Universiteiten van Nederland (UNL), previously Vereniging van Universiteiten (VSNU; 'Association of Universities in the Netherlands') until November 2021,[1] is a trade group of government-funded research universities, including three special universities, and the Open University of the Netherlands. It formed as the Vereniging van Samenwerkende Nederlandse Universiteiten in 1985, as a successor to the Academische Raad (est. 1956).[2][3]
Organization edit
The UNL acts as a consultative body for its members.[4] It is also the mouthpiece for universities in the national media.[4] It represents university education and research in the Cabinet of the Netherlands, the House of Representatives, and the European Union,[5] and in price negotiations with academic publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).[6][7] It is the employers' organization of Dutch universities.[8]
The association was located in Utrecht until 2005.[4] The institutions that are important for university policy, however, are often headquartered in The Hague. To optimize the interests of the universities towards these institutions, the UNL moved to The Hague in March 2005.[3]
Almost every country in the world has a university association that brings together common interests. There is also an umbrella of European university associations (the European University Association) and of universities worldwide (the International Association of Universities).
Members edit
The association consists of the following 14 institutions:[9]
- Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
- Open Universiteit Nederland
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Universiteit Leiden
- Universiteit Maastricht
- Universiteit van Tilburg
- Universiteit Twente
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Wageningen Universiteit
See also edit
- Open access in the Netherlands
- Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad (Flemish university council in Belgium)
- List of employer associations
References edit
- ^ "De ontstaansgeschiedenis van de Universiteiten van Nederland". Archived from the original on 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- ^ Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "History of the VSNU", Vsnu.nl (in Dutch and English), retrieved 13 July 2018
- ^ a b c International Association of Universities (1992). World List of Universities (19th ed.). UK: Macmillan. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.
- ^ "Netherlands: Launch of ambitious national digital research agenda", University World News, UK, 1 December 2017, ISSN 1756-297X
- ^ Butler, Declan (6 January 2016), "Dutch lead European push to flip journals to open access: Academic consortia urge faster changes in scholarly publishing", Nature.com, vol. 529, no. 7584, p. 13, doi:10.1038/529013a, PMID 26738577, S2CID 4406975
- ^ Else, Holly (17 May 2018), "Europe's open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread", Nature.com, vol. 557, no. 7706, pp. 479–480, Bibcode:2018Natur.557..479E, doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05191-0, PMID 29789729, S2CID 43943107
- ^ Egbert de Weert; et al. (2006), "The Changing Academic Profession: The case of the Netherlands", Reports of Changing Academic Profession Project Workshop on Quality, Relevance, and Governance in the Changing Academia: international perspectives, Hiroshima University, ISBN 4902808161
- ^ "Members of the VSNU", Vsnu.nl, retrieved 13 July 2018
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