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The Faculty of Science is taking action in the fight against the corona virus. Staff and students arranged for lab coats and gloves to be made available to healthcare workers, providing them with much-needed ...

Both EBSCO and ProQuest are partnering with several publishers to offer unlimited user access to eBooks, starting March 23. ProQuest offers unlimited access to all owned titles through mid-June 2020, helping ...

The new measures announced by the cabinet to limit the consequences of the coronavirus also have major implications for the UvA. It has been decided that for the rest of this month teaching activities will be ...

After consulting with experts the UvA has regretfully had to decide that the Bachelor’s Day scheduled for this Saturday, 14 March cannot go ahead, to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. The most important ...

The Master's programmes Security and Network Engineering and Software Engineering received positive reviews in the new Universities Study Guide. In this guide students find independent advice about the Master's ...

Real science requires integrity by definition, according to Ed van Bavel, one of the UvA's five Confidential Advisers for Academic Integrity. His colleague Annette Groot couldn't agree more: 'If you don't act with ...

The Library is offering a new course called Citing Sources. This course is made up of two modules, is available online and everyone can take it at their own pace.

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been ranked best in the world for Communication Science & Media for the third year in a row. The UvA ranks among the top 100 worldwide in 27 out of the 47 subject areas measured ...

During the summer of 2020 the UvA is switching to a new reader system. Lecturers wishing to offer their students readers will soon have an easy way of doing this within Canvas, the UvA's digital learning environment.

The UvA is following developments around the Coronavirus closely. See uva.nl/coronavirus for updates.

Where there used to be shelves piled high with jars of formaldehyde full of unusual animals, we now see tourists coming and going, well wrapped up against the cold and pulling their suitcases behind them. Among all ...

This February the 10.000th open access article is administered that was published without any additional costs by Dutch researchers in 2019 under the national open access agreements with publishers. Also this year ...

On Thursday, 13 February, Facility Services accepted a certificate from MAAS, the coffee supplier of the AUAS and the UvA.

On Friday, 27 March 2020, the University of Amsterdam will kick-off its new research priority area ‘Global Digital Cultures’ (GDC). Researchers and students from all faculties at the UvA are warmly invited to this ...

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The University’s ambitions for the coming years have been formulated in the document ‘Outlines for the 2021 - 2026 strategic plan’. You are invited to join in thinking about the UvA’s next steps and to voice your ...

The Faculty of Science would like to ensure an inclusive learning and working environment in which students and employees feel at home. When everybody feels well established, you create the best possible conditions ...

Digital threats are rapidly increasing, which requires us to take extra security measures. Just in the last few weeks, Maastricht University fell victim to a large Ransomware attack, our University dealt with a range ...

On 15 January, the Executive Board adopted new guidelines on research data management (RDM) at the UvA. These guidelines are based on the FAIR principles, which specify that research data should be as Findable, ...

Bubbling flasks, pots with exciting labels, pink light to encourage the micro-organisms in the flasks to grow extra fast… At Science Park 904, professor Stanley Brul and student Delano Sanches flit between ...