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The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences/Hogeschool van Amsterdam (AUAS/HvA) is a knowledge institution that educates tomorrow’s professionals in a wide array of fields and disciplines of higher education. With a distinct focus on applied sciences, the AUAS enables students, lecturers and researchers to develop cutting-edge – and practical – knowledge and innovations. AUAS students are immersed in Amsterdam during their studies, a city renowned as a hotbed of education and research in all conceivable areas: culture and society, trade, logistics, aviation, shipping, information technology, sports, healthcare and more. With the city as their laboratory, AUAS students and lecturers work closely with countless industries, companies and organisations to come up with smart solutions to challenges facing Amsterdam. Applied research is a crucial component of the many educational programmes AUAS offers, and is conducted in close collaboration with both professors and professionals. Students work alongside professors in labs and at centres of applied research. AUAS focuses on five priority areas for research: Amsterdam creative industries, Urban Education, Urban Management, Urban Technology and Urban Vitality. Entrepreneurship is another important focus area. The AUAS consists of seven faculties, teaching 45,460 students and offering 92 Bachelor’s, Master’s and Associate degree programmes. It is one of the biggest employers in the field of higher education, and in Amsterdam, with some 4,066 staff members. *reference date: 2018 http://www.amsterdamuas.com/

Open Universiteit, which welcomed its first students in September 1984, is an independent government-funded institute for distance learning at university level in The Netherlands and Flanders. Open Universiteit develops, provides and promotes innovative higher distance education of top quality, in collaboration with networks and alliances. As the prime university for lifelong learning, it addresses the wide-ranging learning needs of people during their course of life, plus the need to achieve a considerable increase of the knowledge level of the community at large. We seek to be an institution that is strongly anchored in the Dutch higher education system through its educational, research and innovation activities, and that also operates successfully in the field of lifelong learning. We consider our institution to be a pioneer in open higher distance education and a leader in educational innovation, both in the Netherlands and internationally. In the market of lifelong learning, we wish to establish firm footing.

NCOI Opleidingen verzorgt ruim 1.000 opleidingen en trainingen door heel Nederland. Wij zijn uitgegroeid tot de grootste opleider voor werkenden en toonaangevend op het gebied van praktijkgericht opleiden en leren. NCOI weet als geen andere opleider praktijkgerichtheid te combineren met officiële erkenningen uit het onderwijsveld. Kiest u voor een opleiding of training van NCOI? Dan kiest u voor een onderwijsaanpak gericht op uw eigen werkomgeving, een hoge mate van flexibiliteit (verschillende startmomenten en studievarianten), topdocenten en een waardevol diploma.