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Contents

5 Foreword

7 Message from the Supervisory Board

11 1. Teaching and research 11 1.1 Public profile 14 1.2 Research 18 1.3 Teaching 23 1.4 Corporate social responsibility and innovation

27 2. Organisation 27 2.1 Quality of staff 30 2.2 Ties with staff, students and alumni 31 2.3 Reliable and sustainable services 33 2.4 Targeted campus infrastructure 36 2.5 Sustainability 37 2.6 Finances

41 3. Administration 41 3.1 Administrative structure 46 3.2 Remuneration data

51 Appendices 51 Appendix 1 Study programmes and programme assessments 56 Appendix 2 Research assessments 57 Appendix 3 Abbreviations and clarifications

59 Key data

60 Facts and figures UvA-HvA EXECUTIVE BOARD

FLTR: Dr Jet Bussemaker (Rector HvA), Paul Doop (Vice-President), Dr Louise Gunning-Schepers (President), Prof. Dymph van den Boom (Rector Magnificus UvA) annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 5

Foreword

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) entered 2011 with a highly ambitious Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2014 entitled An Eye for Talent. As an action plan, the Annual Report 2011 reflects the general structure of this Strategic Plan.

Before focusing on the details, I am pleased to inform readers that the UvA’s financial position remains strong, as is clearly reflected in the Annual Statement of Accounts included in the expanded Dutch edition of the Annual Report. This strength is important because it gives us the freedom to focus all our energies on pursuing our core ambitions. Though the UvA remains acutely aware of current political uncertainties and the likely financial repercussions, we wish – and are able – to act on the basis of our own strengths. Sound financial management is the first step in this direction, and the encouraging reports from our accountant are directly reflected in the UvA’s teaching and research agenda. Our core ambitions were also subsequently transposed into the UvA Profile and performance agreements that were submitted to the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science.

In 2011, the UvA-HvA Executive Board said farewell to its president, Karel van der Toorn, who oversaw the process of drafting the UvA’s Strategic Plan and has now resumed his former position as professor of Religion and Society at the Faculty of Humanities. In March 2011, we were pleased to welcome new member Jet Bussemaker, rector of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences (HvA), to the UvA-HvA Executive Board. Her membership in the Board means a balance has now been achieved whereby UvA and HvA interests can be considered side by side. Happily, the Executive Board was once again complete at the time of publication of this Annual Report.

In the past year, the UvA also said farewell to the chairman of its Supervisory Board, Prof. Niek Urbanus. Niek accomplished a great deal during his period in office, and his efforts on behalf of both the UvA and the HvA are legendary. His departure was marked as befitted the occasion.

But it is not so much the UvA-HvA Executive Board that determines whether the UvA is successful in achieving its core aims. Rather it is the thousands of talented staff members together with the deans who are the most important ‘directors’ of the changes that are needed in order to guarantee our future as a leading international university. I look forward to working with all the staff, deans and Board members as we continue to shape the UvA’s agenda and transform our ambitions into reality.

Dr Louise Gunning-Schepers President of the UvA-HvA Executive Board 6 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 7

Message from the Supervisory Board

The UvA Supervisory Board met on ten occasions in 2011, including seven times together with the UvA-HvA Executive Board. The main topics in the reporting year were the new Strategic Plan and the related institutional Profile, regional cooperation, preparations for the Institutional Audit, accommodation plans and the implementation of the new Student Information System (SIS), as well as filling the newly vacant positions in the UvA Supervisory Board and UvA-HvA Executive Board.

A number of important changes affected the composition of the UvA Supervisory Board and the UvA-HvA Executive Board in 2011. On 1 March, Prof. N.A.M. Urbanus stepped down as chairman of the Supervisory Boards of both the UvA and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences (HvA). During his impressive tenure, which spanned forty years, Prof. Urbanus served in various capacities at the UvA and the HvA, and was instrumental in bringing about the partnership between these two institutions. He was also the first person to assume the newly instituted shared chairmanship of the two independent Supervisory Boards. Pending the appointment of a suitable successor, the UvA Supervisory Board chose Ms I. Brakman from among its members to serve as acting chairman of both Supervisory Boards.

In March, the UvA Supervisory Board was pleased to welcome Dr M. Bussemaker as a new member of the UvA-HvA Executive Board and rector of the HvA. Dr Bussemaker is well acquainted with the complexities of Amsterdam’s higher education sector, having obtained her doctorate at the UvA and worked for many years as a university lecturer at both the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam.

In July, UvA Executive Board president Karel van der Toorn announced his decision to step down following a difference of opinion about the direction and pace of strategic changes at the UvA. During his five years as president, Karel van der Toorn was a champion of collaborative initiatives in higher education, and contributed to the UvA’s national partnerships with the HvA and the VU University Amsterdam, a concrete result of which was the establishment of Amsterdam University College. Inter- nationally, he was involved in developing ties with universities in the BRIC countries, particularly India and China. Under his leadership, great strides were also made in the operational management of the UvA and the HvA. His departure had a major impact on both institutions, and for this reason the UvA Supervisory Board approached the subsequent process of recruiting a new UvA-HvA Executive Board president with the utmost care. The UvA Supervisory Board appointed UvA-HvA Executive Board vice-president P.W. Doop as Acting President on 4 July 2011.

Aside from the vacant chairing seats of the UvA Supervisory Board and the UvA-HvA Executive Boards, various other seats on the UvA Supervisory Board are due to fall vacant in the period ahead as members reach the end of their maximum terms. To address this situation, the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Halbe Zijlstra and the UvA Supervisory Board agreed to appoint a formateur to head the process of filling these vacancies. Former Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Koos van der Steenhoven, agreed to assume this role.

The UvA Supervisory Board asked Mr van der Steenhoven to draw up a job description for the position of president of the UvA-HvA Executive Board, and in the late summer of 2011 he began interviewing 40 internal and external parties about the future direction of the two institutions, and about the chairman and president profiles that would provide the best ‘match’. Towards the end of 2011, the representative advisory bodies approved the profiles drawn up for both positions and the UvA Supervisory Board initiated recruitment procedures. In consultation with the current Board, Mr van der Steenhoven is supervising the identification of candidates for the UvA Supervisory Board vacancies on behalf of the State Secretary.

In the spring of 2011, the UvA presented its Strategic Plan 2011-2014: An Eye for Talent, identifying the UvA-HvA Executive Board’s roadmap for strengthening the UvA’s position at home and abroad. The path outlined in this plan was then developed into a detailed profile designed to distinguish 8 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

teaching and research at the UvA from that at other universities. In their final form, the profiles drawn up by all the Dutch universities will enable them to make performance agreements with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science before the summer of 2012, in line with the General Agreement (Hoofdlijnenakkoord) concluded between the Association of Universities in the Netherlands and the same Ministry in the autumn of 2011. The UvA Supervisory Board held frequent meetings with the UvA-HvA Executive Board to confer on decisions guiding this process and their effect on UvA strategies both in general and in relation to the HvA.

Another major component of the UvA-HvA Executive Board’s roadmap for the future is the pursuit of regional partnerships, of which the Amsterdam Economic Board (AEB, formerly the Economic Development Board of the Amsterdam metropolitan region), created in response to the OECD report Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2010), is one example. Bringing together representatives from government, business and the higher education sectors, the AEB’s first task in 2011 was to identify ‘iconic’ projects qualifying for financial incentives from the Amsterdam Investment Fund. Several of these are particularly relevant for the participating higher education institutions, such as Top Programmes and The Amsterdam Campus projects. Another AEB initiative led to the submission of a proposal to the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation for developing a shared Technology Transfer Office in Amsterdam, for which the Ministry subsequently agreed to allocate an initial sum of €5 million and the same amount again at a later stage in the project. Such partnerships open a wealth of opportunities for strengthening institutions’ social involvement in the region, and the UvA Supervisory Board is following these developments with interest.

Another main topic of discussion in 2011 was the UvA’s collaboration with the VU University Amsterdam (VU). The UvA-HvA Executive Board and deans met with colleagues from the VU to explore how additional collaborative efforts might further improve the quality of research and teaching. As partners, the UvA and the VU are working together to define their respective institutional profiles. This will ultimately help each to give shape to the performance agreements to be made with the Ministry. Two additional meetings of the UvA Supervisory Board and the UvA-HvA Executive Board were held to discuss this topic.

One of the insights to come out of the discussion rounds conducted by Mr van der Steenhoven as formateur is that more effort needs to be invested in the UvA-HvA partnership. Based on the formateur’s advice, the Supervisory Board concluded that the UvA and the HvA are still missing valuable opportunities. Defining further collaborative activities is therefore high on the agenda of the UvA-HvA Executive and the UvA Supervisory Board’s meetings for 2012.

Another topic of discussion between the UvA Supervisory Board and the UvA-HvA Executive Board was the quality of teaching and research. The Supervisory Board’s Education and Research Committee met on several occasions during the year and held in-depth discussions with the Rector Magnificus about progress in areas such as study success, bearing in mind the measures implemented in 2010. Maintaining and, where possible, improving the quality of teaching and research remains a key objective, particularly in view of the institutional audit that will take place in 2013. The UvA Supervisory Board fully endorses the many efforts being made under the leadership of the Rector Magnificus to ensure that the appropriate steps are taken to prepare for this audit.

As in previous years, the central operational management of the UvA continued to be an important topic of discussion for the UvA Supervisory Board and the UvA-HvA Executive Board. In May 2011, the UvA Supervisory Board received an interim progress report on the implementation, in phases over the 2011-2012 academic year, of the new Student Information System (SIS). The 2010 Annual Statement of Accounts and the 2012 Budget were carefully reviewed at the Supervisory Board’s meetings, as were the validated interim figures and the accountant’s findings. The external accountant’s report indicates that the UvA is well on its way to achieving the higher level of management control envisioned in the Strategic Plan and that the University is making good progress towards achieving transparent reporting.

Investments in University accommodation were also on the Supervisory Board’s 2011 agenda. These annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 9

investments are guided by the UvA’s Long-Term Accommodations Plan (Meerjaren-Huisvestingsplan, MVP), which is updated annually when setting the Budget and approved by the UvA Supervisory Board. The Accommodations Plan is being implemented in phases. Before taking decisions connected with each phase, the UvA Supervisory Board and the UvA-HvA Executive Board first assess the desirability of the investments. In April 2011, a major renovation project got under way at the old laboratories and at various teaching and research facilities at the Roeterseiland Campus. The last beam was placed on the highest point of the new Amsterdam University College building at Science Park Amsterdam on 21 September, and the new home of CREA, the joint student cultural centre of the UvA and the HvA, in the former diamond factory was completed towards the end of 2011.

On 31 March 2011, a local court declared void the municipality’s ‘listed building’ consent for the demolition of buildings at the Binnengasthuis site to make way for a new library and study centre, due to incomplete substantiation. In order to appeal this decision and address the court’s questions, the UvA-HvA Executive Board commissioned a number of additional investigations. The resulting experts’ reports were delivered at the end of 2011 and submitted to the district authority. Throughout this process, the UvA Supervisory Board was kept regularly informed of decisions relating to the redevelopment of UvA premises in the city centre.

The UvA Supervisory Board has a number of committees that play an important role in governance within the Board and within the UvA. Aside from the Research and Education Committee mentioned above, these include the Audit Committee, which is closely involved in the UvA’s operational management and met on five occasions in 2011, the Remuneration Committee, which met on one occasion and examined the recommendations of the Dijkstal Committee (which advises the government on the legal status of political officials), and the Ad Hoc Appointments Committee, which met on two occasions in 2011.

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1. Teaching and research 1.1 Public profile

History The University of Amsterdam (UvA) traces its roots back to the Athenaeum Illustre, established by the Amsterdam city council in 1632 to give the city and its merchant population greater prestige. Inaugurated on 8 January of that year by the famed scholars Barlaeus and Vossius, in 1815 the Athenaeum was accorded official statutory recognition as an institution of higher learning. With the right to confer doctorates being granted in 1876, the institution was renamed the Universiteit van Amsterdam. The UvA operated under the executive authority of the City of Amsterdam until 1961, when it became an independent institution and moved its administration to the current Maagdenhuis premises. By that time, the UvA had garnered considerable academic acclaim thanks in part to the Nobel Prizes awarded to Van ’t Hoff (Chemistry, 1901), Zeeman (Physics, 1902) and Van der Waals (Physics, 1910). The UvA’s student population grew from 1,000 in 1900 to slightly over 5,000 immediately after World War II, then to more than 30,000 by the early twenty-first century.

Today, the UvA ranks among Europe’s top research universities, and is a member of the League of European Research Universities and Universitas 21. It has developed into a comprehensive, independent university with a broad base in the natural and medical sciences and a strong focus on engagement with society. Its humanities and social science faculties are the largest in the Netherlands and are classed among Europe’s best in the international rankings.

Mission and values In its Strategic Plan 2011-2014: An Eye for Talent, the UvA defines its mission as follows:

The University of Amsterdam is a broad, research-intensive institution rooted in the history of Amsterdam, an internationally oriented academic community that can compete with leading universities in the Netherlands and around the world. The UvA provides academic training in all areas of science and scholarship and welcomes students and staff – from all backgrounds, cultures and faiths – who wish to devote their talents to the development and transfer of academic knowledge as a rich cultural resource and foundation for sustainable progress.

The UvA is:

• innovative, determined and committed, the UvA is known at home and abroad as a fertile breeding ground for academic training and development and social debate; • a natural metropolitan home base and meeting place for enthusiastic, inquisitive and academically minded students and staff who are keen to achieve the highest possible level in their field; • a community of independent, capable and focused people who are committed to the essence of higher education and research: helping to shape the future.

Guided by the University’s mission and values, the Strategic Plan 2011-2014 sets out objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the UvA’s primary activities in the areas of teaching, research and social responsibility and innovation, and for the various factors contributing to these goals, including staff, reputation among academic and social partners, services, campus infrastructure, sustainability in operational management and teaching, and management of financial and other resources. This Annual Report describes the steps the University took in 2011 to achieve these goals.

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Where the UvA stands The Strategic Plan 2011-2014 and the associated Vision on Teaching and Learning (Onderwijsvisie) adopted in autumn 2011 represent a logical step in the UvA’s development and aims. In these documents, the UvA plots a course dedicated more strongly than ever to quality (aiming for the top), and identifies real opportunities for achieving quality improvements, even within the budgetary limits set primarily by the government, namely: a more ambitious academic culture, stronger ties between teaching and research at all levels and a competitive research profile. Rapid relative and absolute growth in the student population over the past decade has put increasing pressure on the relationship between teaching and research, in part because the research budget has not kept pace with the University’s expansion (see graph), and in part because the rise in student numbers has not been balanced by a parallel development in the research organisation.

As a result, the UvA had to make a number of important profile choices. Efforts to increase productivity University-wide were very successful, as shown in the figures in the table below, and instilled confidence that the UvA can achieve its ambition to maintain and – in Amsterdam – strengthen its high standing.

2002 2011 Groei Master’s degrees 3,039 4,939 63% Academic publications 6,460 8,713 35% Doctorates conferred 335 405 21% Student study programme satisfaction 6,6 7,1 8% Number of students 21,468 32,165 50% Employees (FTEs excl. AMC-UvA) 3,865 4,288 11% Revenue (excl. AMC-UvA 2/3 flow of funds) €483m €634m 10%*) *) After subtraction of 21% inflation over this period

The broader context Higher education has been subject to significant changes in recent years in ways that closely reflect the character and ambitions of the UvA. As such, the UvA believes that continuing to focus on its policy choices is likely to prove fruitful. More than ever, Europe is recognising its value as a knowledge economy, and research universities are playing a central role in the production, utilisation and dissemination of knowledge. At a time when businesses are being forced to downscale their research divisions because research has become too expensive or risky, they are increasingly seeking out universities as partners. At the same time, research is also becoming more global, with top-ranking research centres attracting talented scientists and students from around the world. Increasingly, universities are honing their profiles and concentrating on specific disciplines, in some countries supported by government policy

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initiatives with respect to budget apportionment (England) and budget allocation (France, Germany). The Netherlands followed suit in the summer of 2011, when the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science released a Strategic Agenda calling for a stronger profiling of and differentiation between universities (see below), though without national government involvement in determining the direction universities choose. With its overall high level of academic performance, the Netherlands is one of the world’s top countries for higher education, even if no single Dutch university ranks at the very top. The table below shows the UvA’s position in several of the most cited university rankings.

2008 2009 2010 2011 ARWU (Shanghai) 119 119 117 118 QS World University Ranking 49 53 56 63 THE World University Ranking - - 165 92 Leiden Ranking (MNCS) 88 - 117 93

Strategic Agenda The Strategic Agenda of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science calls on the Dutch universities to seek greater differentiation in their teaching and research profiles. It also seeks to address issues surrounding the quality of Dutch education in general, including higher education. In particular, the Agenda calls on institutions to: • secure and strengthen their international positions; • strive for the international top in at least several areas; • choose which research to expand on and which to downscale, based on their own strengths; • describe how they are fulfilling the Grand Challenges and Top Sectors policies; • form alliances with other universities and institutes such as the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

With particular regard to education, universities are called on to: • reduce drop-out rates and improve study success rates (especially in Bachelor’s programmes), though without reducing exit requirements or losing quality; • increase the teaching intensity and better equip lecturers; • consolidate and further develop excellence programmes.

