Legal affairs & lawyer support

Hereunder an overview of the lawyers who work at different departments of the UT. The lawyers support the Executive Board, faculties, institutes and service departments of the UT on divergent fields of law.

PRIVACY / DATA PROTECTION

  • Concerned with the protection of personal data within UT, both advisory and informative.
  • Advising on processor agreements, data sharing and joint controller agreements.
  •  Other questions raised within UT regarding personal data, both in research and business operations.
  • Other ‘general’ activities include registering and sometimes reporting data breaches and assisting with DPIAs. 

For questions, please use the general mail address: dpo@utwente.nl

A.L. (Annika) van der Putten – Privacy Officer
a.l.vanderputten@utwente.nl
+31 53 489 6890
+31 641591142

W.J. (Willem Jan) Bos – Data Protection Officer
w.j.bos@utwente.nl
+31 53 489 1396

IT CONTRACTING

  • Our team negotiates with vendors, gives advice and judge agreements, such as EULA’s, SAAS and service level agreements.
  • The content of these contracts is fine-tuned to meet the specific needs of our academic community, while ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations and standards.
  •  IT contract management: We strive for maximum utilization of agreed contracts. We monitor and enforce compliance with vendor performance, contractual terms and deadlines. IT contracting provides internal clients with expert advice on legal IT issues and entering into contractual obligations. With knowledge of both technical and legal facets, we ensure UT is compliant and optimally equipped to continue its academic mission.

For questions, please use the general mail address: contractmanagement-lisa@utwente.nl

N.B.G. (Niels) Bouwhuis – Team Lead IT Contracting, Licensing and Vendor Risk Management
n.b.g.bouwhuis@utwente.nl
+31 53 489 7760

L. (Luuk) Wennink – Contractmanager LISA
l.wennink@utwente.nl
+31 53 489 7712

STRATEGY & POLICY

Education law: 

  • Legal advice on education-related laws, strategies and policies. (e.g. regarding: quality assurance, flexibilization, examination and assessment, collaboration and -contracts, public/private means, Life Long Learning, governance, Dutch Inspectorate trajectories, etc.)
  • (Legal) policy development and improvement. (e.g. guidelines, frameworks, procedures, such as: education & examination regulations, framework for assessment policy, Guiding Principles for MSc courses in BSc, procedure for Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure in Research, etc.)

 For questions please contact the SP Legal Team via Hèla van Rijssen – h.vanrijssen@utwente.nl

 J. (Jessica) Greven LLB – leads the Legal Team of Strategy & Policy
jessica.greven@utwente.nl
+31 53 489 2403

STAFF LAWYER

  • Education law: interpretation of the Higher Education and Academic Research Act, advise about education and examination regulations
  • Administrative law

mr. H.W.H.M. (Erna) van der Zandt
h.w.h.m.vanderzandt@utwente.nl
+31 53 489 2010

IN-HOUSE LEGAL COUNSEL TEAM

  • Contract law: draft and review research driven agreements, such as confidentiality agreements, research agreements, consortium agreements and IP agreements
  • Intellectual Property Rights: advise regarding intellectual property rights

For questions for the in-house legal team, please use our general mail address: researchlawyer@utwente.nl

mr. P.G.C. (Peter) van Roosmalen – Coordinator In-House Legal Counsel team
p.g.c.vanroosmalen@utwente.nl
+31 6 12 18 57 73

mr. F. (Frank) Groot
f.groot@utwente.nl
+31 6 20 44 04 12

H.B (Hidde) Eidhof
h.b.eidhof@utwente.nl
+31 6 28 37 19 87

mr. W.S (Wesley) Soyo
w.s.soyo@utwente.nl
+31 6 18 70 08 62

M. (Marlou) Elferink
m.elferink-2@utwente.nl  
+31 6 41 00 48 22

S. (Sara) Kangus LLM
s.kangus@utwente.nl
+31 6 43 79 23 21

HR-RELATED QUESTIONS

For HR-related questions, please contact the HR Advisor of your faculty or service department.

COPY RIGHT ISSUES

For questions related to copyright issues, please contact the Copyright Information Point (cip@utwente.nl)

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