The Scottish production company MacTV is producing a documentary series about peat. The Netherlands was exploiting peat’s industrial potential from the 13th Century. Without any large seams of coal, the country’s huge sugar and salt refining industries depended on peat to fuel them. Centuries of draining peatland to use it for farming also led to still ongoing subsidence problems in this already low-lying country. Today the Netherlands has exhausted its own commercial peat supply. Besides in the Netherlands, MacTV also films in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Finland.

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Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall. Due to the fact that the name of the celebrity has not yet been announced by the BBC, the name cannot yet be mentioned.

Actvities: find and book replacement local producer for the recce, book driver and rental cars, acompany filming.

Every Family Has A Secret is an Australian television documentary reality genealogy series, presented by Noni Hazlehurst. It is an observational documentary series which follows Australians seeking out the hidden secrets within their families which can be a life changing journey. In each episode two Australians, some of whom are well-known, learn about hidden chapters in their family tree. Due to the fact that the protagonist's name has not yet been announced by SBS, the name cannot yet be mentioned. 

Activities: research, advice, recce, book extra driver and rental cars, driving and accompanying filming.

Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall. In this episode, two celebrities are the main characters. Due to the fact that the names have not yet been announced by the BBC, they cannot be mentioned yet. 

Activities: book and drive car, accompany recce, find and book replacement local producer and driver, book rental cars.

The Scottish production company MacTV is producing a documentary series about peat. The Netherlands was exploiting peat’s industrial potential from the 13th Century. Without any large seams of coal, the country’s huge sugar and salt refining industries depended on peat to fuel them. Centuries of draining peatland to use it for farming also led to still ongoing subsidence problems in this already low-lying country. Today the Netherlands has exhausted its own commercial peat supply. Besides in the Netherlands, MacTV also films in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Finland.

Activities: research, set up, planning, book cameraman and accompanying filming.

Despite skyrocketing energy prices and a shortage of natural gas supply in the European Union, the Dutch government has taken the decision to proceed with the closure of natural gas wells in the Groningen region. The field is one of the biggest in the world, worth up to 1000 billion Euros. But for now, it's a treasure that will remain untapped for the forseeable future. The reason the decision was taken was because of seismic shocks triggered by the gas extraction in the area. Some 1200 earthquakes have been recorded so far, with around 27,000 homes being severely damaged and deemed unsafe to live in.  Video Link!

Activities: research, set up, planning, book cameraman and accompanying filming.

Transmission of a ARD documenatry about the future of hydrogen. In future, green hydrogen is to be produced on platforms in the North Sea, where gas and oil are still being extracted today. Will hydrogen get Europe out of the energy crisis?  Video Link!

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The Dutch are world champions and coastal protection. They have to be, because large parts of their country lie below sea level. Now they are upgrading their dikes. English silt grass, which takes energy from the floods, is supposed to help. Climate change is already more than an abstract spectre in the Netherlands: sea levels are rising. Floods will hit the coasts more frequently in the future. At the Royal Institute for Marine Research, scientists are looking for new ways to protect the dikes. They have discovered that Spartina anglica, also known as English mudgrass, can slow down waves and soften their impact. The only question is how to plant the English mud-grass in the mudflats without it being washed away again and again by the ebb and flow of the tide. They have found a solution for that too. A honeycomb-like framework made of potato starch. The Dutch expertise in coastal protection is in demand worldwide, because many countries simply have no experience.  Video Link!

Activities: research, advice, set up and planning.

From restrictions on Airbnb and listings to outright bans on certain activities, Amsterdam is having to adapt in order to deal with mass tourism. According to current estimates, Amsterdam attracts over 15 million visitors per year. This massive influx of tourists impacts daily life in Amsterdam in many ways, often to the chagrin of its residents. Due to concerns that the city has become inhospitable to locals, its municipal government has devised several schemes in recent years to address pertinent issues related to mass tourism. Yasuko Takeda, the Europe correspondent from the Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK visits Amsterdam and Venice to report on the effects of mas tourism and what can be done to fight it.

Activities: research, set up, planning, book cameraman and accompanying filming.

The Ukraine Accountability Conference is organized by the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the European Commission. The conference aims to ensure that those committing war crimes in Ukraine are brought to justice. The Dutch military police is just back from a mission in Ukraine to research after committed war crimes and to gather evidence. Japanese corespondemt Yasuko Takeda visits the Netherlands to attend the conference and to interview the head of the Dutch military police mission to Ukraine to find out how the research turned out in practice, what efidence they found and how difficult it was to work in a country at war.

Activities: research, set up, planning, book cameraman and rental car, driving, accompanying filming and translations.

This week, two the suspected gunman and the getaway driver involved in last year's murder of the best-known Dutch investigative journalist were arrested. Next week the verdict against the actual "hit squad" is to be pronounced. The ARD program Europamagazin summarises the main findings in the case of Peter R. de Vries and asks whether the country has in the meantime been able to free itself from the "grip" of the drug mafia. Over the last years the brother and the lawyer of the crown witness in the larges liquidation trial were liquidated. Peter R. de Vries was the crown witness's confidant.  Video Link!

Activities: research and advice, set up, planning, accompanying filming and Dutch interview.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, the Netherlands wants to become less dependent on gas from Russia. The government is taking measures to end the import. Governments, households and companies can do their bit by using less energy and extra LNG terminals are purchased and transported to a harbour in the North of the Netherlands. Europe correspondent Yasuko Takeda comes to the Netherlands to cover the Dutch government's plan to stop importing raw materials from Russia by the end of the year.

