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Higher Education at the Heart of Growth
The eleventh annual Apeldoorn: British-Dutch Dialogue Conference will take place at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (UK) from Sunday 11 to Tuesday 13 March 2012.
The theme of the 2012 Conference is Higher Education at the Heart of Growth. One hundred delegates will come together for three days to share ideas on how higher education institutions in the UK and the Netherlands can work better with business and government to enable both countries to remain competitive, innovative and strategically agile during this period of economic uncertainty in Europe.
The conference programme will include plenary sessions with expert speakers, focused group discussions, and options for site visits to relevant projects in and around Manchester.
Conference Theme
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Conference Series Background
In 1999 Prime Ministers Wim Kok and Tony Blair agreed to instigate a bilateral conference: the Apeldoorn Conference. Their objective was to bring together a representative and informed group from the UK and the Netherlands on a regular basis to reflect on issues of political relevance and shared concern. The first conference took place in 2000 in Apeldoorn, from which the conference series took its name.
When Foreign Ministers Jack Straw and Jozias van Aartsen met in 2002, they agreed to build on this success by establishing the Young Apeldoorn Conference. They wanted to bring together those young people whose views and decisions will affect Anglo-Dutch and European cultural, political and economic relations over the next decade. Therefore, on alternate conferences within the series, the delegates are no more than 35 years of age.
Apeldoorn: British-Dutch Dialogue
Following the Conference Series’ 10th anniversary, in 2010 the Steering Board adopted a new name for it, to better convey the main purposes without losing its current brand identity. The new name is Apeldoorn: British-Dutch Dialogue
At the same time, the Steering Board adopted a new approach in which young and senior participants are invited to the Conferences together. This will increase interaction between emerging leaders and the authority generation, with the ambition of greater exchange of ideas and expertise and further developing the bi-lateral relationship.
Partners
The Conference series is organised by the British Council Netherlands, the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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