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Keyword (organisatie): Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Athena Institute
The Athena Institute addresses complex societal issues, like climate change, health inequality and social injustice. We do this by designing, facilitating and studying multi-stakeholder processes. Together with all actors involved, we investigate how to instigate system transformation.
Through a transdisciplinary approach, the Athena Institute includes the knowledge and expertise of a wide variety of actors in the design, conduct and evaluation of research and innovation. Think of citizens, professionals, policymakers, NGOs, and scholars. We particularly focus on including voices that often remain unheard. By learning from each other's perspectives, we jointly generate new ideas and anticipate potential barriers, thereby enabling sustainable change. -
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Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (VU)
The Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) provides an inclusive umbrella for sustainability-related research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ASI promotes cooperation between related but traditionally divided disciplinary approaches across VU faculties. It further builds bridges among VU researchers and governmental, private and cultural stakeholders to increase scientific and societal impact.
Building strong and lasting connections, ASI acts as a knowledge centre for emerging multi- and interdisciplinary research and acquires and provides funding for it. Our ambition as ASI is to contribute relevant, excellent and impactful science to society, in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. -
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Institute for Societal Resilience (VU)
Toenemende sociale ongelijkheid, spanningen tussen etnische en religieuze gemeenschappen, polarisatie, radicalisering, nieuwe vormen van (cyber)criminaliteit, de hervormingen in de zorg, de vluchtelingencrisis: maatschappelijke uitdagingen zijn aan de orde van de dag. Deze vraagstukken zijn dermate complex dat samenwerking en het bijeenbrengen van verschillende perspectieven, kennis en inzichten uit verschillende disciplines binnen de praktijk en de wetenschap noodzakelijk is.
Alleen door verschillende perspectieven en specialisaties te bundelen, kunnen we tot nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten komen en op zoek gaan naar omvangrijke antwoorden die de complexe realiteit waardig zijn. Het Institute for Societal Resilience (ISR), het onderzoeksinstituut van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen van de Vrije Universiteit, streeft daarom naar een nauwe samenwerking met de overheid, het bedrijfsleven, kennisinstellingen en maatschappelijke organisaties.Multidisciplinair OnderzoekNaast de samenwerking met verschillende maatschappelijke partners verenigt het ISR wetenschappers vanuit verschillende sociaal-wetenschappelijke disciplines. Deze multidisciplinaire aanpak is nodig om de maatschappelijke uitdagingen in al haar complexiteit te kunnen beschrijven, duiden en analyseren, en om tot inhoudelijke verdieping te kunnen komen. De werkwijze van het ISR komt bijvoorbeeld mooi naar voren in onze verschillende expertiselabs. -
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LEARN! (VU)
Onderzoeksinstituut LEARN! wil door onderzoek een bijdrage leveren aan de vraag: Hoe leren mensen en hoe kunnen we daar in ons onderwijs zo goed mogelijk op inspelen?
We doen dit door het in kaart brengen van de lerende individu in zijn/haar omgeving en het proces van leren en van doceren. Hoe leren kinderen, studenten en volwassenen in de context van het gezin, school, buurt en vrije tijd? Neurologische, pedagogische, psychologische en didactische onderzoeksvragen en de samenhang tussen deze vakgebieden zijn een belangrijke basis en inspiratie voor het onderzoek.Bron en meer informatie: website LEARN!
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Research master in Business Data Science (VU/UvA/EUR)
The research master program in Business Data Science is a joint degree program of the Schools of Economics and Business of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
The research master Business Data Science prepares students for a PhD trajectory in Business departments. It is a small-scale program, with maximum 25 students a year. It has a lively atmosphere and offer world class training in various field of Business (entrepreneurship, human resources and organization, innovation, marketing science, quantitative finance and supply chain analytics). -
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CLUE+ (VU)
Culture, cognition, history and heritage are central concerns of contemporary society, of relevance to all social domains and at all geographical scales. The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam interfaculty Research Institute CLUE+ brings together top researchers from a wide variety of academic disciplines to jointly investigate these concerns and to reflect upon and formulate strategies towards societal challenges. Following the general VU profile themes, the focus is on challenges in the realm of connectedness, sustainability and governance.
With interdisciplinary projects addressing these topics in novel ways and with innovative techniques, CLUE+ aims to provide an inspiring research climate for young academic talents. Its international orientation makes it an ideal partner for fellow research institutes and for public organisations active in the arenas of culture, cognition, history and heritage, both within Europe and neighbouring regions.For more information, see website CLUE+
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Network Institute (VU)
The Network Institute studies the interaction between digital technology and society, or what is often called: the Digital Society.
