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Automotive Engineering student wins ACE Award 2021
Umang Tulsi, student of the HAN Automotive Engineering course, has won the ACE Student Award 2021. The prize is amazing: a cheque with 2 tickets to a Grand Prix race of your own choice and it includes your flight and a night at a hotel.
2022 International Week: Health & Social Studies
In 2022 HAN is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the International Week at Health and Social Studies! This week will be held at the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen from Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 February 2022.

2021 NSE: high satisfaction with HAN lecturers
The satisfaction of HAN students with their degree program is in line with university of applied sciences students in general, with a positive accent. Lecturer quality was rated higher than the national average. This also applies to the commitment students experience and the contact with lecturers.

ISB Talent Event 2021
The very first virtual edition of the ISB Talent Event on 3 & 4 June was a great success! During the online event, we hosted 24 lecturers from 16 partner universities around the world, who assessed the project presentations of 67 International Business and Communication students.

Students rewarded for entrepreneurial spirit
International Business students Chingiskhan Kazakhstan and Max Schalow are now the proud owners of a TOR certificate. That's HAN's Top Entrepreneur Scheme for students. The scheme gives them the best possible chance to build their start-up, just like top athletes build their sports careers.

Coronavirus self-test pilot study to expand in-person education
On Thursday 8 April, 400 HAN student volunteers began using rapid self-tests for coronavirus. They are part of a pilot study to investigate how we can enable more in-person education in the upcoming academic year.

Creating a new strategic plan together
Working together on HAN’s new strategic plan: that was the goal of the Future Festival, which took place on 1 April. Staff, lecturers, professors and student members of the Participation Council came together online to share knowledge and put their ideas in writing.

International students welcome in living room
Since the lockdown and curfew, social life for students has been on the back burner. This applies even more to the international students who cannot rely on friends and family. What is the International School of Business doing to keep this group of students from getting lonely?

Coronavirus and staying in the Netherlands after graduation
Vacancies and networking opportunities are in decline for international graduates due to the corona crisis. So graduates started a petition to extend the search year. Minister Koolmees for Social Affairs couldn't give them exactly this, but did make an important concession.

Rob Verhofstad new chair of executive board
Rob Verhofstad has been appointed chair of the Executive Board by the HAN Supervisory Board. He will start on 1 October, and if possible already in September. Verhofstad is succeeding Kees Boele, who was chair of the Executive Board of HAN until 16 March 2020.
