During this course, students get practical experience by working in teams supervised by staff on real cases and legal research for their clients. The Amsterdam Law Clinics is available for Masters students from all Amsterdam Law School Master tracks. 

 There are 8 Clinical programmes (Clinics): The Amsterdam European Law Clinic, The Amsterdam International Law Clinic, The Business and Human Rights Clinic, The Fair Trials Clinic, The Fair Work and Equality Law Clinic, Criminal Justice Clinic, Recht & Beleid Clinic, Environmental Justice Clinic.  

This course is part of the Amsterdam Law Practice (ALP), the Law School's experiential learning programme.

During the Justice entrepreneurship courses, students are supported in developing legal solutions for a just society. From defining a problem to creating a prototype, students run the first steps towards their own company during this course.

The course won the Innovative Legal Education Award from the Gouden Zandlopers in 2021.

Computational Social Science connect social sciences, humanities and information science. This innovative Bachelor programme includes theory, research methodology, statistics, programming (in Python), and change-making skills, for students to specialise in sustainable digital interventions for complex societal challenges. The courses include many group projects tackling real problems in consultation with clients and societal stakeholders.

Placemaking REC offers an extensive educational program at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where students work with local stakeholders to improve the REC campus and surrounding areas. This educational program offers students the chance to develop practical solutions to urban issues, thus forming a bridge between academia and society. The program at REC includes several courses at undergraduate level. In addition, Placemaking offers a Summer School, thesis opportunities, and Placemaking internships in cooperation with the municipality of Amsterdam.

The Pressure Cooker Communication Science is an intensive programme during which student teams work on providing innovative solutions to a societal problem for an external client. The course begins with training and preparatory meetings to prepare a two-day intense workshop during which the acquired knowledge is applied to a real-life case.

Students are in contact with an actual client and are trained by coaches.

The Minor Entrepreneurship is a full-time 30 ECTS programme completed in 1 semester, open to all Bachelor students from the UvA (all faculties) offered by The Faculty of Economics and Business. Three courses make up the minor: Cases in entrepreneurship (6 ECTS), Startup Psychology (6 ECTS), and Entrepreneurship in Practice (18 ECTS).

The Entrepreneurship in Practice course is the core course of the minor and lasts 3 blocks. This course is similar to an accelerator programme: student entrepreneurs benefit from industry expert guest lectures, weekly tailored coaching sessions, and mentoring from seasoned entrepreneurs. They also can participate in various pitching and networking events during the semester.

Since its creation in 2007, the Minor Entrepreneurship has brought to life hundreds of startups, many of which have become profitable businesses. During the intensive 5-month programme, students develop a product or service and prepare it to enter the market. Around 20-25 startups are created each year, most of which are registered with the KvK, reaching several hundred customers and generating cumulative sales of over €15,000.

During this course, student teams work together to solve a real-life entrepreneurial challenge given by an existing venture. Students use academic theories to support innovative, high-quality recommendations. The entire project is done in close collaboration and consultation with experts, stakeholders, and the venture itself.

The Venture Challenge course is part of the Master Entrepreneurship, a 1-year programme jointly coordinated by the UvA and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). The Master’s Entrepreneurship combines innovative knowledge with practical education. Students get to work on real-life cases, do an internship, and work on their business ideas. Guest lectures are organized, connecting students with speakers from start-ups/scale-ups and corporates. This programme is an opportunity to benefit from the expertise and network of the two best universities in Amsterdam.

Operating at the Amsterdam Business School and the Amsterdam School of Economics, the Amsterdam Living Case Lab (ALCL) connects courses at the Roeterseiland campus with real cases from external actors.

Students get to work in teams on a real-life case or a complex challenge facing an organisation. At the same time, the organisations benefit from the students' innovative ideas. These collaborations create professional relationships between innovative companies and potential future recruits or interns.

The Living Case Lab challenges last 8 to 16 weeks and are an integral part of a relevant course in one of the university's programmes.

he Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) at the University of Amsterdam specializes in interdisciplinary education, working with UvA faculties and external partners to develop innovative programs. In the coming years, IIS will focus on transition education, equipping future academics with the skills and knowledge to tackle society’s complex challenges. The Institute also offers advice on learning, teaching, and the development of new educational concepts, alongside support for organizational and teacher professionalisation.

Do you want to work with real-life issues? Are you interested in societal change? Discover the innovative elective Change Making. Change Making is an action-oriented programme where students and professionals work closely together as co-learners.

The SIG Impact Learning is a network with the aim of making Impact Learning more generally applicable at UvA and exchanging knowledge between interested parties and experts in the field. The Education Lab team of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Teaching & Learning Centre (TLC) work together to organize meetings on topics such as impact learning and assessment, client involvement or impact learning and policy. The Impact learning group started with 15 educators and now has 80 members (also outside the UvA).

The work you do as a researcher and teacher is important. But how do you increase your societal or economic impact? What kind of strategy do you need? How do you present the story behind your research more clearly, with more emphasis on output and relevance? Who might be interested? And how to approach these parties? The Impact Program will provide you with answers to these questions and more.