Digital technology – from social robotics to smart mobile devices, from global social media networks to fluent natural language processing tools, from realistic virtual environments to knowledgeable virtual agents – is rapidly changing, and society is changing with it. At the same time, new societal problems may emerge, and technological solutions are sought for.Digital technologies and societal processes thus become increasingly entwined. To study how both interact, it is not always sufficient to look at things from a monodisciplinary approach. Instead, we should encourage researchers from different backgrounds to work together and challenge their ideas and working routines. Such challenging interdisciplinary collaborations are exactly what the Network Institute aims to facilitate.
As an example: to build a social robot, social scientists are needed to understand how social cues are mediated, AI-scholars are needed to model the encoding, processing, and decoding of social information, and computational linguists are needed to relate the social cues to language utterings. Without any of these perspectives, social robots will not come to full potential.
With its interdisciplinary focus, its extensive size, and its well-established organization, the Network Institute is uniquely positioned. Within the VU, it is a central player in realizing the VU’s Connected World research agenda. Meanwhile, many VU researchers have benefited from their Network Institute-based collaborations, and the institute has introduced interdisciplinary research work to a generation of young VU scholars.
For more information, see website Network institute.
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Amsterdam Public Health
The Amsterdam Public Health research institute focusses on ‘public health’ issues with immediate relevance for the societal challenges facing large metropolitan area’s in a globalizing world.
Our mission is to conduct high quality research to improve citizen health, reduce health inequalities, transform healthcare, and empower citizens. -
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Amsterdam Movement Sciences (VU)
Amsterdam Movement Sciences focuses on human movement, a key issue for today’s society. We approach this from a broad interdisciplinary frame of reference, covering from fundamental to clinical and from cellular to population research. We aim at being world leading in the field of interdisciplinary translational research on human movement and physical performance, and to disseminate our results to patient groups and end-users so that society benefits optimally from our research. We are driven by questions arising from the clinic, society, and from our interest in the nature of the human motor system and human movement. Our research focuses on improving, preserving and restoring the human motor system to allow optimal physical performance in work, sports, ageing and disease, based on fundamental knowledge of underlying mechanisms and principles.
Bron en meer informatie: website AMS
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Tinbergen Institute (VU/UvA/EUR)
Founded in 1987, Tinbergen Institute (TI) is the graduate school and research institute in economics, econometrics and finance of the Erasmus School of Economics of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Amsterdam.
The TI Research Institute aims to stimulate fundamental and applied research in economics at the three participating universities and to organize an excellent research training environment for the institute’s research master students. The research programme consists of eight fields, covering the whole spectrum of economic analysis, from theoretical to empirical research and econometric methods,Bron en meer informatie: website Tinbergen
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Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences
The mission of Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences is to design knowledge-based treatment strategies to prevent and cure cardiovascular diseases. For this purpose, education, research and clinical activities are concentrated in five Research Programs that not only translate experiments to clinical interventions, but also use clinical observations to develop and validate novel biological concepts. In this framework, we interconnect excellence in clinical and basic research and provide a unique infrastructure to train and attract talented cardiovascular researchers. Having successfully achieved this a number of times, we further expect that our translational research approach will lead to discovery and proof of concept of innovative effective strategies, which improve cardiovascular health.
www.amsterdamresearch.org
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Amsterdam Business Research Institute (VU)
Amsterdam Business Research Institute VU was founded in 2009 as a response to the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration’s increasing awareness of the importance business studies in the academic arena, as well as its growing influence on knowledge creation in the business district of Amsterdam Zuidas. Due to its success, ABRI-VU expanded its activities and now works closely with other faculties and universities, and therefore dropped VU from its name. As of June 2010 ABRI-VU is known as ABRI. Read more about ABRI’s history and future.
Bron en meer informatie: website ABRI
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Talma Institute (VU)
Het Talma Instituut bundelt de kennis van diverse VU-faculteiten op het terrein van werk, zorg en welzijn. Per onderzoeksproject bekijken we welke onderzoekers het best team kunnen vormen. Of het nu gaat om economen, juristen, bestuurskundigen, organisatiedeskundigen of andere onderzoekers, via het Talma Instituut worden deze snel en gericht bij een project betrokken.
De samenwerking van onderzoekers uit verschillende disciplines vereist aandacht. Om maximale synergie te bereiken besteedt het Talma Instituut veel tijd aan het optimaliseren van de samenwerking tussen de betrokken onderzoekers.Bron en meer informatie: website Talma Institute
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Amsterdam Institute for Molecules, Medicines and Systems (VU)
The last decade has witnessed major breakthroughs in the fields of molecular, cellular and systems biology, and also in related enabling technologies. These innovations fuel a general excitement that a molecular up to systems understanding of health and disease is within reach.
