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  1. Education cuts passed – universities go to court

    Universities launch administrative law proceedings against wrongful cuts to starter and incentive grants

    Today, the Senate approved the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science budget, signing off structural cuts of half a billion euros to higher education and science. Caspar van den Berg, president of Universities of the Netherlands: ‘This is a major blow to students, staff, and the Netherlands as a whole. It is inexplicable that a country that relies almost entirely on knowledge chooses to cut back on education, research and innovation so drastically, at a time when the Netherlands increasingly has to rely on itself both geopolitically and economically.’ This budget unilaterally breaks the administrative agreement on higher education and research signed by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science with universities in 2022. Several universities will therefore start challenging the individual funding decisions determined on the basis of the budget.

  2. Dutch Universities Whistleblower Policy 2025.pdf

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  3. Dutch research institutions and Elsevier announce new agreements

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    UNL, NFU, NWO-i, KNAW, 23 universities of applied science and Elsevier have signed new reading, publishing and Scopus agreements to support the Netherlands’ status as an open access leader

  4. Duiding bij Richtlijn protesten_en-GB.pdf

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  5. Job Level Matrix 1 January 2025 (UFO-update 12)

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  6. Dutch Universities and university medical centres call for investment in strong European research programme

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    The NFU and UNL have formulated additional recommendations for the European Horizon Europe research programme. As a leading EU programme, Horizon Europe promotes international cooperation and innovation. In view of the ongoing discussions on the continuation of Horizon Europe, the NFU and UNL present an update of their 2023 position paper.

  7. Sectoral regulation on disputes for Dutch universities 2024.pdf

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  8. Joint Statement on the association of the United Kingdom and Switzerland to Horizon Europe

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    With this Joint Statement, we – the undersigned European university umbrella organisations – want to express our concerns on the lack of progress and clarity regarding the association of the United Kingdom and Switzerland to the Horizon Europe research framework programme. Two years have passed since the start of the programme without any progress and the delay is causing damage to existing research partnerships between EU, UK, and Swiss knowledge institutions.

  9. Collective Labour Agreement 2024/2025

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  10. UNL response to letter to the House of Representatives about managing international student flows

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    This afternoon, Minister of Education, Culture and Science Eppo Bruins sent a letter about his plans for internationalisation in higher education to the House of Representatives. Caspar van den Berg, president of Universities of the Netherlands: ‘Universities are very concerned about this government’s plans. The bill is called “Balanced Internationalisation”, but this government is bluntly chopping away at universities and universities of applied sciences, also cutting €293 million from the budget for the intake of international students.’

  11. Universities: ‘A blow to our students and staff’

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    Solid cuts to education and research in general agreement

    Today, the coalition-forming parties presented their general agreement. The cuts to education, research and innovation came as a major shock to universities. These plans will damage the future of young people and the Netherlands. Jouke de Vries, acting president of Universities of the Netherlands: ‘The cuts to education and science are a blow to our students and staff who are already under enormous pressure. Together with the sharp intervention in the international nature of universities, these cuts are harming our ability to provide quality education and carry out research. This does not match the coalition-forming parties’ ambition to strengthen the knowledge economy and earning power of the Netherlands. With these cuts, we are putting the future of our country's youth at stake.’

  12. Universities to systematically improve social safety

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    Dutch universities will do even more to improve social safety in their institutes. On 14 May, the Labour Inspectorate presented a study on undesirable behaviour, workload and working hours that showed, among other things, that more than half of all academic staff had experienced undesirable behaviour in the past two years. Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) is shocked by these results. Rianne Letschert, president of the Executive Board of Maastricht University on behalf of UNL: ‘It is unacceptable that so many employees should have to deal with undesirable behaviour. A safe working environment is not only a fundamental right of all staff and students, but also an essential prerequisite for high-quality education and research.’