Ikigai is a Japanese term for ‘a reason for being’. The word ‘Ikigai’ usually refers to the source of value in one’s life or the things that make one’s life worthwhile. The word roughly translates to the ‘thing that you live for’ but it also… Read More

After Carlos Ghosn, the CEO who created an alliance between Nissan and Renault – that made it effectively the world’s largest carmaker – was arrested in Japan, the Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK produces a documentary. Europe correspondent Yasushi Kudo visits the Netherlands to find… Read More

After Carlos Ghosn, the CEO who created an alliance between Nissan and Renault – that made it effectively the world’s largest carmaker – was arrested in Japan, the Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK needs video footage from the apartment Ghosn is renting in the South… Read More

After the Dutch news satire television show host Arjen Lubach declared that nuclear energy would be an option to fight CO2 discharges in the Netherlands and the party leader of the liberal party Klaas Dijkhof proposed to build a new Dutch nuclear power plant, a… Read More

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

An American consultancy company published a report after researching the long term aviation strategy and competitive infrastructure of Switzerland. The consultancy company criticizes the Swiss government for not having a real long term aviation strategy. It mentions the very long term aviation strategy of The… 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

On Friday 31 August 2018 a 19-year-old Afghan refugee stabs two American tourists in the Amsterdam central train station. He was shot just nine seconds after he launched his attack, because he was already spotted by police. His lawyer believes the teenager had been acting… 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