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The Student Housing Crisis in the Netherlands

With the beginning of each new academic year, the student housing crisis in the Netherlands reaches a tipping point. High demand, limited availability, and rising prices make finding suitable accommodations particularly challenging for students. Giulia Quaresima focuses on a creative solution: HospiHousing (home sharing).

A Perspective on Overcoming Burnout

If left unchecked, burnout can escalate, impacting mental health, physical well-being, and relationships. The authors, who are mental health professionals, highlight an actual case and describe interventions. They offer useful advice about how to improve cognitive health such as taking breaks every 90 minutes and...

Housing Survey – The Hague Region

Finding a home is getting more difficult in The Hague region. Affordable housing is under pressure. We want to make sure everyone can enjoy living in The Hague region: Dutch and international. In order to do so, we want to make sure The Hague region...

Dutch Spring Greens: All the right springredients

  Much like the weather, spring ingredients are greener, lighter and brighter. Dishes are simply made and devoured more quickly.   Spring stretches from March until June in the Netherlands, bringing with it new buds, new rains and new excitement for the balmy months ahead....

Taking the plunge

For many Dutch people, swimming comes as second nature. It’s a skill they learn at a young age, much like riding a bike, and is one they’ll never forget. But what if you didn’t learn to swim as a child? Perhaps more than in many...