The meeting between the Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba and Van Hall Larenstein could lead to a possible Aruban-Friesian co-operation.

Van Hall Larenstein alumni win prestigious National Farmer of the Year award in Sierra Leone with their poultry farm.

The fourth National Men's Training of Voltigeheren has a special touch this year. Four boys under the age of 12 will be selected to take part in a new youth talent plan for equestrian vaulting.

Equine students will be hosting a placement advice day for fellow students embarking on the search for a suitable placement.

The national student survey is calling for students to evaluate various aspects of their academic experience to ensure the good quality of education in the Netherlands.

Students of VHL will have easier access to placements thanks to the joint venture between reserarch institues Deltares, Alterra and IMARES.

Third year Food Innovation Management students have created a version of the bitterbal that is bound to make many squirm. But, they say, the Dutch market is ready for it.

The Equine Talent Squad of VHL have improved over the last period, and this was evident in their performance at the Friesland horse event Paard&Zo.

Three students will represent Van Hall Larenstein at the International Scientific Symposium on Food & Nutrition Security taking place in Rome from 17 to 19 January.

Green higher education institutions have combined forces to ensure that there is enough expertise in the exploration and implementation of a bio-based economy.

The opening of the Centre of Expertise Watertechnology brings together important players in water innovation - including tertiary institutions.

Companies dealing with plant upgrading and seed technology are incresingly seeing the value in employing interns and recent graduates.

'Splashing' spectacle at the opening on Wednesday 11 January

Students and staff of Van Hall Larenstein raise 9.999,90 euro for Serious Request in their own Glass House.

Seventeen enthousiastic students of VHL were present at the prestigious International Supply Chain Management congress in RAI Amsterdam.

All around the Netherlands schools, universities and companies are doing their own activities to support the 3FM Serious Request - and so are we!

Students of Equine, Leisure and Sports and Equine Business and Economics organised their own excursions to Germany.

Lecturer Jappie de Jong recently earned second place in the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society Education prize.

What do you get when you find a dog, a pony and a VHL student on the beach? A winning photo moment in the VHL Placement Photo Competition, that's what.

A Van Hall Larenstein delegation is in Serbia from 28 November to 1 December to officially kick-off activities around the EU Tempus project EDUECO.

Last week the International Placement Day took place in Wageningen, where students heard from other students what it is like to follow an internship abroad.

On Sunday November 20, Equine Talent Squad member Anne Hoogeboom debuted in ZZ-zwaar with a second place!

Regional Development and Innovation students have raised €1357,40 for three projects in Uganda and Kenya that they visited during their internship.

This year marks ten years of cooperation between Van Hall Larenstein and the Chinese Yunnan Agricultural University under the 2+2 study programme.

During the Fair Trade Event at the Forum building in Wageningen, the organising students won the prize for best Fairtrade@schools campaign.

Charlotte Kleinsmann, member of the Equine Talent Squad, wins silver medal in the Dutch National Championships.

VHL has started a 2+2 programme in India, in cooperation with the College of Agriculture Baramati.

During the national Fair Trade Week, taking place from 27 October to 6 November, students of VHL will also be organising their own activities.

Van Hall Larenstein's sister university Wageningen University (part Wageningen UR) has been ranked as the 75^th best university in the world Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.

The poetry works of 13 students from Rural Development and Communication (RDC) Masters programme will take pride of place in the lobby of ILEIA, an organisation that deals with sustainable small scale farming.

The weekend of 9 to 11 September was one of the busiest on the Dutch horse calendar, with the Hippiade, the Dutch Championships in Ermelo and the Horse Event in Deurne, organised by Academy Bartels.

Van Hall Larenstein developed a three day food course for animal carers, in association with the European EAZA Nutrition Group and the NVD voedingsgroep in the Netherlands.

Voltigeheren ('Lords of Equestrian Vaulting') and Van Hall Larenstein have presented a talentplan for guys who are aiming for the top in equestrian vaulting.

In Leeuwarden, some serious work is being done this summer in establishing the Centre of Expertise Watertechnology (CEW).

In summary, the academic year of 2010/11 has been extremely successful for the Equine Talent Squad.

The solar boat team of Van Hall Larenstein and AOC Friesland can look back on a succesful race in the Dutch Open Solar Boat Challenge.

Second-year student of Fair Trade Management Theadros Mellink has won the acknowledged Kaufmann entrepreneurial internship 2012 in the United States.

Dr. Inga Wolframm, head teacher of Equine, Leisure and Sports, did research together with two of her students on the way a dressage test is judged by a jurymember.

Anne Hoogenboom, member of the Van Hall Larenstein Equine Talent Squad, has become circuit champion in M2 dressage.

The Nuffic Neso offices organise pre-departure briefings for students leaving to take a Bachelor's, Master's or short course, or to study for a PhD in the Netherlands.

Seventeen second year students visited several countries in the Balkan as part of the 'Agribusiness in the Balkan' project.

