In the VU Educational Vision, VU Amsterdam describes the guiding principles for its education.
VU's Educational Vision was updated in mid-2021. This educational vision builds on the previous vision: it focuses on the core values of open, personal and responsible. The new vision adds a design principle on activating blended education: "Education is activating. This is achieved through innovative didactic working forms that activate students where we strive for an optimal integration of between physical and digital forms of education (personal)." The vision also focuses on the new themes from the VU strategy: sustainable and entrepreneurial. The elaboration of recurring themes such as academic citizenship, the university community and connection with society are unchanged. The vision is meant to inspire and give direction to VU education.