Study Association via

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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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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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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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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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!

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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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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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

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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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