Haven: room to breathe, space to grow

Your registration time determines your position on the candidate list, not the moment you respond. In addition, a number of groups are given priority for certain housing types: for example, starters for rooms and master and PHD/PDEng students for studios and apartments. So the email you receive stating your position on the candidate list is not yet your final position on the list.

The advertisement goes live on rooms.vestide.nl. You need an account for rooms.vestide.nl. If you don't have it yet, you can create it for free. Make sure your details in your account are up to date. After responding you can no longer change this.

We only have 1 advertisement for all property types. If you click on the respond now button you will have to complete a survey. After this your response is final.

You can only respond to the advertisement once. The advertisement closes on May 2 at 11:59 PM. After that you can no longer respond.

If you are going to study on the TUe campus this or next academic year, you are eligible. Bachelor, Master, PHD and PDEng students are eligible for a home in Haven.

You are only eligible for housing in Haven if your studies are on the TU/e campus (Fontys Nexus). If you are going to study, you must be able to prove that you are registered for the coming academic year '24-'25. For Fontys students this concerns the following studies:

Fontys Engineering (Eng)

o BSc Applied Mathematics (English)

o BSc Automotive Engineering (English)

o BSc Electrical & Electronic Engineering (English)

o BSc Mechanical Engineering (English)

o BSc Mechatronics (English)

o BSc Automotive (Dutch)

o BSc Electrical Engineering (Dutch)

o BSc Mechatronics (Dutch)

o BSc Applied Mathematics (Dutch)

o BSc Mechanical Engineering

o MSc Digital Technology Engineering (DTE)

o MSc System Design

Fontys Applied Natural Sciences (TNW)

o BSc Applied Science (Dutch)

o BSc Applied Physics (Dutch)
Fontys Business Administration, Education and Technology (BEnT)

o BSc Industrial Engineering & Management (English)

o BSc Industrial Engineering and Management (Dutch)

1st year students (starters) get priority on 50% of the rooms in the group homes. For the other housing types (studios and apartments) this does not apply.

In a group home, you have your own room and share a common area with 4, 6 or 8 roommates. All information about group homes can be found here.

In a studio, you have a space to yourself with your own kitchen and bathroom.

In an apartment, you can only live with someone else. At least one of you must be a full-time student at the TU/e Campus.

The selected property type cannot be changed after responding to the advertisement. You are only eligible for the housing type you have chosen.

No, this is not necessary. The person with the longest registration time must respond. Or the person who belongs to a priority group (starter, PhD or PDeng). The survey asks who you want to live with.

We want as many of the same type of residents as possible to live together to build a community. On the matching evening you choose your room and therefore also your roommates. That is why groups are put together per matching evening based on your stated preferences when responding to the advertisement and based on the names of friends you want to live with.

Please note that whether a room is for an international or non-international, and whether a starter is given priority in certain rooms, has already been assigned to the room before the matching evening. This means that you may not be able to live in a group home with your 5 friends of choice.

1.     You respond to the ad on rooms.vestide.com, indicating the type of housing you want to live in.  

2.     Do you qualify for housing in Haven based on your response and the allocation requirements? Then you will receive an e-mail from us. This states:  

a.    Confirmation that you qualify for a home. 

b.    That you will receive an e-mail from us with a request for the delivery of documents. You deliver these documents by responding to the e-mail.

Are you a student at Eindhoven University of Technology? Then you supply the Confirmation Statement. Are you a student at Fontys Hogescholen? Then submit the Admission Letter.  

Send your documents to us on time. These documents make your registration final. If you fail to do so, your position on the list will expire. The deadline by which you must deliver the documents is stated in the e-mail stating that you are eligible for housing.

You will receive priority if you fall under one of these groups in academic years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. 

Eligible candidates + candidates on the reserve list will receive an email in the week of May 6 with the request to provide documents. This email tells you which documents you need to provide. On Register - Vestide you can see which documents are involved. Make sure you have already collected these documents, because you only have 1 working day to submit your documents. 

Spam folder 

Put the email address rental@vestide.nl in your safe senders list, so that our email does not end up in your spam folder. 

If you want to rent a home at Vestide, we will check whether you meet the conditions. We check: 

• Whether you study full-time in Eindhoven and on the TU/e campus as a bachelor, master, PhD or PDeng.  

• Whether you are correct that you belong to the target group you have indicated (starter/international/type of study) 

• Whether your travel time bonus is correct. We check this by checking your address at the time you responded to the accommodation. 

We look at where you are registered at the time of responding. The address on your Vestide registration must be the same as the registration with the municipality. If this does not match, the home cannot be assigned to you.  

So if you are registered in the municipality of Eindhoven, you must also enter your Eindhoven address when you respond to a property advertisement. 

To determine whether you belong to the international group, we do not look at your home address, but where you followed and completed your preliminary education. The definition of an international student is someone who completed their preliminary education outside the Netherlands. 

We write to more candidates than we have accommodations, because there is always a chance that candidates will drop out.  

You have received an email from us stating that you are on the reserve list. We do ask you to provide documents. If you do not do this, you will lose your position on the candidate list.  

If there is a dropout, we will check the first candidate on the reserve list. If it is your turn and your documents have been approved, you will receive a message from us and an invitation to one of the Matching evenings.  

