Travel along the rich learning environments of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in and around the city!
In this collection you will find the complete publication 'Kennis ligt op straat', which was released on September 1, 2022. Here you will find inspiring examples where students, lecturers and researchers of the AUAS work together towards a sustainable, diverse & inclusive and digital future. Get to know 10 living labs of the AUAS in the city in this publication; to which urban challenge do they contribute, with whom do they collaborate and how can you participate? The Neighborhood Campuses, Knowledge Mile and the Living Labs are examples of these rich learning environments.
Students are an important link in the city's research ecosystem. At openresearch we make their work visible!
On openresearch.amsterdam we publish theses so that students' work gets more visibility. So that the theses that students have worked long and hard on do not just disappear into thin air. By giving the work of students on open research a place, it ends up in a network of researchers and civil servants all over the city. This can help students further in the next step of their career.
Theses are placed in the substantive collection where they have meaning. In addition, there is this collection, in which you can find all theses that have been published on openresearch.amsterdam.
You are going to do research for a paper or graduation assignment and you need data for this. Where do you start? In this article you will find an overview of the various sources that may be relevant to your research. Whether you are researching ecopassages in the city, traffic information systems, neighborhood facilities or the climate resilience of neighbourhoods, the municipality of Amsterdam has collected this data and made it available. In the form of maps, datasets or dashboards.
This is an interactive map site of the municipality of Amsterdam. This website contains a large number of interactive theme maps and open geo-data from the spatial sector. You can explore the maps on themes such as sustainability, history & architecture or traffic. These geographical datasets are freely available for study and research.
This is the data starting point of the municipality of Amsterdam. This data is collected and processed into information by the Research, Information and Statistics (OIS) department of the municipality. Here you will find data and datasets on countless topics that are relevant to the city. Here you can also read more about the sources of the website and the data policy that the municipality uses.
The department (OIS) collects a lot of statistical information about Amsterdam and also carries out (assignment) research. Different data sources are combined here: from register data to survey data to qualitative conversations. This produces different research results; from student forecasts, to dashboards about tourism or about living and quality of life in Amsterdam.
As of May 2022, the Public Government Act (Wet Openbare Overheid (Woo)) came into effect. This law regulates the right to information about everything the government does. It is the successor to the Government Information (Public Access) Act (Wob). Here you can search for documents that the municipality of Amsterdam has made public. These documents relate to the ideas, plans, rules and agreements of Amsterdam.
A lot of data is also collected at the national level. This is the National Data Portal of the Dutch government. On this portal you will find data (sets) made available by the Dutch government, in the field of healthcare, energy, traffic, economy and much more. You can also read more about the impact of the use of different datasets here.
This data platform bundles, processes and presents data for, from and about municipalities and is accessible to everyone. Here you will find figures on all Dutch municipalities in all important policy areas. The 'dashboards' make it easy to compare municipalities.
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
Despite the fact that 11,000 units were built in Amsterdam for young people and students in the period 2014-2018, the housing situation has not improved. Young people and students have competition from many other groups in the housing market, who often have more to spend. In addition, the number of students is still growing and in 2018 there is a shortage of 9,400 student residences. The shortage of housing for young people is not exactly known, but it is estimated at 8,000 to 22,000 homes.
In this collection you will find articles about student housing.
The urban challenges we face today have a multidisciplinary nature, which makes it important to create a connection between fundamental research and society-wide implementation - and to connect the different disciplines and stakeholders needed to solve them. In light of this, Living Labs are an attractive way to test, create and develop metropolitan solutions that will be adopted more smoothly and swiftly by all stakeholders involved. And as a result, have a long-lasting impact on solving complex multi-stakeholder societal and metropolitan challenges on a large scale. Find out more about Urban Living Labs by watching the video "What are living labs?" in this collection.