In the follow-up to the Strategic Agenda, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands concluded a General Agreement (Hoofdlijnenakkoord) with the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, setting out how these aims were to be achieved in the 2012-2015 period. Essentially, it requires each university to make individual teaching and research performance agreements with the Ministry in the summer of 2012, addressing at least seven of the above aspects. Seven per cent of each university’s current teaching budget will depend on making and fulfilling these agreements.

Amsterdam and the UvA Amsterdam boasts an academic and knowledge infrastructure that is unique in the Netherlands. Not only does it have two major universities, each with its own large medical centre, it is also home to numerous other national research institutes, from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences institutes to Sanquin, the blood research foundation, and the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Together these organisations employ a scientific workforce of approximately 7,500 FTEs (full-time equivalents), or nearly 10,000 people when higher professional and art education teaching staff are included. By its very nature, Amsterdam thus occupies a unique place when it comes to profiling Dutch universities. If a subject is researched and taught in only a few places in the Netherlands, chances are that Amsterdam will be one of them. This leaves numerous options for profile choices, while at the same time providing the wide array of disciplines needed to successfully take part in major international projects and respond quickly to changing societal needs.

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OECD review In its review of Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2010), the OECD noted the following with regard to the city’s two universities: – higher education institutions are seen as developers of young educated minds and transmitters of culture, but more bluntly also as major agents of economic growth and a driving force for the creation of new products and new companies; – can plan a key role in human capital development, innovation systems, technology transfer and business innovation, and in contributing to social, cultural and environmental development and regional capacity building; – must continue to aim for focus and to build centres of excellence in their research activity. Individually they are not strong enough to be world leaders in all fields; collectively they can hope to make a significant impact in selected areas. – relative failure to amplify their internationalisation strategy in order to resonate with the global city formation process. – connecting the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam and business remains a difficult task in Amsterdam.

The OECD 2010 review provided an important impetus for cooperation within Amsterdam, and led to the City of Amsterdam bringing the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam together with metropolitan region businesses and government agencies in the Amsterdam Economic Board (AEB). The AEB pursues initiatives aimed at fundraising and the transfer and valorisation of knowledge in seven key economic clusters: • red life sciences • financial and commercial services • creative industry • ICT • logistics and trade • food and flowers • tourism and conferences. By September 2011, the academic medical centres affiliated with the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam had signed a declaration of intent for close collaboration in patient care, research and teaching. Currently, the two universities are discussing how they can work together to make maximum use of the funding available to Amsterdam, both for research across the broad spectrum of the sciences and in graduate programmes in a number of other areas. Through intensive collaboration, the universities hope to achieve a leap in quality and to set the pace for further strides, with a view to making the ‘knowledge city’ Amsterdam an attractive home for talented academics and students both from the Netherlands and abroad.

1.2 Research

Policy During the past few years, the research policy has been primarily directed at raising quality UvA-wide. This is to be expressed in terms of increased productivity: in numbers of publications and doctorate conferrals, in increased indirect government and contract research funding, and in improved assessment scores. The UvA has also taken steps aimed at strengthening its international profile, for example through participation in the League of European Research Universities and Universitas 21, a global network of research universities, and, since 2009, creating more distinctive research profiles by redistributing government funding to designated research priority areas.

The Strategic Plan 2011-2014 reinforces this policy and calls for an even greater focus on the research priority areas. Within a few years, at least half of all government funding for research will be committed to these areas. Reflecting the stronger emphasis on quality, the UvA identified the following KPIs: • additional growth in number of publications (especially in top-ranking journals) • increase in personal grants, prizes and contracts awarded to UvA academic staff.

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Performance In 2011, the UvA continued its upward trend with respect to the two standard research performance indicators, academic publications and doctorate conferrals, with the number of doctorates conferred up one from the record year 2010.

DOCTORATES CONFERRED PER FACULTY (2011) M F TOTAL Humanities 25 23 48 Medicine 79 89 168 Social and Behavioural Sciences 23 41 64 Science 68 17 85 Law 8 5 13 Dentistry 4 3 7 Economics and Business 15 5 20 UvA total 222 183 405

The amount of available funds did not increase significantly. Government funding for research went down and was not compensated for by growth in indirect government and contract research funding, except at the Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA). The UvA has to match approximately 30% of contract research funding and 75% of indirect government funding, which means that the potential of research funds that can be requested is limited. In light of this, the UvA made a fervent appeal to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the European Commission for a system with better cost-coverage. With European research budgets in particular set to grow over the next few years, linking UvA research to the European agenda is an important means of securing additional contract research funding.

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Jet Bussemaker is appointed rector of the HvA and takes her place on the joint february marchUvA-HvA Executive Board 16 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

However, more achievements do not automatically signify an improvement in quality. Among the quality indicators used by the UvA are publications in leading journals and grants and prizes awarded to individual researchers. In 2011, two of the three Spinoza Prizes, the highest Dutch award in science, were presented to UvA researchers (youth and media expert Patti Valkenburg and physicist Eric Verlinde). Two other researchers secured prestigious Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (cultural anthropologist Niko Besnier and medical biologist Hans Aerts). Information meetings organised to help young researchers apply for ERC Starting Grants also proved fruitful, with 12 of the 34 UvA and AMC applicants receiving grants, in the face of an average success rate of just 12%.

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) appointed four new members from the UvA: communications expert Patti Valkenburg, cardiologist Arthur Wilde, information scientist Jan Bergstra and European tax specialist Peter Wattel. In November it was announced that econometrist Matthijs van Veelen will join their ranks in March 2012. Additionally, on 1 April 2011, the Academic Medical Center’s Gijs van den Brink began a five-year term as a member of the Young Academy of the KNAW.

The NWO awarded Veni grants to a further 16 researchers and Vici grants to three researchers from the UvA. (Veni grants are offered to promising researchers who have recently obtained their PhDs, while Vici grants are given to senior researchers to develop their own research group.)

Research priority areas At the end of 2008, the UvA designated 15 of its research programmes as ‘research priority areas’. No new research institutes were needed to accommodate these areas, and the additional necessary resources were allocated both from within the faculties and by the Executive Board. A number of the priority areas represent an intensification of existing research programmes, while others entail

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exploring new and often interdisciplinary areas. These differences mean the priority areas are now also at different stages of development.

The research priority areas policy was evaluated in 2011. For each research priority area, the relevant dean compiled an independent overview of the scientific or scholarly breakthroughs made over the previous years, the social and/or economic innovations resulting from the priority area, key questions for the future and how the programme is supporting the development of talented researchers. These independent assessments were then submitted to external peer reviewers for their comments, also with respect to the international context within which the programme operates. A list of academic publications produced in each research priority area was submitted to the Leiden Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) for a quantitative citation analysis (over the period 2000-2010). The resulting data for each priority area, summarised in the table below, shows that researchers in most of the priority areas scored well above the UvA average (mean normalised citation score of 1.24).

RESEARCH PRIORITY AREA RESEARCH LEADER(S) CWTS SCORE TOTAL (MNCS) PERMANENT FTEs Astroparticle Physics Ralph Weijers, Stan Bentvelsen, Jan de Boer 1.79 11 Behavioural Economics Theo Offerman 1.72 10 Bioengineering Jenneke Klein Nulend 1.13 8 Brain and Cognition Gerard Kerkhof 1.60 25 Corporate Governance Ans Kolk 3.26 24 Cultural Heritage and Identity Frans Blom 1.18 19 Cultural Transformations Jeroen de Kloet 2.07 9 Global Health Anita Hardon, Joep Lange 1.93 11 Information Law Bernt Hugenholtz - 6 Oral Inflammation Bruno Loos 1.23 5 European Law Deirdre Curtin, Martijn Hesselink, Dennis Weber 1.39 10 Systems Biology Willem Stiekema 1.52 13 International Rule of Law André Nollkaemper - 4 Urban Studies Jan Nijman 1.36 11 Communication Claes de Vreese, Patti Valkenburg 1.76 18

Profile As part of its response to the Strategic Agenda of the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science and its call for universities to strengthen their teaching and research profiles, the UvA continued to develop the research priority areas. A detailed analysis was conducted to identify the strengths and weaknesses of all research carried out at the UvA, providing data that would be used as input for the profile document to be finalised in 2012. Ultimately, the profiling process is intended to map out the current situation and allow for a further strengthening of the UvA’s profile, for facilitating excellent research and for strategically positioning disciplinary and transdisciplinary links between consortia of leading researchers. The analysis distinguished seven key themes within the broader research foundation supported by all the UvA’s fundamental research, academic teaching and knowledge valorisation activities. The seven key themes are: • Transnational Law and Governance • Human Health • Cognition, Socio-economic Behaviour and Neuroscience • Globalisation, Identity, Inequality and the Urban Environment • Communication and Information • Fundamentals of Natural Science • Sustainable World.

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The table above illustrates how the seven key themes tie in with the EU’s Grand Challenges, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation’s Top Sectors and the Amsterdam Economic Board’s economic clusters. In 2011, the UvA was furthermore appointed to coordinate four European-level FP7 research projects. This is a considerable honour, as FP7 Cooperation Project coordinators are typically regarded as leaders in their field of research. In 2011, the UvA also began to participate in another 15 new FP7 projects.

1.3 Teaching

Policy Over the last ten years, the UvA has rolled out a range of teaching initiatives, including: • the introduction of the Bachelor’s-Master’s structure in 2002; • the ‘Bachelor-before-Master’ rule and the creation of undergraduate colleges and graduate schools, since 2006; • the organisation of doctorate programmes within the graduate schools; • the development of excellence programmes (Interdisciplinary Studies, University College, honours programmes) and of academic majors and minors; • the introduction of a fixed curricular structure (blocks of 8-8-4 weeks) for a more balanced study load; • better student career advisement, intake and referrals; • the realisation of sector plans for the humanities, physics and chemistry, and the development of broad labels in the humanities.

Though the UvA is first and foremost a research university, its location in the Dutch capital enhances its appeal to students, including those who do not yet have a specific study programme in mind but who are attracted by the metropolitan environment and labour market. The university education cycle therefore begins with orientation, referral and selection, all of which are designed to help students

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quickly find the right fit for them. At the same time, it has traditionally been the UvA’s express aim to give students as free a hand as possible in shaping their studies, by providing a broad range of choices in terms of curricular content and level.

These features of teaching at the UvA have clear ramifications in terms of slowing students’ study progress and increasing the dropout rate, especially as most programmes in the Netherlands are essentially not allowed to screen students for admission.

Nevertheless, from the time it adopted its Strategic Plan 2003-2006, the UvA has increasingly directed efforts towards creating a more ambitious academic culture, reflecting the principle of starting = participating = finishing. The Vision on Teaching and Learning (Onderwijsvisie) established in autumn 2011 places a stronger emphasis on research-intensive teaching and particularly on more activating teaching methods, with more tightly structured curricula, fewer opportunities for resits and less postponement behaviour. Stipulating such basic requirements is a necessary step if the UvA is to achieve its quality ambitions as a leading research university.

The three KPIs defined in the UvA’s Strategic Plan 2011-2014 are to: • raise the Bachelor’s study success rate to 70% within four years; • differentiate programmes, in terms of type (broad Bachelor’s) and level (Honours); • substantially increase the enrolment of Master’s students from abroad.

The Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science expressed the intention to draw up performance agreements in 2012 with the Dutch universities for the period 2012-2015. While these agreements will tie in closely with the UvA’s own policy in terms of spirit and aims, in a number of cases the policy objectives set out in the Strategic Plan will need to be formulated more precisely and concretely. Specifically, the performance agreements will emphasise study success rates, teaching quality, teaching intensity and drop-out and switching rates during the Bachelor’s phase, as well as differentiation between the study programmes on offer. Reducing drop-out and switching rates is actually at direct odds with the first year’s orientational function, and as such does not fit in with the character and policies of the UvA. Results will therefore need to be achieved primarily through measures that shift this function to before the actual start of the academic year, and that require that the statutory enrolment deadline be set at 1 May, which is planned with effect from 2013.

Performance The UvA considers it important that students themselves recognise the efforts being made to improve teaching activities and facilities, and that this be reflected in consistently higher scores in the National Student Survey. These were down slightly in 2011, providing an additional impetus for pursuing the goals set in the Vision on Teaching and Learning policy document. As shown in the graph below, the policies aimed at improving study success rates are clearly beginning to bear fruit.

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Among the UvA’s Bachelor’s students, the graduation rate has been improving and is expected to reach the targeted 70% within a few years. Since the Study Success Task Force issued its 20 recommendations in 2009, various curricular changes were made in 2010 and 2011, some with far-reaching consequences. In 2011, most faculties concentrated on curricular content and pedagogical-didactic aspects, including forms of learning, interim tests and mentorships. To ensure a coherent approach with regard to overlapping themes in the recommendations, the UvA contracted University-wide experts to advise faculties on aspects such as teaching theory and testing. In addition, different faculties launched a total of eight projects within the Diversity and Study Success programme aimed at improving the academic success rates of non-Western ethnic minority students.

Internationalisation A new strategic framework for the internationalisation of teaching and research was drafted in 2011 following UvA-wide consultation. The framework, to be laid down in 2012, ties in with the Strategic Plan’s objectives of training students to work in a global labour market, attracting international talent, positioning the UvA as an international university and increasing the visibility of the UvA’s research profile. The labour market demand for university graduates with international experience and demonstrable relevant competences is on the rise. To meet this demand, the UvA is investing in its international learning environment. With respect to the aim of attracting students from other countries, the UvA is focusing particularly on graduate enrolment in Master’s and doctoral programmes. At present, 44% of the doctoral candidates and some 30% of the Research Master’s students come from abroad. The UvA is also investing in good relationships and collaborations with partners in countries and regions with relatively high potential, such as Europe and the US, as well as in emerging knowledge economies such as China and India. As part of these efforts, the UvA participated in two major delegations, one to China, as a member of a group representing the City of Amsterdam, and another to India.

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According to the International Student Barometer 2011, the UvA is extremely attractive to talented students. Respondents were particularly positive about the UvA’s international classrooms and the lecturers’ proficiency in academic English (42%). The multicultural environment and the international experience also scored high. More attention must be paid, however, to career support and employability, with many international students reporting they were used to more university service in these areas. An extensive network of exchange agreements allows students at the UvA to incorporate international experience into their studies. The table below provides an overview of the different exchange programmes on offer.

Student exchanges in the 2010-2011 academic year PROGRAMME INCOMING OUTGOING Erasmus 483 266 Bilateral agreements 196 219 Faculty 26 *) 19 AMC-UvA 48 337 *) Excl. Summer School

Programme differentiation In an environment where students can choose to organise their studies in any number of ways, depending on the level and content, no strict lines separate the standard programmes from the excellence programmes. Nevertheless, the UvA does offer a large number of different programmes for students whose interests and abilities extend beyond the standard curriculum.

For the 2009-2012 period, the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam were awarded a joint Sirius grant to establish Amsterdam University College (AUC, an intensive, residential liberal arts college) and a UvA-VU honours programme for students with a normal study load and a grade point average of at least 7.5. (The Sirius programme was launched in 2008 by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to promote excellence in Dutch higher education.) Students in this joint honours programme take an additional 30 ECTS credits, including 12-18 ECTS credits through interfaculty courses organised at AUC. The programme is directed by an Excellence Platform made up of the chairs of the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam honours committees, the dean of AUC and students. The Sirius Programme Audit Committee gave the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam an ‘A’ rating in 2011, and, in consultation with both universities, it was decided to replace the regular audit visits with visitations by an International Advisory Board.

Approximately 250 students enrolled in honours programmes in 2011, the same number as in 2010. Drop-out rates from these programmes were still a major point of discussion, as was the coordination of the UvA’s and the VU University Amsterdam’s administration systems.

In a follow-up to the honours programme evaluation, the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam launched ‘honours 2.0’, premised not on more courses but on a more demanding curriculum (heavier courses, more intensive focus on research, higher thesis requirements, publishable theses). Unchanged is the honours student community, as the honours programme is not primarily about excellent (cum laude) individual performance but about bringing together the highest-level courses for the most ambitious students. Such courses are intended to target not only students with good first-year results but also new students who graduated cum laude from their university preparatory school. Faculties will organise their honours 2.0 tracks as more demanding variants within existing study programmes that will train students at a higher level. This will enable the honours programmes to apply selective admission while also generating a more interesting pool of candidates for the graduate schools (Research Master’s). Aside from courses at AUC and honours programmes, several faculties also have other Bachelor’s programmes that qualify for the ‘excellence’ label, such as the double Bachelor’s

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programme in Mathematics and Physics and the cum laude track in Law. Typically, these programmes are more demanding, require more or better academic results than standard programmes and admit students on the basis of invitation or selection.

