16 April 2025
The events surrounding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the war and what the UvA's response should be, led to a new discussion about research collaboration with third parties. In response, a broad academic working group has gathered views from within UvA to help create an expanded ethical assessment framework for international collaboration. Once adopted, the new guidelines and extended assessment framework must prevent the UvA from contributing to the following through education or research:
Before and during the summer, there was extensive discussion about the UvA's house rules. That is why work was started on updating those house rules, which also took the reactions of students, staff, local trade unions FNV, CNV and AOb and several other civil society organisations into account. The UvA's Central Works Council and the Central Student Council are the main partners in this process and have been granted the right to consent on this subject.
Partly at the request of the Central Works Council, an independent investigation has taken place into the course of the demonstrations on campus between 6 and 17 May 2024. Among other things, the investigation looked at the Executive Board’s actions.
Visit uva.nl/protests for more information regarding the demonstrations and the current situation on campus.