She interviews the chairman from the Dutch Asociation of Commercial Energy and water Users and checks out the LNG terminal in the harbour of Rotterdam. She also travels to the Dutch province Groningen to portrait an elderly coule that suffered from the earth quakes caused by the gas extraction, interviews a profesor specialised in energy economics, and she visits the Dutch island Schiermonnikoog that is protesting against the plan to extract gas from the North Sea.

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Although insiders say that the situation in the Netherlands is not like it is in Mexico, it is dealing with a parallel industry throughwhich hundreds of millions of drug money pass. A police represenative stated that the Dutch police is not totally powerless in this problem, but much more needs to be done. The liquidation of the brother of a crown witness of a large court case against suspects of the liquidations, his lawyer and lately of his confidant – a famous Dutch crime journalist - puts everyone on edge again. In recent years, the amount of cocaine intercepted in the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp has doubled. Tonnes of cocaine are seized these days.

Besides this The Netherlands is Europe’s main producer of synthetic drugs. All the Ecstasy, the MDMA, the Amphetamines and met-amphetamines are mostly synthesized in Brabant, a southern province of the Netherlands, generating high profits after the substances are exported worldwide. Apart from this the synthetic drugs production causes a huge and scary pollution in the countryside due to the waste-dumping, since the synthesis of all these drugs implies massive chemical waste production which has to be hidden by the traffickers.

Activities: research, advice, set up, planning and acompanying filming.

Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall. The celebrity of this episdoe is Matt Lucas. An English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain and Come Fly With Me. Matt Lucas learns what his late grandmother went through as a Jew in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and what happened to the family she left behind. He also uncovers a connection to Anne Frank. BBC Clip!

Activities: book and drive rental car, accompany recce, research, advice, book rental cars, drivers and accompanying filming.

Russian gas supplies via Poland to Germany remain suspended and geopolitical tensions over Ukraine continue to run high. President Vladimir Putin has assembled a large force near the Ukrainian border and the United States is reckoning with a Russian invasion. As a result, gas prices are rising to record highs. Japanese Europe corresondent Yasuko Takeda makes a report about the Dutch flower industry to find out how they are coping with the high gas prices. Growing flowers and plants requires a lot of gas and the companies that have taken energy-saving measures are suffering much less economically. How is the Dutch flower industry going to survive?

Activites: research, advice, set up, planning, book rental car, driving and accompanying filming.

Dutch TV channel KRO NCRV airs the first part of the documentary series Legal Weed. Two organisations that want to participate in the Dutch cannabis experiment are followed as they prepare. The member of parliament who introduced the law to enable the experiment explains why the experiment is important and a coffee shop owner gives his opinion about the experiment to legalise cannabis for recreational use of cannabis. Trailer video!

Activities: research, advice, set up, planning, accompanying filming and sound.

A lawyer shot dead in the street, a journalist murdered in the centre of Amsterdam - in the Netherlands, a drug mafia has developed around the cocaine trade in recent years, earning billions and apparently stopping at nothing. Especially after the murder on Dutch crime journalist Peter F. de Vries, it has become clear that organised crime is threatening the very foundations of the Netherlands. "It is a war for power and billions. It's about killing not to be killed," says a well-known Dutch lawyer. Video Link!

Activities: research, advice, set up, planning and accompanying filming.

Ahead of the climate conference in Glasgow the Japanese public TV channel NHK send reporter Ginga Tamura to the Netherlands to report for several programs on how the Netherlands is threatened by climate change. For two weeks the reporter travels around in the Netherlands with a cameraman to show how the country is protecting itself against ther rising sea level, the increasing amount of water that the rivers in the Dutch delta have to cope with and how scientists are investigating land subsidence.

Activities: research, set up, planning, book rental van, driving, accompanying filming and translations.

During the European Football Championships, which are organised in several countries simultaneously, BBC Sport needs support in the Netherlands for coverage from the football program Match of The Day. The international broadcast center for the tournament is located in the Netherlands. Furthermore, a crew and commentators are needed for one of the matches to be played in the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam. In addition, BBC crew members continuously need to be brought to test centers for Covid tests.

Activities: research, advice, book and drive rental van.

In 2019, the Dutch government launched a four-year cannabis experiment in which entrepreneurs can start growing cannabis legally. A strict selection will take place among aspiring growers who apply for the experiment; the entrepreneurs must not have a criminal record, for example. During the experiment coffeeshops in participating  municipalities will only be allowed to sell officially controlled cannabis. Dutch documentary maker Frans Bromet follows the ups and downs of aspiring growers as they nail-bitingly await the selection procedure. He also interviews critical coffee shop owners, local residents and administrators. Trailer video!

Activities: resaarch, advice, set up, planning, accompanying filming and sound.

More and more ilegal cigarette factories are found and dismanteled in the Netherlands. Euronews wants to produce a background reportage about the way the authorities fight this crime. The Dutch association of tabacco producers are very active to fight the trade in illegal cigarettes. They even use private detectives to find and follow criminals selling illegal cigarettes.

Activities: research, advice and set up.

Japanese public TV Europe correspondent Yasushi Kudo needs information for coverage about the clean air policy from the Dutch capital Amsterdam, about the Dutch general elections and Dutch plans to build a new nuclear power plant.

Activities: research and set up.