Range of programmes on offer The UvA offered 59 Bachelor’s programmes in 2011, including: • three interdisciplinary Bachelor’s programmes: Natural and Social Sciences, Psychobiology and the English-taught Liberal Arts and Sciences at AUC; • broad, interdisciplinary programmes such as Interdisciplinary Social Studies; • disciplinary programmes such as Art History, Physics & Astronomy and Sociology; • programmes keyed to the academic professions (having civiel effect, i.e. granting admittance to licensed professions) such as Dentistry and Law. In addition to the 21 Research Master’s programmes offered in 2011, the UvA also offered 2 three- year, 19 two-year and 85 one-year Master’s programmes, 9 exclusively dual programmes and 11 postgraduate programmes, as well as one programme leading to a qualification in design (Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage).

Owing to recent significant decreases in the higher education budget (government grant plus statutory tuition fee), the UvA can only continue to meet the costs of these types of programmes and at the same time maintain what it regards as the minimum standard of quality if most of the courses enrol no less than 50 students in the case of Bachelor’s programmes, or 20 students in the case of Master’s programmes. Progress in scaling up courses and programmes has already been made in the last few years through Sector Plans and through more inclusive labels in Language and Culture. Additional efforts have focused on streamlining the current 23 different teacher-training programmes. Naturally, these economic aspects must be weighed against the need to attract strong candidates for university research and the research priority areas, on the one hand, and actual labour market demands – particularly in the Amsterdam metropolitan region – on the other. The UvA and the VU are currently in consultation about an alliance aimed precisely at achieving this balance.

In 2011, the UvA took a significant step forward with respect to eliminating course deficiencies by structuring its pre-Master’s programmes so as to maximise their effect and efficiency for both students and the institution. After all, reserving the time for such preparatory programmes effectively represents a delay. Opportunities for students at the HvA to obtain all of the necessary qualifications during their Bachelor’s studies in order to be able to enrol directly in a Master’s programme at the UvA also improved. In principle, the UvA now offers pre-Master’s programme for a maximum of 30 ECTS credits in all fields of study with the exception of Medicine and Dentistry, for an institutional fee equal to the statutory tuition fee, whether or not the student is enrolled in a Bachelor’s programme.

Possibilities for completing such preparatory programmes within a single semester have also improved, with all the faculties – including Medicine and Dentistry – having successfully set up programmes giving admission to a Master’s programme within a year or less. Interest from higher professional education Bachelor’s degree graduates in pre-Master’s programmes for a graduate study in Law at the UvA remains high. Agreements have now been made on the curricular and financial aspects of such programmes to be offered via the Open University.

A major impetus for restructuring the pre-Master’s programmes came from a change in the government grant model, leading the UvA to decide to henceforth offer these programmes as contract courses. As a result, the number of Bachelor’s student enrolments dropped sharply in September 2011 relative to 2010, a development which is almost wholly attributable to the different administrative system.

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Quality assurance In February 2011, the UvA registered for an Institutional Audit on Quality Assurance to be carried out by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders, which is organising a panel visit for this purpose in spring 2013. Preparations for the Institutional Audit got under way in May 2011, with the formulation of a programme plan based on input from the internal audit being carried out at the end of 2010. A subsequent interim review of preparations for the Institutional Audit showed that although considerable progress had been made on various components of the plan, the ongoing concern is that quality assurance is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain.

In the context of improving quality assurance, the UvA also established model Standing Regulations for Programme Committees (Huishoudelijk Reglement Opleidingscommissies) and issued a revised information brochure for new programme committee members. All faculties now also offer introductory training for new committee members. For the Examinations Boards, the University developed and now offers a course on ‘Assessing Quality’, in cooperation with the Amsterdam Institute for Lifelong Learning in Education (CNA), aimed at professionalising these Boards and training their members to act as independent experts.

1.4 Corporate social responsibility and innovation

Policy Aware of its position in society and the world, the UvA is committed to making meaningful contributions to individual wellbeing, to the functioning of society and to economic development. The Strategic Plan 2011-2014 specifically cites the pursuit of knowledge valorisation (the practical application of knowledge) as a third priority alongside teaching and research, viewing it as inextricably linked with teaching, research and public service.

Stimulating staff to share their knowledge, take an active part in social dialogue and contribute to policy development and implementation enjoys a rich tradition at the UvA. And, with its reputation as a purveyor of public debate and independent experts, the UvA also ensures that society shares in its knowledge through newspaper columns, museum collections, topical exhibitions and a leading role in Open Access and Open Educational Resources, to name but a few examples.

In its Strategic Plan, the UvA states its growing ambition for the knowledge it generates to be translated into practical uses more so than in the past, through intensive cooperation with business and external institutions. Exploiting knowledge is like a double-edged sword: it makes a fundamental contribution not only to the quality of teaching and research but also to the innovative capacity of business, to job-creation and to the socio-emotional health of society in general. The UvA has therefore explicitly chosen to deploy its strengths – as identified in its institutional profile – in support of the Dutch government’s Top Sectors, the European Commission’s Grand Challenges and the Amsterdam Economic Board’s economic clusters (see the table in Section 1.2).

Specific initiatives include: a. Marketing research and education-based innovations with practical applications through the acquisition of patents and licences, and helping spin-offs and start-up companies to obtain venture capital. Current developments involve biomedical applications in healthcare, ICT applications, psychological testing and HR instruments, and medical diagnostic instruments; b. Applied research funded by external market players. An example would be the study on work reintegration commissioned by the City of Amsterdam; c. Research co-development. This involves setting up public-private institutes funded (wholly or in part) by

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external partners (industry, grant funds, public interest groups) with a view to the advanced development of innovations for scientific and applied use. Examples include UvA-Mind, in which, with support from the health insurers, children and their parents receive psychotherapeutic treatments while scientific research is simultaneously conducted on a poorly accessible population, and the collaborative project with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and five industrial partners to set up a public- private institute for the advanced development of scientific innovations in the area of biodegradable plastics; d. Leveraging knowledge for grant applications for indirect funding (NWO, European Research Council, EU context), contract research funding (industry) and funding generated in the commercial exploitation phase. The UvA’s Technology Transfer Office UvA AMC provides administrative support for staff.

Networking within the metropolis of Amsterdam Established in 2010 as a tripartite body to bring together municipal authorities, knowledge institutions and the business community, the Amsterdam Economic Board (AEB) has identified seven key economic clusters in which to focus cooperative efforts and pursue strategic projects. Though the projects are not yet ready for implementation, this is high on the 2012 agenda.

The City of Amsterdam has appointed a senior manager for Life Sciences to work on the acquisition of Life Science companies, whose activities will be coordinated with those of the Life Sciences Center Amsterdam, in which the Academic Medical Centre (AMC-UvA), VU University Amsterdam, the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam (VUmc), the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Sanquin, the blood supply foundation, are partners. The AEB agreed in 2011 to the UvA’s proposal to establish a Proof of Concept Fund, which now has a budget of €3 million for knowledge valorisation initiatives.

AEB cluster-related projects ICT: Open Data Exchange, Seamless Connections, Almere Data Capital Creative industry: The Amsterdam Campus Financial and commercial services: World Smart Capital Red life sciences: Life Science Fund Amsterdam II, Green Life Sciences Hub, Imaging Center Tourism and conferences: e-Tourism General: Proof of Concept Fund

As part of its efforts to get children interested in science as early as possible, the UvA began working with local primary schools in the Amsterdam Science Hub (Wetenschapsknooppunt Amsterdam, WKA). This long-term partnership aims to translate academic knowledge into lessons for primary education, with students from Amsterdam’s University Teacher Training programmes responsible for designing lesson plans in coordination with lecturers at the UvA’s faculties of Science, Social & Behavioural Sciences and Humanities. These lessons, together with instructions and alternatives, were made available via a website launched in 2011 (www.wka.nl). WKA lectures were also organised for children and their parents, including a ‘Wake Up’ child lecture series and talks hosted by the Illustere School of the UvA’s Faculty of Humanities.

Technology Transfer Office Amsterdam In 2011, the UvA developed a vision on technology transfer in Amsterdam, based on the expansion of current activities into a full-fledged Technology Transfer Office (TTO) in 2013, to be operated jointly by the UvA, AMC-UvA, VU University Amsterdam and VUmc. As a pan-Amsterdam facility, the new TTO will be the designated service point for all the initiatives described above and will bring together expertise to create links between researchers and society, assist in large-scale research grant applications, initiate and supervise applied research projects and organise and facilitate public-private research co-development partnerships.

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In this connection, the UvA is looking into ways of restructuring UvA Holding BV (the holding company for the majority of UvA participating interests) to accommodate the four objectives outlined above. This restructuring project will be undertaken jointly by UvA/AMC-UvA and the VU University Amsterdam/VUmc as part of establishing of the TTO Amsterdam, and will entail creating various patent funds, proof of concept grants and pre-seed funds, as well as business consultancy services for start-up and spin-off/out companies.

Promoting entrepreneurship Within the context of the Strategic Plan, HR policy was redesigned to include knowledge valorisation as an integral factor in recruitment and selection, professional development and guided outflow. In any event, this includes: • revising the current Inventors Scheme (Uitvindersregeling) and Regulations on Ancillary Activities (Regeling nevenwerk); • introducing knowledge valorisation as a fixed item in annual consultations and assessment interviews, specifying expectations and revenues; • setting up and making study programmes and development tracks available that focus on knowledge valorisation, in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE).

The ACE was established in 2011 and enjoys guaranteed backing from the UvA, VU University Amsterdam, the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences and InHolland University of Applied Sciences through to the year 2016. Led by UvA professor Mirjam van Praag, the Centre offers interdisciplinary courses and coordinates entrepreneurship research both for staff members and as part of its curriculum for students.

Science Park Amsterdam and research infrastructure A joint initiative of the UvA, the City of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Economic Board, Science Park Amsterdam is being developed as an international hub for ICT, sustainability and life sciences and for businesses active in these areas. Accommodating the UvA’s Faculty of Science, the Computer Science, Nikhef and Amolf institutes of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the SARA Computing and Network Services Foundation, Science Park Amsterdam is also home to one of the world’s largest Internet hubs. In January 2012, the NWO’s Institute for Space Research also announced plans to move to Science Park Amsterdam.

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2. Organisation 2.1 Quality of staff

Policy Flexibility, diversity and employability were at the top of the UvA’s personnel policy agenda in 2011. In the context of deployment of staff for teaching activities, flexibility refers to the desired size of the flexible workforce. Diversity involves those efforts to appoint more women to senior academic positions. With a view to the preparations for the upcoming Institutional Audit, employability is particularly relevant with respect to the quality of teaching. Taking stock of and investing in the basic and senior qualifications of academic staff has been a focal point. Career orientation facilities for support and management staff were also expanded, and internal and sector-based programmes were made available to facilitate their professionalisation.

The HR policy objectives formulated in the Strategic Plan 2011-2014 focus on quality and flexibility. The quality objectives are: • to determine what constitutes a balanced flexible workforce for each faculty; • 90% of all lecturers (lecturer 2 and higher) with appointments for more than one year will be in possession of a Basic Teaching Qualification (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO) by the end of 2014; • 50% of support and management staff will have taken part in a professionalisation programme by the end of 2014.

Flexibility The UvA operates within a dynamic environment in which factors such as the number of students enrolled in a given programme can fluctuate considerably from one year to the next. For this reason, a certain degree of flexibility is vital, especially in the teaching workforce. Only by striking a good balance between permanent and temporary staff can continuity and quality of teaching activities be guaranteed. Based on an analysis carried out in 2011 of the composition of academic staff, and particularly those with teaching duties, the desired size of the flexible workforce was set at 25%. With a ratio of 75% permanent and 25% temporary staff, the UvA should be adequately equipped to respond to any fluctuations. In 2012 and subsequent years, the UvA will continue to monitor the composition of staff with a view to responding to changes in the best possible way. The UvA’s Employability Fund, to which staff members can apply if they wish to enrol in a training or course, provides one means of enhancing the employability – and therefore the flexibility – of staff. In 2011, more than 71 staff members made use of the Fund, with the number of applicants doubling since the Fund was launched in 2007.

Quality and professionalisation As in previous years, a large number of lecturers earned their Basic Teaching Qualification (BKT) in 2011. Certificates were issued to 134 lecturers in 2011, including new lecturers for whom a BKO is a prerequisite for being considered for a permanent position. This put the total number of certificates issued at 546 (including AMC-UvA lecturers). Lecturers with a temporary appointment and no prospect of a permanent position can also earn a BKO, provided their range of teaching duties meets the applicable requirements and is sufficiently broad. Lecturers with a key role in their department can also take part in Utrecht University’s Educational Leadership (Onderwijskundig Leiderschap) training programme on curricular development and teaching innovation. Twenty-one UvA staff members have now done so. Initial steps were also taken in 2011 towards the development of a Senior Teaching Qualification (Senior Kwalificatie Onderwijs, SKO).

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The Career Development Service Desk (Servicepunt Loopbaanontwikkeling) is a centrally funded support facility for staff seeking information about employment in a different setting, whether in or outside the UvA. In 2011, approximately 100 permanent and temporary staff members made us of this service. Within this group, the ratio of academic to support and management staff was roughly 50:50, with 65% on permanent contracts and 35% on temporary contracts. Since 2010, academic staff with teaching duties can also opt to take sabbatical leave. A new scheme was introduced in 2011 for other types of staff, under which they can set aside time to work on improving their employability. The existing professionalisation programme for controllers was also continued. Another professionalisation programme was launched for all experienced support and management staff, focusing on exercising control and influence in an academic context. Its first group of participants graduated in 2011. At the Central Computer Services division, 29 project leaders and staff members took a course on the Prince2 project management method, aimed at process control.

A key factor in the success of staff development and employability is a pleasant work environment with concern for personal wellbeing. Results from the 2011 Employee Monitor, which the UvA conducts on a periodic basis, reveal that the level of work pressure is generally experienced as too high. Various faculties therefore began experimenting with ways to help lecturers get a better handle on work pressure arising from teaching duties. Another finding from the Employee Monitor is that staff view the annual consultations as useful, though there is room for improvement as not everyone has an annual consultation and careful checks are needed to ensure that agreements made during the consultations are honoured. A further precondition for a pleasant work environment is good manners. Where these fail to be observed, staff can turn to the UvA’s complaints facilities. These were radically streamlined in 2011 to make them more accessible.

Integrity In 2011, the Dutch academic world was shaken by a number of incidents involving academic integrity. One revolved around a professor of psychology at Tilburg University suspected of inventing data for his own research and that of several of his doctoral students. The UvA immediately appointed former president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Pieter Drenth to head a committee to investigate the same professor’s doctoral thesis written at the UvA in 1997. Though this revealed no evidence suggesting fraud, the Tilburg investigating committee advised the UvA to assess whether he could be stripped of his doctorate on grounds of conduct extremely unworthy of a scientist and in contravention of the obligations associated with a doctorate. In the event, the professor returned his degree of his own accord.

The UvA takes breaches of codes of integrity very seriously, as they detract from the status of scientific findings, which is already under pressure today from certain quarters who view science as opinion rather than fact.

The University of Amsterdam Ethics Committee (AIEC), established pursuant to Section 1.7 of the Dutch Higher Education and Research Act, advises the Executive Board on the ethics guidelines it adopts with respect to ethical aspects of operations at the institution, including: • identifying ethical issues relating to academic research and teaching; • stimulating debate on these ethical issues within the institution; • acting as a point of contact for staff and students (as well as for people from outside the institution) regarding these ethical issues; • consultation and mediation; • providing information; • advising the Executive Board and deans of the faculties on matters relating to ethical issues in academic research and teaching; • academic ‘misconduct’, such as fraud and plagiarism.

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The AIEC consists of one member appointed per faculty, one member appointed by the Central Works Council and two members appointed by the Central Student Council. The AIEC met on three occasions in 2011: 30 March (to discuss the Research Code of the Academic Medical Center, AMC), 22 June (with a guest lecture on professional conduct in the Medical programme) and 8 November (with a guest lecture on professional conduct in the Law programme).

Eight cases were submitted to the Academic Integrity Adviser in 2011. Five of these have not yet been settled. Four of the eight cases are very recent. Of the three cases that have been settled, one led to the belated citation of an author’s contribution to a scientific study, while the other two were declared unfounded.

Diversity Quality is a core priority at the UvA. One of the ways the UvA promotes it is by building a diverse workforce with a wide spectrum of talents, competences and skills. It was with this in mind that the UvA signed the Talent to the Top Charter in 2009, aimed at increasing the influx, advancement and retention of talented women professionals in top positions. The UvA has set a target of employing 25% women in top academic positions within the next three years. Currently, they still comprise 18% (in FTEs), up slightly from just under 17% in 2009. By analysing the composition and mobility of the workforce at each faculty over the past several years, it was possible to formulate a number of guiding principles and recommendations to improve results in this area. The memorandum Vrouwen aan kop (Women at the Top) additionally provides faculties with concrete suggestions for how to influence this percentage more effectively. For top positions in the University’s support staff, the Executive Board has established a target figure of 40 to be reached within three years, against the current percentage of 39.1% in 2011, up from 33% in 2009.

As a major public employer, the UvA also takes an interest in low-opportunity groups: • As part of a national project conducted by the VSNU and UWV public employment service, the UvA is investigating the extent to which University jobs can be adapted for individuals receiving a young disabled persons benefit; • The UvA runs a programme to help academically trained refugees gain a better foothold in the labour market, under which one position was made available in 2011; • The UvA participates in the international Scholars at Risk network, set up to promote academic freedom and assist academics under threat of persecution, including by offering them temporary accommodation.

