Excellent reputation
Dutch research has an excellent reputation. The following citation from a report of the Department of Education, Culture and Research provides an insight hereon:
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"The Netherlands is one of the leading countries from a scientific point of view (1) and is home to knowledge-intensive businesses and worldwide market leaders such as Shell, Philips, Univeler, Akzo-Nobel, Corus and TomTom NV. Every Dutch university has at least one research area that belongs to the world's best. Graduates of our colleges of music and design schools include some of the leading international figures in their field. In short, our knowledge institutions play a central role in the success of the Netherlands. From Strategic Agenda for higher education, research and science policy, March 2008. |
Samples of excellent research
To show you a few examples of excellent research which takes place in the Netherlands, the VSNU together with the research universities have published a 100-page document on samples of excellent research in 21 different research fields.
Film on Dutch research and higher education (5 min)
To give you more of an idea on the Netherlands and its research tradition we suggest you watch the following YouTube film. It takes just over 5 minutes.
Where its original aim of the film is to inform potential students about the Netherlands, the first two sentences are not applicable to you, wanting to find a research position. However, the rest of the film is worth the watch.
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