AUAS slightly lower on average in 2023 compared with 2022. The National Student Survey (NSE) was completed by some 16,000 AUAS students.
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AUAS leaps ahead in sustainability ranking
26 May 2023 | CommunicationMany students and staff at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) are working hard every day to make our education, research and business operations more sustainable. These efforts have now been rewarded ...
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EU awards diversity prize for AUAS project
25 May 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIA project involving AUAS researchers has won a new European Union citizen science prize for ‘diversity and cooperation’ this week. The EU has launched the Citizen Science Prize to encourage research with ...
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José Teunissen appointed professor of Fashion Design & Identity
9 May 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIJosé Teunissen was appointed professor of Fashion Design and Identity at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) on 1 May 2023. She researches fashion from a humanities perspective, and therefore ...
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Pact for Skills: bridging Europe's digital skills gap
9 May 2023 | CommunicationToday, on Europe Day, the European Commission (EC) is officially kicking off the '2023 Year of Skills'. This is important, because Europe is facing a serious digital skills gap: only 54% of Europeans possess a basic ...
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Interested in a Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative track?
26 April 2023 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesAt the beginning of 2023, the universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands started a pilot for their own doctoral programme: the Professional Doctorate (PD). This is comparable to a university PhD but of a ...
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AUAS graduates find jobs immediately more often
26 April 2023 | Communication92 per cent of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) graduates found a job within three months of graduation according to the HBO Monitor 2022, an independent nationwide survey on the job prospects of ...
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This researcher is already working and living on solar power
18 April 2023 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesWhat is it like to work on solar energy, and to depend on a brilliant sky for your Teams meeting? Designer and researcher Angella Mackey of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences has been trying this out for a ...
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AUAS well represented at European research conference in Prague
17 April 2023 | CommunicationApplied research is intertwined in our education at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), driven by the search for concrete solutions to pressing urban issues. At the EARMA conference in Prague next week, ...
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EU Valorisation Week to showcase RESILIO as best practice
16 April 2023 | CommunicationThe Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ blue-green roof project RESILIO will be in the spotlight during the EU Knowledge Valorisation Week 2023 – an European Commission event for researchers and ...
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Yolanda Verdonk appointed to AUAS Supervisory Board
4 April 2023 | CommunicationYolanda Verdonk has been appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) starting 1 April 2023. She is the sixth member of the Board and was recruited because of her ...
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Circular Wood for the Neighborhood wins AUAS Research Award
31 March 2023 | CommunicationThe Circular Wood for the Neighborhood research project is the winner of the AUAS Research of the Year Award. This was announced on 30 March 2023 at the annual Knowledge Parade in the DeLaMar Theatre. The project ...
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Ukrainian students visit AUAS
29 March 2023 | CommunicationThe Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is hosting students from several European cities this week as part of the U!REKA Change Agents programme. A number of students from the Ukrainian Odessa National ...
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Digital Life receives award during international conference
21 March 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIThe paper ‘Design Specifications for a Social Robot Math Tutor’ was awarded second prize for the Best Studies Paper Award at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction of the Association for ...
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Jakob Mulder building nominated for Amsterdam Architecture Prize
20 March 2023 | CommunicationThe Jakoba Mulder building is one of ten projects nominated for the Amsterdam Architecture Prize (AAP) 2023. Organised by Arcam, the AAP aims to encourage public debate about Amsterdam architecture.
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'Asking for help should be normal'
17 March 2023 | Student AffairsThe AUAS has a place on each campus where students can go with their questions and problems or simply for a listening ear. We have provided this service to help students through their degree programme.
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AUAS involved in prominent R&I conference in Brussels
10 February 2023 | CommunicationThe Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) was well represented at the annual Science Business conference in Brussels from 6-7 February, ensuring that the perspective of applied sciences was heard among key ...
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Earthquake-related support available
9 February 2023 | CommunicationThe AUAS would like to express its support to anyone who has family or friends in Turkey or Syria during this difficult time. We realise that this event has a major impact on many people. We sympathise intensely with ...
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AUAS welcomes call for sustainable banking
8 February 2023 | CommunicationScientists4Future, a network of scientists, has urged higher education institutions in the Netherlands to bank sustainably. The Executive Board at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences welcomes this call to ...