Amsterdam Science Park

Amsterdam Science Park is a science park in the Oost city district of Amsterdam, Netherlands with foci on physics, mathematics, information technology and the life sciences. The 70 hectare (175 acre) park provides accommodations for science, business and housing. Resident groups include institutes of the natural science faculties of the University of Amsterdam, several research institutes, and related companies. Three of the colocations of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange are at the institutes SURFsara, NIKHEF, and Equinix-AM3 at the science park.

Amsterdam Science Park railway station

In 2009, the Amsterdam Science Park railway station was opened then-mayor Job Cohen.

Science and business
AMOLF at the Science Park

Housing

At the science park, 314 residences and 721 student units have been completed. An additional 423 residences and 617 student units are planned. [1]

Leisure
  • Café-restaurant 'Polder' (temporary location adjacent to the historical Anna Hoeve farm)
  • University Sports Centre 'Universum' (official opening October 8, 2010)[2]
  • Sports Café 'Oerknal'
  • Meet & Eat Restaurant
  • Café Maslow
  • Ann's Farm
gollark: Do you have curl?
gollark: Probably.
gollark: Did you install… I think base-devel or something for Ubuntu?
gollark: It sounds like your git install is broken.
gollark: You could probably use something from https://www.sbert.net/ run locally, if you want. It probably won't be as "smart", but way more lightweight.

References
  1. Living at Science Park Amsterdam Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine ; retrieved November 30, 2006 &
  2. http://www.usc.uva.nl/ June 2010


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