Members of the Equine Talent Squad (a group of talented riders who study at Van Hall Larenstein) have had a successful couple of weeks.

Van Hall Larenstein hosts competition of the European Society of Dairy teachers.

Students of Van Hall Larenstein in Leeuwarden can do their work placement in Haiti next year. They will train the people who live there to use and maintain mobile watermakers.

The Holland Alumni conference 2011 will take place next week in The Hague.

From june 29 until july 2, 2011, the Dutch Open Solarboat Race will be held. The combined solar boat team of Van Hall Larenstein and AOC Friesland is taken up by the preparations and is finishing a brand new boat.

Once more, the Equine Talent Squad has shown what it is worth! A second place in the "National Schoolconcours" and a first place for one of the participants in the team where the results of the weekend.

Water is scarce in the slums of Kabul. VHL student Zia Karimi (26) in Leeuwarden wants to do something about it, by means of the Water for Tomorrow project. Wageningen UR is supporting his efforts.

Inga Wolframm, teacher of Equine, Leisure and Sports, has written a book for starting show jump riders. In 'Springreiten für Einsteiger' she covers all aspects of show jumping.

Dairy Campus, the new international knowledge institution for dairy farming, has taken off officially.

Members of the VHL Equine Talent Squad Hanneke Huijer and Anne Hoogenboom have both been performing exceptionally well at recent outings in the Dutch advanced dressage classes  Z2 and Sub-top ZZ-licht.

Chef d'Equipe Ingra Wolframm is presenting three new riders who will reinforce the VHL Equine Talent Squad.

The first ever 'Seafarm' in the Netherlands will start this spring. Former student of Coastal Zone Management Julia Wald will be conducting research there.

Joost Borgers, parttime student Land and Water Management at Van Hall Larenstein, received a first prize in the National Prize for Hydrolic Engineering 2010.

First year students of Fair Trade Management spent three days at the FA!R fair in Dortmund, Germany, last week. They assisted in the organisation, and did research on products made of sustainable cotton.

Charlotte Kleinsman, member of the VHL Equine Talent Squad was succesful last weekend in one of her first Combined Tests at L-level.

Fourth year student of Tropical Agriculture Loet Rammelsberg has won an entrepreneur work placement in the United States with his corporate idea IEF (Indian Edible Flowers).

The Netherlands has made it to the eight place of the 'world's best countries' in the Newsweek ranking.

Members of the Equine Talent Squad have been busy preparing for the regional finals at the end of July and mid-August.

Five third year students Food Technology are runners-up for this year's contest for bachelorstudents, organised by the Dutch Voedingscentrum (Foodcentre).

Senior lecturers  are offering a workshop in Macedonia on job market oriented curriculum development.

Talented riders studying at Van Hall Larenstein received a dressage-clinic by Grand Prix-rider and successful businessman Wayne Cannon.

Els van Lavieren, former student of Animal Management, received the prestigious 'Future for Nature Award' last week in Burger's Zoo in Arnhem.

Ready-made meals still leave a lot to be desired. This is the result of a consumer researchproject by two students of Food Technology in Leeuwarden.

Watertechnology teacher Leo Groendijk went to Haiti last week, to deliver the first load of eight mobile watermakers.

Van Hall Larenstein is holding a fund-raising amongst its staff and students to be able to send a number of mobile watermakers to Haiti.

Two students of the Yunnan Agricultural University (YAU) in Kunming, China, have won a study allowance of € 3,000 at Van Hall Larenstein.

Second-year student Regional Development and Innovation Liana Boogaars (23) has won a field visit to South Africa in the Urban Challenge competition by development-aid organisation Cordaid.

On Saturday, May 2nd, Jeroen Dekker, student Natuur en landschapstechniek discovered, together with Tamar Braaksma, an unusual beetle in the vicinity of Nijmegen.

75 students of Van Hall Larenstein and Hogeschool Drenthe will have the opportunity to take a thorough look behind the scenes in Hagen (Germany) of the International Riders' Festival Horses and Dreams.

Maggie Muurmans, a former student of Wildlife Management, received this year's prestigious Future for Nature Award, handed out to her by Sir David Attenborough.

Four students of Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Leeuwarden, won the GasTerra Transitie Jaarprijs 2009 public award.

Four students Bosbouw / Urban Forestry of Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein conducted a playful visitors' survey at the Staelduinse Bos near 's-Gravenzande.

Two students of Van Hall Larenstein have been invited to present their thesis at the International Equitation Science Conference in Dublin from 2-4 August.

Students of Coastal Zone Management won the public award 'Afsluitdijk van de toekomst' (Afsluitdijk of the Future) with their thesis.

Students and teachers of Van Hall Larenstein participated, together with AOC Friesland, in the Frisian Solar Challenge 2008. They won the Fair Play award.

Students of Van Hall Larenstein received awards this weekend for their theses at the Academic Student Promotion Award.

The symposium Sea in Sight took place in January 2008 at Van Hall Larenstein in Leeuwarden. It was organised by Coastal Zone Management students.