Nomination 2023 AYA Recognition and Rewards Award

Boender, Welmoet (Recipient)

Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic

Description

Much appreciated: the Amsterdam Young Academy (AYA) nominated me for their Academic Recognition & Reward Award 2023, category Academic Community Support.
This price is part of the efforts of academicians to bring into focus all the work that must be done to achieve excellent academic environment for teaching and research, often amidst many challenges. Thanks AYA!

Awarded date	7 Nov 2023
Degree of recognition	International

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On Tuesday, 7 November, the rectores of VU and UvA handed out the second AYA Recognition & Reward Awards during the inauguration of the new AYA cohort in the Hortus Botanicus. The awards are intended to reward VU and UvA academics who perform exceptionally in the fields of Teaching, Social impact or Academic Community Support. These are activities that often get insufficient recognition in academia, while they are vital for a well-functioning university. AYA would like to change this, not only by making a critical contribution to the debate on recognition and rewarding, but also by actively and directly contributing to this greater appreciation by means of these awards. AYA has received around 50 nominations, more or less equally distributed among both universities and spread across the different faculties. For many nominees, the nomination alone seems to have energized them and constituted a genuine peer recognition. Among the three sections (Teaching, Societal Impact, Academic Community Support), the category of “Academic community care” received the most nominations. Many nominations in this category highlight how the respective colleague acted generously and empathically in difficult situations, be it during the covid pandemic, during departmental restructurings or individually challenging times.