For French Public News reporter Maryse Burgot makes a report on residents in the Dutch town of Urk who refuse vaccination for religious reasons. She portrays a large family explaining why they do not want to receive vaccinations. A pastor and customers in a butcher's shop give their opinions why such a large percentage of the population refuses to take vaccinations.

Activities: research, advice, set up, planning, accompanying filming and translations.

In the largest criminal trial in the Netherlands to date, the focus is on mafia groups that handle drug transactions, torture and murder. One lawyer says they have long since penetrated the infrastructure of the commercial ports. The court in a commercial district in Amsterdam's east is a high-security wing. Defence lawyers, prosecutors and judges have to do their job under police protection. Some of them work anonymously because they receive death threats. Ridouan T. is the centre of attention: the police offered 100,000 euros for tips about him. Until his arrest in Dubai, T. was one of the most wanted people in Europe. With him, 16 people are on trial. The prosecution calls the defendants a "well-oiled killing machine".               Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming and interview.

For the first time since the Second World War, the Netherlands has implemented a curfew since Saturday. A decision that triggered riots in the country's largest cities: Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Rotterdam. In a working-class district of Rotterdam, the traces of violence are still visible. Like at a  ransacked jewellery store, where the police are looking for possible fingerprints left by the breakers. As a strong symbol, in this country unaccustomed to such scenes, the police station is barricaded. Last night, its windows were targeted by mortar fire. The inhabitants are torn between anger and incomprehension. TF1 reporter Georges Brenier comes to the Netherlands to produce a news report.

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Cars and motorbikes running on petrol or diesel will be banned from driving in Amsterdam from 2030. The city’s council plans to phase in the change as part of a drive to clean up air pollution, which the authorities blame for shortening the life expectancy of Amsterdam residents by a year. Already in 2025, only electric mopeds and motorcycles will be allowed to circulate in the built-up area of Amsterdam. Also trucks and vans, cabs, public transport buses and coaches may only drive within the Amsterdam ring road if they are emission-free. This will also apply to passenger shipping, pleasure craft and ferries. The Japanese UK correspondent needs background information.

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The Scottish BBC program Eorpa produces an extensive report on Brexit and what the effects of any Brexit deal will have on Scotland and on the countries in the EU that trade a lot with the UK, such as the Netherlands. An Eorpa crew travels to several locations in Scotland to see how companies are affected by Brexit. A manager of a Scottish company that has moved to the Netherlands to avoid any problems caused by Brexit gives his views on the situation. Also the spokesman of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency explains what kind of companies from the UK move to the Netherlands and why, and what the fears in the Netherlands are about a hard Brexit.    

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, direction, interviews and translations.

The French documentary production company Les Films d'Ici is asked by ARTE to produce a series of documentaries about how humans and human behaviour are influencing nature and animals. One of the episodes is Les Ailes de l'Europe (The Wings of Europe) a documentary about migrating birds. Migrating birds are followed on their journey to the South of Europe and to Africa. The Dutch Wadden Sea is an area where migrating birds hang out on their trip to feed themselves and to get ready for the rest of the journey. Two scientist from the Royal Netherlands institute of Sea Research explain what they are researching and how humans are having an effect on migrating birds.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book rental car, driving, book ship, accompany filming.

On 20 December 2019,  the Dutch Supreme Court, the highest court in the Netherlands, upheld the previous decisions in the Urgenda Climate Case, finding that the Dutch government has obligations to urgently and significantly reduce emissions in line with its human rights obligations. The Urgenda Climate Case against the Dutch Government was the first in the world in which citizens established that their government has a legal duty to prevent dangerous climate change. On 24 June 2015, the District Court of The Hague ruled the government must cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by the end of 2020 (compared to 1990 levels). The ruling required the government to immediately take more effective action on climate change. For Euronews Unreported Europe reporter Hans von der Brelie wants to find out who is behind this unique case and what is done in the Netherlands to cut the CO2 emissions by at least 25%. Article & Video link!

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Over the last years the intercepted shipments of cocaine in the harbours of Rotterdam and Antwerp seriously increased in number and in quantity. German Europe correspondent Michael Grytz from TV public channel ARD wants to find out what is happening at the Antwerp and Rotterdam harbours, who is behind the smuggling and what measures are taken against this serious increase. Article & Video link!

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Serres Séparées is a test of new safe hospitality design at the Amsterdam art centre Mediamatic. They serve their visitors arty plant-based dinners to every couple or group in their own little greenhouse at the water side. The Japanese public broadcaster NHK wants a full report of this experiment including interviews with guests, the owner and the cooks.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, direction and interviews.

ARD Europe correspondent Michael Grytz wants to produce an update reportage about the research after medicines against the corona virus in both Germany and the Netherlands. An update about both the research after a possible anti body at the Utrecht University as the research after the effect of a tuberculosis medicine at the RadboudUMC in Nijmegen. Video link!

Activities: research, organise footage from Dutch TV.

For a second documentary about the corona virus the Japanese public channel NHK wants to give more attention to the Dutch 100 families research and to the fact that in the Netherlands youth can restart sport training again. A father and a son explain how it is to work and study at home and what it means for them that football training starts again. Son and father are filmed when they attend the first football training after many weeks of lockdown. Apart from this Associate Professor Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen from the Department of Epidemiology of the University Medical Centre Utrecht is interviewed about the latest corona virus research in child health and about the Dutch coronavirus measures.

