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Requesting or changing a VU card

Last updated on 22 September 2021
VU Amsterdam is an open institution; all our buildings are open to the public. Some floors or rooms can only be accessed with a VU card (staff only). VU Amsterdam staff members receive a VU card during the onboarding process.

We aim to have the card ready for the staff member on their first working day. The card provides access to the general rooms of the relevant department or unit. A VU card also provides access to the bicycle parking area, copying facilities and coffee machines. You can easily apply for additional access rights if required. 

When you no longer require your card, you can return it to your secretarial department or to Corporate Real Estate and Facilities/Access Management unit in the basement of the Main Building (HG-KC06).

This video explains how to apply for a VU card in the new system.

If your card is blocked because you have not used it for more than 30 days, you can read how to reactivate it under ‘Reactivating a VU card’.

VU card

  • Reactivating a VU card

    A VU card remains active for a maximum of 30 days, unless it has been used at an electronic reader within that time. The electronic readers can usually be found next to the entrance of a faculty or service department. If you have forgotten to reactivate your card and do not have access to a VU Amsterdam room, you can reactivate it at an electronic reader located at the entrance to a department. Electronic readers can also be found at various other central points in the buildings:

    • Transitorium entrance
    • MF building entrance
    • W&N building, 1081, entrance
    • W&N building, S-wing entrance
    • W&N building, C-wing entrance
    • 1085, reception
    • 1087, entrance
    • Bellevue building, both entrances
    • Metropolitan building, front and rear entrance and basement bicycle park
    • Main building next to the Security desk (KC06)

    Updating you card has other advantages besides security: any change to your access rights can be updated remotely, so if you are authorized to access a new area, your card will be updated remotely. To update your card, you only need to tap it on an electronic reader and you will be able to enter the new area.

  • Lost or damaged your VU card?

    If you have lost your card and need to retrieve something from your workplace, you can ask security for assistance.

  • Changing your VU card access rights

    Do you have a VUnet ID?

    And do you need access to particular rooms, at particular times, or do you require additional services? You can request changes to your VU card rights yourself through the Service Portal. The request will be processed once the person responsible for your unit has approved it. Additional access to rooms or areas of other faculties or service departments must be approved by the relevant faculty or service department. Requests will only be processed if they comply with VU Amsterdam’s authorization and security policy.

    No VUnet ID?

    Are you not employed by VU Amsterdam and/or not in possession of a VUnet ID? Please use the External Service Portal. 

  • Changing the access rights of Amsterdam UMC, VUmc location staff members and tenants

    A number of faculties and service departments have enabled self-authorization. This means that a designated person within the faculty or service department (often a secretary) can change the rights and update the card directly. Check with your own secretarial department whether this is the case in your faculty or service department. If so, please submit your change request (e.g. rights to use a coffee machine, access to the bicycle parking area, lactation room, rest room, showers, etc.) directly to the relevant person. You do not have to fill in a form. 

    Has your department not yet enabled self-authorization and you want to change the rights on your VU or VUmc card? Use the form ‘Changing the access rights of Amsterdam UMC, VUmc location staff members and tenants’. Your request will be processed by FCO Access Management unit after it has been approved by your own faculty or service department. You will receive a confirmation by email when this has been done. Opening hours Access Management: 09.00 - 16.00 hrs.