For a course about freedom of speech, access to information and journalist’s security, l’École supérieure de journalisme de Lille needs two interviews in The Hague. One interview is with Hélène Tigroudja member of the Human Rights Council which plays a central role in promoting and… Read More

The European Football Championships in 2020 will be organised in different European cities and Amsterdam will be one of them. In the Johan Cruyff Arena four of the Euro 2020 football matches will be played. The BBC Sport executive producer, production manager and operations executive… Read More

‘Anne Frank is one of the most famous authors and diarists the world has ever seen.’ For the children’s news programme Newsround the BBC Children’s department is producing a documentary that ‘tells the story of a little girl who without knowing changed the world’. The… Read More

In the face of the desertification of the seabed, World Wildlife Fund, the Wageningen Marine Research Centre and other parties are trying to return flat oysters on artificial 3D printed oyster banks in the North Sea. These molluscs would help strengthen the seabed and bring… Read More

The Jumbulance Trust is a British accessible travel charity that exists to make travel possible for adults and children who are disabled or have a serious or complex health condition. They offer groups and individuals the opportunity to take holidays, short breaks or a day… Read More

In the Netherlands there are six million more bicycles than inhabitants. Nevertheless, many cars clog the densely populated cities. As the problem is likely to worsen over the coming years, the Dutch government now wants employers to pay their employees a kilometre allowance if they… Read More

Reporter Mina Mitsui-Ikuma from the Japanese newspaper Shankei Shimbun visits the Netherlands for an article about euthanasia and dementia. She visits a Dutch couple for an interview about a family member that got euthanasia because he did not want to go through the dementia decaying… Read More

To fight extreme housing nuisance a Skaeve Huse (Strange Houses) complex, a concept originally developed in Denmark, was built in Rotterdam. The tiny houses are intended for people that cause too much residential nuisance. It is the last resort when no other approach to fight… Read More

The craft of being a Dutch miller has been added to a Unesco cultural heritage list because of the skills involved and the key role millers have in transmitting cultural history. Unesco also points out that the Netherlands has implemented various measures to safeguard the… Read More

The number of foreign and domestic tourists in the Netherlands rose above 42 million in 2017, an increase of 9% and the sharpest growth rate since 2006, the national statistics office CBS reported earlier this month. The figures are based on overnight stays but do… Read More

A Dutch supermarket chain has launched ‘the world’s first plastic free supermarket’ and the Plastic Whale offers boat tours to fish plastic out of the Amsterdam channels. Ekoplaza, a Dutch organic supermarket chain, opened its ‘Ekoplaza Lab’ just off a major shopping street in the… Read More

Buurtzorg (Neighbourhood care) is a Dutch pioneering healthcare organisation established 10 years ago with a nurse-led model of holistic care that revolutionised community care in the Netherlands. Client satisfaction rates are the highest of any health care organisation, staff commitment and contentedness is reflected in… Read More