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Euronews is making an overview about research after corona virus vaccines and medicines in Europe.
SARS-Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV2), cause of COVID-19, is the infection that the whole world is now trying to beat. The respiratory disease has arguably caused the most serious global crisis since World War II, infecting over one million people and causing more than 70,000 deaths. As the world grapples with the pandemic, the scientific community is on the hunt for effective, scalable treatments, while at the same time developing a safe and tested vaccine. The race to find a vaccine. Article & video link!

Activities: research, organise video footage hospitals.

The Japanese public channel NHK is planning a documentary about the way the corona virus and corona crisis is handled worldwide. In the Netherlands they want to know why the Dutch choose for an intelligent lockdown and what research is done at 100 Dutch families to see how the virus is spreading and what role children play in this process. An interview is needed at the Dutch national health institute.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book camera person, direction, interview, accompany FTP feed to Tokyo.

Why a do the Dutch implemented a so called intelligent lockdown and not a total lockdown? What is an intelligent lockdown and how does it work in practice. TF1 reporter Georges Brenier comes to the Netherlands to find out. In Nijmegen he speaks with a professor in clinical microbiology from the RadboudUMC and to mayor of Nijmegen and head of the Dutch safety regions organisation Hubert Bruls. In Amsterdam Georges finds out that the Dutch are happily walking around and doing sports. Also the Amsterdam bike shop owner Frans van der Meer opened his shop, also because bikes can be vital for nurses going to the hospital. Article & video link

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming. 

The latest analysis by Imperial College London is alarming: only a rapid vaccine has the potential to mitigate the corona pandemic. The race has begun - ARD Europamagzin presents the different EU-wide strategies. For this investigation into the research that is done to find a vaccine or a medicine at Dutch universities is needed. The university in Utrecht is doing research after an antibody and the university of Nijmegen is testing an existing medicine against tuberculosis on its medical personnel.

Activities: research, find and organise Dutch TV video footage, translations interviews.

After the public health institute RIVM announced that the first Dutch people tested positive for coronavirus Covid-19, NHK correspondent Yasushi Kudo needs the latest information. The first coronavirus case is a man in a hospital in the Dutch city of Tilburg. The Dutch health department is screening people connected to the man. A second case pops up in Amsterdam.  A woman that visited the Lombardy region of Italy, where hundreds of people have been infected with Covid-19. She is currently in quarantine at home.

Activities: research.

The Dutch government is planning an experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation, to see if this legal cultivation will decrease organized crime and increase the safety of cannabis use. In the experiment, the government will give ten organisations a government license to grow cannabis, that will be distributed to coffeeshops in ten municipalities. Dutch documentary maker Frans Bromet is producing a documentary about the experiment. He follows a group of people that want to start growing cannabis and want to apply for a licence. The preparation and introduction of the experiment is covered in the Dutch city of Tilburg portraying the mayor and the owner of a coffeeshop.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, sound.

Over the last years there is an increase of organised heavy crime in the Netherlands. Large shipments of cocaine are intercepted in the harbour of Rotterdam, numerous illegal synthetic drugs laboratories are discovered in the south of the country and many liquidations take place in in broad daylight, including a lawyer of a crown witness. TF1 crime reporter Georges Brenier comes to the Netherlands to find out is the Netherlands is becoming a narco state.

Article & Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, translations and archive footage research.

The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world, thanks to kilometres of greenhouses. Our teams were able to visit these spectacular installations. It is an ocean of glass visible from satellites, the equivalent of the city of Paris, covered with greenhouses. A small part of the Netherlands that feeds a large part of Europe. To produce millions of vegetables and fruits, farmers rely on perfect weather conditions, with lots of sun. As the Dutch outdoor climate is not suitable, they themselves create artificial lights. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning.

A court ruling has forced the Netherlands to promptly deal with its high nitrogen emissions. The government has decided to cut speed limits and farmers have rallied in the streets to protest against reducing livestock numbers. Most of the “saved” nitrogen emissions from this package will be used to offset the increased emissions from building 75,000 houses in 2020. Only 30 per cent will lead to real emission reductions. It is also worrying that the Dutch government wants to discuss the possibility of repealing some of the Natura 2000 sites and the extension of other Natura 2000 sites with the EU Commission.

Activities: research, advice, set-up, planning, booking rental car, driving, accompaniment filming and translations.

Zwarte Piet or Black Pete has been a festive tradition in the Netherlands for generations – which sees thousands of people, who are often white, dress up as the character wearing afro-style wigs, red lipstick and full blackface makeup. There have been attempts to make the holiday character less controversial but the tradition is still widely practiced. We went to the festivities this year to find out if time is nearly up for the tradition. Video link!

Activities: research, advice, set-up, planning, booking rental car, driving and accompaniment filming.

There was a massive police response at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Officials called the incident a “suspicious situation.” The incident took place on board Air Europa flight UX1094 to Madrid that had been due to take off this evening. Shortly after 8.30PM, the military police issued a new message stating that the passengers and crew were safely out of the plane. It then soon was reported that that the incident was a false alarm and that the pilot had pressed the emergency button by accident. In line with airport protocol, the emergency services were then alerted.

Activities: research, regular news updates.

Artemis Media has devised a new returnable documentary format which is being produced for SBS TV Australia. Presented by much loved and well respected actress Noni Hazlehurst this masterfully crafted observational documentary series follows everyday Australians and sometimes a well-known celebrity, on a life changing journey, seeking out the hidden secrets within their families. For this episode a woman (now 75) that immigrated to Perth, Western Australia with her Dutch Jewish parents when she was seven years old returns to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. She was aware her mum Helena lived through World War II but she never discussed the Holocaust. It was only after her mother died that Ellis discovered her mother had kept a monumental secret from her that challenged all she knew about her identity.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, organising and booking driver/fixer, booking rental van and -car, accompanying filming, driving and translations.