Reorganisations The reorganisation at the Faculty of Economics and Business that was begun in 2010 was completed in 2011. This restored the balance between the available budget and personnel and other expenses, and allowed for the first steps to be taken towards restoring the financial reserves. As agreed with the Works Council, there were no compulsory redundancies among support and management staff, and the expectation that these 35 staff members would quickly find new employment was met, with only three still looking for a job. Among the academic staff, 49 faculty positions were cut. Of the affected staff members, 43 found other work or took (early) retirement. Discussions are still being held with the remaining six staff members.

The collections of the Zoological Museum Amsterdam were transferred to the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden, set up as a joint centre to house the collections of the UvA, Leiden University, Wageningen University and the National Natural History Museum. Conditions for the staff transfer are still being negotiated by the parties involved, particularly the transfer of pension rights.

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2.2 Ties with staff, students and alumni

Policy The UvA attaches great value to good relationships with the parties concerned – students, staff and alumni – and, through them, with society. It considers it important that the number of students and staff who feel a higher than average commitment to the University continue to grow, and that the external Dutch stakeholders know and endorse the UvA’s objectives and play a positive role in developing the UvA’s image. It goes without saying that the policy described in section 1.4 is expected to contribute to this process. UvA alumni occupy various, and sometimes key, positions in business, public organisations, the media and government; as participants in and disseminators of a shared experience and common cause, they can help strengthen the UvA’s reputation.

Participation in decision-making Consultations with employees are conducted primarily in the Central and Faculty Works Councils, while terms of employment are discussed in the University Local Consultative Committee. Consulta- tions with students are conducted in the Central and Faculty Student Councils. The Student Councils are elected on an annual basis, while the Works Councils are elected every three years (next election in 2012). Topics discussed at the different Council meetings in 2011 included: the Strategic Plan 2011-2014 and its integral Vision for the Future 2020; the policy and management covenants agreed between the faculties and the UvA-HvA Executive Board; cooperation with the VU University Amsterdam and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences; the Institutional Audit on Quality Assurance; institutional profiling; the Strategic Framework for HRM; the Vision on Teaching and Learning (Onderwijsvisie) policy document; and, of course, the annual planning and control cycle (budget, accommodations plan, accountability). There were also two so-called ‘Article 24 meetings’ with the UvA-HvA Executive Board and the UvA Supervisory Board (or its representative). The Central Works Council and the Central Student Council both considered the UvA-HvA Executive Board’s role to be constructive.

Ties with the UvA The alumni policy of the UvA and the Amsterdam University Association (AUV), the UvA’s umbrella alumni network, is aimed at strengthening ties between alumni and academic practice at the UvA and among alumni themselves. Alumni are informed of and invited to participate in activities and can also join one of the 19 disciplinary alumni communities affiliated with the AUV, each with activities of its own. At the beginning of 2011, results were received from an online survey focusing on the profiles of alumni, their involvement with the UvA and their interest in activities. Overall, the 4,370 respondents were positive to very positive about the UvA, citing the good atmosphere, the location and the quality of the study programmes and lecturers. At 70%, alumni’s personal involvement with their former study programmes is high, exceeding that with the UvA or the faculty in general (50%). The few negative comments cited poor organisational structure. More than 25% of alumni see themselves as promoters of the UvA, while 10% take a critical view of the University.

Some 90,000 alumni receive the AUV’s magazine SPUI. Most appreciate the magazine, with 94% stating they are familiar with it, and more than half having read all or parts of the last three issues. Seventy per cent rate the magazine as good to very good. Four issues of the new digital version of SPUI were also published in 2011. On its annual University Day in June, the UvA welcomed some 1,200 alumni, while the AUV member day in November attracted about 530 people. Seventy-two per cent of alumni knew about the annual University Day, of whom 97% were positive to very positive about the event, though only one out of every eight respondents actually attended it. Just over 10% of alumni were not aware of the activities the UvA organises for alumni. Aside from activities specifically for alumni, the

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UvA also organises a host of weekly events at SPUI25, the academic and cultural centre in the heart of Amsterdam, including series like the Stand van de Wetenschap (State of Science) and ‘Film and Food’. Another finding revealed by the aforementioned survey was that committed and enterprising students later become active alumni. This forms an incentive to target alumni policy at current students more actively, which also conforms to the integrated life-cycle approach to which the UvA subscribes.

Looking ahead to 2012, the UvA decided to reach out more to its international alumni in order to strengthen its profile abroad, since satisfied students and alumni are the best ambassadors to inspire prospective students and researchers to study or work at the UvA. Several steps were already taken in 2011 to strengthen international alumni relations, including the organisation of meetings in Beijing, Shanghai, New York, Boston and Brussels.

2.3 Reliable and sustainable services

Policy The Strategic Plan policy objectives for the internal support services focus mainly on increasing staff and student satisfaction, as measured by the annual Employee Monitor and National Student Survey, as well as on boosting long-term efficiency through partnerships with service units at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences.

Services to students The UvA aims to increase student satisfaction with the way teaching is organised to an average of 7 on a 10-point scale. The graph in section 1.2 shows a rising trend in satisfaction with teaching provision, but this reversed slightly in 2011. In national comparisons, the UvA scores below average. An analysis of National Student Survey data reveals that this was due in part to the limited and expensive student housing in Amsterdam. Other aspects on which the UvA scored below the national average were the quality of feedback from teaching evaluations, course organisation (timetables and availability of facilities/rooms) and labour market preparation. In the lead-up to the Institutional Audit on Quality Assurance, progress in these areas will be closely monitored. Aside from these general observations, the National Student Survey revealed that certain programmes score below par. These include Dentistry and the teacher-training programmes, as well as several study programmes at different faculties. The reasons for students’ below average ratings were analysed in consultation with the affected study programmes. In the years ahead, renovations at the Roeterseiland Campus and the inconvenience this will cause are likely to have a negative influence on students’ perception of teaching provision.

Following its introduction for the student enrolment process in 2010, the new Student Information System was further rolled out for the registration of academic results in the 2011-2012 academic year. The enrolment procedure for students and the administrative organisation used in 2010 was critically evaluated in 2011 and subsequently improved. Improvements were aimed at strengthening cooperation and coordination within the faculties and support services, and at simplifying the information provided to staff and students. The transition to this new system will continue to create organisational pressures throughout 2012 before the real benefits can be reaped. A qualitative evaluation of the design and implementation of SIS was scheduled for spring 2012, with the evaluation setup to be determined in close consultation with the Central Student and Works Councils.

Educational uses of IT continued to grow. Among the projects completed in 2011 was the creation of a

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technical infrastructure for digital assessment (the Proeve Project). Lecturers will be encouraged to switch to digital testing in 2012, also with a view to reducing the pressures of teaching without sacrificing student feedback. The same holds true for the use of video in teaching and even more so for web lectures, which is the focus of a major new project. In 2011, the UvA issued a tender for mid-scale innovative projects and smaller grassroots projects that focus on the use of video as a teaching tool. This resulted in seven innovation projects and nine grassroots projects, with themes including the upscaling of web lectures and the provision of controlled access to video content.

Services to the organisation Every year, the UvA Employee Monitor measures staff satisfaction with the central services. Various improvements have been agreed in the covenants between the central service units and the Executive Board, with a view to raising scores to an average of 7 on a 10-point scale in 2014 (from 6.2 in 2010). The Employee Monitor conducted in April 2011 returned higher scores for many services. Since 2008, when the first such survey was conducted, performance in the following areas has improved: teaching facilities, catering, web-based administrative self-service tools, salary administration, printing and copying facilities and the logging and handling of queries, problems and complaints about facilities. These improvements are proof positive that it is entirely possible to restructure and streamline services even while cutting costs; simplification and standardisation are clearly valued. Since 2006, the UvA has reduced costs on internal services by €23m (20%). A recent benchmark study conducted by the Berenschot consulting firm revealed that the UvA has 1% more support staff positions than the sector average and that indirect costs in euros are at or just under the sector average. This situation is perfectly acceptable given the geographic distribution of the UvA’s premises throughout the city and the extra traffic and safety measures this brings with it. Nevertheless, the current multi-year forecast incorporates measures to achieve a slight further reduction in indirect costs. At the same time, the UvA has no wish to exceed average cuts on support services in the next few years, particularly at a time when organisation and IT systems are already being heavily affected by changes due to the realisation of the Accommodations Plan, the Institutional Audit for Quality Assurance, improving the study success rate, the prioritisation of research areas and the Strategic Agenda. Relationships between the Faculty service departments, the central service units and the UvA-HvA Executive Board will, however, remain a focal point.

CENTRAL SERVICE UNIT SATISFACTION IN EMPLOYEE MONITOR 2011 Administration Centre 6.8 Central Computer Services 6.7 Facility Services 6.7 University Library/study centres 7.8

A number of service units conducted more detailed customer experience scans for their own development purposes, and all reported on the requests and complaints logged at their service desks.

Safety and compliance The new Integral Safety Policy drawn up in 2011 provides a framework for measures to ensure the safety of staff, students and third parties in the years ahead. The policy establishes a systematic approach to safety procedures, and is based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and demonstrable risk management. Over the next few years, all faculty deans and unit heads will implement an integral safety assurance system for their respective faculties and units.

On completion of the Faculty of Science’s new premises at Science Park Amsterdam in autumn 2010, the UvA-HvA Executive Board took the opportunity to order an internal audit of the new location’s safety and compliance in relation to the specific legislation relevant to the Faculty’s activities. In particular, the audit assessed compliance with the strict administrative rules laid down in the Nuclear

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Energy Act, the Dangerous Substances Act and legislation pertaining to animal testing and genetically modified organisms.

Under the authority of the Nuclear Energy Act, the Faculty was granted a permit in 2011 to carry out alterations with a view to correcting inconsistencies arising from the relocation to Science Park Amsterdam. Radiation risk analyses were carried out early in the year and the foundation laid for radiation regulations. Further work focused on setting up a digital administrative management system in which to record all relevant radiation safety data.

The year 2011 also saw the release of the Faculty of Science’s Annual Environmental Report 2010. Written in the form of an action plan, the report specified which environmental issues were under control and which needed further attention. The Report also referred to activities involving genetically modified organisms, and concluded that administrative procedures have been established, the requisite permits obtained and that staff know and adhere to the applicable laws and regulations.

By law, universities are obliged to maintain a chemicals recordkeeping system. The UvA’s ordering and recordkeeping system currently lists approximately 24,000 substances. In university settings, work typically involves using a large range of different chemicals in relatively small quantities in accordance with the prescribed occupational safety strategy. Legislation on dangerous substances is aimed chiefly at the processing industry – which works with a limited range of substances in larger quantities – rather than at the research sector. For research organisations, these management rules represent a major administrative burden. In seeking to reduce these costs, the UvA thus pushed for an exemption from administrative obligations for the use of small quantities of most of the dangerous substances. Compliance by other parties in the Faculty of Science building, including allied businesses and service subcontractors, remains a point of concern, however.

UvA-HvA collaboration Collaboration between the UvA service units and their counterparts at the HvA is aimed at improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of operational management. Once approved by the Works Councils, the structural plans for merging both the two administrative centres and the University Library and the HvA media library began to be rolled out. Collaboration between the UvA and the HvA was also expanded to the area of accommodations (maintenance and project and property management) in 2011. Most of the shared services have already been or soon will be placed under a single management, for which the UvA-HvA Executive Board appointed a project director UvA-HvA Services in September 2011.

2.4 Targeted campus infrastructure

Policy Campus policy is guided by the Accommodations Plan 2005-2020, under which all faculty accommodations will be successively replaced or fully renovated based on the idea of four core campuses (City Centre, Roeterseiland, Science Park Amsterdam/AMC and ACTA at the VU University Amsterdam campus). The Plan’s sequential execution, starting with the new premises for the Faculty of Science, aims at flexibility and a phasing in of both the construction work and the budget, as well as minimising additional relocations and stopgap measures. The UvA has opted for high-quality designs that facilitate coming together, and for the use of sustainable construction materials, reflecting the fact that the buildings are meant to remain future-proof for years to come and not to become outdated soon after being put into use. In 2005, the Accommodations Plan was tested financially against benchmarks

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derived from the UK universities’ Space Management Group, amongst others. Partly based on these results, in 2006 the UvA implemented a costing for space hire and centrally organised room timetabling to promote spatial efficiency and in 2007 set spatial standards for offices and classrooms. The Plan as a whole aims for a solvency of more than 20%, and basic annual internal rent expenses amounting to 10-12% of the total turnover.

Roeterseiland Campus After completion of the new premises for the Faculty of Science in 2010, work commenced on the demolition and renovation of the large B/C and A Buildings at Roeterseiland in April 2011. These will eventually house the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Faculty of Law, a project budgeted at €€157m. However, work on the B/C Building immediately proved so disruptive to activities on campus that it was decided to accelerate the clearing of building A in the summer, during which time its occupants were moved to temporary rented accommodation in the former diamond factory. It is not yet certain whether this will also lead to an earlier completion of Building A. The impact of this project and the associated local noise and traffic disturbance has been exceptionally large and prolonged, making it a major point of concern. Area management invested a lot of time and effort in improving relations and communication with the local residents. Good progress has been made, but a number of residents’ associations remain highly critical and unhappy with the UvA and its contractor. Efforts to communicate with the residents’ associations will continue unabated through 2012-2013. The project has incurred a slight delay as a result of this development, but not enough to prevent the Building from being put into use in summer 2014.

The renovation of the former diamond factory to provide accommodations for CREA, the joint UvA-HvA student cultural centre, was completed within budget at the end of 2011. Also completed was the renovation of Building D, which now has well-equipped, soundproof laboratories for the Psychology Department, despite nearly six months’ delay due to asbestos issues. Aside from additional asbestos-related expenses, this project was likewise completed within budget. Lastly, in 2011, a schedule of requirements was drawn up for remodelling Building H, which currently houses facilities including the student restaurant but is to be transformed into a learning centre for the whole Roeterseiland complex. With the decision-making phase scheduled in 2012, the aim is for this work also to be completed in 2014.

The UvA and the HvA are in continuous dialogue with the City of Amsterdam to promote the development interests of the Roeterseiland and the adjacent HvA Amstel Campus site, and specifically to discuss aspects such as safety and metro capacity and the public space around the Weesperplein.

City Centre Campus Last in line for development is the campus at the former Binnengasthuis, which will house the Faculty of Humanities and the University Library. The architectural firm Cruz y Ortiz has created an iconic design for a new study centre and Humanities library, and an integration plan has been drawn up for housing the Faculty of Humanities at the Binnengasthuis site and the Oudemanhuispoort, with the latter to retain its general classroom function.

Plans for the new University Library met with heavy resistance, locally, politically and from within the UvA itself. In March 2011, an Amsterdam court declared void the ‘listed building’ consent needed for the demolition of the listed buildings at BG13a and BG14, which were slated to make way for the new library. According to the court, the City of Amsterdam (City Centre district) had provided insufficient substantiation of its consideration of the UvA’s interests in favour of demolishing the listed buildings versus the general interest of preservation. More particularly, the substantiation failed to address the effect of advancing digitisation or to analyse alternatives and the usability of existing buildings. In response, the UvA asked the Haarlem developer Rob Toornend to assess whether the study centre and

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the Library might be realised in the BG13a and BG14 premises, given the structural, functional and economic requirements. Former director of the Dutch Department for the Preservation of Historic Buildings and Sites, Fons Asselbergs was then asked to give his assessment of the art-historical value of the Binnengasthuis complex as a whole. Maurits de Hoog of TU Delft was asked to develop a vision on further campus development. These reports were made available in early November and effectively removed the UvA campus plan from the agenda.

Rob Toornend concluded that as they stand, the existing buildings are not suited to accommodate the University Library. However, the buildings could be made suitable through the addition of two basement levels beneath the complex, the development of the vacant lot alongside the former nurses’ residence and the development of the courtyard, and provided the City of Amsterdam cancels its plans to build a car park. Even in this new design, it will not be possible to preserve all the historic elements of the buildings. In 2012, the City will make a new decision, on the basis of which the UvA will determine the future course of campus development.

Science Park Amsterdam Since 2010, the whole of the Faculty of Science has been housed at Science Park Amsterdam. At the beginning of 2011, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies joined the Faculty at its new premises. Various internal measures still had to be taken in 2011 to reduce noise disturbance and add classroom capacity after it became apparent that the new facilities would draw more students. Another big draw and a clear success was the Universum sports centre. Construction for the new Amsterdam University College premises kicked off in 2011, with a scheduled completion date of summer 2012.

The UvA has had a partnership agreement with the City of Amsterdam since 2006 for the development of Science Park Amsterdam as a science-oriented business park. With the new buildings for the Faculty of Science and Amsterdam University College now completed and the area beginning to bustle with activity, management and supervision now needs to be arranged. The Park Management Association was created for this purpose at the end of 2011, and charged with the daily management of all site aspects that fall outside the City of Amsterdam’s responsibilities as owner of the public road. One plot was allocated to a data centre and another to the Matrix Innovation Centre, a joint venture of the UvA, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the City of Amsterdam created to develop and operate shared office buildings for small and start-up companies at Science Park Amsterdam, with this as its sixth site.

