• In May 2024, an ad hoc working group of UvA experts was established to gather perspectives and input from all parts of the UvA. Following various roundtable discussions and a town hall meeting, this group presented 11 recommendations just before the summer.
• In the meantime, no new collaborations were entered into with parties in countries and regions affected by war and conflict where serious human rights violations could occur.
• To incorporate the working group’s recommendations into a revised assessment framework and new guidelines, the Advisory Committee on Collaboration with Third Parties took over the working group’s tasks.
• The advisory committee was temporarily expanded to include 4 UvA experts in the fields of human rights, genocide studies, conflict studies, and international education collaboration.
• Simultaneously, the 3 urgent cases were reviewed, and decisions on these cases have now been made.
• The draft proposal for the updated assessment instrument was discussed with the University Committee on Research, University Committee on Education, University Committee on Valorisation and the Senate. Their feedback was incorporated into the draft.
• The Central Works Council (COR) and the Central Student Council (CSR), which hold advisory rights beyond statutory requirements, received the draft for review in December 2024.
• Once the representative advisory bodies have issued their advice, it will be integrated along with feedback from other university committees into a final version of the guidelines and framework. The Executive Board will then formally adopt the assessment instrument.

The new guidelines, the revised assessment framework and the recommendations on the 3 cases were drafted by the existing Advisory Committee on Collaboration with Third Parties. Specifically for this process, the Committee was recently expanded to include 4 colleagues with specialised expertise.

Find the composition of the committee (in Dutch) on the staff website.

• View the draft of the new guidelines as submitted to the representative advisory bodies.
• View the responses from the University Committee on Education, University Committee on Research, University Committee on Valorization, and Senate (in Dutch).
• Find more information about the Advisory Committee on Collaboration with Third Parties (in Dutch, staff access only).
• Read an interview with the chair of the Advisory Committee on Collaboration with Third Parties about the development of the framework expansion and new guidelines.
• Read more about the ad hoc working group that collected input within the UvA.
• Read the full report with the findings of the ad hoc working group, submitted to the Advisory Committee on Collaboration with Third Parties just before the summer.