About Connect

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Description

There are three supporting pillars to the CONNECT INTERNATIONAL platform:  Relocation, Connecting, and Information. Together, they allow us to help you feel at home in the Netherlands.

Our commercial pillar, Connect Relocation Services, offers services to companies and individuals and allows us to fund the other two social pillars, Connecting Worlds and Information Center.

Organization

CONNECT INTERNATIONAL is supported by an international staff, generous volunteers, a Board of Directors, and an Honorary Board. The staff consists of a General Manager, a Relocation Coordinator, two Connecting Worlds Coordinators, an Information Manager, and an Administrative Assistant.

Our Board of Directors consists of both Dutch and International members from companies and organizations who are committed to making the Northern Netherlands attractive for international residents to live, work or study here.

We are also backed by an Honorary Board consisting of the Queen's Commissioners from Groningen, Fryslan and Drenthe and the Director of the N.V. NOM.

History

CONNECT INTERNATIONAL is a foundation that began in 1998 as a merger between two other foundations, the International Club Noord Nederland (IntCNN) and Stichting Connect. The IntCNN, a social club for international managers, was founded in 1995 by five different companies in order to provide better services to the international community in the Northern Netherlands. Stichting Connect, founded in 1996, began as the brainchild of a 'trailing spouse' who had found a lack of practical information in English about the Northern Netherlands upon her arrival and set up Connect to rectify the situation. After two years of working side by side, the two organizations merged to become the new CONNECT INTERNATIONAL.