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• Everyone involved in education and research has a personal responsibility for upholding academic integrity.
• The UvA has a special and diverse property portfolio. It is used to house education, research and valorisation, with different space requirements.
• The allocation model describes how primary funding (government grants and tuition fees) will be allocated. It determines how much budget the faculties are allocated and forms the basis of the UvA's budget cycle.
• The UvA conducts scientific research on laboratory animals on a limited scale until an alternative becomes available. This research is needed to understand (the development of) cancer and brain diseases like dementia, epilepsy, depression, addiction and anxiety in humans and also to prevent or de...
• The annual report is a document that provides information about the UvA's policy and results for accountability purposes.
• On this page you can find the annual reports of the confidential advisers at the UvA.
• The Assessment Policy Framework describes the assessment policy at institutional level. Testing and teaching are closely linked and testing forms an integral part of quality assurance processes within education.
• The budget shows how the UvA’s plans and ambitions fit into the financial frameworks described in the Framework Letter.
• Together with the other universities in the Netherlands, the UvA values transparent and responsible governance, supervision and employee participation. That is why the universities have drawn up a joint Code for Good Governance.
• The Code of Conduct contains agreements that higher educational institutions have made about how to deal with international students and is therefore an instrument of self-regulation.
• The cultural excellence scheme provides clarity about the support that the university offers to students who want to combine their studies with a top-level career in the cultural sector.
• The UvA wants to involve students and employees more in decisions and topics that affect everyone or a specific part of the university.
• The UvA advances educational innovation in digital resources. The core objectives are aimed at enhancing campus education and supporting the student learning process.
• The enrolment provisions contain procedural rules and tuition fees for registration at the University of Amsterdam.

• The Framework Letter forms the start of a new planning and control cycle. In this Letter, all the UvA’s organisational units indicate what they want to achieve in the upcoming year, how they are going to do this and how much money this will require.

• As well as a description of the allocation of responsibilities, duties and powers, the governance model of the UvA also includes a description of the governance of teaching and participation in decision-making.

• The policy's objective is to promote healthy screen work successfully through good employer practices, and to effectively address unhealthy screen work for employees working both at a UvA location and remotely from home.
• The UvA aims to offer sufficient opportunities to motivated students who wish to excel. They can distinguish themselves by following an additional programme on top of the regular Bachelor's programme.
• The UvA’s success depends on our employees and their unique knowledge, talents and motivation. This means that the university must and will strive to make working at the UvA as attractive, challenging and safe as possible. In order to remain meaningful in the future as a university for all UvA em...
• As a bilingual university, the UvA offers programmes in both Dutch and English and will continue to do so in the future. The language policy describes the UvA's vision on English-language education and provides policy frameworks for the choice of teaching language and decision-making on this, lan...
• The internship agreement is an agreement between the university, the internship provider, and the intern, or between the university and the intern.
• Examinations Boards establish rules regarding the implementation of their tasks and powers. The Model Rules and Guidelines serve as a guideline for the Examinations Boards when drafting these rules.
• The outlines of the educational programme and examinations of each degree programme are set out in Teaching and Examination Regulations. These model regulations provide a format.
• The occupational health and safety policy focuses on risk management, the position of employees with prevention tasks, and governance within the UvA
• The P&C cycle contains the elements by which the university plans, adjusts and accounts for financial policy. Together with the allocation model and the cost model, they form the financial foundation of the organisation.
• The University of Amsterdam recognizes the great impact and potential of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education. In order to embed the use of GenAI in a careful and responsible manner, the UvA has prepared a policy framework, supplemented by an addendum to the Assessment Policy Framework.
• The focus of this policy lies on the reporting, registration and investigation of the underlying causes of incidents in order to learn from them, to improve safety and to reduce the risk of such incidents reoccurring.
• The UvA bears a crucial responsibility in accelerating sustainable change in society. This begins with – but also goes beyond – making our own operations more sustainable, and is embedded in teaching and research across all faculties. You can read more about this in our policy roadmap.
• The research project "Information Law and the Digital Transformation of the University" addresses key challenges the European university sector faces today. These challenges include the increasing dependence of universities and researchers on suppliers of digital technologies and services, a comp...
• The UvA principles and frameworks for the digital agenda are intended to provide support and direction in making choices in the realisation of the digital agenda. Principles and frameworks are guiding in both the elaboration of new initiatives and in the decision-making process. They prevent disc...

• An updated version of the 'Professororial Policy' memorandum has been adopted by the Executive Board on 2 November 2021. In this memorandum, agreements and assumptions regarding, among other things, appointment variants, appointment procedures, quality assurance and emeriti policy are ordered and...

• The UvA pays constant attention to educational quality. The Educational Quality Policy Framework describes the university’s quality policy. This framework provides tools to give further shape to faculty quality assurance manuals.

• All Dutch universities are working towards a new balance in recognising and rewarding academic work. The Netherlands is not alone in this; internationally, universities are also engaged in this process, including within
• These regulations define the Ombudsperson’s role and procedures.

• In these regulations, the UvA sets out the procedure for allocating places to students who wish to participate in an exchange programme at a foreign university.

• These regulations are aimed at ensuring safe and healthy working conditions during activities, internships and excursions outside UvA premises, in the Netherlands or abroad.

• These regulations govern, among other things, the selection, position, duties and facilities of the Individual Legal Status Officer.
• The spin-offs regulation contains university’s conditions regarding equity participation and the licensing of intellectual property.
• The Strategic Framework for Internationalisation sets objectives for the UvA as an international university and provides criteria for achieving those objectives.
• Valorisation is the focus of growing social and political interest. The UvA views valorisation as one of its core tasks.
• The strategic plan 'Inspiring Generations' sets out what we need to hold on to and expand the UvA's position. How do we work on the development of talent? How can we utilise the breadth and scope of our many disciplines? How can be become more inclusive and agile as an organisation? The plan star...
• The University of Amsterdam provides support for students with a disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence or dyslexia, enabling them to participate fully in education and assessment. The UvA offers this support through basic provisions, education and examination arrangements, and tailored fac...
• The digital agenda gives direction to the development of digitisation at the UvA, in order to respond to the rapidly changing world. It is an elaboration of UvA’s 2021-2026 Strategic Plan, the strategic plans of faculties and input from shared service units. The digital agenda describes what we a...
• The top-class athletes scheme provides clarity about the support that the university offers to students who want to combine their studies with a career in top-class sports.
• The UvA will continue to conduct scientific research on laboratory animals on a limited scale until an alternative becomes available. This research is needed to understand (the development of) cancer and brain diseases like dementia, epilepsy, depression, addiction and anxiety in humans and also ...
• This procedure provides a formal framework from the time a vacancy arises to the time the vacancy is filled. It puts the UvA’s career and diversity policy into practice in the recruitment and selection process.
• The UvA has a code of conduct that applies to everyone who works and studies at the university. This sets out how we should treat each other and what to do when undesirable behaviour occurs.
• The UvA Diversity Document forms the starting point for policy development and policy implementation in the field of diversity and inclusion within the UvA.
• In these regulations, the UvA lays down a procedure for allocating places to students who want to follow an exchange programme at a foreign university.
• The University of Amsterdam’s vision on teaching and learning reflects developments in society and in the educational community, while also looking to shape those developments. In this policy document, we examine what sort of university we want to be and how we can go about achieving that.