The goal within our urban Living Labs is to make impact by developing new products on a small scale – be it an object, a service, a technology, an application, or a system – and to find solutions that can be implemented on a larger scale. This is done in a real-life and co-creating setting in which different stakeholders give shape to the innovation process. The actors are users, private and public actors, as well as knowledge institutes. In the process, the feedback gathered from use and evaluation of the product is used to accelerate further development. As the product is implemented in a real-life setting and validated by the involved actors, it is more likely to be adopted smoothly and swiftly by all involved, and subsequently have a large impact in the city quickly.
AMS Institute has 4 great Living Lab Projects which feature projects of their own:
By 2050, the municipality of Amsterdam wants to reduce its CO2 emissions by 95% compared to the emissions in 1990, with the aim of not further exceeding the natural limits of the earth. To achieve this goal, Amsterdam is working on a natural gas-free, emission-free and energy-neutral city.
Amsterdam Zuidoost goes a step further and wants to be energy neutral by 2040. The development of Amsterdam Zuidoost offers opportunities to combine sustainability with poverty reduction and social improvement. For example, by improving the living comfort of homes when they are renovated. Or by creating local employment during large-scale renovations. We call this a social energy transition.
Realizing this requires cooperation from many different parties. Both from the government and the residents, as well as from companies and researchers. The Energy Lab Zuidoost brings these parties together. The aim is to use scientific expertise to contribute directly to the issues and projects in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
Marineterrein Amsterdam is a test area and city quarter for learning, working and living in a liveable city. In the special and flexible approach, the test area gradually develops into a city quarter where there is room for open innovation, special forms of living, sports, recreation and greenery.
As the world changes faster and faster, a new approach is needed to solve social problems. How do we keep ourselves cool during the hot summers and limit the traffic on our streets? How do we continue to learn throughout our lives and limit the large number of school leavers? What role can technology play in this?
In the middle of the city, Marineterrein Amsterdam is the place where small and large companies, organizations, colleges and universities do experiments in the field of learning, working and living. In these partnerships, there is plenty of experimentation with technology and how it can improve the living environment.
In the former Bijlmer Bajes, the 'Healthy Urban Living Lab' has taken up residence. The Living Lab focuses on the (future) users of the Bajes Kwartier. Together with them, we are investigating how to design the area in such a way that it invites maximum exercise and meeting: crucial factors for good health and well-being.
The Urban Comfort Lab is a field lab / research facility near Schiphol which provides a semi-controlled urban environment in which the impact of measures to reduce aircraft noise, heat stress and air pollution are tested. The aim is to develop solutions which improve health and wellbeing in areas exposed to environmental noise.
Hoe kunnen we studenten systematisch laten bijdragen aan de maatschappelijke uitdagingen van de stad? Met deze vraag startte in 2008 de ideële stichting en sociale onderneming Academie van de Stad.
Sindsdien zet deze zich in voor de leefbaarheid en ontwikkeling van de stad. Academie van de Stad haalt actuele vraagstukken op bij stedelijke partijen en vertaalt deze vervolgens naar een project en een heldere opdracht voor studenten en young professionals. Op die manier werken studenten en young professionals in maatschappelijke projecten aan grootstedelijke vraagstukken voor een echte opdrachtgever.
In deze collectie leest u meer over de onderzoeksverslagen, impact die Academie van de Stad heeft.
By the Amsterdam Young Academy (AYA): Interdisciplinarity is easily formulated as an ambition, yet it is less easily put into practice.
Nevertheless, as a working methodology and research framework it is an amazing adventure for all those involved, as is shown in Interdisciplinarity Beyond the Buzzword: A Guide to Academic Work Across Disciplines. In this collection you will find the complete guide and some highlighted chapters. The guide was recently launched in SPUI25 using the case of Childhood Obesity Amsterdam. You can find the link to the presentation below.
Amsterdam Young Academy (AYA) is an independent platform where talented young scientists from different disciplines meet to develop views on science, scientific policy and how to build bridges between science and society in Amsterdam. Amsterdam Young Academy is an initiative of the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universtiteit and was officially launched on November 6th, 2018.