HAS University of Applied Sciences has developed six new English-taught minors for higher professional education (HBO)students. The minors respond to current social is...
07 December 2021
HAS University of Applied Sciences has been working intensively with AgroProeftuin de Peel for several years on long-term research in two key areas: making soil and fo...
22 October 2021
Geert Offenberg designed two interactive maps that provide information about international projects ander projects in the Southwest Delta region.
18 October 2021
Rob Bakker was appointed Professor for the new Research Group Food Production in a Circular Economy at HAS University of Applied Sciences on 1 September 2021. The Rese...
01 October 2021
The aim of the Food Production in a Circular Economy research group is to facilitate businesses in the agri-food sector in producing with minimum impact on the environ...
02 September 2021
The arable farm BI-JOVIRA in Ooltgensplaat in the Southwest Delta aims to be one of the most sustainable open-field vegetable farms in the Netherlands by 2022. Over th...
09 July 2021
Since last autumn, HAS University of Applied Sciences has been a cooperation partner of the Green Protein Excellence Center (GPEC). The GPEC, which is located in West...
09 July 2021
HAS University of Applied Sciences scored above average on all core themes compared to the national average for higher professional education institutions. This emerge...
23 June 2021
The HAS Expo 2021 is online from now on! Almost 170 posters have been created, divided into the themes of agro (animal and plant), food, environment & nature and busin...
16 June 2021
On 10 June 2021 HAS University of Applied Sciences proudly presented the very first Frans van Leijden Award to Youri Timmermans, a student of Business Administration a...
10 June 2021
HAS University of Applied Sciences is involved in the project ‘Sustainable soil management’ as part of the Healthy Plant on Vital and Sustainable Soil lectorate. Growi...
14 May 2021
On Thursday, 10 June 2021, eighteen months after the death of our beloved and highly esteemed colleague Frans van Leijden, the very first Frans van Leijden Award will...
10 May 2021
Are Virtual Reality (VR) and experience as teaching tools temporary gadgets or can they offer permanent added value to education, research and valorisation to HAS Univ...
19 April 2021
The Supervisory Board of HAS University of Applied Sciences in Den Bosch appointed Reggy van der Wielen as chair of the Executive Board with effect from 10 May 2021.
08 April 2021
The lectorate group Future Food Systems at HAS University of Applied Sciences is developing an effective approach to help entrepreneurs elaborate their action perspect...
07 April 2021
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 the very 1st Frans van Leijden Award will be presented during the GROW event in tribute to him. The nomination procedure is starting today.
23 March 2021
At the end of August last year, the English-language minor 'Data Science in Agrifood' started for the first time. Some 37 students enrolled, mostly from HAS and Avans....
15 March 2021
The HAS Food Experience 2021 is over. The event took place completely online from 1 to 5 March this year, and was traditionally ended this afternoon with the presentat...
05 March 2021
An elevator pitch in the car park and a real Dragons' Den. Those were two highlights of the minor in Business Innovation that took place in the autumn of 2020 at HAS U...
29 January 2021
On 7-8 January 2021, HAS University of Applied Sciences in Venlo held a Hackathon of Hope. During the hackathon, second-year HAS students met online every hour with a...
11 January 2021
The health of students, staff and visitors is very important for HAS University of Applied Sciences, that is why we are closely monitoring developments related to coro...
15 December 2020
HAS University of Applied Sciences takes part in international trade missions on a regular basis, in search of new opportunities across the globe for us as an academic...
04 December 2020
Recently, the Waterschans water defences in Bergen op Zoom, located on the old harbour estuary and part of the West Brabant Waterline, were completely renovated. Durin...
26 November 2020
The three-year programme 'Transition to a sustainable food system' is being launched under the banner of the National Science Agenda, a broad consortium of 30 scientis...
24 November 2020
Seven years ago, HAS University of Applied Sciences established HAS International Projects (HIP), as a central coordination point for international projects. It has si...
09 November 2020
HAS University of Applied Sciences is ranked the 3rd medium-sized university of applied sciences in the Netherlands in the Keuzegids Hbo 2021 when it comes to student...
12 October 2020
Dick Pouwels (1969), will be leaving his position as Chairman of the Board of Governors at HAS University of Applied Sciences on 1 January 2021. This follows his appoi...
01 October 2020
The bachelor degree programme ‘Geo Media & Design’ at HAS University of Applied Sciences will be renamed ‘Applied Geo-Information Science’. This is a logical consequen...
24 September 2020
‘Emerging talent and established leaders working daily for a better and more sustainable food system.’ This is how initiators Slow Food Youth Network, AgriFood Capital...
07 September 2020
Despite corona measures that are making the start of this academic year so different to other years, HAS University of Applied Sciences is fit & well and looking forwa...
04 September 2020
HAS University of Applied Sciences is doing its best to ensure that students incur as little study delay as possible during the corona crisis. Many students who had to...
07 July 2020
What’s it like working or studying at HAS University during corona? To gain insight into this issue, in May we asked staff and students to complete a questionnaire. We...
22 June 2020
HAS University of Applied Sciences is doing its best to ensure that students incur as little study delay as possible during the corona crisis. Many students who had to...
18 May 2020
Last autumn, HAS University of Applied Sciences launched a research project to look at ways to improve entrepreneurial education. The starting point is the student's o...
