UvA Talen wins Website of the Year!

Last November, a couple of colleagues from the UvA Talen team attended the Splash Awards 2025 ceremony. The event took place in a beautiful theatre at the Railway Museum in Utrecht. Everything was done to make it an unforgettable evening: acrobats welcomed the guests, gifts were handed out, drinks were chilled, and at the end of the evening the ‘bitterballen’ were still deliciously crispy.

But more importantly, the team did not go home empty-handed! The UvA Talen website won the award for Best Website in the Education category and also took home the Website of the Year award. The cherry on top of a wonderful collaboration with multiple partners. As a team we are incredibly proud of this achievement.

Together with digital agency Synetic, design studio Henry Handsome, and marketing agency Gradient, we worked hard on the design of our new website, which went live on March 19. The main goal? A user-friendly website with a fresh look that appeals to our broad audience. And we succeeded! Whereas the old website mainly consisted of long blocks of text with little visual content, the Splash Awards jury praised “the clearly separated personal and business pages” of the current website.

During the design process, the UvA Talen team and the various partners looked closely at the questions most frequently asked by our students and identified the most logical user journey on the website. In addition, the team took part in several brainstorming sessions in which the UvA Talen brand was the main focus point. The website is now centred around the questions and needs of the students. The final result is a design that is fresh and colorful, yet still clear and easy to navigate.

We are very proud of this special achievement and would like to thank Synetic for all their hard work in developing our beautiful website, where functionality and design come together. With this festive news, we proudly and happily conclude the year. On to many exciting plans in the new year!