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Wageningen University is a part of Wageningen UR (Wageningen University & Research centre) .


History of Wageningen UR

2008

Wageningen UR: CIDC-Lelystad and the Infectious Animal Sciences Group join together to form the Central Veterenary Institute

2006

Wageningen UR: RIVO, in cooperation with parts of Alterra and the Department of Ecological Risks of TNO, establishes Wageningen IMARES

2005

Wageningen UR: IAC, the North-South Centre and the 'Eurpadesk' merge to become Wageningen International

2004

Wageningen UR: Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences becomes part of Wageningen UR

2003 Wageningen UR: PHLO merges with Wageningen Business School VHL: Van Hall and Larenstein colleges join forces within Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
2002 Wageningen UR: CIDC-Lelystad is established
2001 Wageningen UR: PPO, IAC, PV, ILRI and ISRIC become a part of Wageningen UR
2000 Wageningen UR: Alterra and PRI are established within Wageningen UR
1998 Wageningen UR: Official launch of Wageningen UR, following a staff merger. The Agricultural University officially becomes Wageningen University.
1997 Wageningen UR: The formation of Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR) begins; the Agricultural university merges with the DLO Research Institutes and the Institutes for Applied Research
1988 VHL: The Forestry and Cultivation Technology College (Velp), Tropical Agricultural College (Deventer) and HAS Wageningen merge to become the International Agrarian University of Professional Education Larenstein
1986 Wageningen University: In accordance with amendmenst to the Academic Education Act, the Agricultural College is now called the Agricultural University
1976

DLO: Establishment of RIKILT, the National Quality Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Products. The result of a merger of the National Agriculture Testing Station in Maastricht and the National Dairy Station in Leiden

1971

DLO: Establishment of PHLO (now part of Wageningen Business School)

1968 Wageningen University: From now on the Agricultural College is subject to the same law that governs other universities: the academic Education Act
1956 Wageningen University: Post-war developments in education and research necessitate new legislation: the Agricultural College Statute
1951

DLO: Establishment of the International Agricultural Centre (IAC)

1940

DLO: Establishment of Agricultural Economics Institute (LEI)

1938

DLO: Establishment of the DLO Research Institutes

1936

DLO: Establishment of the Institute for Research and Processing of Fruit and Vegetables in Wageningen (now part of Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group)

1919

DLO: A forestry research station is established (now part of Alterra)

1918 Wageningen University: Wageningen's status as an institute of higher education is legally ratified, and it becomes the National Agricultural College on 9 March 1918
1912 VHL: Foundation of the State Middle Colonial Agricultural College in Deventer. In 1928 the name changes to the Tropical Agricultural College
1904 Wageningen University: Wageningen education has been developed to a higher level and the institution is now called the National Higher College of Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry VHL: Establishment of a Dairy Farming College in Bolsward. (the former Van Hall Insitute)
1903

DLO: Establishment of the National Dairy Station in Leiden, responsible for product monitoring, initially just butter, but later also cheese and other dairy products. In 1976 this became part of RIKILT

VHL: Establishment of a College of Forestry and Farming in Arnhem / Velp (the former Larenstein College)

1899

DLO: Botanical gardens are established at Westland and Boskoop (now part of PPO).
The government agricultural research station for seed inspection (part of current PRI) becomes a separate organisation

1898

DLO: Establishment of the National Agriculture Testing Station in Maastricht, responsible for agricultural research in the south east of the Netherlands. In 1976 this became part of RIKILT

1888

DLO: The National Institute for Fisheries Studies is set up in IJmuiden (now part of IMARES)

1877

DLO: Foundation of the first agricultural research station in Wageningen (predecessor to the current research institutes)

1876

Wageningen University: The state takes over the local council's Agricultural College in Wageningen: the start of National Agricultural Education in The Netherlands

  
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