Netherlands

The majority of people in our collective and community are based in the Netherlands. We love to help organisations, institutes and communities in our own country navigate complexity. Examples of our work in the Netherlands can be found below.
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Community centres of Maastricht carve out their future

Community centres of Maastricht carve out their future

How do we deal with the fact that our boards keep getting older? How do we let the rules around commercial exploitation of community centres work for us? Which role does the municipality play in supporting community centres?  These were the questions that...

Looking for common ground at WPI

Looking for common ground at WPI

Werk, Participatie en Inkomen (Work, Participation and Income) has been reorganised into separate columns a few years back. Although this happened, common ground on the content of their work has not disappeared. That is why the management board has asked to look for...

Activating social policy in the Municipality of Amsterdam

Activating social policy in the Municipality of Amsterdam

Ok, so the policy has been written. But how do you add 'oomph' to it? How do you make sure that the enthusiasm felt by management and policymakers is that infectueus that it affects people in the workplace? And especially the other way around: how do you make...

Successfully Guiding Theories of Change in The Netherlands

Successfully Guiding Theories of Change in The Netherlands

The alliances of 'Samen Werkt Het' (Together It Works) and 'Iedere Patient is Anders' (Every Patient is Different) developed their Theories of Change facilitated by Hanne and Lisette and were awarded the highest quality scores of all...

Complexity workshop for Port of Amsterdam

Complexity workshop for Port of Amsterdam

The Port of Amsterdam is dealing with major complex issues of this time, such as the depletion of natural resources, environmental pollution and climate change. At the same time, logistics chains, trade networks and regional economic sectors are becoming...

Learning by telling stories about participation in Amsterdam

Learning by telling stories about participation in Amsterdam

As a follow-up to the multi-stakeholder lab 'Meedoen Werkt' (Participation Works) at the end of 2015, the whole stakeholder field came together again on the 12th of December 2016. The central question of the meeting was: "How do we strengthen and support each other on...

The Challenges of Young Researchers Groningen University

The Challenges of Young Researchers Groningen University

Young academic researchers at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen face fundamental challenges: how do I balance life and work? How do I find the funding for projects? How do I form a research group? 64 young researchers from all faculties accepted the invitation from...

Social Lab Debt Relief Amsterdam

Social Lab Debt Relief Amsterdam

"Can you facilitate a lab for improving debt relief services in Amsterdam? We already have a framework with ambitions and themes. Now we want to bring policy makers and practitioners together to design a development program including concrete first steps." This was...

Shaping team ambitions and action plans together

Shaping team ambitions and action plans together

"How do we realise an agile P&C team and how do we optimally contribute to strategic planning and control at Noorderpoort?" That is the central question for the Planning & Control (P&C) team of Noorderpoort, a large regional educational centre (ROC)...

How is it going with youth services in Maastricht?

How is it going with youth services in Maastricht?

How is it going with child social services since the decentralisations in the social domain and the introduction of the Tailored Education Act (Wet Passend Onderwijs)? The municipal council of Maastricht wants get a better grip on the effects these...

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