The Netherlands had 49 political integrity affairs in 2025 over the past four years. CDA and VVD both had 7, followed by BBB with 4 and PVV with 3. Undesirable manners were the biggest problem with 12 affairs, followed by misconduct in private life and abuse and manipulation of information.

This weekend we will be switching to a new system for handling student queries. From 16 March you can track the status of your question or request in your portal. Click to read the news article. Professor social-legal studies in precarious work and poverty, Anja Eleveld argues for a fundamentally different approach to citizenship within Dutch welfare policy.

Dutch youth drink excessive amounts of sugary drinks. On average, they drink almost two and a half litres per week, while half of them consume around four litres. This is according to a new national study on sugary drink consumption among adolescents aged 12 to 16.

As AI expands rapidly, data centres around the world are scaling up at pace. That growth also creates electronic waste (e-waste). In new research, data scientist Alex de Vries-Gao estimates that AI servers could generate 131-224.8 kilotonnes of e-waste per year by 2030, a lower figure than previously assumed.

More than half of people with dementia still living at home do not receive help or support. Neuropsychologist Sanne Balvert conducted research on dementia care and concludes, People with dementia and their family caregivers are often not reached until the situation has already become difficult.

People diagnosed with HIV in the Netherlands face a significantly lower probability of employment and a substantial loss of income for up to seven years following their diagnosis. This is the main conclusion of a new study by VU economists Wendy Janssens and Menno Pradhan conducted in collaboration with researchers from the UvA and Amsterdam UMC.

Recent genetic research sheds new light on the prehistoric population of the Rhine-Meuse region. The study shows that demographic developments in this area differed significantly from patterns observed elsewhere in Europe.

This weekend we will be switching to a new system for handling student queries. From 16 March you can track the status of your question or request in your portal. Click to read the news article. Better insulation and ventilation in social housing means that children need less medication for asthma or allergies.

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global importance, only 30% of global ecosystems have been sampled for these fungal partners, says research led by Justin Stewart, ecologist at VU Amsterdam and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN).

Northern wildfires, such as the record-breaking 2023 and 2025 fires in Canada, have long-lasting effects on the climate, according to new research from, among others, earth system scientists Max van Gerrevink, Sander Veraverbeke and Nick Schutgens.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vici funding to 39 adventurous, talented and pioneering researchers, including five from VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC/affiliated VU.

The past does not lie behind us; it is continually invoked to interpret and shape the present. The core of professor of political history Susan Legênes valedictory speech: -peace with the past- is not an end state but an ongoing, contested challenge.

Researchers will soon have new opportunities to safely share and reuse video and audio materials. Through the SYNAPSIS project, universities and partners are developing a platform that allows recordings to be easily anonymised without losing valuable research information.

Today, representatives from more than 150 countries adopted the IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment. The report compiles scientific methods to map the biodiversity impact and dependence of businesses.