Wednesday 1 December, the kick-off of a new edition of the Meet Your Mentor mentoring programme took place. In the Doelenzaal, 28 mentees and the same number of mentors came together to start the programme. During this gathering, the programme was introduced to the participants, and the mentors and mentees discovered who their match will be … Continue reading Succesful kick-off for Meet Your Mentor
Discover what exactly you want, which master’s to choose, which beliefs influence your choices, how to stay true to yourself and at the same time profile your talents. These are merely some of the challenges Dutch Black students, students of colour and/or first-generation students come across when exploring the job market. The second reflection session … Continue reading Meet Your Mentor Spring Edition
On the 18th of June 2021, the UvA (University of Amsterdam) Pride organized a webinar on LGBTQI+ Asylum in the Netherlands called A Hostile Welcome: Anti-LGBTQI+ violence in the Dutch asylum procedure. The webinar was initiated by Dr. Marie-louise Janssen and co-organized and hosted by Jesper van de Vooren, Peter Miller and Eddy Chouity.The direct … Continue reading A Hostile Welcome: Anti-LGBTQI+ violence in the Dutch asylum procedure – UvA Pride webinar
On May 20, 2021, the festive online launch took place at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam! This means that Meet your Mentor has been launched very successfully at four faculties of the University of Amsterdam. On May 20, 17 students and 17 professionals took part. The participating mentors are professionals: two judges … Continue reading Meet your Mentor at the Faculty of Law 20th May 2021
UPDATE 13 MARCH We deeply regret to announce that all activities planned in the Week against Racism (16-21 March) are cancelled. This decision is made based on the new measures announced by the Executive Board last night, to limit the consequences of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) at the UvA. You can find the full announcement … Continue reading Week against Racism
UvA's Academic Diversity Programme (ADP) is a mentoring programme in which students are supported by senior students during their first year at the university. Applications are now open for the upcoming academic year! So, what exactly is ADP, and why is it called a diversity mentoring programme? What has the programme done for the participants, … Continue reading Sign up for the Academic Diversity Programme
Thanks to our partnership with the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) Team of the UvA, we are preparing for an exciting year of workshops and trainings for staff, students and board members of student & study associations. Last academic year (2018/2019), we conducted a pilot of 10 workshops with the bachelor program Politics, Psychology ,Law and … Continue reading Achievements & Updates OBOV
By Alfrida Martis. The State of Diversity at UvA On Thursday the 8th of November 2018 the CDO Team hosted our very first public event, entitled The State of Diversity at UvA: Meet The CDO Team. A lot can be said about the importance of organizing such events, but the turnout for our event speaks volumes. The room was packed with over 120 participants. Personally, as the organizer of the event I was super … Continue reading The State of Diversity at UvA: Recurring Events to Raise Awareness and Promote Diversity
By Fatima Kamal How it all started One of the initiatives we as the CDO-team work on is a mentor program called the Academic Diversity Program (ADP). Here I will share how this program started and what my personal connection to the ADP is. Student struggles The Academic Diversity Program (ADP) is founded on a … Continue reading The Academic Diversity Program
