Factors of Success – A Review of ACCESS 38 Years On

ACCESS turns 38 in 2024; August 11 to be specific. It is exciting to reflect on the fact that a volunteer-based, and run, organisation has managed to reach this age of maturity. Is it the formula, the people or the times, one wonders? Or is...

Dutch Business – Striving for balance

A fellow Canadian who works as a manager for an IT company with offices in Amsterdam warned that working with Dutch colleagues might be challenging. I could expect to spend my time negotiating every little change in plans and might find that colleagues expect to...

Dutch Manhattan

Almere is like an open-air museum of contemporary architecture, where visitors are spoiled with stunning visual lines and geometric forms at every corner.

Vacancy: Two Members of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation (Stichting) ACCESS

ACCESS, a not-for-profit Foundation (Stichting), one of the oldest support organisations for expats and internationals in the Netherlands, currently has two vacancies on the Supervisory Board. Are you the person we need to help take us into our next phase of development? Do you have...

The Undutchables: A survival kit for expats

Now in its 9th edition, The Undutchables (Publisher, year): an observation of the Netherlands, its culture and its inhabitants was first published back in 1989, and since then it has effortlessly claimed its spot as a bestseller that captures the essence of the contemporary Dutch...