The department of Student and Educational Affairs (SOZ) aims to ensure that successful studying, teaching and leisure is possible at the VU. We do this now with 11 departments, because…
VU Education Agenda 2023-2028: “Focus on an innovative mindset”
Improve the world, start doing something!
Last September, I started the SURF course Public Values. A subject to which the CIOs (ICT directors), directors of the university libraries and my colleagues in student and educational affairs…
Think about that: What are we good for?
On 17 November 2022 I attended the Knowledge Equity Network Summit (#KEN2022). Leeds University is taking this very seriously, that is take-away number one. Vice-Chancellor Simone Buitendijk and Deputy Vice…
“Science should be truly cooperative, open and in responsible relationship with society”
Some notes I made of the book “Open Science: the Very Idea”, by Frank Miedema During the summer holiday I had planned to read Frank Miedema’s book on open science,…
“What you tell, but not by what you say”
The title of the third module of the Avicenna Leadership Course is "Playing with Energy". After the first two modules on the sources of leadership and self-reflection, we now have…
Open Education Global: Increasing Impact for All
It was not my first Open Education Global conference, because when it was held in Delft (during my TU Delft Library time), in 2018, I attended a few sessions, but…
The whisper of truth
(How to find and use your talent) Where the first module of our leadership course was about "sources of leadership", this module was about getting to know yourself and reflection.…
In balance with a strong mind
Changing jobs at the start of the pandemic is quite a challenge. Kickstarting within a vital unit that supported the continuation of the education for our students did not allow…
Open Science: Make the connection!
Response to the Open Consultation on the NPOS2030 Ambition Document After being heavily involved (as main author) in the process of writing the first national plan Open Science 2017-2020, I…
Show our case, librarians!
After the recordings for the OCLC Contact Day, Jeanine Deckers and Wilma van Wezenbeek agreed to write a blog together ... so here it is! It was fun to do,…