The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as VU Amsterdam) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
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