Richard Pallot travels to Amsterdam to investigate how party-tourism is making the city unbearable for many of the locals. The red light district is often overwhelmed by huge crowds and the authorities now issue on the spot fines to drunken and stoned visitors that litter the streets at night.

Activities: research, organise cooperation Amsterdam municipality, set-up, planning and accompanying filming.

In the Netherlands old people’s homes have been closed and instead elderly stay home as long as possible. This is what is expected, but it is also what people want nowadays. Elderly couples help themselves and if one of the partners gets too sick the partner local nurses give care, and family, friends and neighbours are expected to help as well. Often a forced separation takes place if one of the partners get so sick she or he needs to go to a nursing home. By law nursing homes are obliged to also offer an apartment for couples, but in practise there are only a few of these apartments available. Most nursing homes are only set-up for individual patients.  In an age where the number of greying people in Dutch society will double in the upcoming twenty years, a new formula needs to be found for the last difficult phase of life. Some say it is time for the revival of the elderly home. Documentary maker Frans Bromet is producing a documentary series about forced separation of elderly for the Dutch public broadcaster NTR. Video Link!

Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, audio.

Dutch social housing organisations are private, non-profit enterprises that pursue social goals within a strict framework of national laws and regulations. They involve local government, tenants and other stakeholders in their policies and are accountable to society. The principal target group are low-income households (e.g. families with an income below 29,000 Euros / year). The cheaper rented housing is intended primarily for this group, which gets housing benefits from the government.

Activities: research. 

Because the French hospitals are overwhelmed by patients, the personnel of intensive care departments go on strike. In the Netherlands patients first have to go to family doctor centres or are often even sent to family doctors departments in hospitals to relieve the intensive care department.

Activities: research. 

Wall to Wall produces 'My Family, The Holocaust and Me', a two-part series for BBC 1 which will follow will help the British families of those who experienced the Holocaust re-trace their parents and grandparents’ steps. Amongst others also two Jewish British sisters are taken to the Netherlands to find out more about their mother being hid in a small Dutch town as a child and about their grandparents that also had to go into hiding and were active in the Dutch resistance. They all survived the war. An aunt was less fortunate. She was arrested by the Nazi’s and died in a concentration camp.

Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompanying recce, organise extra cameraman and equipment, accompaniment filming, book car and van, drive van. 

A SBG Full Measure producer is planning to shoot several stories in Europe with the host of the show Sharyl Attkisson. One of the stories he wants to examine are the issues surrounding the Danish protester Rasmus Paludan and the reaction within the Muslim community and the nation in general.

Activities: research Danish fixers.

Throughout Europe, old established parties are being challenged by new parties and movements with great climate scepticism and messages of fewer migrants and less EU. Italy has Matteo Salvini and his party Lega. France has Marine Le Pen and her party Rassemblement National - the former Front National. And Holland has Thierry Baudet and his Forum for Democracy, which stormed the recent local elections. If the success of the Forum for Democracy and the rest of the EU sceptical parties and movements continue until the forthcoming European Parliament elections, time must show. In the Dutch coastal town of Katwijk, people have experienced a right-wing radical revival. At the local elections recently, the strongly believing community voted overwhelmingly at the protest party Forum for Democracy. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning.

Richard Quest explores our ‘World of Wonder’ in new CNN series. 'Quest’s World of Wonder can be summed up in one sentence: We’re going to interesting places to meet fascinating people,' says Richard Quest, host of the new immersive travel series on CNN International. He continues: 'We’re not tourists, we’re travellers. It’s a show about meeting the people who reveal the heart of the city and help you understand what makes the place tick, leading you to that ‘wow’ moment when you realize you belong.'

Activities: research, advice, visual footage research, set-up, planning, booking rental- vans  and -car, booking rental bikes, driving and accompaniment filming.

Scottish ministers have been urged to heavily increase funding for drugs addicts after Scotland recorded the highest level of drugs deaths in Europe last year. The latest figures showed a record number of 934 people died in Scotland as a direct result of drug overdoses, more than double the number a decade ago and two and a half times the rate UK-wide. The BBC Scotland program Eorpa produces an half hour reportage about the problem and visits the Netherlands to find out how the Dutch manage the problem and keep the number of drugs deaths as low as possible. The main solutions are a pragmatic approach by supplying hard drug addicts methadone and real heroine and even setting up an old people's home only for hard drug addicts.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, driving and interviews.

President Hiroto Saikawa and Renault SA's new Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard are slated to have their first face-to-face talks in the Netherlands, informed sources said Wednesday. The two will meet on the sidelines of a regular executive meeting there from Thursday of the Japanese-French automotive alliance, also involving Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

Activities: research, organise extra fixer, book rental cars and accompany filming.

How will the Dutch flower branch be affected by a possible hard Brexit? NHK correspondent comes to the Netherlands to meet a few insiders and find out how the Dutch are prepared. He visits the immense Aalsmeer flower Auction, a Dutch flower grower, an economist and the chairman of the Dutch greenhouse lobby organisation.

Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompanying filming.

