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Campus & Culture 9 November 2021

New VU rector is the figurehead of a changing campus

The VU has found a new rector. Neuroscientist Jeroen Geurts (1978) will be the successor of Vinod Subramaniam in January.
Column & Blog 2 November 2021

Students can share their worries at Wellbeing Point & Panel

LONGREAD – It’s been a long time coming, but today VU Amsterdam is launching its Student Wellbeing Point & Panel, or rather a pilot phase for it. The twin initiatives are intended to increase the accessibility of help and information…
Campus & Culture 16 September 2021

‘Arabic’ instructions in VU buildings miss the mark

Throughout the VU Amsterdam buildings, about a thousand stickers urge people in multiple languages to keep their distance. But according to native speakers, the ones in Arabic read gibberish. “This is a symptom of a structural problem.” When asked what…
Column & Blog 26 August 2021

‘You never switch to the cloud for its security features’

LONGREAD – VU Amsterdam is currently migrating all employee and student data to the Microsoft cloud. Yes, that’s right: the same company whose email servers (Exchange) were hacked earlier this year, with disastrous consequences. So, how safe will our VU…
Campus & Culture 7 July 2021

Students reclaim the campus during week of workshops

Finally they can be on campus and get a taste of it. About 150 bachelor’s students are roaming VU Amsterdam this week for workshop program Reclaim the Campus. For some it marks their return, for others it’s one of their…
Campus & Culture 25 June 2021

Covid-19 cost VU Amsterdam 12 million euros last year

VU Amsterdam closed the year 2020 with a positive balance of €24 million, €16 million higher than budgeted. But still the university did not make a profit, says board member Marcel Nollen.
Campus & Culture 25 June 2021

More reports of alarming conduct in 2020

People have missed their colleagues and fellow students last year, the meetings in the corridors and the chats at the coffee machine during the break. But the 2020 annual report also reveals other things: more illness among academics and an…
Campus & Culture 25 June 2021

‘Ventilation and server cooling both cost extra energy’

It was a frugal year for VU Amsterdam. The university consumed 12.5% less energy than in 2019 and 30% less than in 2005. VU Amsterdam says this puts it on course to meet its agreement with the government to improve…
Campus & Culture 25 June 2021

IT department has too many external staff members

The works council is generally satisfied with the year 2020, except for one thing: the enormously high number of external staff hired by the IT department. The costs were budgeted at €7.8 million, but actually amounted to almost €9 million.
Campus & Culture 18 June 2021

VU wants at least one introduction day on campus

While preparing for every eventuality, universities and universities of applied sciences are hoping that first-year students will have a normal introduction week, without all the fuss of social distancing and other restrictions.