Coming Out Day at HAN on awareness and respect: you can be who you are

4 November 2022 by Erik Rijpstra

Coming Out Day is an international day of awareness and respect for LGBTIQ+ persons. The day returns annually on 11 October, this year on a Tuesday. A key statement of this day is: be yourself, regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity. Many government buildings, including HAN, therefore put out the rainbow/diversity flag to show support for Coming Out […]

Electrical engineering students go off the gas!

4 November 2022 by Redactie AEA

The energy transition and crisis are keeping us busy. This certainly also applies to our new batch of 1st-year Electrical Engineering students! In the subject Sustainable Electricity Grid with lecturers Joke Westra and Ronald van Buuren, they learn about the effects of more and more sustainably generated electricity on the electricity grid. They also design a completely CO2-free energy supply […]

Why use database NEN Connect?

4 November 2022 by Redactie AEA

As a HAN student, you have access to the database NEN Connect. In NEN Connect, you will find all Dutch standards as well as European and international standards accepted in the Netherlands. Norms are standards or formal agreements for services and products. In the database NEN Connect you find standards relevant to your field and you can verify whether your […]

Tom Coronel: “Can it be faster and better? Then do it!”

3 November 2022 by Erik Rijpstra

Tom Coronel was a special guest at the well-attended ACE Automotive Career Day on 20 October. In his Meet & Greet Masterclass, the well-known racing driver and Automotive entrepreneur enthusiastically took students from HAN and Fontys into his uplifting story about entrepreneurship, early adopter behaviour, the advantage of being a twin with brother Tim and, of course, about the sizzling […]

What new basic grant can you expect soon?

3 November 2022 by Redactie AEA

The Dutch government wants to reintroduce the basic grant for hbo and university, possibly from September 2023, according to this new bill. Students living at home will receive €110.30 per month from the 2023-2024 academic year. For students living away from home, it will be €274.90. The supplementary grant amounts to a maximum of €416 and depends partly on parental […]