‘All laureates are people who have worked tirelessly and with great passion for the UvA,’ says Verbeek. 'Their initiatives, ideas and solutions have had an enormous impact and have brought a lot to the UvA as an organisation. They have committed themselves to education and research, but also, for example, to valorisation and business operations. The Honorary Medallions they have been awarded show our great appreciation for their work.'

Nataša Brouwer-Zupančič, former skills teacher and TLC project manager at the Faculty of Science
Nataša Brouwer-Zupančič has devoted herself heart and soul to education, in particular to teacher professionalisation and educational innovation. In doing so, she has had a great influence on the quality of education at the UvA. Brouwer-Zupančič was the driving force behind the setting up and continuation of the university teaching qualification (UTQ) and senior teaching qualification (STQ) programmes at her faculty. She has been tireless in her support of teachers. She has taken on numerous tasks, including outside her faculty: UTQ trainer, head of the examination office, project leader or partner in national and international educational innovation projects, member of the ICTO programme council and member of SURF's Special Interest Group Blended Learning, among others. As an educational innovator and networker, she has been invaluable to the Faculty of Science and to the UvA as a whole.