The Nashville Declaration, a text strongly condemning homosexuality, is scandalized the Netherlands, the first country in the world to have opened marriage to same-sex couples. But it is signed by about 200 Dutch Protestant leaders. In response, dozens of Protestant churches have announced they want to welcome and integrate LGBT faithful in their own right. Justice has opened an investigation to determine whether the Nashville declaration is punishable. A return to old conservative values that are struggling to survive in the first country in the world to make marriage of same-sex couples possible. Video Link!

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A shooting game based on humanistic principles: developed with the help of the International Red Cross. The player must distinguish in the crosshairs between fighters and civilians. Anyone shooting at city dwellers or prisoners of war will be punished digitally. The game is developed by the Dutch department of Bohemia interactive. Asian SRF correspondent Lukas Messmer is producing a background reportage and needs shots and interviews from Amsterdam. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, direction, camera and interviews.

Nissan Motor's CEO meets the deputy CEO of auto manufacturer partner Renault one-on-one in Amsterdam the discuss tensions over the future of the alliance after Chairman Carlos Ghosn's arrest last month. The is the first face-to-face interaction between Nissan's Hiroto Saikawa and Renault's Thierry Bollore since Ghosn was arrested on Nov. 19 in Tokyo. It would take place alongside regular top-level, monthly talks between the partners and Mitsubishi Motor Corporation.

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After Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co.'s influential chairman Carlos Ghosn was fired and arrested after an internal probe found he underreported his salary and for other financial violations, delegates of the Nissan Renault Mitsubish alliance gather in Amsterdam. NHK crews and other Japanese media gather in front of the office building, where limousine’s with officials arrive and depart.

Activities: research, set-up, organise extra local producer, book and drive rental vans.

Ikigai is a Japanese term for ‘a reason for being’. The word ‘Ikigai’ usually refers to the source of value in one's life or the things that make one's life worthwhile. The word roughly translates to the ‘thing that you live for’ but it also has the nuance of ‘the reason for which you wake up in the morning’ similar to a daily purpose. Each individual's Ikigai is personal to them and specific to their lives, values and beliefs. It reflects the inner self of an individual and expresses that faithfully, while simultaneously creating a mental state in which the individual feels at ease. Europe correspondent Toshihiro Fujii produces a documentary about ikigai and how it is picked up in Europe. Besides Japan, Spain and France, he also visits the Netherlands where he portraits career consultant Paul Donkers, who uses the Ikigai philosophy in his professional advice. Paul Donkers even developed an Ikigai card game, 'to inspire and to (re)focus on your career'.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book rental car, driving, accompany filming.

After Carlos Ghosn, the CEO who created an alliance between Nissan and Renault - that made it effectively the world’s largest carmaker - was arrested in Japan, the Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK produces a documentary. Europe correspondent Yasushi Kudo visits the Netherlands to find out more about the financial activities of Ghosn in the Netherlands.

Activities: research, accompany filming, book and drive rental car.

After Carlos Ghosn, the CEO who created an alliance between Nissan and Renault - that made it effectively the world’s largest carmaker - was arrested in Japan, the Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK needs video footage from the apartment Ghosn is renting in the South of Amsterdam.

Activities: direction, camera and sound, transfer video material.

After the Dutch news satire television show host Arjen Lubach declared that nuclear energy would be an option to fight CO2 discharges in the Netherlands and the party leader of the liberal party Klaas Dijkhof proposed to build a new Dutch nuclear power plant, a national discussion breaks out about the desirability of nuclear energy. ARTE reporter Antoine Mouteau visits an event in Amsterdam celebrating the 40 years anniversary of the anti-nuclear energy lobby group Wise and speaks to a scientist from the technical University Delft and a politician from the liberal party VVD.

Activities: camera, sound, book and drive car.

For a course about freedom of speech, access to information and journalist's security, l’École supérieure de journalisme de Lille needs two interviews in The Hague. One interview is with Hélène Tigroudja member of the Human Rights Council which plays a central role in promoting and protecting fundamental rights at the global level. The other interview is with Reine Alapini Gansou who has formerly been the Special Rapporteur on Rights of Human Rights Defenders in Africa and is now member of the UN Permanent Court of Arbitration. The donor for the course is Unesco, and there is a parnership with Reporters Without Borders and the CERDIH, the Center on human rights in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 

Activities: camera, sound, book rental car, driving.

An American consultancy company published a report after researching the long term aviation strategy and competitive infrastructure of Switzerland. The consultancy company criticizes the Swiss government for not having a real long term aviation strategy. It mentions the very long term aviation strategy of The Netherlands as a good example. The SRF economic TV program ECO wants an update about the Dutch aviation policy and to find out what the Swiss can learn from the Dutch and what the latest developments are.

Activities: research and set-up.

The European Football Championships in 2020 will be organised in different European cities and Amsterdam will be one of them. In the Johan Cruyff Arena four of the Euro 2020 football matches will be played. A BBC Sport team visits Amsterdam to research locations, city centres, public transport and hotels.

Activities: research, advice, book rental car, accompany recce, driving.

The Dutch government is planning an experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation, to see if this legal cultivation will decrease organized crime and increase the safety of cannabis use. In the experiment, the government will give ten organisations a government license to grow cannabis, that will be distributed to coffeeshops in ten municipalities. Dutch documentary maker Frans Bromet is producing a documentary about the experiment.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, sound.