So keep an eye on your email in the near future! You don't have to send us an email to ask if we know more, we will let you know when it is your turn. 

When you sent your documents you received an automatic reply. This shows that we have received your email. We will be writing to hundreds of candidates to provide their documents. We are working very hard to respond to everyone as quickly as possible, but we will certainly be working on this until May 23. 

Congratulations! This means that you will be invited to a Matching Evening where you can choose your final home. You will soon receive an invitation by email. 

Unfortunately, we currently do not have a home available for you in Haven. If we have run out of the reserve list, we may still contact you. But the chance that you will still qualify for a home in Haven is small. In the future, accommodations may become available again in Haven if the first residents decide to move. These accommodations are published on rooms.vestide.nl. 

At the matching event you get to know your future neighbors and/or roommates and choose your student room, studio or apartment (based on your registration).

The goal is for you to find a nice group to become neighbors or roommates with. Your answers to the questionnaire when you register via the advertisement are used as a starting point for the matching process.

Everyone who comes to a matching event gets a place to live!

Yes, to be assigned a property you must attend the matching event. Do you not live in the Netherlands yet? Then you participate in an online matching event.

There is no opportunity to view the living space, but there are videos showing the living spaces. Measuring the living space is also not possible, all living spaces are already floored.

We agree on a campus contract. That means you can continue to live in your room/studio/apartment for the time you are studying full-time on the TUe campus.

You can find the rental price and maximum service costs on the pages about the housing types. For group homes, studios, apartments.

You can apply for rent allowance if your rent does not exceed € 879.66 (price level 2024). Your income is also taken into account. Are you between 18 and 23 years old? Then your rent may not exceed € 454.47.

PLEASE NOTE: housing allowance is not only based on the rent. Your personal situation also plays a role in this. Visit https://www.government.nl/topics/housing/rented-housing/applying-for-housing-benefit  for more information. Here you can also make a test calculation.

If you are under 23 years old, different rent allowance limits apply than if you are over 23 years old. To ensure that the rent is appropriate so that it is possible to apply for housing allowance, we temporarily reduce the basic rent. When you turn 23, we will adjust the rent back to the normal rent. You will then still have the option to receive housing allowance. We only do this at the studios. 

We use September 1, 2024 as the reference date to calculate your age for this. 

Only after all matching events have taken place we can start making the rental agreements. We expect to start in July. 

You will receive your rental agreement before you get the key. Check it carefully, and return it signed by the specified deadline. Your lease will take effect on the move-in date.

The date of the time slot you choose to move in will also be the start date of your rental agreement. There are limited places available per day. The time slots will be made available after all matching events have taken place. 

You return the signed version of your rental agreement. You have received an attachment explaining how to add your signature to a PDF document. You can also return the completed form to indicate which form of payment you want to use (digital acceptance mail or direct debit). 

We cannot offer a solution for the interim period.

Residents of Haven rent the accommodation with a campus contract. This means that you do not have a fixed end date in your contract. You can continue to live as long as you are still studying full-time or are a PhD/PDeng at the TUe campus. When you have finished studying or are no longer a PhD/PDeng, you must leave the accommodation. 

No, apartments are only allowed for 2 people. You may live alone in a studio or room. 

Please make sure that at least one of you is studying or will be studying full-time on the TUe campus or is a PhD or PDeng (first tenant). The second resident must follow a full-time study in the Netherlands. For PhD students and PDeng: The second resident may also be a legal partner (a marriage or registered partnership recognized in the Netherlands and registered in the BRP). 

When the first tenant moves and the second tenant is not studying on the TU/e campus, the second tenant must also leave the apartment. Takeover of the contract is not possible by the second tenant if the second tenant's study is not located on the TU/e campus. 

No, it's an open space. There is a partial partition, but the space cannot be completely closed off. The apartments have a dividing wall between the living room and the bedroom. The furnished apartments have a double bed. 

No, that is not allowed. Only the apartments are for 2 people. 

During the matching events, the residents choose a room themselves and with whom they will live together. This allows residential groups to be created where both men and women live. 

The exact date when you will get the key and start moving will become clear later in the process. You will be given a time slot when you can move in, we will be on site and you can reserve moving materials from us such as roll cages and blankets.

You pick up your key at 'The Hangout' during your time slot. You will find The Hangout in the low-rise building (Terra). You can read more about this in the newsletter.

You can enter the house straight away and you don't have to do any DIY. It is not allowed to paint the concrete walls in the accommodation. A picture skirting board has been installed to hang something on the wall. Drilling into the walls yourself to hang something is not permitted. 

There is an internet connection in your own accommodation. 

Every tenant receives the same package for €17.28 per month. For example, you cannot choose just the internet. The package is also included in the service charge statement every year. 

A lot: including a bed, desk, cupboard, sofa, table and chair. To see everything you get in a furnished room: view the complete list on the group home, studio and apartment page. 

There is no connection for your own washing machine in the different types of homes. You can do your laundry in the shared washing machines and dryers in Castor (first floor) and Pollux (ground floor). This is for a small fee per wash. 

There is underfloor heating. There is also a radiator (electric design radiator) in the bathroom. You pay a monthly advance for energy costs. This is part of the service costs that you pay monthly.