04 May 2020
On 15 April 2020 from 15.00 to 21.00, HAS University of Applied Sciences will host an online open day for Dutch speaking prospective students. The physical open days o...
06 April 2020
The municipality of Bergen op Zoom in the Southern Dutch province of Zeeland has been awarded a regional support grant of over €700,000 for the development of Delta Ag...
30 March 2020
As of March 14, 2020, the Executive Board of HAS University of Applied Sciences has amended the travel instructions for students who want to travel abroad.
14 March 2020
On Thursday 13 February HAS University of Applied Sciences and Museum van Bommel Van Dam hosted a special event: the Inspiration Diner. During the dinner a mix of stud...
06 March 2020
Healthy soil is a basic prerequisite for growing food, maintaining biodiversity and providing services such as water buffering and purification. The quality of Dutch s...
06 March 2020
Getting youngsters to realise how much fun science and technology are, while also showing them just how vulnerable planet earth is: that’s André Kuipers’s mission. The...
18 February 2020
New members were appointed to the HAS University of Applied Sciences Board of Trustees in both 2018 and 2019: Anita Wouters joined in April 2018 and Albert Vermuë in N...
23 January 2020
The Future Food Systems research group is working on intervention strategies and new business models that accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems. In thi...
01 January 2020
The primary goal of the Protein Transition in Food research group is to contribute to the protein transition in the Netherlands. The focus is on plant-based proteins l...
01 January 2020
The Research group in Sustainable Production primarily focuses on connecting education, the professional field and practical research in the area of Sustainable Produc...
01 January 2020
The aim of the Precision Livestock Farming research group is to facilitate smarter and more efficient farming (smart farming) and to use data for more precise operatio...
01 January 2020
HAS University of Applied Sciences is one of the Dutch educational institutions involved in the Kenyan project 'Enhancing Partnerships for Industry-led Vocational trai...
11 November 2019
In this year’s prestigious Elsevier 'Best study programmes in 2019' we are a commendable 6th place under the specialist universities of applied sciences.
05 November 2019
For a number of years now I have regularly ordered beef boxes from Hemels Vlees, Zef Soogelee’s farm in Ransdaal, Limburg. Zef graduated from the HAS University of App...
25 September 2019
On Monday 9 September 2019, Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Carola Schouten was at HAS University of Applied Sciences in ‘s-Hertogenbosch to op...
10 September 2019
On 20 June, the 8th annual HAS Year Event was held at HAS University of Applied Sciences. The event included the presentation of the HAS Awards in 4 categories: Young...
04 July 2019
His arrival on 15 August 2019 will mean that, with fellow board member, Liz Chermin and chairman, Dick Pouwels, the board is now complete and ready for the future.
03 June 2019
Maarten van Eeuwijk: “In Kenya, there’s a dire need for entrepreneurship, and organising a similar concept to that of HAS University of Applied Sciences is a huge chal...
27 May 2019
The SustainaBul is a student initiative that rewards sustainability within education and produces the annual sustainability rankings.
27 May 2019
This network site for anyone with ties to HAS University of Applied Sciences is no longer just a platform for alumni and members of staff, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year studen...
21 May 2019
During the coming year, students from the Applied Biology and Horticulture & Arable Farming study programmes will be working on a research project as part of various f...
17 May 2019
In her extraordinary presentation, all the guests travelled in an imaginary time machine to the year 2030, where Judith awaited them.
10 May 2019
The field trip was part of an international exchange within the HAS University of Applied Sciences research programme Skills Lab Natural Farming.
25 April 2019
On Wednesday 13 February, the plots for the trials site’s expansion were marked out. Marnix Bakermans, the politician responsible for the agricultural transition on be...
18 March 2019
Calves are the dairy cows of the future. Successfully rearing calves provides many advantages: less strain on the environment, lower costs and a more sustainable dairy...
14 February 2019
"She called us, ‘young farmers; the pride of agriculture‘ and said she was confident about the vision’s implementation. We really felt heard and understood.”
01 February 2019
The Netherlands has been named the #2 study abroad country in Europe and #7 in the world, according to new rankings released by higher education search portal, educati...
29 January 2019
Last summer, ‘De Natuurakker’ (The Nature Field) was one of the 16 winners of the ‘Brood en Spelen’ (panem et circenses) design award. Two students from HAS Universit...
17 January 2019
In addition to study trips to Poland and Brussels, where students visited the European Parliament, participants in the module also work on drawing up an export plan.
11 December 2018
HAS University of Applied Sciences holds several Open Days each year. This year, there will also be the first Online Open Day: on 3 December at 12.00 hr. This Online O...
09 November 2018
As in 2016 and 2017, HAS University of Applied Sciences is still in the top two in Elsevier and the Keuzegids HBO in terms of student satisfaction and quality of educa...
08 October 2018
The Fresh Academy in Vietnam has officially been launched. Dutch and Vietnamese partners have spent the past three years setting up this practical knowledge and traini...
19 January 2018
HAS University and ZLTO carry out together a series of professional assignments aimed at producing a soil passport, as a tool to help maintain and improve the quality...
15 December 2016
The Lucassen perennial plant nursery is a partner of the Venlo campus of HAS University of Applied Sciences. The company has been in the family for 3 generations and w...
27 June 2016
We would love to meet you on Saturday 5 February 2022 during our open day at HAS University in 's-Hertogenbosch.
05 February 2022
