Study Association via

via, short for 'Vereniging Informatiewetenschappen Amsterdam' (Dutch), is the study association for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Information Science at the University of Amsterdam.

Latest news

Show off your studies to prospective students!

Jet van den Eertwegh
2024-09-26

Are you excited about your bachelor's degree? Can't stop talking about your experience in your programme? We are looking for students to show study-goers (5 and 6 vwo) what it is like to study at the FNWI.

Wanted: Mentor for future students Would you like to accompany a group of three students for a day? Sign up now! In exchange for a compensation, you take them to your lectures and show them around campus. While enjoying a free cup of coffee/tea and a snack at the Star Cafe, you answer all their questions. This way, you can help students with their study choice.

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Meet the Master is looking for chaperons!

Jet van den Eertwegh
2024-09-23

Are you interested in introducing future Master's students to the life of a student at Science Park? Become a Meet the Master chaperone!

During a Meet the Master day, you will accompany a potential student, sharing your experiences with the Master's program, attending a class together, providing a faculty tour, and enjoying a coffee/tea with a snack at Star Café. As compensation, you'll receive €15.00 and a coffee voucher with snack for both you and the visitor.

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VPRO Medialab: how can AI sustain us?

Jet van den Eertwegh
2024-09-19

A two-day hackathon on how AI can help us to foster a more sustainable approach to making media, creating and sharing stories, sparking meaningful lasting conversations. SustAInability by design for public service media.

As in other areas of industry and society public broadcasters are facing the challenge to become more sustainable and reduce their carbon-footprint. What if we meet that challenge head-on and start the transformation right at the core of the media ecosystem? What would radically sustainable public media look like? What kind of formats could be made within the constraints of only solar energy? What micro-stories would we tell, and how would we deliver them? What affordances does Artificial Intelligence, Gen- or otherwise, bring to the table? How can the synthetic alchemy of Media and AI give lasting or renewable life to our stories?

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Coordinating a committee, is there a better place to be?

Dave van Wijk
2024-09-12

Hi all. The new academic year has just started. Super fun to see all the familiar faces again, and get to know new freshmen! Hopefully you are settling back into the studying rhythm well.

But of course studying is not the only way to learn, because of course coordinating a committee, besides being a lot of fun, is also very educational! So if you're sitting around hesitating to take up something new, this is your chance! We have many great committees that are waiting for a new coordinator.

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Looking for volunteers for the poster list!

Jet van den Eertwegh
2024-09-12

The volunteer poster list is looking for volunteers! To promote activities, via has a volunteer poster list. This list consists of members who would like to help make posters and slides for promotion of various activities.

Anyone can be on this poster list! If you already have years of experience with Canva, but also if you would like to learn! Be sure to take a look at the different posters of the activities to see what great things can be made. Are you interested? Then send an email to poster@svia.nl to sign up!

Student chess tutor wanted €27.50 p/h

Jet van den Eertwegh
2024-09-05

Chess is becoming increasingly popular and we have already got many children enjoying playing chess. To introduce even more children to chess, Aan Zet! new teachers.

WHO ARE WE? Aan Zet! organises chess lessons mainly at (primary) schools and BSOs. With some 30 teachers, mostly students, and 100 locations in Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden, we try to get everyone playing chess.

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Join the Sponsoring Committee!

Dave van Wijk
2024-09-05

Would you like to get a better look at the economic world within IT? Improve your professional skills? And of course boost the via coffers a bit? 🫰 Then join the Acquisariat!

The Acquisariat is a committee within via responsible for maintaining and expanding the association's business contacts. We have direct contact with companies, so we can arrange fat things for students, such as organising lectures, setting up activities, and providing goodie(bag)s!

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Board 26 is looking for you!

Merlijne Reeuwijk
2024-09-01

Are you curious about a board year?

Are you thinking about taking up a board role next year, but not quite sure yet whether it's something for you? Or would you first like to discover exactly what a board year entails and what it can bring you? Either way, we would love to help you!

Send an email to: soco-25@svia.nl

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Think with us about international collaboration

Jet van den Eertwegh
2024-07-03

Think with us about international collaboration

I would like to invite you to join the UvA this week to actively think through ethical and moral aspects of international scientific collaboration, in particular collaboration between the UvA and partners located in war zones or areas where human rights are being violated.

