Science Park Amsterdam is a science park

Science park

A research park, science park, or science and technology park is an area with a collection of buildings dedicated to scientific research on a business footing. There are many approximate synonyms for "science park", including research park, technology park, technopolis and biomedical park...

 in stadsdeel

Stadsdeel

A stadsdeel is the name used for city districts in some of the larger municipalities of the Netherlands.Amsterdam calls 7 of its 8 deelgemeenten stadsdeel...

Oost/Watergraafsmeer

Oost/Watergraafsmeer

Oost-Watergraafsmeer is a stadsdeel of Amsterdam. It borders to Diemen, Duivendrecht, and the boroughs Amsterdam-Centrum, Oud-Zuid, Zeeburg, and Zuideramstel. The Watergraafsmeer part of the borough is a polder.Located in Oost/Watergraafsmeer:...

 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, The Netherlands, with accommodations for science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 and business

Business

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 and housing

House

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. Science Park Amsterdam focusses on IT and life sciences. Among the knowledge-based institutions present at the science park there are the University of Amsterdam

Universiteit van Amsterdam

The University of Amsterdam or the UvA is a public research university located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1632 as the Athenaeum Illustre by the scholars Gerardus Vossius and Caspar Barlaeus, it is the third-oldest university in the Netherlands...

, several research institute

Research institute

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s, and related companies. Two of the colocations

Colocation centre

A colocation centre or colocation center , is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers...

 of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange

Amsterdam Internet Exchange

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 are at the institutes SARA

Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam

Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam is a Dutch foundation that provides supercomputers, colocation, networks and high-end visualisation to academic institutions...

 and NIKHEF

NIKHEF

NIKHEF is an acronym for Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energiefysica . Nowadays this acronym is not used anymore and the name is changed to Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica...

 at the science park. The area is 70 hectares.
In 2009, the railway station Amsterdam Science Park

Amsterdam Science Park railway station

Amsterdam Science Park is a railway station, in east Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The station lies on the Amsterdam–Zutphen railway between Amsterdam Muiderpoort and Diemen. The station is to serve the Science Park Amsterdam and the Watergraafsmeer area of Amsterdam...

 was opened by mayor Job Cohen

Job Cohen

Marius Job Cohen is a Dutch social democratic politician and former legal scholar of Jewish background. Since 2010 he has been the leader of the Labour Party and since June 17, 2010 he has been a member of the House of Representatives, where he also is the Parliamentary group leader of the Labour...

.

Science and business

• Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
  AMOLF
  AMOLF, also known by its full name as FOM Institute AMOLF is one of the three research institutes operated by the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, also known as FOM. The institute is one of the leading research institute in Europe in the field of physics and biological physics...
  
   (AMOLF)
• Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
• Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (FNWI)
  • AMSTEL Institute (AMSTEL)
  • Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek (API)
  • Informatics Institute (IvI)
  • Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
  • Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
• National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics
  NIKHEF
  NIKHEF is an acronym for Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energiefysica . Nowadays this acronym is not used anymore and the name is changed to Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica...
  
   (NIKHEF)
• Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam
  Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam
  Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam is a Dutch foundation that provides supercomputers, colocation, networks and high-end visualisation to academic institutions...
  
  (SARA)
• 90 companies in the fields of ICT, Life Sciences and related fields

Housing

On the science park 314 residendes and 721 student units are completed. An additional 423 residences and 617 student units are planned.

Leisure

• Temporary café-restaurant 'Polder' (permanent hospitality business in historical farm Anna Hoeve)
• University Sports Centre (official opening October 8, 2010)

External links

• Science Park Amsterdam
• Science Park Amsterdam