Student housing In its programme agreement, the City of Amsterdam states its intention to create another 9,000 student residential units. The availability of sufficient student housing is critical for the UvA, in view of the growing need for short-stay spaces for Master’s students on one or two-year programmes and temporary rental accommodation for doctoral students, and of the UvA’s international aims. According to the National Student Survey, the limited availability and high price of housing is one of the issues on which the UvA (and the VU University Amsterdam) score significantly lower than other universities. Where possible, the UvA is doing what it can to contribute to the City of Amsterdam’s objective in this area, for example by emphatically urging parties responsible for area zoning plans near to UvA premises to include provisions for student housing. Progress was made on these aims in 2011, with construction of a second student housing complex comprising 650 units being launched at Science Park Amsterdam, in a project led by the DUWO and Rochdale housing corporations. Additionally, the buyer of the former ACTA building in the Slotervaart district announced plans for its temporary use as student housing (though there are some legal complications involving traces of mercury in the drainpipes that didn’t exist when the initial demolition plan was drawn up).

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2.5 Sustainability

Policy The definition of sustainability formulated 25 years ago by the UN Brundtland Commission pertains not only to energy consumption, climate and natural resources, but also to societal and development issues. These issues are an important focus of UvA research, as reflected, for example, by its designation of ‘Sustainable World’ as one of the institution’s seven key integrated research themes (see section 1.2). In terms of operational management, sustainability plays a major part in the targets set in the Strategic Plan 2011-2014. These include the reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 2% and 3% per year, respectively, and the introduction of a purchasing policy that conforms to the guidelines set by the NL Agency (Agentschap NL, formerly SenterNovem) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.

Energy and CO2 At Science Park Amsterdam, the installation of a geothermal heat pump helped to cut consumption in the new buildings occupied by the Faculty of Science and other users. The dismantlement of the combined heat and power system at the Roeterseiland complex led to a further sizable reduction in gas consumption in 2011 relative to 2010. Together, these steps achieved a 50% reduction in gas use and a 13% reduction in electricity use. However, these reductions distort the real picture of the University’s energy use as they are partly incidental in nature. Nevertheless, with plans for another geothermal heat pump to be installed at the Roeterseiland complex, energy consumption there will still be far less after the renovation than it was before.

TOTAL UVA ENERGY CONSUMPTION (* 100.000) 2009 2010 2011 Gas consumption in m3 9.5 9.0 4.4 Electricity consumption in kWh 35.3 37.4 32.5

CO2 emissions in kg 39.9 40.1 28.1

Though it is not possible to say definitively how much of the energy efficiency target was achieved last year, the UvA looks to be on course for the 30% energy savings planned for the 2005-2020 period. The road to achieving this target is not marked by steady, gradual progress through annual reductions of 2%, but rather by a series of jumps after the completion of each new building project, renovation and disposal of superfluous buildings. The UvA also continued its efforts towards the annual 2% reduction through technical measures in existing buildings.

A similar pattern of fits and starts is anticipated as the UvA works towards its goal of generating 40% less CO2 emissions in 2025 relative to 1990. Since the main sources of CO2 emissions are electricity and gas, this reduction will run parallel to the reduction in energy consumption. Sustainability has been a key theme in the development of the Science Park Amsterdam complex. The new Amsterdam Univer- sity College building is a good example, having received an ‘A’ energy label and incorporating features such as concrete core activation, green roofs and a geothermal heating and cooling system. The geothermal heat pump installed at the site, developed jointly by the student housing corporation DUWO, the National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the UvA, yielded a savings of more than 300 tonnes of CO2 in 2011.

Sustainable purchasing and waste disposal At the beginning of 2011, the Dutch government conducted a Purchasing Sustainability Monitor (Monitor Duurzaam Inkopen) over the year 2010. Conducted every two years, the survey is used to

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mark progress in purchasing sustainability at various government organisations. In 2010, 85% of UvA purchases were already sustainable, compared to the national university average of 80%, as determined on the basis of the classifications and sustainability criteria applied by the NL Agency (Agentschap NL). Following a difficult tender process, the UvA and HvA awarded new catering contracts in 2011. Two new caterers were chosen who will supply a larger range of sustainable and organic products than the previous caterer, with no increase in prices. Steps were also taken to increase the supply of recyclables. For example, the many relocation movements required by the Roeterseiland renovation project resulted in an accumulation of old and surplus office furniture; rather than throwing them out, the furniture is now first offered to second-hand dealers. In 2011, the UvA disposed of a total of 430.5 tonnes of waste, mainly comprising grade B (sortable) commercial waste (65%), followed by paper and cardboard (excluding archive/confidential material) at 26%.

Organisation and awareness The joint UvA-HvA Sustainability Task Force is responsible for coordinating sustainability measures in research, teaching and operational management. Led by the vice-president of the UvA-HvA Executive Board, the Task Force is guided by the sustainable operational management objectives laid down in the Sustainability Action Plan (Uitvoeringsplan Duurzaamheid), which address matters such as efficient use of space, energy efficiency, product lifecycles, waste separation and catering. During 2011, the Task Force bolstered communication on the various sustainability initiatives currently under way, and renewed and updated the UvA’s sustainability website.

The UvA also runs a Sustainability Platform, where academic staff from various domains come together to discuss sustainability in teaching and research. In December, the UvA-HvA Executive Board approved the Platform’s Work Programme for 2011-2014 (Werkprogramma Platform Duurzaamheid 2011-2014). Under this plan, links with faculty teaching and research activities will be strengthened by appointing new representatives for each faculty instead of individuals in their personal capacity. The Platform compiled an inventory of faculty research activities relating to sustainability, which will be published on the UvA website in 2012. These activities should stimulate collaboration both within and outside the UvA, and clarify for students and staff how teaching and research efforts are promoting sustainability. A key focus of research in this area concentrates on ‘Sustainable Cities’, tapping into the UvA’s expertise on aspects such as smart grids and mobility. The Platform also organises seminars intended to forge links between students, staff members and external stakeholders and to get them more involved in sustainability. Over time, this topic will also take its natural place in teaching activities.

2.6 Finances

Policy Financially speaking, 2011 was a something of a transition year for the UvA. After three years of budget shortfalls, the UvA entered 2011 with a budgeted operating profit (excluding real estate). This situation has continued into 2012 and gives the UvA a good starting position for achieving the targets set out in its Strategic Plan 2011-2014, as well as a buffer to offset impending government spending cuts. The long-term anticipatory financial policy introduced in 2008 is clearly bearing fruit, also when the UvA is compared to the sector as a whole. The UvA has a transparent, balanced budget for the year ahead, which provides a reliable long-term perspective. The cash flow projection incorporated for the first time in the 2012 Budget also shows that the UvA continues to meet key internal and external financial indicators.

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Due to a number of factors clarified in the Statement of Accounts, the results of the 2011 financial year are significantly more favourable than was estimated. The consolidated result for the year amounts to €2.1m, and the non-consolidated to €1.7m, representing €10m more than was previously estimated. The operating result from teaching and research was €15m more favourable, while the result from real estate and treasury was €5m less favourable.

The policy objectives outlined in the Strategic Plan 2011-2014 seek an improvement in internal control up to the management control level, as well as growth in third-party income (indirect government and contract research funding and sponsor donations through the University Fund).

Tuition fees Starting with the 2011-2012 academic year, the government discontinued funding for second Bach- elor’s and Master’s degrees (excluding study programmes in teacher training and the health sector). This meant the UvA could set its own institutional fee for students in these categories, which it subsequently did – like most universities – in accordance with the integral fee that non-European students have paid since 2008, supplemented with a generous transition scheme for students already enrolled. This fee factors in both the actual, integral costs and the loss of the individual student government grant. Legal proceedings were subsequently brought against the use of this method, questioning, among other things, the basis for these calculations and whether the integral costs are allowed to include the research supplement part of the government grant. In September, the UvA additionally received a site visit from the Netherlands Competition Authority, which was of the opinion that the UvA may have made illegal tuition fee agreements with the VU University Amsterdam. Both procedures are still pending.

Another effect of the change in the government grant rules was that the pre-Master’s programmes were suddenly operating at a heavy loss. The policy launched to address this (see section 1.3) proved successful: more students enrolled in pre-Master’s programmes in the form of contract teaching. The number of contract courses is expected to continue growing over the coming years, for example in the form of summer schools, which also ensure that students incur less study delay. In general, faculties can determine fees for contract courses themselves, provided they continue to break even. These aspects have been laid down in agreements with the faculties.

Amsterdam University Fund Anyone wishing to support the growth and development of science, scholarship and student life at the UvA can do so by becoming a donor. With a total of 1,500 donations, the 2011 Annual Fundraising Campaign of the Amsterdam University Fund (AUF) recorded more donations than ever. The AUF Foundation brings together 60 subfunds, each established as an independent foundation with a distinct purpose, as designated by the founder or legatee. In 2011, the AUF disbursed approximately €475,000 in grants for individual and group travel and projects. The AUF publishes its own annual report, which gives an account of the Fund’s composition, growth and spending.

Internal control Organisational control was improved at all levels in 2011. ‘Release 1.0’ of the Administration Organisation was issued in March, providing descriptions of the 200 most important financial and personnel-related processes. In May, the UvA-HvA Executive Board adopted comprehensive competence profiles for controllers as part of the two-year Strengthening Control at All Levels (Versterking Control op Alle Niveaus) programme that was begun in mid-2010. At the University level, the control framework was

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strengthened and more clearly defined in terms of the organisational distinction between Finance & Control and Strategy & Information (including audit tasks).

In the mid-year closing in 2011, all units used ‘In Control Reporting’ for figures and processes for the first time. According to the accountant’s management letter, the UvA has largely achieved the basic level of Financial Control, with clear signs of improvement. Both the UvA as a whole and the individual units appear to be on course to achieve the Strategic Plan’s target level of Management Control by 2014.

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3. Administration 3.1 Administrative structure

The UvA is a legal entity under Dutch law as defined in Section 1.8, paragraph 2, in conjunction with Annex 1(a), of the Dutch Higher Education and Research Act (Wet op het hoger onderwijs en wetenschappelijk onderzoek, WHW). It primarily carries out the statutory duties of a university, namely academic teaching and research, transferring knowledge to society and promoting a sense of social responsibility, and is recognised as a public service institution.

The UvA’s administrative structure is laid down in the WHW and in its own Management and Administration Regulations, and conforms to the Code goed bestuur universiteiten (Good Governance Code for Universities) of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands. The UvA is directed by an Executive Board comprising four members: a president, a vice-president, the rector magnificus of the UvA and the rector of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences. Consent for deviating from the statutory three-member board was granted by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science on 22 November 2002.

The Executive Board: • is charged with governance and control of the institution as a whole; • approves the Strategic Plan and implements institutional strategy; • establishes the management structure; • bears final responsibility for the quality of teaching and research, including for requesting initial and regular accreditations, terminating study programmes and establishing programme capacity; • sets tuition fees and student policy; • is charged with the operational management and approves the Annual Budget, Annual Statement of Accounts, personnel policy and terms of employment; • has a functioning system of internal control and risk management; • arranges legal protection for staff and students, as well as participation in decision-making.

Under the WHW, teaching and the pursuit of science and scholarship are organised within the faculties, each headed by a dean appointed by the Executive Board. In the Executive Council, where consultations between the Executive Board and the deans take place, cooperation between the Executive Board and the deans has the highest priority. All major strategic and policy questions are discussed in the Executive Council prior to the Executive Board’s decisions on such matters.

The Executive Board and the deans receive advice on a structural basis from a number of bodies, some designated by law. These include, firstly, the statutory representative advisory bodies (the student and works councils at the faculty and central levels, as well as their joint meetings). These bodies not only have the right to be consulted on various topics, but in some instances also the right of approval. Other standard central advisory bodies are: • the University Committee on Education, for teaching policy; • the University Committee on Research, for research policy; • the Senate, the ‘academic conscience’ for the pursuit of scholarship; • the Ethics Committee; • the University Local Consultative Committee, for terms of employment issues; • the Joint Directors Consultations, for operational management.

The Executive Board works under the supervision of a Supervisory Board appointed by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science. The Supervisory Board appoints and dismisses members of the

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Executive Board, approves the Strategic Plan, Annual Budget and Annual Statement of Accounts, and monitors quality assurance procedures. The Supervisory Board has separate committees that oversee remuneration, audits and academic quality. It meets around five times a year. Twice yearly the entire Supervisory Board or delegated members also meet with the Executive Board and the central representative advisory bodies.

The remuneration policy and figures for individual members of the Executive Board are included in section 3.2, as are the allowances for the members of the Supervisory Board. Ancillary activities of the members of both boards are listed on the UvA’s website.

The Academic Medical Center As the teaching hospital affiliated with the UvA, the Academic Medical Center (AMC) is a legal entity under public law pursuant to Section 1.13 of the WHW, and thus publishes its own annual report. The AMC houses the UvA’s Faculty of Medicine, whose dean is also chairman of the AMC Board. As dean, he or she takes part in the University’s Executive Council meetings. Academic medical teaching and research activities are periodically coordinated in a joint policy document (covenant) agreed between the UvA and the AMC.

The UvA’s teaching regulations apply equally to the Faculty of Medicine, whose students also have the right to vote in the Central Student Council elections. All other aspects of the AMC are governed by its own regulations and councils, in which patient care activities play a central role. The Faculty’s contract research is conducted under the auspices of AMC Medical Research BV, of which AMC is 51% shareholder and the UvA 49%.

Joint institutes with the VU University Amsterdam The Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) brings together the respective faculties of dentistry of the UvA and the VU University Amsterdam (VU). The teaching, research and patient care activities of both faculties are fully integrated and directed by a single dean. Established as an unincorporated joint venture, the UvA bears 55% of ACTA’s operating costs and the VU 45%, in line with the student enrolment quotas imposed for each institution.

The joint liberal arts programme of the UvA and the VU has been placed within Amsterdam University College (AUC), which is directed by a single dean. AUC is founded on the basis of an unincorporated Joint Scheme, stipulating that the costs of AUC are to be borne in a 50:50 ratio by the UvA and the VU, in line with the statutory entry quotas.

Intensive cooperation with the HvA Starting in 1998, the UvA and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences (HvA) Foundation began working closely together with a view to offering students in Amsterdam a more targeted and differentiated range of higher education programmes. Since 2003 the two institutions also have a joint Executive Board, and for this reason have been permitted to deviate from the Dutch Higher Education and Research Act and appoint an additional fourth Board member; one of the Board members serves as rector of the HvA. The supervisory boards and their committees have not been merged, but are chaired by the same person and attend each other’s meetings. Support staff at the two institutions also work together where this serves the interests of efficiency.

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Group structure

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The UvA clusters its non-statutory activities and spin-offs in, for example, applied research into group entities. The group is directed mainly through intermediation of the University’s wholly-owned subsidiary, UvA Holding BV, of which Amsterdam University Press and the two employment agencies affiliated with the UvA are also part. Aside from UvA Holding, the group structure consists of holdings in ACTA Holding BV and AMC Medical Research BV, as well as in: • SARA Computing and Networking Services • SEO Economic Research • T.M.C. Asser Centre for European and International Law in The Hague • Amsterdam Institute for German Studies • Netherlands Institute in Athens • Netherlands Institute in St Petersburg (a Russian legal entity) • CREA Foundation • University Sports Centre Amsterdam Foundation and the sports operating company UvA CV • Amsterdam University Association, with membership open mainly to alumni • Amsterdam University Fund Foundation, which manages approximately 60 funds specifically bequeathed or otherwise designated for a cause related to the UvA • several smaller (management) entities.

The diagram of the group structure shows which affiliated parties are part of the consolidation base for the Annual Statement of Accounts and which are part of the VAT tax entity. The Annual Statement of Accounts contains an additional list of organisations – mainly foundations – that are affiliated in some way with teaching and research at the UvA but not considered part of the group on account of their board structure or financial relationship with the UvA.

Internal structure The UvA has seven faculties, including those at the Academic Medical Center and the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam. Faculty activities are organised in Colleges (Bachelor’s programmes), Graduate Schools (Master’s programmes) and research institutes. Academic and support staff fall under departments and faculty offices, respectively, and are hired by the Colleges, Schools and institutes. Most internal services are provided by the central service units, which are also responsible for offering appropriate and reliable administrative, facility, computing and other services as efficiently as possible. The University Library is also a central service and incorporates the Allard Pierson Museum for Archaeology, the Special Collections, the University Museum and around 40 other collections.

Costs for services provided by the central service units are charged to users at the faculties and other units, with the exception of the Executive Staff. The Executive Staff is the secretariat to the UvA-HvA Executive Board and the UvA’s policy and advisory service. Headed by the Secretary General of the UvA, it is financed by withholding a certain percentage of the government funding when it is apportioned to the faculties.

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The organisational chart below provides an overview of the UvA’s internal structure.

