The School Office comprises the following departments:

• Education Office

  The Education Office provides support to the school’s teaching programmes. This support concerns teaching and examination administration, student services, study advice, teaching logistics, official secretariat Examination Board, Admission Boards and Binding Study Advice Board, teaching quality assurance and ICT & teaching development and support.
  
  The Education Office consists of the head of the department and the following teams:
  •    Teaching Logistics and Teaching Administration
  •    Official Secretariat
  •    Teaching Policy and ICT & Teaching Support
  •    Assistants Student Affairs
  •    Study Advisors 

• Research Office

  The Research Office of the School of Social Sciences (SSC) is the primary point of contact for support on research related issues for its academic staff. The ambition of the research support office is to help its researchers effectively realize their research goals by creating a research environment in which high-quality research can thrive and its societal impact is maximized. Scientific integrity and the education of PhD candidates are an integral part of this environment.
  
  Activities

  • Providing advice and support in finding and acquiring research grants and other external funding opportunities; 
  • Providing advice and support on enhancing the (social) impact and dissemination of FSS research;
  • Supporting the work of the shool’s research institute ISR: Institute for Societal Resilience;
  • Supporting the school board member in charge of the research portfolio in establishing and implementing research and valorisation policy;
  • Acting as secretary of multiple school broad research-related committees.

  Team  
  The Research Office consists of a small team that operates as linking pin towards other Vrije Universiteit-wide departments (Finance & Control, HRM, Communications & Marketing, Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA), Grant Desk, IT), in order to ensure its academic staff the required level of research support.
  
  Rian van Rossum, Head of Research Office
  Rob Kloppenburg, Policy Officer Research
  Aijan Kunneman, Project Manager / Research Grants Advisor
  Aysen Şimsek, Project Management Advisor
  Mike Rose, Research Grants Advisor 
  Mona Wallraff, Research Grants Advisor
  Emily Barabas, Data & Privacy Steward
  
  Contact
  In case you have any questions regarding our research support office and/or your require any support for your research activities, please contact us directly via email researchoffice.fss@vu.nl.

  More information can be found here.

• Communication

  The Communication & Marketing (C&M) department consists of a team of communications professionals who can be deployed broadly. 

  Internal and external communication
  communicatie.fsg@vu.nl  

  Websites
  webredactie.fsw.mc@vu.nl

  Events
  evenementen.fsg@vu.nl

• Finance & Control

  The Finance & Control Department is responsible for managing the school's financial resources.
  
  The Financial Service Center takes care of the financial administration (including creditors and the debtors). 

  • servicedesk.fsc@vu.nl for communication with creditors (suppliers) of Vrije Universiteit.
  • debiteuren@vu.nl for communication with debtors (customers) of Vrije Universiteit. 

  Digital invoices (pdf) can be sent to: invoice@vu.nl

  For all questions and requests about finances, contact: servicedesk.fsc@vu.nl

  
  

  Managing finances (budgeting and reporting) of externally funded (grant)projects are executed by project control: projectcontrol.fsw@vu.nl.

  
  

  Managing finances (budgeting and reporting) of regular operations and internal projects are executed by business control: controller.fsw@vu.nl.

• HRM

  For more information please visit this page.