Science Park Amsterdam

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Science Park Amsterdam is a science park in stadsdeel Oost/Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam, with accommodations for science and business, and in the near future also for housing and for recreation. Among the knowledge-based institutions present at the science park there are the University of Amsterdam, several research institutes, and related companies. Two of the colocations of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange are at the institutes SARA and NIKHEF at the science park.

[edit] Science and business

Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF)
National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (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)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF)
Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (SARA)

[edit] Housing

On the science park 500 homes, 575 student housing units and an additional 90 accommodations for guests are planned. The first houses are ready towards the end of 2006.^[1]