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Establishment In the next four years UCF The University Campus Start of the Master’s By offering its own degree programmes, - UG/Campus Fryslân of University established a Master’s Fryslân foundation was degree programme in Campus Fryslân could officially call itself the moves to the Beurs Campus Fryslân. school and a research taken over by the University Cultural Geography 11th faculty of the . - First year Bachelor school with 35 PhD students of Groningen and took the with the Tourism & of Law starting in the and organized public events. name University of Groningen/ Planning track (UG/ September 2018 Beurs Campus Fryslân. Faculty of Spatial - Start of the Master’s degree programme Sciences). in Governance and Law in Digital Society (UG/Faculty of Law) - Start of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Global Responsibility & Leadership (University College Fryslân) UCF, Campus or College? campus fryslân - Start of the Master’s degree programme What’s the difference? in Sustainable Entrepreneurship UG/Campus Fryslân was previously called University Campus Fryslân (UCF). UCF is now the abbreviation used for University College Fryslân, which offers the Bachelor’s degree programme. nsibil o ity ble Entr Teaching & sp & a e e in p L r The interdisciplinary and R a e e t l s n

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We will take you At the same time, however, it The story behind UG/Campus remains visible and accessible to Fryslân on a journey into the young history of the University of Groningen/Campus Fryslân. “Due to the small “Within the bachelor “The Science Café in the general public. For instance, The story behind Campus Frys- class sizes, lectures are Global Responsibility Leeuwarden is a great Campus Fryslân endeavours to lân is one of discovery, ambition highly interactive, which & Leadership I learned place to meet people stimulate the academic climate and curiosity. It is a chronicle of in the province by staging public community building that involves University Campus Fryslân: • Cultural Geography, with a enhances the learning a lot about the different from very diverse back- events to introduce people – both caring for one another and for our teaching partnerships Tourism & Planning track (2017, process and fosters problems of the world, grounds. Here, you young and old – to the world environment, yet it is also a story of The Province of Fryslân and the “Even now – in 2019 UG Faculty of Spatial Sciences) “It’s great that the de Beurs building is being of academia. In this context, it perseverance and of exploring new cooperation among the the relationships can introduce them to Municipality of Leeuwarden agreed – scarcely a month • Governance and Law in the repurposed in this way. Really amazing that the presents lectures on academic avenues. This history is imbued to fund University Campus Fryslân Digital Society (2018, UG Faculty students.” between them and how new developments in topics at schools, Studium with a sense of pride because – goes by without the University of Groningen will be moving in, and (UCF) for 10 years (2010-2020). of Law) to solve them using academia in informal, Generale, the quarterly Museum after a long absence – the Univer- UCF cooperates with the University Leeuwarder Courant that the building will retain its public function. Sustainable Entrepreneurship University event, the Science sity has finally come back home. student Germán local solutions. I am relaxed surroundings. of Groningen (UG), Wetsus (the making some reference The number of students and PhD University teaching and research are so incredibly Weekend and the renowned European centre of excellence for students continues to climb, and so very happy that I am If you are planning on Science Cafés. to the University of important for the region.” sustainable water technology), contractors are hard at work reno- studying something going, be sure to expect the (UT) and Franeker.” vating the new Faculty building ‘de A visitor that fits me perfectly a packed café with a Wageningen University (WU), and Beurs’ (a former trade centre). This Global challenges, local solutions together they offer three Master’s Asing Walthaus, journalist listed building, which dates from At Campus Fryslân, teaching and and really motivates critical and committed degree programmes in Leeuwarden: 1880, stands in the historic centre University College Fryslân. Univer- Professors now walk in procession research are related to the Frisian me to learn new things.” audience!” • Multilingualism (UG Faculty of Arts) of Leeuwarden. On ‘Construction sity Colleges are characterized by through the streets of Leeuwarden, knowledge agenda and tie in with • Water Technology (UG Faculty Day’, this iconic venue attracted a mode of instruction that enables and the regional media proudly the motto ‘Global challenges, local UCF student Daria Elizarrarás, Guest speaker, Dr Gaaitzen de of Science & Engineering, around 1,700 visitors, each with ambitious students to study a proclaim that ‘the University has solutions’. The United Nations’ sus- Vries Mexico Wetsus, WU) University Campus Fryslân their own special memories of the wide range of subjects in a small- returned to Friesland’. In addition tainability goals serve as a source of • Environmental Energy becomes UG/Campus Fryslân place. At moments like this, the scale setting, and to live in shared to teaching, Campus Fryslân focu- inspiration. Students and staff are Management (UT) In 2016, the duties of the increasingly robust links between accommodation during their first ses on research in four flagship encouraged to tackle issues from a to hone our theories further still. and, indeed, distant countries. Stichting University Campus UG/CF and the wider community year. These living arrangements areas, with data science as the range of perspectives, as befits an Clearly, ‘A different view’ is a point of Located in Leeuwarden, Campus From the outset, University Fryslân (University Campus Fryslân become clearly visible. help the students to form a close- overarching theme: interdisciplinary faculty. Our multi- departure that fits Campus Fryslân Fryslân is the eleventh faculty Campus Fryslân has worked closely Foundation) were transferred knit community. • Governance disciplinary approach enables us to like a glove. of the University of Groningen. with regional authorities, knowledge to the University of Groningen. Campus Fryslân opened for In 2018, Campus Fryslân laun­ • Sustainable Economy enrich the students’ knowledge and This makes it a natural platform institutions and the business com- The Campus became part of the business as the eleventh faculty ched its own Bachelor’s degree • Culture, Language & Technology skills. This approach is reflected in Regional, national and for the University’s ambition to munity. As a network organization University of Groningen, and was of the University of Groningen programme in Global Responsi- • Health & Food our teaching and research activi- international embedding be ‘the University of the North’. itself, UCF fully appreciates the re-named the University of Gro- Campus Fryslân has developed bility & Leadership, as well as a ties. Here, the knowledge and skills UG/Campus Fryslân is firmly The Campus seeks to engage power of cooperation and the value ningen/Campus Fryslân (UG/CF). University College Fryslân, which Master’s degree programme in From September 2019, Law that we have acquired over the embedded in its home region. Yet in broad-based joint ventures of the networks in which organi- In the ensuing years, the following offers a Bachelor’s degree pro- Sustainable Entrepreneurship. students will be able to complete years are routinely challenged with at the same time, it has a strongly with government authorities, zations are embedded. People are Master’s degree programmes were gramme in Global Responsibility This means that it is now officially their propaedeutic phase in the research questions from everyday international flavour, attracting knowledge institutions and the still very much aware of this, both launched, in cooperation with & Leadership. From now on, the entitled to refer to itself as the Campus Fryslân faculty building in practice. The goal is to reveal new students, staff, scientists and business community, both within emotionally and perceptually. other UG faculties: abbreviation UCF is used to refer to eleventh faculty of the University. Leeuwarden. insights which, in turn, can be used partners from other provinces the province and elsewhere.

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