“dare to share”
in Amsterdam 7.-11. November 2003
We dared to share and we had fun!
Thanks again to Bella van der Linden, who initiated our meeting.
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The many different cultural influences are
certainly worth a visit in Amsterdam!
Amsterdam is known for tulips, cheese, drugs
& sex & ? but do you know there is a shop
where they manufacture home made pralines
after an old Australian recipe? I had to try
from all the different types of chocolates! We
laughed about the statistics of “ 24 days of
rain” in November in the Netherlands: for us
the sun was shining!
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On Friday afternoon the three of
us, Bella van der Linden, Katy
Nicholson and Sabine Wagner, we
visited the “Ministerie van Sociale
Zaken en Werkgelegenheid” in Den
Haag. Drs. Stanley A.
Ramkhelawan gave us a very
interesting presentation about
ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
and the objectives of the Dutch
Government to improve the
situation.
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Have you ever thought about “the definition” of an ethnic minority? I guess there
is
“ample scope for ethnic minorities” in the whole of Europe with this work of an
intercultural
personnel policy. We all could learn from some of these “impressions of a major
job market
project”.
Den Haag is a very interesting city – a mixture of very modern Government
buildings
and the “old classic very narrow Dutch Grachtenhouses” built one onto the other
with
many different facades.
On Saturday we met in Utrecht and enjoyed to see the Dutch country side on our
way to Wijk bij Duurstede. Sovov office where Bella is working as principal
consultant
is situated in this amazing Dutch town. In a guided tour we learned a lot about
the history.
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The intent of the meeting was (Bella van der
Linden) to discuss how to develop and
implement intercultural management: how can
we
1. formulate a policy?
2. improve recruitment
and selection?
3. create a social basis?
4. improve qualifications?
5. do career planning without
discrimination?
Within SIETAR we believe we can help a lot to
achieve these points.
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We trust in creating a more professional intercultural SIETAR an even more
professional SIETAR
Europa image? For members to be proud of belonging to the organization? To be
recognized more
as “The Professional Intercultural Society”!
Join us!
Dare to Share!
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Berlin.
Bella van der Linden, SOVOV, Wijk bij Duurstede, The Netherlands
email:
sovov@sovov.nl