Management control The UvA operates on the basis of a system of integral management, meaning that every level of the organisation is responsible for ensuring efficient, effective and lawful use of the (mainly public) funds made available to the UvA, proper management of its rights and property, and compliance with the statutory rules and regulations laid down in the Dutch Higher Education and Research Act, as well as the regulations deriving from it (including the control protocol) and other laws. This also explicitly includes responsibility for the lawful spending of the government grant and for preventing, detecting and combating fraud. The UvA-HvA Executive Board holds final responsibility.

The UvA is currently engaged in strengthening its internal control system, encompassing a full planning and control cycle, internal budgeting, monthly reporting and quarterly analyses and prognoses of income, expenses and cash flows. Each faculty and shared service has its own controller, who reports to the corporate controller by way of the relevant dean or director, for the benefit of the Executive Board. The tasks, authorities and responsibilities making up this system are laid down in the Standard Operational Management Mandate and the Financial Management Regulations. By 2014, the UvA aims to have achieved the management control level, together with a fully-functioning In Control reporting system. The Supervisory Board’s Audit Committee monitors the system’s functioning and results.

Under this integral management structure, each unit is expected to have its own systems and processes through which to verify the quality of performance and compliance with rules. Central audits

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conducted by the Executive Staff enable the Executive Board to examine and assess how well various facets of the integral management system are functioning. Having now opted to seek institutional accreditation under the new statutory provision, this central audit function will also be expanded to cover quality assurance in research and, especially, teaching.

The UvA’s governance model is aimed at controlling institutional risks and providing a reasonable (not absolute) assurance that activities are carried out effectively, efficiently and in accordance with the law. Of course, the Executive Board realises that unforeseen circumstances can always arise and that certain risks will always remain. Recognising this is a fundamental part of risk management, which itself is part of integral management and aimed not only at reducing, avoiding and safeguarding against risks but also at acknowledging risks that remain. Codes of conduct and a transparent academic culture play a crucial role in the University’s risk management system, with transparency serving as a key guiding principal in all the UvA’s activities.

The UvA subscribes to the Dutch Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice, the Code of Conduct for the Use of Personal Data in Scientific Research and the Code for Transparency on Animal Testing. The UvA’s Regulations on Ancillary Activities lay down rules for releasing information about potential researcher and other staff member conflicts of interest. Internal policies for the prevention of fraud and risks further include the UvA-HvA Whistleblower Scheme.

3.2 Remuneration data

The Executive Board Since 1 September 2003, the UvA and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences (HvA) have been governed by a single, joint Executive Board made up of four members. Consent for deviating from the statutory three-member board was granted by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science on 22 November 2002.

The president and the rector magnificus are both in the employ of the UvA, while the vice-president and the fourth member, who is also the rector of the HvA, are in the employ of the HvA. The table below gives an overview of Executive Board members’ remunerations in 2011, in the form prescribed in the Dutch Act on Standardisation of Top Incomes (Wet normering topinkomens [WNT, Parliamentary Paper 32 600 A]). An overview in accordance with the form prescribed by the Dutch Act on the Disclosure of Top Income Earners in Publicly Funded Sectors (Wet openbaarmaking publieke topinkomens, WOPT) currently still in force is included later in this section.

The remunerations to Board members are determined in accordance with the Decision dated 6 August 1998 on the legal status of the members of the executive boards of public universities (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees 518). Board members are not entitled to bonuses or supplements, other performance-based remunerations or taxable reimbursements for expenses.

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DR K. VAN DER TOORN PROF. D.C. VAN DEN BOOM DR M. BUSSEMAKER P.W. DOOP Position President Rector Magnificus UvA Member, Rector HvA Vice-President Term until 1 August 2011 all of 2011 from 1 March 2011 all of 2011 Working hours 38 hrs/week 38 hrs/week 38 hrs/week 38 hrs/week Gross salary 122,400 181,200 134,300 192,600 Social security contributions 3,300 5,700 5,200 6,200 Taxed reimbursements 0 0 0 0 Pension contribution 19,400 28,800 21,700 30,500 (employer’s share)

Total 145,100 215,700 161,200 229,300

The president’s seat fell vacant as from 1 August and from 4 July was temporarily filled by the vice- president. The seat of the rector of the HvA was vacant until 1 March. The remuneration of the Board members is shared between the UvA and the HvA based on a 50:50 distribution formula, resulting in the following distribution between the two institutions in 2011:

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM TOTAL

UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Dr K. van der Toorn 72,550 72,550 145,100 Prof. D.C. van den Boom 107,850 107,850 215,700 Dr M. Bussemaker 80,600 80,600 161,200 P.W. Doop 114,650 114,650 229,300

Board members are reimbursed for expenses in accordance with the rules applied by the institution at which they are employed. Over the year 2011, the Board members submitted the following expense claims to the UvA. The overview includes: • reimbursements for expenses and services claimed by Board members; • expenditures made using a personal credit card provided by the UvA, if applicable; • national and international travel and accommodation expenses for business trips made on behalf of the UvA.

DR K. VAN DER TOORN PROF. D.C. VAN DEN BOOM DR M. BUSSEMAKER P.W. DOOP Representation expenses 1,060 2,750 - 1,230 National travel expenses 14,340 8,260 - 620 International travel expenses 27,940 22,390 850 4,560 Other expenses 1,640 4,390 - 120 Total 44,980 37,790 850 6,530

The majority of the international travel and accommodation expenses were for participation in delegations representing the City and business community of Amsterdam in India and China, as well as trips connected with the UvA’s participation in the international League of European Research Universities and Universitas 21 alliances.

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Supervisory Board The Supervisory Boards of the UvA and the HvA have not been merged, but they are chaired by the same person and meet jointly. The reimbursements for the Supervisory Board members are determined in accordance with the applicable general order in council. Because the members of the UvA and HvA Supervisory Boards attend each other’s meetings and consultations in the capacity of advisers, they also receive a consultancy fee reimbursement from the other institution. The following allowances and reimbursements were paid over the year 2011 (excluding VAT, if applicable).

ALLOWANCE ALLOWANCE CONSULTANCY FEE CONSULTANCY FEE PAID BY THE UvA PAID BY THE HvA ALLOWANCE UvA ALLOWANCE HvA Prof. N.A.M. Urbanus, chair 1) 2,500 1,250 - - I. Brakman 2) 14,167 6,250 - 583 A. Baan 10,000 - - 3,500 B. Bleker 3) - 10,375 3,875 - J.H.M. Lindenbergh 4) 10,500 - - 4,000 M.R. Milz, MBA - 10,000 3,500 - 1) Until 1 March 2011 2) Acting chair of both Supervisory Boards as from 1 March 2011 3) Audit Committee member 4) Audit Committee chair

Specification pursuant to the Dutch Act on the Disclosure of Top Income Earners in Publicly Funded Sectors (WOPT) Below is the specification of Board members employed by the UvA and employees whose taxable income including arrangements for remunerations payable in instalments exceeded the average taxable income of Dutch Ministers in 2011 (€193,000) (Section 6.1 of the WOPT).

The method for determining Board member remunerations is explained above. In all cases where the publication threshold of professors was exceeded, this was due to a labour market allowance. In other cases, the reason for the excess is explained in a footnote. All the persons listed were employed for the whole of 2011, unless stated otherwise in a footnote. The table also includes payments made in connection with terminations of employment as reported under Section 6, paragraph 2 of the WOPT.

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POSITION 2011 2010 President of the Executive Board 1) 38 191,500 51,200 - 242,700 38 192,000 50,100 - 242,100 Rector Magnificus 38 168,000 44,300 - 212,300 38 168,400 43,400 - 211,800 Professor 38 190,700 51,700 - 242,400 38 191,200 50,600 - 241,800 Professor 38 183,400 48,900 - 232,300 38 183,900 47,700 - 231,600 Professor 20 85,400 23,000 - 108,400 20 86,900 22,500 - 109,400 Professor 18 120,100 29,600 - 149,700 38 232,800 62,100 - 294,900 Professor 4 24,000 6,100 - 30,100 4 24,000 5,900 - 29,900 Senior university lecturer 2) 38 30,800 3,300 - 34,100 38 82,800 19,700 - 102,500 Senior university lecturer 3) 30 48,100 2,400 - 50,500 30 62,200 14,500 - 76,700 Lecturer 4) 38 42,200 6,400 - 48,600 38 99,600 25,000 - 124,600 Policy adviser 5) 30 - - 200,000 ------

1) President of the Executive Board until 1 August 2011, thereafter professor. 2) Employment terminated as from 1 March 2011; when calculated on the basis of a full year, the settlement of the holiday allowance and other provisions up to this date exceeded the WOPT publication threshold. 3) Employment terminated as from 1 March 2011; when calculated on the basis of a full year, the settlement of the holiday allowance and other provisions up to this date exceeded the WOPT publication threshold. 4) Employment terminated as from 1 April 2011; when calculated on the basis of a full year, the settlement of the holiday allowance and a payment of damages up to this date exceeded the WOPT publication threshold. 5) Termination of employment due to termination of position, lump-sum payment of entitlements to statutory and university unemployment schemes.

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Appendix 1 Study programmes and programme assessments

Overview of the assessment of each study programme at the most recent reaccreditation (updated 27 January 2012) Key: WO = Academic higher education, B = Bachelor’s, M = Master’s, RM = Research Master’s, u = unsatisfactory, s = satisfactory, g = good, e = excellent

1.1 Domain-specific requirements 1.1 Domain-specific 1.2 Level 1.3 WO orientation 2.1 WO requirements 2.2 Linkage objectives - programme 2.3 Cohesion 2.4 Study load 2.5 Intake 2.6 Duration 2.7 Alignment of form and content 2.8 Assessment and testing 3.1 WO requirements 3.2 Quantity of staffing 3.3 Quality of staffing 4.1 Material facilities 4.2 Academic student counselling 5.1 Evaluation results measures 5.2 Improvement etc. 5.3 Commitment of staff, 6.1 Achieved level 6.2 Learning outcomes Comments Faculty CROHO Name of study programme of study programme Type decision Date of NVAO

DENTISTRY 56560 Dentistry B 08-10-2007 e s g g g g u g s g s s s s s s s s g g s MEDICIINE 56551 Medicine B 09-06-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s MEDICIINE 56573 Medical Informatics B 31-01-2011 s s g s g g s s s s g s g s g s s g s s s MEDICIINE 66551 Medicine B 22-12-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s MEDICIINE 66573 Medical Informatics M 31-01-2011 s s g s s s s s s s g s g s g s s s s s s FNWI 56986 Earth Sciences B 26-11-2007 s s s s s g s s s s s s u s g s s s s s s FNWI 50250 Natural Sciences and Social Sciences B 19-03-2008 s s s g s g s g s s s s s s s s s s s g s FNWI 50012 Life Sciences B 08-04-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 56860 Biology B 22-12-2010 s s g g s s s u s g s g s g g s s s s g g FNWI 56990 Biomedical Sciences B 22-12-2010 s s s g s s s s s s g g s g g s s s s s s FNWI 56978 Computer Science B 03-06-2008 s s s g s g g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 56842 Information Studies B 29-04-2008 s s s s s g s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s FNWI 56981 Artificial Intelligence B 12-05-2009 s s s s s g s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s FNWI 56984 Physics and Astronomy B 28-05-2008 s s s g s g s g s s s g g s s g s s s g u FNWI 50014 Psychobiology B 22-12-2010 s s g g s s s s s s s g s g g s s g s g s FNWI 56857 Chemistry B 08-04-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 56980 Mathematics B 11-05-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 66981 Artificial Intelligence M 16-12-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60230 Astronomy and Astrophysics M 28-05-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60707 Biological Sciences M 22-12-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 66990 Biomedical Sciences M 22-12-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 66857 Chemistry M 08-04-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 66986 Earth Sciences M 26-11-2007 s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60338 Forensic Science M 20-12-2011 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60299 Grid Computing M 24-09-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60229 Information Studies M 29-04-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60225 Life Sciences M 22-12-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

FNWI 60226 Logic M 29-04-2008 g g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60232 Mathematical Physics M 05-11-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 66980 Mathematics M 05-11-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60231 Mathematics and Science Education M 15-09-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60202 Physics M 28-05-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60228 Software Engineering M 16-09-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

FNWI 60801 Stochastics and Financial Mathematics M 05-11-2008 s s s g s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60227 System and Network Engineering M 15-09-2008 g s s s s g g g s e s s g s s g g s g s g FNWI 60323 Brain and Cognitive Sciences RM 13-09-2010 g s s g s s s s s g s s s g s s s s s e s FEB 56411 Actuarial Sciences B 24-08-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 56833 Econometrics and Operational Research B 24-08-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s s s FEB 50905 Economics and Business B 09-01-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s 52 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

FEB 56402 Fiscal Economics B 24-08-2010 s s s v s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 60900 Accountancy and Control B 24-08-2010 s s s v s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 66411 Actuarial Sciences M 24-08-2010 s s s v s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 60901 Business Economics M 24-08-2010 s s s v s u s s s s s g s s s s s s s s s FEB 60902 Business Studies M 09-01-2008 s s s v s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 60177 Econometrics M 24-08-2010 s s s v s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 66401 Economics M 24-08-2010 s s s g s u s s s s s g s s s s s s s s s FEB 66402 Fiscal Economics M 24-08-2010 s s s v s s s s s s s s u s s s s s s s s FEB 60904 Operations Research and Management M 24-08-2010 s s s v s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 60162 Tinbergen Institute Master of Philosophy RM 25-03-2009 g g g e e e s g s g g g s e g g e g g g g in Economics

FEB 75016 International Finance M 14-03-2011 g g s o s s s u s s u g s g s s g g s s s rectification term FEB 75000 Insurance Science M 16-08-2010 s s s g s s s g s s s s s s g s s g s s s FdR * 56827 Tax Law B 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - FdR * 56828 Notarial Law B 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - FdR * 50700 Law B 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - FdR * 60222 Labour Law M 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - FdR * 66827 Tax Law M 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - FdR * 60223 Information Law M 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - Distinctive quality feature FdR * 60224 International & European Law M 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - internationalisation FdR * 66828 Notarial Law M 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - FdR * 60219 Private Law M 07-03-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - FdR * 60220 Public Law M 25-07-2006 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + -

* transitional arrangement

FMG 56615 Communication Science B 16-08-2007 s s s g g s u s s s s g s s s s s s s s s FMG 50035 Cultural Anthropology and Development B 13-06-2007 s s s s s g s s s g s s s g g s s g s g s Sociology

FMG 50011 Behaviour and Society B 29-04-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g v v s s s FMG 56613 Educational Science B 28-08-2007 s s s s s g s s s s s g s s s g v g s s s FMG 56607 Pedagogical Sciences B 26-01-2007 s s s s s s u g s s s s s s s g v v s s s FMG 56606 Political Science B 15-09-2010 s s s s s s g s s g s s s s s v g v s s s FMG 56604 Psychology B 29-04-2008 g s s s s s s s s s s g s s s v v v s s s FMG 56838 Human Geography and Urban and B 15-06-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g v v s s s Regional Planning

FMG 56601 Sociology B 27-11-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g g g s s s s s FMG 66615 Communication Science M 16-08-2007 s s s g s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s s s FMG 60211 Contemporary Asian Studies M 13-06-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g g s s g s g s FMG 66614 Cultural and Social Anthropology M 13-06-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g g s s g s g s FMG 60216 Health Care Psychology M 28-10-2008 g s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s s s FMG 60329 International Development Studies M 27-10-2011 s s s g s s u g s s s g s g s s s g s s s FMG diverse Teacher Training Programmes (23) M 13-10-2009 s s s s g g s s s g s s s g s s s g s s s FMG 60198 Medical Anthropology and Sociology M 13-06-2007 s s s s g s s s s s s s s g g s s g s g s FMG 66613 Educational Science M 28-08-2007 s s s s s g s s s s s g s s s g s g s s s FMG 66607 Pedagogical Sciences M 26-01-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s FMG 66622 Urban and Regional Planning M 02-12-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s FMG 66606 Political Science M 15-09-2010 s s s s s s g s s s s g s s s s g s s s s FMG 66604 Psychology M 29-04-2008 g s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s s s annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 53

