School of Sports and Nutrition

Do you have a study background in physical education, sport management, or nutrition? Are you interested in the Netherlands, especially in Amsterdam? Then this is the place to be.

Studying at ‘The School of Sports and Nutrition’ means studying in an active, enthusiastic, informal and challenging environment. Not so strange, since it provides the three educational programs Physical Education, Sports Management and Nutrition. Everywhere you look, you will see students practicing choreographies, training in the gyms, cooking, and discussing their projects. Nowaday Sports, Nutrition and Management are combined all over the world, in a variety of ways. The School of Sports and Nutrition is standing in the middle of the present society. It constantly anticipates on the developments in the field of profession by, for example, setting up the interdisciplinary and international minor ‘Health and Active Lifestyle’. It also correlates with a foundation of sixteen primary schools, with a total of six thousand pupils, and its interdisciplinary research groups work together with the Medical Centre of VU University to fight obesity among children and to promote an active lifestyle.

Interested? Take a closer look at this website to see what it has to offer.

The building at the Dr. Meurerlaan, which holds The School of Sports and Nutrition is a building you can hardly miss. It’s a very characteristic, modern building, which tries to connect the school and its activities with its surroundings in a variety of ways. The roof of grass makes the building dissolve in the surrounding sport fields, and the use of a great amount of glass gives people walking by the possibility to take a quick glance at all the activities inside.

For the architect – Wouter Zaaijer of ‘Van den Oever, Zaaijer & Partners’ – the main objective was to unite all the different activities of this department in a dynamic, light and functional building. And he has done his job well. This building brings together classrooms, study islands, sports halls, sport fields, and a gym, without getting impersonal.