
High-quality education and research
The UvA is working with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences/Hogeschool van Amsterdam (AUAS/HvA) and Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA) to offer high-quality education and research based around the following ambitions (also see the Strategic Plan for 2007-2010):
- Optimal study success rates and intellectual development for every student;
- A higher position on the various leading international rankings;
- A place in the top-3 of broad, classical universities in the Netherlands;
- Developing Amsterdam into the largest national centre for fundamental scientific research;
- The best research partner for businesses in the Randstad metropolitan region;
- Close collaboration with all relevant urban and regional government and business partners (VU University Amsterdam, municipality of Amsterdam, institutes of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW));
- Strengthening of ties with Amsterdam's arts and culture sector;