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Job openings for SNE TA's

Naud Sluis
2024-07-01

We are looking for motivated Masters' students that want to assist with labs, participate and grade in the SNE (Security and Network Engineering) Master program. In particular: -The TAs will work approximately 1 or 2 days per week (flexible upon discussion) and they need to be present in lab sessions -They will organize the lab sessions for courses like SSN (Security of Systems and Networks), CIA (Classical Internet Applications), LS (Large Systems) and INR (InterNetworking and Routing) and they will actively assist SNE students in completing them -They will help with grading the lab assignments based on rubrics -Any experience of the TAs with the Master of SNE, Computer Science, VUSec or a related MSc with some exposure in networks, security or distributed systems is encouraged For more information, just contact Kostas Papagiannopoulos: k.papagiannopoulos@uva.nl

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Activity overview

Discord game night

in 5 hours
  • Saturday 12 oct 20:00 - 23:00
  • svia.nl/discord

Come play games with your fellow students every Saturday night starting at 8 p.m.! Everything from Counter Strike to Jackbox will be played. It's the perfect way to get to know your fellow students better!

  • Monday 14 oct 12:00 - 13:00
  • B1.19F

===This meeting is in dutch===

Do you have a creative brain and are you brimming with ideas? At the creative committee, you can organise anything to do with creativity! Think DIY t-shirt dyeing or pumpkin making for Halloween. We have only been around for a few months, so everything is still an original idea. Come think along on Monday 14 October from 1200-1300 in B1.19F!

If you missed for a moment...

  • Monday 14 oct 17:00 - 18:00
  • L1.04

Next semester the current via board will start studying again, and that means a new board is needed! Although the new board will be appointed after the Christmas holidays, we are already organizing two nights in September and October to warm you up for a board year. Here you will learn all about the tasks of the different board members, and you can ask all your questions to the current board. So if...

Open Board Meeting

in 5 days
  • Thursday 17 oct 11:00 - 14:00
  • B1.19D

In October, the board will open up its board meeting twice for members who are considering a board year! That way you can experience for yourself how a board meeting goes, what kinds of topics are discussed and how decisions are made.

Sign up below for the open board meeting on Thursday, October 17. You're not committed to anything when you sign up; that's just so we know how many people to expect!...

Do you have an idea for an activity?
Send an e-mail to the Activitycommittee.

Vacancies

PRDCT

Junior DevOps Engineer

PRDCT, full-time

Wie we zijn

_Wij zijn PRDCT. Wij bieden onze klanten met het PRDCT Managed Data Platform een plek waar zij over alle relevante informatie van hun (potentiële) klanten beschikken. Wij zorgen ervoor dat alle stukjes klantinformatie uit de verschillende systemen en tools op een juiste manier worden gekoppeld en gelinkt. Dat doen we op een zodanige wijze dat onze klanten zelf met deze data kunnen werken om inzicht in hun data en processen te krijgen, voorspellingen te maken of data voor web- en emailcampagnes kunnen selecteren.

Devoteam

Traineeship DevOps, Integratie en Data

Devoteam, full-time

Are you eager to make a difference at clients such as RTL, Bol.com, Vodafone Ziggo and Rabobank? Have you just graduated and are super motivated to kick off your career as an IT professional? Do you want to invest in yourself and become indispensable for leading companies? Then our traineeship is made for you!

Info Support

Software Engineer (Fulltime/Parttime)

Info Support, part-time

Developing software that all of society interacts with. Software for birth registration to retirement benefits, from planning systems in public transport to the software for the robotization of distribution centers. Safe, reliable, 100% craftsmanship. With your drive to develop yourself further in your field, you want to rise to the top of IT. (Info Support | Forward - YouTube)

Scribe Collectief

Will you use artificial intelligence to help improve mental health?

Scribe Collectief, full-time

Het Scribe Collectief

At Het Scribe Collectief, we operate in about 15 healthcare facilities with a team of 150 scribes. Our goal is to ease the administrative burden on caregivers so they can devote more time and attention to their patients. Mental health care is under enormous pressure due to high administrative burdens and a shortage of caregivers, leading to long waiting lists and high dropout rates. We want to change this.