Erasmus 2013   Realization

Realizing our ambtions

...in education

  • Broadening of bachelor programs, Dutch- ánd English language
  • The right student quickly in the right study situation
  • New, high-quality master- and PhD-programs, interdisciplinary and internationally oriented
  • Smaller-scale forms of education
  • Market leader in (post-initial) academic professional education in the Netherlands

...in research

  • More money for fundamental top research and top researchers
  • Tightening of quality standards
  • More successful in attracting (inter)national subsidies
  • Bundling of knowledge in multidisciplinary research groups
  • Attractive carrier perspectives for scientists
  • Getting more money out of applicable knowledge

...in contact with the environment

  • Stronger presence in the city and more accessible for potential relations such as education seekers, public bodies, entrepreneurs, organizations
  • Investing in potentially successful alumni networks
  • Searching for exciting, innovative links with the business sector, governmental agencies, and organizations
  • Stimulating students to take up community service: contributing to the city and its inhabitants, and therefore to social cohesion as well as one's own development
  • Seeing to it that Rotterdam becomes an attractive place to study, work, and live

...in our own setting

  • Student housing on and near campus 2013 (600 units)
  • Campus as an open, modern, hospitable, attractive meeting place for our university community and our guests
  • Sustainable, safe, low-threshold, easily accessible

...in our own organization

  • Stepping up investments in quality enhancement for all employees
  • Room for entrepreneurship, for self-initiative, for risk-taking
  • Demand-driven service provision