FMG 66620 Human Geography M 02-12-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s FMG 66601 Sociology M 27-11-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g g g s s s s s FMG 60163 Communication Science RM 01-09-2009 s s s g s s s s s s s g s g s s s s s s s FMG 60218 International Development Studies RM 18-02-2010 s s s s s s s s s u s s s s s s s s s s s FMG 60217 Metropolitan Studies RM 09-09-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s u FMG 60383 Psychology RM 18-08-2009 e g e g e g g g s g g e s e s g g g g e u FMG 60214 Social Sciences RM 11-10-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 56823 Cultural Studies B 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 66040 Arabic Language and Culture B 30-08-2007 s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s FGw 56825 Archaeology B 20-03-2007 s s s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s FGw 50010 Cultural Information Science B 09-10-2007 s s s s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 56805 German Language and Culture B 26-04-2007 g s s s s s s e s s g s s g s g s g s g s FGw 56806 English Language and Culture B 26-04-2007 s g s o s s s g s s g s s s s g s G s s s FGw 56051 European Studies B 11-01-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s g s g s g s s s s s FGw 56808 French Language and Culture B 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s FGw 56034 History B 11-01-2007 s s s g s g s s s s g g s g s s s g g g s FGw 56003 Greek and Latin Language and Culture B 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s g s s s s s g s s s s s s s FGw 50901 Hebrew Language and Culture B 30-08-2007 s g s s s g s s s g s s s s g g s s s s s FGw 56809 Italian Language and Culture B 07-12-2006 s s s g s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s s FGw 56824 Art History B 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s g g s g s s s g FGw 56816 Latin Language and Culture B 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s FGw 56802 Literary Studies B 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s g s g g s g s g s s FGw 50906 Media and culture B 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 56700 Musicology B 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s g s s s FGw 56804 Dutch Language and Culture B 26-04-2007 g s s s s o s s s s g s s s s s s s g s s FGw 56814 Modern Greek Language and Culture B 07-12-2006 g s s s s s s s s s s s g g s s s g s s g FGw 50902 Religious Studies B 23-11-2006 g s s g s s g s s s g g g s s s g s s s s FGw 56812 Romanian Language and Culture B 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s s s s g s s s g s s g s s s FGw 56807 Scandinavian Languages and Cultures B 26-04-2007 s s s s s s s s s g g s s s s g s g s g s FGw 56813 Slavonic Languages and Cultures B 30-08-2007 g g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 56810 Spanish Language and Culture B 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 56803 Linguistics B 09-01-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s FGw 56702 Theatre Studies B 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s FGw 56081 Philosophy B 02-12-2010 s s s s s s g s s s s s u g s s s s s s s FGw 66823 Cultural Studies M 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 56040 Arabic Language and Culture M 30-08-2007 s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 66825 Archaeology M 20-03-2007 s s s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s FGw 60181 Archival Sciences M 09-10-2007 s s s s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s FGw 60283 Cultural Heritage M 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60180 Cultural Information Science M 09-10-2007 s s s s g s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s FGw 60193 Dramaturgy M 14-02-2008 g s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s FGw 66805 German Language and Culture M 13-06-2007 g g s g g g g s s s g s s g s g s g s g s FGw 66806 English Language and Culture M 26-04-2007 s s s g s s s g s s g s s s s g s g s s s FGw 60284 European Studies M 11-01-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s g s g s g s s s s s FGw 66808 French Language and Culture M 07-12-2006 g s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s FGw 60074 General Linguistics M 09-10-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s FGw 66034 History M 11-01-2007 s s s g s g s s s s g g s g s s s g g g s 54 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

FGw 66003 Greek and Latin Language and Culture M 07-12-2006 s s s g s s s s s s e s s g s s s s s s s FGw 60161 Hebrew Language and Culture M 30-08-2007 s g s s s g s s s s e s s s g g s s s s s FGw 66809 Italian Language and Culture M 07-12-2006 g s s s s s s s s s e s s g s s s s s s s FGw 60191 Journalism and Media M 14-02-2008 s s g s g s s s s s e s s s s s s s g s s FGw 66824 Art History M 14-02-2008 s s s g s s s s s s e s s s s s s s s s s FGw 66816 Latin Language and Culture M 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s s s s e s s g s s s s s g s FGw 66802 Literary Studies M 14-02-2008 s s s g s g s s s s e s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60190 Media and Culture M 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s e s s s g s g g s s s FGw 60037 Museum Curator M 14-02-2008 g s g s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s g s s FGw 66700 Musicology M 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s e s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60188 Dutch as a Second Language M 25-09-2007 e g g e s s g s s e g g s g s g g s s s s FGw 66804 Dutch Language and Culture M 26-04-2007 g s s g s s s s s s e g g g s g s g s s s FGw 66814 Modern Greek Language and Culture M 07-12-2006 g s s s s s s s s s e s s s s s s s s g s FGw 60192 Preservation and Presentation of M 14-02-2008 s s g s s s s s s s e s s s g s s s s s s the Moving Image:

FGw 60186 Editing and Publishing M 25-09-2007 e g g e g g g g s e g g s g g g s g s s s FGw 60131 Religious Studies M 23-11-2006 s s s g s s s s s s s g g s g s s s s s s FGw 66812 Romanian Language and Culture M 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s FGw 66807 Scandinavian Languages and Cultures M 26-04-2007 s s s g s g s s s g g s s s s g s g s g s FGw 66813 Slavonic Languages and Cultures M 30-08-2007 s g s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s FGw 66810 Spanish Language and Culture M 07-12-2006 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60187 Text and Communication M 25-09-2007 s s g g s g s g s g g g s g s s g s s s s FGw 60716 Theatre Studies M 14-02-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s FGw 66081 Philosophy M 02-12-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s FGw 67084 Philosophy in Relation to M 29-04-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s g s s s s s s s Another Discipline

FGw 60133 Archaeology RM 16-06-2009 s s s s s s s u s s s s s s s s s s s s u FGw 60184 Cultural Analysis RM 16-06-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60139 History RM 16-06-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60182 Art Studies RM 07-12-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60720 Linguistics RM 16-06-2009 s s s e s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g FGw 60185 Literary Studies RM 16-06-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60194 Media Studies RM 07-12-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g g FGw 60189 Dutch Literature RM 16-06-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60195 Religious Studies RM 18-08-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60196 Rhetoric, Argumentation Theory and RM 16-06-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Philosophy

FGw 60723 Philosophy RM 07-12-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 55

Overview of Initial Accreditations (updated 27 January 2012)

AUC 50393 Liberal Arts and Sciences B 02-09-2008 s s s s s s u s s s s s s g s s s s s s s Joint degree with VU DENTISTRY 66588 Dentistry M 12-10-2009 s s s s u s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s MEDICINE 75059 Evidence Based Practice M 09-02-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s MEDICINE 75067 Obstetrics M 18-11-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Distinctive quality feature FdR 60412 European Private Law M 02-06-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s internationalisation Distinctive quality feature FdR 66456 International Criminal Law M 23-04-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s internationalisation FdR 60366 Information Law RM 10-09-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s u s s FdR 60369 Public International Law RM 28-01-2008 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 75017 Business Administration M 19-12-2005 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 75019 Executive Master of Finance and Control M 25-04-2006 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FEB 75063 Information Management M 11-05-2009 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FGw 60335 Conservation and Restoration of M 18-01-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Cultural Heritage

FMG 75029 Amsterdam Master in Medical M 19-04-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Anthropology

FMG 75082 Erasmus Mundus Master Journalism, M 10-11-2010 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Joint degree with Aarhus Media and Globalisation

FMG 60212 Educational Sciences RM 21-05-2007 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s FNWI 60323 Cognitive Science RM 10-05-2005 s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

environment 3. Testing 4. Graduation guarantee and financial facilities Final assessment 1. Designated exit qualifications 2. Educational learning Faculty CROHO Name of study programme of study programme Type decision Date of NVAO

FMG 75092 Academic Mastery M 24-11-2011 s s s s v (subject to conditions) 56 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

Appendix 2 Research assessments

At the end of 2011, site visits were made to the Psychology, Biology and (Technical) Physics programmes for the period 2004-2009. The reports will be published in spring 2012.

National research assessments were published in the following areas in 2011: • Chemistry 2001-2009 • NOVA and Astronomy 2004-2009

Chemistry Scale of 1-5

PROGRAMME QUALITY PRODUCTIVITY RELEVANCE VIABILITY Bio-Molecular Synthesis 4 4 4 4 Catalysis 4 5 5 5 Computational Chemistry 5 5 5 3 Macromolecular and Biosystems Analysis 4 4 5 3 Molecular Photonics 4 5 4 5

NOVA and Astronomy Scale of 1-5

INSTITUTE QUALITY PRODUCTIVITY RELEVANCE VIABILITY Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek 5 4.5 4.5 4.5

The Research Review of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) 2002-2007 was also published in 2011.

Scale of 1-5

PROGRAMME QUALITY PRODUCTIVITY RELEVANCE VIABILITY Migration, transnationalism and governance 4 4 4.5 3.5 Governance of ethnic & religious diversity Multicultural democracy 4 4 4.5 4 Radicalisation & extremism Social relations & urban public space 4 4 4 4 Labor & entrepreneurship Life courses & generational change 4.5 4 4 4 History (discontinued in 2007) 5 4 4 - IMES programme 4 4 4 4 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 57

Appendix 3 Abbreviations and clarifications

ACE Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship ACIL Amsterdam Center for International Law ACTA Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam AEB Amsterdam Economic Board AIEC (University of Amsterdam) Ethics Committee AMC-UvA Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA) ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities AUC Amsterdam University College AUF Amsterdam University Fund AUV Amsterdam University Association BKO Basic Teaching Qualification CNA Amsterdam Institute for Lifelong Learning in Education CREA joint student cultural centre of the UvA and the HvA CWTS Leiden Centre for Science and Technology Studies DIA Institute for German Studies DUWO student housing corporation ECTS European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (& ECTS credits) EL&I Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation ERC European Research Council EU European Union FdR Faculty of Law FEB Faculty of Economics and Business FGw Faculty of Humanities FMG Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences FNWI Faculty of Science FP7 Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development FTE full-time equivalent HvA Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences HOOP Higher Research and Education Plan HRM Human Resource Management IBED Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics ICT&O ICT & Education IMES Institute for Migration & Ethnic Studies KNAW Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KPI key performance indicator KUO University Education Indicators LERU League of European Research Universities MNCS Leiden Ranking MNCS NIA Netherlands Institute in Athens NIKHEF National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics NIP Netherlands Institute in Saint Petersburg NVAO Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders NWO Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research OCW Ministry of Education, Culture and Science OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PhD Doctor of Philosophy QS QS World University Ranking REC D Roeterseiland complex, former chemistry building at Nieuwe Achtergracht 129 (building REC D) SARA Computing and Networking Services 58 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

SEO Economic Research Foundation SIS Student Information System SKO Senior Teaching Qualification SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research THE Times Higher Education (World University Rankings) TTO Technology Transfer Office UB University Library UPvA Academic PABO Amsterdam USC University Sports Centre UvA University of Amsterdam UWV Employed Person’s Insurance Administration Agency U21 Universitas 21 VSNU Association of Universities in the Netherlands Veni NWO grant for young researchers who have recently earned a doctorate Vici NWO grant for senior researchers to develop their own research group Vidi NWO grant for young researchers to develop their own innovative line of research VU VU University Amsterdam VUmc VU University Medical Center Amsterdam VWO pre-university education WHW Dutch Higher Education and Research Act WKA Amsterdam Science Hub WNT Dutch Act on Standardisation of Top Incomes WO academic higher education WOPT Dutch Act on the Disclosure of Top Income Earners in Publicly Funded Sectors annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 59

Key data

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Enrolled students Total number of students enrolled at the UvA 27,175 28,331 30,825 32,739 32,1651

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Intake of students enrolled in the first year of a study programme at the institution (as at 1 Oct.) Bachelor’s intake 5,596 6,014 7,149 7,178 6,392 Pre-Master’s intake 968 798 864 794 138 Master’s intake 2,577 2,750 3,331 4,094 4,550

2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 Exams taken per academic year Credits (ECTS) 982,531 1,021,806 1,087,150 1,183,817 1,188,470 Bachelor’s exams 2,344 2,767 3,391 3,203 3.633 Master’s exams 2,112 2,857 3,331 3,990 4.939 Initial university degree (doctoraal) exams 1,429 917 411 438 375 Post-Master’s/postdoctoral exams 321 307 294 242 272

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Doctorates conferred per calendar year Doctorates conferred (since 2008: doctoral theses) 378 349 379 404 405

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Academic publications per calendar year Academic publications 7,518 7,553 7,900 8,234 8,713 Professional journals 1,125 1,255 1,372 1,267 1,195

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Staff (FTEs as at 31 Dec., excl. AMC-UvA)2 Academic staff 2,209 2,251 2,318 2,341 2,459 Support and management staff 1,717 1,764 1,768 1,770 1,829 Individual UvA total 3,926 4,015 4,086 4,111 4,288 Affiliated institutions 520 521 557 559 558 Consolidated UvA total 4,446 4,536 4,643 4,670 4,846

1 The year 2011 includes 279 UvA employees (many of whom are student assistants). 2 The individual UvA staff data include the staff seconded to the T.M.C. Asser Institute and UvA staff at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam.

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Facts and figures

1. Intake of first-year students at the institution Students enrolling at the UvA for the first time (Reference date: 1 October)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Bachelor’s programmes University of Amsterdam 4,856 5,232 6,258 6,341 5,611 Faculty of Humanities 1,263 1,303 1,615 1,519 1,330 Faculty of Law 566 664 785 672 643 Faculty of Medicine 280 309 287 288 288 Faculty of Dentistry 64 59 57 56 50 Faculty of Science 540 603 825 945 881 Faculty of Economics and Business 642 686 794 822 773 Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 1,501 1,608 1,786 1,943 1,546 Amsterdam University College - - 109 96 100

Pre-Master’s programmes University of Amsterdam 862 693 728 680 109 Faculty of Humanities 64 69 99 74 - Faculty of Law 306 145 114 114 - Faculty of Medicine - 1 2 - - Faculty of Dentistry - - - - - Faculty of Science 32 18 36 25 16 Faculty of Economics and Business 159 229 249 268 53 Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 301 231 228 199 40

Master’s programmes University of Amsterdam 852 995 1.223 1.474 1.487 Faculty of Humanities 206 229 251 281 312 Faculty of Law 171 190 239 261 223 Faculty of Medicine 2 - - 1 1 Faculty of Dentistry 1 - 2 1 2 Faculty of Science 161 190 188 188 264 Faculty of Economics and Business 95 138 243 373 317 Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 216 248 300 369 368 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 61

2. Bachelor’s intake (first-year intake at the institution) First-year intake at the institution: students who enrol in a given study programme at the UvA for the first time in the academic year concerned (Reference date: 1 October)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 % FEMALE Humanities History, Archaeology and Regional Studies Archaeology and Prehistory 24 24 17 21 20 65% European Studies 202 166 190 172 167 65% History 185 180 232 205 201 34% Total 411 370 439 398 388 49%

Art, Religious and Cultural Studies Cultural Studies 62 79 73 66 48 90% Art History 114 127 159 142 94 74% Theatre Studies 24 46 69 62 50 94% Musicology 15 46 63 60 47 40% Religious Studies 49 21 13 10 8 75% Total 264 319 377 340 247 75%

Media Studies Cultural Information Science 6 4 4 7 6 50% Media and Culture 256 314 385 407 402 61% Total 262 318 389 414 408 61%

Dutch Studies Dutch Language and Culture 111 144 158 141 98 80%

Language and Literature Arabic Language and Culture 14 28 19 17 10 60% German Language and Culture 15 9 22 16 20 75% English Language and Culture 57 60 121 102 89 63% French Language and Culture 33 30 26 22 17 82% Greek and Latin Language and Culture 17 19 20 15 14 57% Hebrew Language and Culture 7 2 6 4 3 100% Italian Language and Culture 27 18 27 14 21 67% Latin Language and Culture 5 10 6 2 3 100% Literary Studies 31 37 24 42 35 80% Modern Greek Language and Culture 5 4 4 4 2 50% Romanian Language and Culture 4 1 1 1 1 100% Scandinavian Languages and Cultures 25 18 30 15 13 54% Slavonic Languages and Cultures 14 19 25 22 21 62% Spanish Language and Culture 33 55 71 58 34 76% Linguistics 38 21 23 30 18 78% Totaal 325 331 425 364 301 69%

Philosophy Philosophy 117 117 140 134 95 37%

Faculty of Humanities total 1,490 1,599 1,928 1,791 1,537 61% 62 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 % FEMALE Law Amsterdam College of Law Law 559 646 767 689 649 59% Tax Law 55 69 74 53 85 38% Notarial Law 36 45 44 31 40 70% Faculty of Law total 650 760 885 773 774 57%

Medicine Medicine* 339 364 306 338 343 58% Medical Informatics 22 16 18 19 19 47% Faculty of Medicine total 361 380 324 357 362 57% * The Bachelor’s programme in Medicine was introduced in 2009. The previous years’ figures relate to the intake for the ‘old style’ propaedeutic year.