These developments have lead to establishment of the Amsterdam Institute for Molecules, Medicines and Systems (AIMMS) at 1 April 2010. In AIMMS, 17 of the best research groups in pharmaceutical sciences, life sciences, computational life sciences and molecular sciences at VU Amsterdam have joined forces. By integrating these scientific disciplines, AIMMS is aiming at the elucidation of molecular mechanisms of diseases and the development of novel and safer drugs, therapeutics (e.g. proteins, antibodies and other biologics) and diagnostics (e.g. molecular and translational biomarkers).Research of AIMMS is clustered in three programmes:
- Molecular mechanisms of biological processes
- Design and characterization of molecules and medicines
- Biomarkers and diagnostics
The success of a research institute is very much dependent on the quality of its human capital. AIMMS is putting emphasis on a broad and high-quality academic education of Master's and PhD students and presents itself as an attractive host for talented post-docs and tenured staff.
AIMMS considers strong links to external stakeholders in the field as an ideal basis for successful long-term funding and as interesting opportunities for new funding. AIMMS actively pursues opportunities towards valorisation of its scientific achievements and knowledge, its technology facilities and services, and its intellectual property.
For more information, see website AIMSS
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NWO research project ‘Smart Disaster Governance’
‘Enhancing smart disaster governance: Assessing the potential of the net-centric approach’ is one of our flagship research projects funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). NWO is the national research council in the Netherlands that promotes quality and innovation in science by distributing research grants through a competitive system. In the ‘Smart Governance’ call NWO stimulated the conduct of systematic, multidisciplinary and comparative research into the nature and origins of smart governance. In the call we were stimulated to develop partnerships between the academic community, public, and private organisations in order to secure knowledge valorisation.
The Smart Governance call is based on the idea that the future competitiveness of the Dutch economy and our quality of life will be determined to an important extent by our ability to strengthen and innovate the country’s social infrastructure. A crucial element of this infrastructure is its system of governance. Systems of governance should allow individuals, groups, and corporate actors to undertake effective collective action. The Dutch economy and our society are facing a number of major challenges. Meeting these challenges requires smart modes of governance, because traditional systems have failed or there are serious doubts regarding their adequacy for solving today’s problems. A mode of governance is considered ‘smart’ when it is conducive to timely and effective collective problem-solving under conditions of high problem complexity and contextual uncertainty and volatility. Such modes may involve more direct forms of regulation but may also involve the incentive structure provided by the environment.
Our research team consists of Kees Boersma, Peter Groenewegen, Julie Ferguson, Jeroen Wolbers, Femke Mulder and Arjen Schmidt. In this research project we extended our collaboration with two other experts in the field of crisis and disaster management: Arjen Boin and Bartel van de Walle. The project builds on our state-of-the-art knowledge and recent publications in this field. This is also recognised by the reviewers and the committee, who qualified our grant proposal as ‘excellent’.
Source: website Disaster Governance
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Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences (ARIAS)
ARIAS, the Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences, aims to foster collaborative research between the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK), Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), Gerrit Rietveld Academy, University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam). All five institutions are represented in the ARIAS board as well as in the ARIAS advisory committee.
The goal of ARIAS is to facilitate new joint research programs, funding applications and to give visibility to research in and through the arts. Drawing from important research themes at NWO and the Nationale Wetenschaps Agenda, the three main research clusters of ARIAS are: ‘the city as a site of research’, ‘art, culture & health’, ‘art, research and education.’ARIAS is a platform for collaborative research through scientific and artistic practices. Its foundational drive is to nurture a diverse and sustainable research ecology among the institutions and organisations of education and knowledge in Amsterdam.
The platform forwards research on the intersection of the sciences, arts, and other practice-based disciplines. ARIAS stimulates transdisciplinary collaborations and experimentation with innovative methodologies, and co-develops the supportive structures needed for such hybrid forms of research that make alternative perspectives on today’s complex issues possible.
This is the agenda ARIAS articulates and acts upon as mediator and generator in between five knowledge institutions for academic and higher education that founded the platform in 2016: University of Amsterdam (UvA), VU Amsterdam (VU), Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA) / Sandberg Instituut (SI), Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK).Source and more information: arias.amsterdam
Coordinating ARIAS team: Jeroen Boomgaard (programme manager), Flora Lysen (programme coordinator). Through the Chief Science Office the invite empoyees of the municipality of Amsterdam for network meetings.
