Since 2017 the participation councils and the study programme committees are the legally settled formal participation bodies.
The rules regarding the participation councils are established in the Participation Regulations. The University of the Arts The Hague (HdK) has two faculty councils of representatives, one for the Royal Academy of Art (Academy Council) and one for the Royal Conservatoire (Conservatoire Council). The councils comprise representatives of staff and students. From both faculty councils the University Council is elected, which includes the chairs of the Academy Council and Conservatoire Council, supplemented by the chairperson of the School for Young Talent's participation council.
The regulations serve as a framework for communications between the Executive Board and the CMR and between the faculty directors and the faculty councils.
Academy Council KABK
DMR@kabk.nl
Hilde Barwegen (chair), NTS
Channa Boon TS
Jan van Beek NTS
Jonas Ohlsson TS
Cliff Vonk student
Duru Inal student
Yubin Jia student
Conservatoire Council
dmrkc@koncon.nl
Niels van Hoorn (secretary), TS
Miro Herak, TS
Roos Leeflang (vice-chair), NTS
Samuele Riva, NTS
Milda Orvidaité, student
Daan Soare, student
Lilyo Tsujimura-Fondecave, student
Bruno Pereira, student
University Council
CMR@hdkdenhaag.nl
Miro Herak (secretary), KC TS
Channa Boon, KABK TS
Roos Leeflang (chair), KC NTS
Hilde Barwegen, KABK NTS
Milda Orvidaité, KC student
Daan Soare, KC student
Cliff Vonk (vice-chair), KABK student
Arjen van Meijgaard, TS/SvJT
TS = teaching staff
NTS = non-teaching staff
The committee’s remit is to advise on the promotion and safeguarding of the quality of the programme. The Act states that the study programme committee has the following tasks:
- to issue advice on the Education and Examination Regulations and to consent to the parts of the Education and Examination Regulations regarding which the faculty council has no right to consent, before the faculty director finalizes the regulations;
- to make an annual assessment of the application of the Education and Examination Regulations;
- to provide solicited and unsolicited advice about all other matters pertaining to the education.
Study Programme Committee KABK
contact: l.walcott@kabk.nl
Lisa Walcott, secretary
Members 2025-2026
Cecilia Bengtsson, (chair) teacher BA Fine Arts
Augusta Orlauskaitė, student MA Interior Architecture
Cecilia Tauber, student BA Interior Architecture & Furniture Design
Ingrid Costan, student BA Interactive/Media/Design
Luis Maly, teacher Individual Study Track
Marit van der Meulen, coordinator/teacher BA Graphic Design
Nadia Marzouk, student MA Interior Architecture
Reina Hasbini, student MA Non Lineair Narrative
Rosa te Velde, teacher MA Industrial Design
Sanne Beeren, teacher Individual Study Track
Thana Faroq, teacher BA Photography/MA Photography & Society
Study Programme Committee KC
OC@koncon.nl
Mirjam van den Broek, secretary
Aart Strootman (chair), teacher Theory
Felix Schlarmann (dep-chair), teacher Jazz
Matthijs Giesberts, teacher Music Education
Johan van Kreij, teacher Sonology
Liesbeth Steffens, teacher Classical Music
Vidya Chagan, student Ma ArtScience
Noor van Keulen, student BA Sonologie
Thijmen Krijgsman, student BA Composition
Aaron de Lamotte, student BA Dance
Kris Ransijn, student BA Jazz