Vereniging van Universiteiten

The Vereniging van Universiteiten (VSNU; English: Association of Universities in the Netherlands) of the Netherlands is a trade group of ten government-funded universities, 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).[1][2]

Organization

The VSNU acts as a consultative body for its members.[3] It is also the mouthpiece for universities in the national media.[3] It represents university education and research in the Cabinet of the Netherlands, the House of Representatives, and the European Union,[4] and in price negotiations with academic publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).[5][6] It is the employers' organization of Dutch universities.[7]

The association was located in Utrecht until 2005.[3] 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 VSNU moved to The Hague in March 2005.[2]

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

The association consists of the following 14 institutions:[8]

See also

References
  1. Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0 – via Google Books.
  2. "History of the VSNU", Vsnu.nl (in Dutch and English), retrieved 13 July 2018
  3. International Association of Universities (1992). World List of Universities (19th ed.). UK: Macmillan. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-349-12037-6.
  4. "Netherlands: Launch of ambitious national digital research agenda", University World News, UK, 1 December 2017, ISSN 1756-297X
  5. "Dutch lead European push to flip journals to open access: Academic consortia urge faster changes in scholarly publishing", Nature.com, 6 January 2016
  6. "Europe's open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread", Nature.com, 17 May 2018
  7. 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
  8. "Members of the VSNU", Vsnu.nl, retrieved 13 July 2018
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