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Emma Sprangers

24 September 2026

Hungary set to rejoin funding programme Horizon Europe

The European Commission appears ready to end Hungary’s time on the sidelines. Hungarian researchers are set to regain access to European research funding, and the country could receive billions of euros that had previously been withheld.
24 September 2026

Research universities look to strengthen collaboration with Defence Ministry

Research universities have signed a letter of intent with the Ministry of Defence to deepen their cooperation. They did so after a series of discussions about academic freedom.
24 September 2026

Law scholar Itamar Mann (46) leaves Israel due to shrinking academic freedom

International law scholar Itamar Mann is joining VU Amsterdam on a Tulip Fund grant, after growing threats to academic freedom in Israel left him searching for a new place to continue his work. ‘VU is my new academic home’
14 September 2026

60 years of Uilenstede: late nights, dirty dancing and a student-run newspaper

Uilenstede celebrated its 60th anniversary with a festival bringing together former residents and current students. ‘Uilenstede has had a big impact on people’s lives, including mine.’
10 September 2026

CPB repeats: international students generate a net financial benefit for the Netherlands

Far from being a burden on taxpayers, international students make a positive contribution to the Dutch public purse, according to a new cost-benefit analysis by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB).
3 September 2026

How to get out of your bubble

When starting out at VU, it’s tempting to lock yourself in a comfy social circle built around things like your degree or nationality. Here is how to make friends beyond it.
1 September 2026

Two counsellors for 3,000 employees

For half a day each week, Professor of Business Analytics Sandjai Bhulai puts mathematics aside and serves as a central staff confidential counsellor.
13 August 2026

Netherlands brings 29 leading scientists here from the United States with special Tulip Fund

Thirty-four researchers from abroad are coming to the Netherlands to continue their academic work here. Of these, 29 were working in the United States. They are the first grants awarded from the new Tulip Fund.
13 August 2026

Guideline: academic freedom must sometimes give way to knowledge security

Measures around knowledge security are intended to protect core values such as openness and academic freedom, a new guideline states. But the measures sometimes work against those same core values, it adds.
13 August 2026

Agreements on international students now officially signed

The universities of applied sciences, research universities and education minister Letschert today put their signatures to the administrative agreements on the inflow of international students. This continues the previously agreed policy of ‘self-regulation’.
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