Hoge school van Amsterdam
- Type
- Research, Education & Health Organisation
- Location
- Netherlands
- Industries
- Consumer health & consumer effects, Food ingredients & products, Circular economy, Waste efficiency, Food & drinks discovery, Food discovery / recipe apps & experiences, Food safety & quality
- Technologies
- Artificial intelligence, Big data, Analytical measurement, Smart & digital, Measurement & sensing
About Hoge school van Amsterdam
The Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) is a Dutch university of applied sciences rooted in Amsterdam and focused on educating students for the professional practice of today and tomorrow. It combines higher education with practice-oriented research, aiming to help students develop their talents while contributing to the city and the wider metropolitan region.
HvA positions itself as a socially engaged knowledge institution: it works closely with businesses, public bodies, social organizations, and knowledge partners, and it emphasizes quality, equal opportunity, and relevance to real-world issues. Its education and research are designed to connect theory with practice and to support a more livable, healthier, fairer, and more sustainable city.
Core Values
- Quality: HvA emphasizes high-quality education and research that are closely aligned with professional practice and societal needs.
- Equal opportunity: The institution states that everyone should feel welcome, safe, challenged, and able to succeed, and it explicitly frames inclusion and equal chances as central values.
- Impact: HvA focuses on making a tangible contribution to Amsterdam and beyond through education, research, and collaboration.
- Collaboration: The university highlights working together with students, staff, residents, companies, governments, and knowledge institutions as essential to its approach.
- Sustainability and livability: HvA repeatedly links its work to a livable city and to themes such as health, justice, and sustainability.
Unique Aspects
- Strong Amsterdam focus: HvA is deeply embedded in the Amsterdam metropolitan region and uses the city as a living context for education, research, and collaboration.
- Large applied-learning ecosystem: The university combines more than 100 programmes, over 60 lectorates, and 29 labs, creating many opportunities for practice-based learning and innovation.
- Cross-sector collaboration model: HvA explicitly connects students, lecturers, researchers, professionals, residents, and organizations in labs, centres of expertise, and research projects.
- International and regional networks: Beyond Amsterdam, HvA participates in European and Dutch collaboration networks such as U!REKA and UASNL to strengthen applied research and knowledge exchange.
- Scale and reach: The institution serves about 44,000 students with roughly 4,800 employees across four campuses and six faculties, giving it broad reach in the region.