Public list of decisions week 28

Below you will find the list of decisions taken by the Executive Board in the week of 7 July 2025 (week 28).

1995th meeting on 7 July 2025

  1. Partnership Advisory Committee 
    The Executive Board decided to:
    1. Approve the proposal regarding the prioritisation of content;
    2. Approve the continuation of administrative support from the 
        Academic Affairs Division;
    3. Approve the continuation of the current remuneration for committee members;
    4. Approve the request for quotations from external parties;
    5. Extend the advisory committee’s mandate and the above-mentioned provisions until    
        30 July 2026.
  2. Contribution to Radboud Reflects
    The Executive Board decided to set the budget for Radboud Reflects for 2026 and beyond and inform the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies accordingly.

  3. Radboud Heritage Umbrella Organisation
    The Executive Board decided to:
    1. Approve the application to restructure the Radboud Heritage programme 
        to become the Radboud Heritage Umbrella Organisation;
    2. In this context, it would opt for the reduced funding of up to €300,000 a year on 
        reimbursement basis for the 2026-2030 period;
    3. Request the Finance & Control division, in consultation with the Faculty of Arts, to 
        examine which costs would follow in the transition period (July-December 2025) and to consider whether 
        those costs fitted within the existing budget.
    4. Review this restructuring by the end of 2026 by examining the lessons learned and that  
        which was required for the ensuing period.

  4. Selection methods for Bachelor’s degree programmes with a numerus fixus for the 2026-2027 academic year
    The Executive Board decided to:
    1. Adopt the selection methods in accordance with the recommendations for the Bachelor’s degree programmes with a numerus fixus, namely the 
        Dentistry, Psychology, Biomedical Sciences and Medicine programmes,  
        for the 2026-2027 academic year;
    2. Request the dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences to formulate a proposal    
        for increasing the numerus fixus for Biomedical Sciences and to 
        discuss this proposal with the Board before the end of August 2025;
    3. Refrain from imposing a numerus fixus for the Human Neuroscience study programme;
    4. Abolish the numerus fixus for the English-language Biology Bachelor’s degree programme, with effect from the 
        2026-2027 academic year.

  5. Faculty of Law Teaching and Research Remit
    The Executive Board decided to retroactively grant the ‘Company Law’ teaching and research remit to M.P. Nieuwe Weme, LLM, for a period of three years, with effect from 1 July 2025.

  6. Faculty of Medical Sciences Teaching and Research Remit
    The Executive Board decided to grant Dr I.M.E. Desar the ‘Innovative Sarcoma Care’ teaching and research remit for a period of five years, with effect from 1 August 2025.

  7. Faculty of Medical Sciences Teaching and Research Remit
    The Executive Board decided to grant Dr A.G. van der Heijden the ‘Urological Oncology’ teaching and research remit for a period of five years, with effect from 1 August 2025.

  8. Faculty of Medical Sciences Teaching and Research Remit
    The Executive Board decided to grant Dr H.J. Huisman the ‘Artificial intelligence Guided Imaging’ teaching and research remit for a period of five years, with effect from 1 August 2025.

  9. Faculty of Arts Teaching and Research Remit
    The Executive Board decided to grant Dr M. Dingemanse the ‘Artificial intelligence: Language Diversity and Communication Technologies’ teaching and research remit for an indefinite period, with effect from 1 September 2025.

  10. Reorganisation committee 
    - In the interest of staff members, the Executive Board aimed to provide clarity in due time and it would organise this with the participational bodies. To this end, the Board requested that frequent meetings be organised with the reorganisation committee in order to maintain progress; the Board was also willing to provide the full compensation requested for this purpose.   
    - The Board hoped to review the time commitment for this in Q1 of 2026 and would conduct a brief evaluation of the process, intensity and cost in Q2.
    - The Board requested that the content of the discussions also be shared with the deans and the Radboud Services Director. 

  11. Academic calendar for the 2026-2027 academic year
    The Executive Board decided to adopt the academic calendar for the 2026-2027 academic year.

  12. Amendments to the Treasury Statute
    The Executive Board adopted the amended version of the Treasury Statute and submitted this to the Supervisory Board for approval.

  13. Reappointment of vice dean
    The Executive Board decided to extend the appointment of Prof. T.M. Heskes as vice dean of the Faculty of Science for a period of two years, with effect from 1 September 2025.

  14. Reappointment of vice dean
    The Executive Board decided to extend the appointment of Prof. L.A.M.P. van Niftrik as vice dean of the Faculty of Science for a period of two years, with effect from 1 October 2025.

  15. Extension of Faculty of Law Teaching and Research Remit
    The Executive Board decided that Prof. B. Snijder-Kuipers’s ‘Corporate Compliance and Anti-money Laundering’ teaching and research remit would be extended for a period of six months, with retroactive effect until 1 January 2026.
     
  16. Extension of Faculty of Medical Sciences Teaching and Research Remit
    The Executive Board decided that Prof. M. Boenink’s ‘Ethics in Healthcare’ teaching and research remit, which was due to end on 1 August 2025, would be extended for a period of five year

Contact information

If you have any questions about this list, please contact the secretary of the Executive Board at dorine.gebbink [at] ru.nl (dorine[dot]gebbink[at]ru[dot]nl).