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A-LAB (VU)
Het Amsterdam Law and Behavior Institute (A-LAB) is een interfacultair onderzoeksinstituut van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. A-LAB bestudeert vraagstukken op het gebied van recht en gedrag. Het doet dit vanuit een inter- of multidisciplinair perspectief. A-LAB beoogt de bevordering van hoogstaand onderzoek, kennis en informatie op het gebied van recht en gedrag, vanuit multidisciplinair perspectief.
Het brengt verschillende disciplines samen voor inhoudelijk vernieuwend onderzoek op het terrein van crimineel en ander norm overschrijdend gedrag en van rechtshandhaving en niet-strafrechtelijke vormen van conflictoplossing.
A-LAB levert een bijdrage aan de versterking van het empirische rechtswetenschappelijk onderzoek en zodoende voor een aanvulling zorgen op normatief dogmatisch onderzoek en tegelijkertijd ook sociaalwetenschappelijk en gedragswetenschappelijk onderzoek sensitief maken voor rechtswetenschappelijke perspectieven als ethiek, rechtspositie en –bescherming, en wet- en regelgeving.
A-LAB is een academisch platform, herkenbaar en toegankelijk voor beleid, praktijk en media. Men kan zich wenden tot A-LAB met vragen op het gebied van recht en gedrag op regionaal en nationaal niveau.Bron en meer informatie: website A-LAB
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Transdisciplinary Learning through Community Service Learning (CSL), VU Amsterdam
Community involvement is a core value of the VU. Among other things, we give substance to this through a central Community Service Learning (CSL) program. Within CSL students use their academic knowledge and skills to contribute to solving societal problems. By doing so, students are closely working together with societal partners. Reciprocity is emerging here. An important feature of CSL is academic reflection before, during and after the educational activity. Recently the new VU-strategy was published. In this strategy there is a big focus on CSL
Bron en meer informatie: VU CSL website
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Amsterdam Neuroscience
The mission of Amsterdam Neuroscience is clear: to improve understanding of the human brain and nervous system in health and disease by executing integrated basic, translational and clinical research.
We do this by bringing together more than 850 clinicians, faculty and staff in the Amsterdam area, producing 1300+ publications per year, and performing research and clinical care amongst the best in the Netherlands and beyond. Our investigators target and organize their collaborations along nine translational research programs, each focused in specific brain and nervous system disease mechanisms but also on technology innovation and basic research. We contribute to generating deep understanding of brain mechanisms at all levels of study, from molecular, to cellular studies to circuitry and intact brain and behavior. From there the latest scientific insights are translated into novel diagnostics and interventions for neurodegenerative, neuroimmunological and neuropsychiatric disorders.www.amsterdamresearch.org
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Cancer Center Amsterdam
Cancer Center Amsterdam is an oncology center that aims to create new possibilities. Inspired by today’s patients we develop, research and share new insights on how to prevent, detect, cure and live with cancer. The more insights we have, the better we can educate the next generation of specialists.
Researchers, doctors, caregivers and professors share one goal: a better future for cancer-patients. Inspired and often aided by today’s patients, we want to develop possibilities for future patients.www.amsterdamresearch.org
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Civic AI Lab
The Civic AI Lab is a is a collaboration between City of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and University of Amsterdam (UvA). Civic AI Lab focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in the fields of education, welfare, environment, mobility, health, ethics, and governance.
Civic AI Lab is one of the seven University of Amsterdam projects to be awarded 10.000€ from the "Gewaardeerd!" fund of the Ministry of Education. We aim to use these resources to spread the word about developing AI technology that promotes economic and social human rights, such as the right to health, education and employment, while respecting fundamental human rights such as non-discrimination and equality of opportunity.
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Amsterdam Data Science
ADS accelerates data science and artificial intelligence research by connecting, sharing and showcasing world-class technology, expertise and talent from Amsterdam on a regional, national and international level. Our research enables business and society to better gather, store, analyse and present data in order to gain valuable insights and make informed decisions.
We invite you to:
- share the data challenges in your organisation with the ADS community
- discover innovative ways to apply data science across fields
- network and discuss leading issues with students and top data scientists
On a monthly basis, we organise ADS Coffee and Data (general research events) and Deep Dive (on a more focussed research topic). Please sign-up to our MEETUP for more details. The popularity of our events has enabled us to establish a very active Meetup community of over 6000 members.
We are always seeking new collaboration opportunities to share knowledge, broaden our expanding network of researchers, and be inspired by data-intensive problems. Please connect and get in touch with ADS:
Email ADS (info@amsterdamdatascience.nl)
Follow: Twitter @ams_ds & LinkedIn
Visit: UvA Informatics Institute, Science Park 904, 1098 XH
Post: P.O. Box 94323, 1090 GH