In an interview to Dutch newspaper Trouw the Amsterdam ombudsman makes clear that at night the Amsterdam city centre devolves into lawlessness to such an extent that the police can no longer handle it. The Amsterdam police confirmed his findings to the newspaper. After multiple complaints from local residents, especially residents around the Red Light District and Leidseplein, the ombudsman decided to rent a home in the Red Light District to experience the situation for himself. To the newspaper he stated: ‘In the city centre, criminal money is leading at night. The authority is no longer present’. ITV On Assignment wants to give attention to the problems the Amsterdam city centre faces.

Activities: research and set-up.

In this Newsround special, Holocaust survivor Steven Frank takes his teenage granddaughter Maggie on a journey to learn about his experiences during the Holocaust. First, they visit Amsterdam to learn about his happy family life there before the war, and what happened to Dutch Jews during Nazi occupation. Next, they travel to Terezin in the Czech Republic, where Steven was held, to learn about the horrors of life inside concentration camps. Finally, the pair travel to Auschwitz to learn about what happened to members of Steven's family who didn't survive he Holocaust. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, archive footage research, booking rental van, driving, accompanying filming.

The BBC Children's department is producing a documentary about Anne Frank. The documentary will be broadcasted on Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, 2019. Director/cameraman Nic Hall visits Amsterdam to record links with presenter Nazia Morga in the Anne Frank museum, at the square were Anne Frank lived and in the centre of the city.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, archive footage research, booking rental car, driving, accompanying filming.

On Friday 31 August 19-year-old Afghan refugee stabs two American tourists in the Amsterdam central train station, but he was shot just nine seconds after he launched his attack because he was already spotted by police. His lawyer believes the teenager had been acting in response to a cartoon competition proposed by anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, as well as an earlier video involving the Prophet Muhammad. ABC foreign correspondent James Longman is send to Amsterdam to find out what exactly happened.

Activities: research, set-up and accompany filming.

In the Netherlands, in the North Sea, in the face of the desertification of the seabed, World Wildlife Fund, the Wageningen Marine Research Centre and other parties are trying to return flat oysters on artificial 3D printed oyster banks to the region. These molluscs would help strengthen the seabed and bring back the rest of the flora and fauna, such as small fish, rays and sharks. In recent years, a number of studies have been completed on the conditions under which reintroduction of the flat oyster in the North Sea can be carried out successfully. A number of reintroduction projects are already taking place. With scientists and WWF staff ARTE reporter Antoine Mouteau visits the part of the North Sea where the flat oysters have been spread to see how they develop.

Activities: camera, direction, sound, hire car and driving.

The Jumbulance Trust is a British accessible travel charity that exists to make travel possible for adults and children who are disabled or have a serious or complex health condition. They offer groups and individuals the opportunity to take holidays, short breaks or a day out in the UK or Europe by providing accessible coaches called a Jumbulances. Equipped with these two very special vehicles, a team of experienced drivers and affiliated groups of professional, medical and lay volunteers, The Jumbulance Trust makes dreams come true. Producer/director Gwen Hughes and cameraman Mei Williams follow Jamie Claire who has Wales who has a life-limiting condition and her carer Jade King during their trip to Amsterdam.

Activities: research, set-up, driving, accompany filming.

In the Netherlands there are six million more bicycles than inhabitants. Nevertheless, many cars clog the densely populated cities. As the problem is likely to worsen over the coming years, the government now wants employers to pay their employees a kilometre allowance if they come by bike. Also the national and regional authorities decided to invest an extra 200 million in bicycle infrastructure.

Activities: camera, direction, sound, hire car and driving.

A reporter from the Japanese Shankei Shimbun plans to write an article about a former Dutch jurist that was one of the judges in the military tribunal trying Japanese war criminals in Tokyo after the Second World war. In deliberations with judges from ten other countries, he dissented from the tribunal's verdict that convicted Japan as aggressor. 

Activities: research.

In the Netherlands old people’s homes have been closed and instead elderly stay home as long as possible. This is what is expected, but it is also what people want nowadays. Elderly couples help themselves and if one of the partners gets too sick the partner local nurses give care, and family, friends and neighbours are expected to help as well. Often a forced separation takes place if one of the partners get so sick she or he needs to go to a nursing home. By law nursing homes are obliged to also offer an apartment for couples, but in practise there are only a few of these apartments available. Most nursing homes are only set-up for individual patients.  In an age where the number of greying people in Dutch society will double in the upcoming twenty years, a new formula needs to be found for the last difficult phase of life. Some say it is time for the revival of the elderly home. Documentary maker Frans Bromet is producing a documentary series about forced separation of elderly for the Dutch public broadcaster NTR.

Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, audio.

A reporter from the Japanese newspaper Shankei Shimbun comes to the Netherlands for an article about euthanasia and dementia. She visits a Dutch couple for an interview about a family member that got euthanasia because he did not want to go through the dementia decaying process and asked attention for the disease writing letters to a Dutch newspaper before he died.

Activities: research, set-up, rent & drive car, accompany interview and translations.

To fight extreme housing nuisance Skaeve Huse (Strange Houses), a concept originally developed in Denmark, was built in Rotterdam. The houses are intended for people that cause too much residential nuisance. It is the last resort when no other approach to fight the nuisance helps. In this way Rotterdam wants to cope with serious housing problems and bring back peace in streets. In the Skaeve Huse complex the inhabitants are living under supervision, in a quiet environment. Reporter Antoine Mouteau visits the Skeave Huse complex and talks to the project leader, a supervisor and an inhabitant. He also interviews Joost Eerdmans, the Rotterdam alderman that initiated the project. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, hire rental car, driving and filming.

