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NSE 2024: AUAS student satisfaction shows slight increase
28 May 2024 | CommunicationAUAS students are marginally more satisfied in 2024 than they were last year. Nearly 13,000 AUAS students completed the National Student Survey (NSE).
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Recap Food for Thought Inspiration Session November 2023
9 January 2024 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIThe relationship between humans and robots is evolving into an increasingly symbiotic interplay. Ask yourself how often you actually interact with some form of robotics on a daily basis, like the smart hoover, for ...
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Statement: the AUAS is a place to dive deep, debate and connect
23 November 2023 | CommunicationGlobal unrest is on the rise as the armed conflict between Israel and Palestine continues. We hope that the recently declared ceasefire will last and contribute to peacebuilding.
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Jaz Choi appointed associate professor in Civic Interaction Desi
30 October 2023 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesOn 1 October 2023, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) appointed Jaz Hee-jeong Choi associate professor in Civic Interaction Design at the Faculty of Digital Media & Creative Industry (FDMCI). Choi ...
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Get ready for the future at Society 5.0 Festival Amsterdam
25 October 2023 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesWhat should the sustainable and inclusive society of the future look like? And what role can technology and creativity play in realising this 'society 5.0'? This is what designers, scientists, makers and artists are ...
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"Today's big problems revolve around technology"
25 October 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIEspionage, bank robbery and reality shows. In Blast Theory's disruptive art, we citizens ourselves play the leading role. The adventurous British art collective scrutinises human behaviour with performance, theatre, ...
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Recap Food for Thought Inspiration Session September 2023
9 October 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIOn 28 September, the monthly lunch meeting of the FDMCI Knowledge Centre and CoECI was held for researchers, teachers and students. This time, the Food for Thought was dedicated to the tactical media room UKRAiNATV, ...
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AI legislation at least as impactful as EU privacy rules
7 September 2023 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesJacintha Walters recently graduated from the AUAS Master’s programme in Applied Artificial Intelligence with a final project on a topical subject: the European AI Act, which will come into effect at the end of ...
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Eijkman committee issues report
19 July 2023 | CommunicationA committee led by Quirine Eijkman, Professor of Access to Justice at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, has investigated a complaint concerning the study load of the reformed curriculum of the Communication ...
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AUAS students design trauma panel for London Air Ambulance - NHS
19 July 2023 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesImagine that you're a student and you contribute to a project that could help save many lives. Eight HvA students from the master's in Digital Design did this, together with their lecturer, international designer ...
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Student proect Greenbites wins GO Game Changers Award
9 June 2023 | CommunicationGreenbites, a Digital Society School student project, has won the jury prize at the GO Game Changers Awards. This student initiative has developed a tracking and monitoring system to understand and reduce CO2 ...
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Concerns about CO+CB to be investigated
30 May 2023 | CommunicationA committee led by Quirine Eijkman, Professor of Access to Justice at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, will investigate a complaint concerning part of the curriculum of the Communication and Creative ...
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EU awards diversity prize for AUAS project
25 May 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIA project involving AUAS researchers has won a new European Union citizen science prize for ‘diversity and cooperation’ this week. The EU has launched the Citizen Science Prize to encourage research with ...
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José Teunissen appointed professor of Fashion Design & Identity
9 May 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIJosé Teunissen was appointed professor of Fashion Design and Identity at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) on 1 May 2023. She researches fashion from a humanities perspective, and therefore ...
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This researcher is already working and living on solar power
18 April 2023 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesWhat is it like to work on solar energy, and to depend on a brilliant sky for your Teams meeting? Designer and researcher Angella Mackey of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences has been trying this out for a ...
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Digital Life receives award during international conference
21 March 2023 | Centre for Applied Research FDMCIThe paper ‘Design Specifications for a Social Robot Math Tutor’ was awarded second prize for the Best Studies Paper Award at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction of the Association for ...
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Frank Kresin reappointed as Dean of the Faculty FDMCI
20 December 2022 | CommunicationFrank Kresin, Dean of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries (FDMCI), has been reappointed as dean of the faculty for a four-year term effective 1 February 2023.
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José Teunissen appointed new Director of AMFI
13 December 2022 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesJosé Teunissen will take up her post as the new Director of AMFI, the Amsterdam Fashion Institute of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, on 1 March 2023. She is currently Dean of the School of Design ...
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The internet is headed for a ‘point of no return’
6 December 2022 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesEventually, the disadvantages of sharing your opinion online will become so great that people will turn away from the internet. This is the argument made by Geert Lovink, Professor at the University of and Amsterdam ...
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System error, please restart: responsible IT in the making
29 November 2022 | Faculty of Digital Media and Creative IndustriesThe use of digital systems has boomed over the past forty years. This huge growth in the use and up-scaling of digital systems has also gone hand in hand with a need to produce rapid solutions to IT problems. ...