The academic year 2022 – 2023 provided a new start for the nearly 8,000 students and 500 lecturers at the Faculty of Science after the covid pandemic. Having been forced to work from home, to follow online classes (with the exception of laboratory work) and to interact with other students via social media, has demonstrated once more the importance of being on campus all together. We also learned that alternatives are possible, and that we are lucky to have very motivated teams of lecturers and students.
Review 2022-2023
Education at the Faculty of Science (University of Amsterdam)
Figures on education
11 BSc programmes
17 MSc programmes
4,360 BSc students
3,469 MSc students
1st year enrolment:
1,457 BSc students
1,180 MSc students
909 BSc diplomas
1,286 MSc diplomas
Female:
44% BSc students
19% MSc students
32% international MSc students
483 lecturers
65 million budget
Education highlights 2022-2023
Teaching
- New Leadership 'Building Strong Teaching Teams' concluded by seven programme directors.
- The in-depth Educational Leadership Course (LOL) completed by Ilja Boor, Linda de Greef and Lex Kaper
- Erik Bekkers named Faculty of Science Lecturer of the Year 2022
- SMASH for students is live: Statistics and Mathematics Advice and Support Hub
- Budget awarded to two students for project Dyslexia-friendly exams
College and Graduate School of Sciences
- New mathematics course: Education and Communication
- First results of student projects using new UvA Makerspace
- UvA Quants Career Event 2023 bigger than ever
- Former Chemistry student Milo Cornelissen wins UvA Thesis Prize
- Thies Plaßmann wins NNV AMO Thesis Prize
- KHMW Young Talent Prize for first-year students Finn Rijk, Janne Bolwerk and Hartog Hartog
College and Graduate School of Life and Earth Sciences
- Kick-off of national OCW project using AI for personalised feedback to students
- Learning analytics dashboard IguideME appears effective
- Vivian van Reybrouck van Gelder awarded KHMW Young Talent Prize
College and Graduate School of Informatics
- ELLIS offers honours programme for excellent MSc AI students
- AI-tailored online math programme built by Master's student and teaching assistant
- Bachelor's students Roan Schellingerhout and Maik Larooij published articles based on their thesis
- KHMW Young Talent Prize for bachelor students Hua Chang Bakker and Sander Hoffman
- Nicolas Schrama awarded Research Assistant grant by US Forest Service
Interdisciplinary Studies
- Dutch Education Award for Placemaking programme
- Launch Transition Makers Toolbox
- Future Planet Studies student Kiki climate ambassador for Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Change
- Students Future Planet Studiesorganise circulAIR festival
Educating Society
- National AI course developed and available for everyone in the Netherlands
- Mathematics students act as a guide at the travelling mathematics exhibition Imaginary
- Six students from the Faculty of Science helped children cross a river (an educational thinking game)
- Science to Society: the Faculty of Science represented at Urban Scientist, Expedition NEXT, Summer Week Outreach, Zwarte Cross, Buurthuis Project and festival ROEF