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Event Date: September 15, 2021
Check out this link for further information. Now that corona restrictions have loosened, it’s time to consider picking up hobbies again, with live and in person events! Connect International organizes […]
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August 18, 2022
Torrential rainfall hit Drenthe and Groningen Wednesday evening after a recent heatwave across the Netherlands, flooding streets in several towns. Roads in Drenthe villages of Beilen, Noordscheschut and Elim were inundated with water, the Dagblad [...]
August 16, 2022
The University of Groningen is the 66th best in the world, according to the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Harvard University in the US was crowned the best institute in the world, a position [...]
August 15, 2022
Many in the northern provinces will be relieved to hear that the two-week-long drought seems certain to have finally, at least temporarily, subsided, as region-wide daily rainstorms are expected through to the weekend. According to a report by Wee[...]
Two fires broke out on Franeker’s industrial estate this weekend, the Leeuwarder Courant reports. On Saturday morning, a pile of pallets caught fire in a warehouse on Zuidelijke Industrieweg, but firefighters quickly contained the flames. Th[...]
June 28, 2022
Do you have some spare time this summer? Then consider an intensive summer course in Dutch or English at the Language Centre! Over the course of two or three weeks, […]
Data collected by IWCN and all the other expat centers in the Netherlands show which are the 15 companies that employed the most internationals in 2021. We were very pleased […]
June 23, 2022
We will be hosting our annual Partner Meeting on the 7th of July at ASTRON! If you are a partner or supporter of IWCN but didn’t receive an email inviting […]
June 3, 2022
The IWCN will be closed on Monday, 6 June, for Pentecost. We will be open again on Tuesday 7 June and look forward to seeing you then!
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Dear Welcome Center Personeel,
I’m sending this email to thank you for being so friendly and helpful. I have lived in several countries (USA, Germany, Russia, Egypt) but I have to say that I have had the best experience at the Welcome Center in Groningen.
Thank you again!
Having originally been drawn to the Northern Netherlands by the status of the Zernike Institute, where I studied for my Master’s degree in Nanoscience, I decided to continue researching for my PhD. The Institute, allied to the University of Groningen, is rated as amongst the top ten institutes for research on material science. The IWCN has been helpful throughout, but particularly as a place to get reliable information.
Though I originally came to the Center to pick up a residence permit, I left with quite a lot of printed information (all in English!) that was very helpful when it came to taking the inburgeren (integration) exams for my Dutch residence application. I am currently looking to settle more permanently in the North, I love living in Groningen itself for the bike-friendliness and its young and lively spirit.
I would recommend the IWCN for new Internationals, who would like help finding their feet, but also for those who have been in the Northern Netherlands, as the information on offer is very extensive.
How happy it makes me to learn that the flowers got there and that they brightened up everyone’s day.
This was my goal.
You guys work hard, and I wanted to make sure you guys know that your work is meaningful and very well appreciated in the city.
Dank voor de mail en de afhandeling. Top service.
The idea to have such an office to welcome foreigners is a formidable one and this is a good tangible result. I wish there had been such an office, and people like you, 13 years ago when we arrived! It would probably have made our lives so much better especially the first years. But better late than never, so please tell your other colleagues, or the people of the Gemeente and RUG who thought about it, that this office has an important function and that it delivers immediate results.
Bedankt voor je snelle en duidelijke reactie.
Waar zou het MKB zonder het IWN zijn? Ben zo blij met jullie!
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