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AUAS students work on water sampling drone for Waternet
19 December 2014 | CommunicationEight 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.
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AUAS awarded EU tender for elite sports and education
18 December 2014Elite 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 ...
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Students make interactive sphere for Amsterdam Light Festival
4 December 2014 | CommunicationFor 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 ...
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Crossmediascapes: Inaugural lecture by Harry van Vliet
21 November 2014 | CommunicationHarry van Vliet, Professor of Experience Design for Crossmedia Content (Crossmedia), gave his inaugural lecture on 4 November 2014. He opened with: “This professorship should never have been created,” and ...
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CMD first higher professional education programme with MOOC
18 November 2014 | CommunicationThe 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 ...
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Hotel with design rooms by AMFI students a success
14 November 2014Damrak 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 ...
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AUAS launches TAA, the academy for high performance athletes
11 November 2014 | CommunicationFrom 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 ...
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Underachievers need to be challenged
27 October 2014 | CommunicationChallenge 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 ...
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Dance industry launches innovation platform for students
24 October 2014 | CommunicationThe 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 ...
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Students use drone to save the rhino
13 October 2014Students 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 ...
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Big Data to create clean air
7 October 2014 | CommunicationAmsterdam 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 ...
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Nieuw-West to become testing ground for self-reliance
6 October 2014Three 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 ...
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Households will acquire power using their electric car's battery
18 September 2014 | CommunicationThis 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 ...
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Student develops tricycle for waste management system in Africa
11 September 2014 | CommunicationAUAS 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 ...
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Relaunch website Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
9 September 2014 | CommunicationAs 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 ...
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Opening of University of Applied Sciences Year
29 August 2014Nowadays 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 ...
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First junior teachers to start work
28 August 2014The 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 ...
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Unique Amsterdam cooperation raises sport to a higher level
11 July 2014 | CommunicationFrom 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 ...
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Logistics students analyse air cargo trucking for KLM
9 July 2014 | CommunicationThe 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 ...
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Encouraging physical education in Brazil and the Netherlands
8 July 2014 | CommunicationA 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 ...