In an effort to chart the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship education in Noord-Holland, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) completed a project commissioned by the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO).

Sarphati Amsterdam is a unique scientific research institute dedicated to studying and preventing non-communicable diseases among children in Amsterdam. Dr. Loes van Rijn van Gelderen, Research Coordinator of Sarphati Amsterdam, tells us more about the institute’s mission and projects.

Discover how collaborations between companies and academic institutions allow companies to tap into the expertise, state-of-the-art facilities, and talented pools within universities, enabling them to drive innovation, develop cutting-edge technologies, and gain a competitive edge in the market.

Through their unique community and science-based platform, Panel empowers citizens to play a more meaningful role in decision-making. By collating qualitative responses and data, the software enables participants within a group to seamlessly access, organize, and share the outcomes of their collaborative projects.

The students of the "Organization Design for the 21st Century" course, part of the MSc Business Administration at the Amsterdam Business School, enthusiastically undertook a challenge given by Eurofiber. Learn more about this successful collaboration.

This year, the Placemaking educational team has been nominated for the Dutch Education Premium, the highest award in Dutch higher education. What is this innovative challenge-based course about?

The JK building, located on the Roeterseiland Campus, is currently being renovated. This project, initiated in 2020, will be delivered in late 2023. This week, we talked with Thomas Buijs, co-founder and architect from ATELIERFRONT, and Erik Boer, the REC Impact project manager, to discuss this exciting project.

The Amsterdam Academic Angel Fund, also known as 3xA, is a fund that aims to invest in very early-stage startups emerging from academia. Launched a year ago and coordinated by the Vrije Universiteit and the University of Amsterdam, 3xA has already invested in seven startups.

This week Dr Vittoria Scalera, director of A Sustainable Future (ASF), told us how this UvA EB research platform supports, promotes and coordinates research for a more sustainable economy, society, and planet.

What is Computational Social Science? This week, we talked with Suzanne Hansen, head of partnerships for the Bachelor’s Computational Social Science, at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, located at the Roeterseiland campus.

We met Ilvy van der Steen and Laura Rodenburg, former and current coordinators of the student consultancy firm StudentWeetRaad, based on the Roeterseiland Campus. They told us more about their mission, how they collaborate with external partner organisations and the initiative’s benefits for students.

CREA, central to the REC campus, leads the way to a better society through art, culture, and encounters. Szept, its mascot, tells you everything about CREA’s impact.

How can analytics can be used to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? The Science to Impact director at Analytics for a Better World explains.

Students pick a company and develop a product or service based on disruptive innovations like robots, AI and augmented reality.

The Entrepreneurship minor is a practically-designed course fostering the ideas of budding entrepreneurs. Find out how the program builds bridges to society.

UvA students from the Roeterseiland campus take part in a summer sustainability challenge, designed to help them network and solve real-world case studies.

A 23-year-old UvA law student wins a legal start-up challenge for her innovative, visually appealing study guide.

Criminal Law masters’ students step into the minds of criminals as part of this unique course preparing them for their future careers.

Meet the architects from ATERLIERFRONT who’ll be responsible for breathing new life into the J/K building - the soon-to-be home of REC-Impact.

Dr Elke Heemskerk discusses the new bachelor program, Computational Social Science and why he believes students are impactful problem solvers.