NOVI University Of Applied Sciences

Its roots go back to 1958 when the nonprofit foundation (stichting) Studiecentrum Administratieve Automatisering (SSAA) was established by several Dutch academics affiliated with the faculty of economics of the University of Amsterdam.

The university offers bachelors in several IT fields including business informatics, software development and cyber security.

[1] The roots of NOVI goes back to early 1958, when the American consulting agency John Diebold & Associates held a meeting at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky under the title "Course on Management for Automatic Data Processing".

[3] During its general meeting on July 5, 1958, the economics faculty of the University of Amsterdam decided to establish the aforementioned center.

This was the highest possible qualification in the field at the time of its creation and was considered the only Dutch automation training at HBO level.

[12] In 1969, under the auspices of the SSAA the report "Opleiding Informatica", compiled by representatives of the entire computer science community in the Netherlands, was published.

[note 3][14] In 1970 the SSAA changed its name to Stichting het Nederlands Studiecentrum voor Informatica (SSI) which, in 1971, established the Nederlands Opleidingsinstituut voor Informatica (NOVI) as the department specialized in education within the SSI but working autonomously under direction of Bert van 't Klooster.

The Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (ministry of internal affairs) interfered and appointed Frans Kordes to investigate the situation.