Dentistry Dentistry 75 65 64 65 65 69% Faculty of Dentistry total 75 65 64 65 65 69%

Science College of Science Earth Sciences 10 12 8 20 23 39% Biology 33 37 38 55 70 49% Biomedical Sciences 130 124 231 247 133 58% Psychobiology 132 135 204 261 259 72% Life Sciences 10 13 2 - - - Physics and Astronomy 64 65 57 72 88 11% Chemistry 25 22 41 29 32 56% Mathematics 26 29 42 54 54 22% Computer Science 21 33 43 46 47 6% Information Studies 22 19 17 27 37 11% Artificial Intelligence 32 26 42 45 56 16% Total 505 515 725 856 799 45%

Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Natural and Social and Behavioural Sciences 73 133 159 130 118 44% Natural and Social and Behavioural Sciences - - - 53 41 37% (Future Planet Studies) Total 73 133 159 183 159 42%

Faculty of Science total 578 648 884 1,039 958 45%

Economics and Business Actuarial Sciences 22 19 12 19 15 53% Econometrics and Operational Research 76 76 82 85 98 27% Economics and Business 513 525 656 628 579 26% Economics and Business (English-taught Bachelor’s) 63 106 71 108 102 52% Fiscal Economics 31 37 36 34 40 33% Faculty of Economics and Business total 705 763 857 874 834 30% annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 63

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 % FEMALE Social and Behavioural Sciences College of Social Sciences AInterdisciplinary Social Sciences - - 139 209 148 74% Cultural Anthropology 139 133 - - - - Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology - - 178 167 132 81% Future Planet Studies - - - 21 41 51% Urban and Regional Planning 54 63 - - - - Political Science 228 228 235 254 201 46% Sociology 119 109 106 115 79 59% Human Geography 80 99 1 - - - Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning - - 168 139 146 31% Total 620 632 827 905 747 56%

College of Communication Communication Science 366 449 509 521 402 71%

College of Psychology Psychology 487 489 511 524 495 72%

College of Child Development and Education Behaviour and Society 87 101 - - - - Educational Science 21 20 24 14 13 62% Pedagogical Sciences 133 125 148 219 105 92% Total 241 246 172 233 118 89%

Faculty of Social and Behavioural 1,714 1,816 2,019 2,183 1,762 66% Sciences total

Amsterdam University College Liberal Arts and Sciences - - 114 96 100 59%

Total UvA 5,573 6,031 7,075 7,178 6,392 55%

3. Pre-Master’s intake (first-year intake at the institution) Students enrolled in the first year of their first study programme at the institution (Reference date: 1 October)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 % FEMALE ‘11 Humanities 69 82 112 85 - - Law 344 177 158 139 1 0% Medicine - 1 2 - - - Science 35 20 39 26 16 19% Economics and Business 177 258 292 293 65 48% Social and Behavioural Sciences 343 260 285 251 56 77% Total 968 798 888 794 138 56% 64 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

4. Master’s intake (first-year intake at the institution) Students enrolled in the first year of a study programme at the institution (Master’s and Research Master’s programmes) (Reference date: 1 October)

% EXTERNAL 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 % FEMALE ‘11 INTAKE ‘11 Humanities History, Archaeology and Regional Studies 185 183 214 270 262 56% 26% Art, Religious and Cultural Studies 170 166 194 197 205 81% 36% Media Studies 148 161 177 198 202 61% 37% Dutch Studies 61 60 53 66 59 76% 34% Language and Literature 98 95 115 133 148 70% 42% Philosophy 49 70 48 65 74 45% 20% Total 711 735 801 929 950 65% 33%

Law 400 461 634 678 641 62% 35%

Medicine 9 7 1 7 9 11% 11%

Dentistry 56 46 14 37 38 63% 5%

Science Graduate School of Life and Earth Sciences 51 56 44 98 161 61% 37% Graduate School of Sciences 36 73 61 79 96 35% 41% Graduate School of Informatics 140 142 119 136 191 15% 65% Graduate School of Professional Sciences 29 40 33 44 31 77% 71% Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies 17 27 53 36 42 57% 45% Total 273 338 310 393 521 40% 51%

Economics and Business 245 278 437 702 799 43% 40%

Social and Behavioural Sciences Graduate School of Social Science 384 485 406 567 608 61% 34% Graduate School of Psychology 190 204 178 273 410 80% 9% Graduate School of Communication 99 112 93 175 235 75% 19% Graduate School of Child Development and Education 214 219 249 333 339 81% 23% Total 887 1,020 926 1,348 1,592 72% 23%

UvA total 2,581 2,885 3,123 4,094 4,550 60% 33%

5. Enrolled students (Reference date: 1 October)

2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 Humanities 6,417 6,841 7,396 7,820 7,781 Law 3,875 4,011 4,321 4,269 3,909 Medicine 2,335 2,402 2,359 2,428 2,513 Dentistry 488 477 481 450 442 Science 2,420 2,546 3,052 3,483 3,789 Economics and Business 3,106 3,485 3,986 4,392 4,134 Social and Behavioural Sciences 8,417 8,560 9,132 9,733 9,302 Amsterdam University College - - 114 164 295

UvA total 27,058 28,322 30,841 32,739 32,165

% of female students 57.7% 58.1% 57.8% 58.3% 57.9% annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 65

5a. Enrolled students with foreign nationality (Reference date: 1 October)

2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 EU 922 1,197 1,327 1,559 1,700 Rest of Europe 249 168 179 168 200 North America 111 107 115 84 123 Central and South America 121 127 119 107 120 Asia 183 201 266 284 337 Africa 44 35 30 29 43 Oceania 7 14 8 4 3

UvA total 1,637 1,849 2,044 2,235 2,526

% of enrolled students with foreign nationality 6.0% 6.5% 6.6% 6.8% 7.9%

6. Exams taken

2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 Propaedeutic year UvA 2,627 2,507 2,434 2,565 2,607 Humanities 1,021 866 802 926 996 Medicine 265 336 290 165 31 Science 54 33 28 45 56 Economics and Business 307 263 314 388 457 Social and Behavioural Sciences 980 1,009 1,000 1,041 1,067

Kandidaats programmes* Science 26 10 - - -

Bachelor’s programmes UvA 2,426 2,773 3,392 3,203 3,633 Humanities 772 824 929 875 1.011 Law 180 230 449 446 437 Medicine 17 13 9 9 16 Dentistry 63 95 88 84 57 Science 211 260 327 328 356 Economics and Business 292 254 402 342 430 Social and Behavioural Sciences 891 1,097 1,188 1,119 1,326

Master’s programmes UvA 2,215 2,916 3,391 3,990 4,939 Humanities 523 598 721 806 935 Law 341 443 595 771 844 Medicine - 3 10 13 11 Dentistry - 61 62 77 77 Science 258 282 245 305 360 Economics and Business 371 448 495 591 934 Social and Behavioural Sciences 722 1,081 1,263 1,427 1,778

* Under the old system, an examination that had to be successfully completed before pursuing a doctoraal programme (see www.nuffic.nl) 66 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 Initial university degree (doctoraal) programmes UvA 1,460 917 411 438 375 Humanities 272 78 58 33 47 Law 302 178 69 106 - Medicine 229 239 253 282 313 Dentistry 15 - - - - Science 120 32 - - - Economics and Business - - - - - Social and Behavioural Sciences 522 390 31 17 15

Professional examinations UvA 293 247 227 242 272 Medicine 226 243 227 242 272 Dentistry 67 4 - - -

UvA total 9,047 9,370 9,855 10,438 11,826

7a. Success rates for Bachelor’s programmes

COHORT AFTER 3 YEARS AFTER 4 YEARS AFTER 5 YEARS Faculty of Law 2005 232 13% 49% 74% 2006 216 25% 63% 79% 2007 227 28% 63% - 2008 301 32% - - Faculty of Economics and Business 2005 246 15% 50% 70% 2006 254 20% 51% 78% 2007 303 21% 61% - 2008 349 24% - - Faculty of Humanities 2005 629 21% 57% 69% 2006 594 21% 55% 71% 2007 669 23% 57% - 2008 680 22% - - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 2005 699 24% 61% 74% 2006 761 23% 57% 74% 2007 839 24% 62% - 2008 926 23% - - Faculty of Science 2005 295 35% 59% 72% 2006 313 39% 61% 69% 2007 340 37% 67% - 2008 390 34% - - Faculty of Dentistry 2005 56 20% 63% 75% 2006 66 36% 71% 86% 2007 42 52% 79% - 2008 43 37% - - UvA (excl. Medicine) 2005 2,172 22% 57% 72% 2006 2,215 25% 57% 74% 2007 2,435 26% 62% - 2008 2,689 26% - -

Definition: Percentage of Bachelor’s graduates within the Higher Research and Education Plan (HOOP) fields compared to the number of students in a cohort enrolled in the Bachelor’s phase with pre-university education (VWO) who re-enrolled in the same study programme full-time after the first academic year (source: University Education Indicators, KUO) annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 67

7b. Success rates for Master’s programmes

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Faculty of Law Intake 1-year Master’s programmes 88 187 458 578 717 969 % obtaining diploma after 2 years 72% 73% 78% 74% 74% 69%

Faculty of Economics and Business Intake 1-year Master’s programmes 424 260 365 518 604 904 % obtaining diploma after 2 years 53% 67% 75% 75% 74% 74% Intake 2-year Master’s programmes 3 5 15 12 9 24 % obtaining diploma after 3 years 33% 80% 73% 67% 89% -

Faculty of Humanities Intake 1-year Master’s programmes 315 436 626 622 714 747 % obtaining diploma after 2 years 60% 59% 58% 57% 57% 60% Intake 2-year Master’s programmes 114 114 109 144 147 152 % obtaining diploma after 3 years 61% 60% 54% 57% 61% -

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Intake 1-year Master’s programmes 353 826 981 1.295 1.518 1402 % obtaining diploma after 2 years 69% 62% 75% 72% 70% 77% Intake 2-year Master’s programmes 20 50 52 82 89 125 % obtaining diploma after 3 years 60% 70% 71% 70% 82% -

Faculty of Science Intake 1-year Master’s programmes 58 80 98 91 78 70 % obtaining diploma after 2 years 76% 75% 71% 66% 72% 80% Intake 2-year Master’s programmes 247 258 316 254 330 363 % obtaining diploma after 3 years 49% 72% 65% 57% 62% -

Faculty of Medicine Intake 2-year Master’s programmes - - 11 20 12 5 % obtaining diploma after 3 years - - 91% 75% 75% -

Faculty of Dentistry Intake 2-year Master’s programmes - 43 42 117 82 86 % obtaining diploma after 3 years - 81% 98% 89% 94% -

UvA Intake 1-year Master’s programmes 1,238 1,789 2,528 3,104 3,631 4,092 % obtaining diploma after 2 years 62% 64% 71% 70% 69% 72% Intake 2-year Master’s programmes 384 470 545 629 669 755 % obtaining diploma after 3 years 53% 62% 59% 49% 70% -

Definition: Percentage of Master’s graduates within the study programme after nominal duration + one year compared to the number of full-time students in the year-end cohort (source: University Education Indicators, KUO) 68 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

8. Average number of credits (ECTS) earned during the first year of study Excluding students who earned no credits (no-shows)

PER ACADEMIC YEA 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 Humanities History, Archaeology and Regional Studies 45 45 43 45 45 46 Art, Religious and Cultural Studies 47 44 45 46 44 48 Media Studies 38 43 41 48 43 41 Dutch Studies 46 46 45 37 48 42 Language and Literature 45 45 46 45 43 44 Philosophy 45 48 46 41 50 50 Total 44 45 44 45 44 45

Law 38 39 37 39 35 40

Medicine Medicine 54 45 49 48 49 52 Medical Informatics 31 40 48 48 46 41 Total 52 45 49 48 48 51

Dentistry 47 49 45 46 49 -

Science College of Science 46 45 45 43 43 44 Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies 51 50 55 53 52 50 Total 47 46 46 45 45 45

Economics and Business 39 36 38 38 41 43

Social and Behavioural Sciences College of Social Sciences 48 46 46 45 45 47 College of Communication 47 45 47 48 49 53 College of Psychology 45 45 45 46 43 50 College of Child Development and Education 48 49 47 46 46 44 Total 47 46 46 46 46 48

UvA total (*excl THK and AUC) 45 44 44 44 44 45

9. Credits (ECTS) earned by exchange students Credits earned by non-Dutch students within the context of exchange programmes (x 1000, per academic year)

ACADEMIC YEAR 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 Humanities 3.1 3.0 3.3 3.7 3.8 5.2 Law 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.2 2.3 2.3 Science 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 1.3 1.3 Economics and Business 1.4 2.5 2.8 3.6 3.6 4.2 Social and Behavioural Sciences 5.0 6.3 6.1 6.8 6.6 6.3 UvA total 12.9 14.8 15.5 17.0 17.6 19.3 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 69

10. Labour market Source: University Education (WO) Monitor 2009. Current situation at the time the survey was conducted (1 to 1.5 years after graduating)

GRADUATE COHORT 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 (Master’s and initial university degree (doctoraal) programmes)

% of graduates in paid employment 86.6% 87.4% 88.9% 88.2% 84.9% % unemployed 6.6% 6.0% 5.0% 6.1% 7.8% % studying 4.6% 4.4% 3.8% 4.5% 4.9% % other 2.2% 2.2% 2.2% 1.1% 2.4%

11. Doctorates conferred

CALENDAR YEAR 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 % FEMALE Humanities 49 48 69 46 48 48% Law 15 14 13 12 13 38% Medicine 160 157 148 153 168 53% Dentistry 7 5 4 9 7 43% Science 74 82 79 100 85 20% Economics and Business 17 11 16 19 20 25% Social and Behavioural Sciences 56 36 52 65 64 64% UvA total 378 353 381 404 405 45%

12a. Academic publications

CALENDAR YEAR 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Humanities 1,061 963 718 685 730 Law 356 353 412 511 468 Medicine 2,618 2,822 3,206 3,465 3,789 Dentistry* 191 238 228 214 214 Science 1,584 1,414 1,445 1,490 1,447 Economics and Business** 430 552 517 617 356 Social and Behavioural Sciences 1,268 1,207 1,366 1,386 1,777 University Library 10 4 8 6 5 UvA total*** 7,518 7,553 7,855 8,234 8,713

* Total number of publications by ACTA, a joint faculty of the UvA and VU University Amsterdam ** Through the end of 2010, the FEB also counted working papers as academic publications *** As from 2009: total with duplicates removed

12b. Professional journals

CALENDAR YEAR 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Humanities 239 272 287 187 213 Law 229 314 373 434 311 Medicine - - - 2 - Dentistry* 113 98 168 164 169 Science 78 69 48 67 48 Economics and Business 73 63 42 66 106 Social and Behavioural Sciences 361 413 406 330 305 University Library 32 26 48 23 39 UvA total** 1,125 1,255 1,372 1,267 1,195

* Total number of publications by ACTA, a joint faculty of the UvA and VU University Amsterdam ** As from 2009: total with duplicates removed 70 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam

13. UvA staff* (Reference date: 31 December)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 DIFFERENCE 10-11 Number of people 4,855 4,963 5,068 5,122 5,303 4% Number of FTEs 3,881 3,967 4,062 4,111 4,288 4%

* All staff tables relate to the calendar years and exclude the AMC-UvA

14. Staff in FTEs, according to unit

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 DIFFERENCE 10-11 Humanities 624 634 622 628 673 7% Law 273 277 284 311 316 2% Dentistry 168 159 157 173 188 9% Science 937 915 905 900 967 7% Economics and Business 344 351 351 316 286 -10% Social and Behavioural Sciences 724 800 855 911 955 5% Amsterdam University College - - 13 22 30 36% Central services and units and non-faculty 811 831 877 851 874 3% institutes UvA total 3,881 3,967 4,062 4,111 4,288 4%

15. Staff in FTEs, according to job category (Reference date: 31 December)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 DIFFERENCE 10-11 Academic management 22 17 19 16 15 -5% Professors 272 273 273 274 264 -4% Senior university lecturers 209 205 213 211 230 9% University lecturers 407 442 438 454 448 -1% Doctoral candidates 578 619 635 655 713 9% Other academic staff 688 680 700 729 788 8% Support and management staff 1,705 1,730 1,783 1,768 1,828 3% Total 3,881 3,966 4,062 4,111 4,288 4% % of academic staff 56% 56% 56% 57% 57% +0.4% pts

16. Staff in FTEs, percentage of women (Reference date: 31 December)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Academic management 22% 23% 25% 25% 26% Professors 16% 16% 15% 17% 17% Senior university lecturers 19% 20% 22% 24% 26% University lecturers 31% 34% 36% 37% 39% Doctoral candidates 45% 46% 51% 54% 57% Other academic staff 41% 44% 44% 46% 48% Support and management staff 56% 53% 53% 54% 55% Total 43% 44% 45% 47% 48% annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam 71

17. Staff in FTEs, according to age category (Reference date: 31 December)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Academic staff (excl. doctoral candidates) < 35 years 23% 22% 23% 24% 26% 35-49 years 38% 39% 39% 39% 39% > 49 years 39% 39% 38% 37% 34% Support and management staff < 35 years 23% 24% 22% 22% 23% 35-49 years 39% 37% 40% 39% 39% > 49 years 38% 39% 38% 39% 39%

18. Staff mobility (Reference date: 31 December)

FTE INTAKE 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 DIFFERENCE 10-11 Academic staff (excl. doctoral candidates) 197 178 200 193 271 41% Doctoral candidates 147 171 140 157 233 48% Support and management staff 222 257 223 187 245 31% UvA total 566 607 563 537 749 39%

FTE OUTFLOW Academic staff (excl. doctoral candidates) 160 186 186 178 208 17% Doctoral candidates 107 130 117 131 168 28% Support and management staff 201 211 171 174 200 15% UvA total 468 527 475 483 576 19%

19. Absence due to illness (Reference date: 31 December)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 UvA total 4.1% 3.6% 3.5% 3.4% 3.1%

Academic staff 2.2% 2.0% 2.1% 2.2% 1.8% Support and management staff 6.6% 5.5% 5.2% 5.1% 4.7%

Male 2.8% 2.5% 2.5% 2.6% 2.1% Female 5.8% 4.9% 4.7% 4.3% 4.1% 72 annual report 2011 | university of amsterdam