The craft of being a Dutch miller has been added to a Unesco cultural heritage list because of the skills involved and the key role millers have in transmitting cultural history. Unesco also points out that the Netherlands has implemented various measures to safeguard the craft and that and the Guild of Volunteer Millers, established in 1972, offers training and ongoing support to anyone interested in milling. But over the last years there is a shortage of Dutch millers and volunteers to keep the windmills in shape  and turning. Deutsche Welle reporter Gunnar Köhne comes to the Netherlands to show how 16 year old Coen gets training from senior miller Henk.  Miller Leen shows how his flourmill grinds wheat that is sold to local bakeries. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, organise drone footage, book rental car, driving, filming and translations.

The number of foreign and domestic tourists in the Netherlands rose above 42 million in 2017, an increase of 9% and the sharpest growth rate since 2006, the national statistics office CBS reported earlier this month. The figures are based on overnight stays but do not include visitors staying in accommodation with fewer than five guests. This means the substantial number of Airbnb travellers and those booking through other online platforms are excluded from total numbers. YLE reporter Kirsti Karttunen visits the Amsterdam Dam Square and the Red Light District to see serious the increase is and to find out what tourists and locals think about it.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book rental car, driving, accompany filming.

A Dutch company has launched ‘the world’s first plastic free aisle’.  Ekoplaza, an organic chain, opened its ‘Ekoplaza Lab’ just off a major shopping street in the West of Amsterdam, in collaboration with a British campaign group. Instead of plastic light fittings, there are lampshades reclaimed from other stores, metal-and-wood shelves and cardboard labels. But most importantly, all 700 products from fresh meat to lentils in this 60sqm corner space are wrapped in compostable biomaterials.

A trip with Plastic Whale isn’t about sightseeing. Inspired by the plastics crisis, it offers the chance to help clean the city’s waterways. On a two-hour boat tour groups make Amsterdam a cleaner place by fishing for plastic. From the plastic harvest new Plastic Whale boats and now even office furniture is. YLE reporter Kirsti Karttunen and cameraman Sasha Silvala visit the plastic free supermarket and go along on a plastic fishing trip with the Plastic Whale organisation. Kirsti also interviews the Dutch transition professor Jan Rotmans about the transition that is so needed for the human species to survive. According to Rotmans we have another 25 years for the full transition before it all goes wrong. To him the increase of recycling is the most important priority. Video Link! Article Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book rental car, driving, accompany filming.

Buurtzorg is a pioneering healthcare organisation established 10 years ago with a nurse-led model of holistic care that revolutionised community care in the Netherlands. Client satisfaction rates are the highest of any health care organisation, staff commitment and contentedness is reflected in Buurtzorg’s title of Best Employer (4 out of the last 5 years) and impressive financial savings and increased productivity has been achieved. Ernst & Young documented savings of around 40 percent to the Dutch health care system if all care was provided this way. YLE reporter Kirsti Karttunen comes to the Netherlands to interview Jos de Blok, the founder of Buurtzorg (Neighbourhood care) and follows a Buurtzorg district nurses team in Amsterdam. Article link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book rental car, driving, accompany filming.

Nowhere the Dutch local elections are as exciting as in Rotterdam. The late Pim fortuyn party Leefbaar Rotterdam (Livable Rotterdam) is fighting for the vote on the right side with both the PVV from Geert Wilders as the Forum for Democracy from the new populist Thierry Baudet teaming up with Leefbaar Rotterdam. On the other side of the political spectrum the Dutch Turkish party DENK and the local Islamic party NIDA fight for the migrant votes and the parties in the middle - mostly the traditional parties - fear for their lives. An exciting clash between far right and right and between migrant oriented parties in a seriously divided city. Filming reporter Yohan Malka comes to the Netherlands to follow candidates from Leefbaar Rotterdam and Nida to find out why the most multicultural city of the Netherlands fell apart in so many factions. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompany filming, translations, interviews and organise footage local TV.

France is preparing legislation to fight street intimidation. TF1 journalist Dominique Lagrou comes to the Netherlands to make a news reportage how Amsterdam is trying to fight sexual harassment in the streets. From the beginning of this year fines should be given for street intimidation, but the mayor just decided to postpone the measure indefinitely. Pleun van Onzenoort, a representative of the Foundation Stop Street Intimidation, Milou Deelen, a young woman who posted an online anti-slut shaming video and Marianne Poot, member of the Amsterdam council, give their views. Article & Video Link!

Activities: research, advice, set-up, planning, accompanying filming and translations.

The Dutch womens team seized next to the gold medal on the team pursuit. Ireen Wüst, Marrit Leenstra and Antoinette de Jong had to acknowledge their superior in Japan, which had an Olympic record and a world record on lanes in the Netherlands. The final was unusually exciting. After the first two laps, the Orange trio was about two tenths behind, but halfway through the race the Netherlands took a gap of half a second. In the final round, Japan made a better final sprint. Miho Takagi, Nana Takagi and Ayano Sato finished 1.58 for the Netherlands, which despite a Dutch record, has to settle for silver. NHK Paris needs to know what the reactions are in the Dutch media.

Activities: research, advice and translations.

Over the last years many agricultural companies end because there is no successor. At the same time, there are many young people who really want to become farmers, or who like to work with a company and want to enter into a partnership or even want to take over the company. The Dutch agricultural lobby youth organisation NAJK has set-up ‘Farmer seeks farmer’, a special section on their website to stimulate takeovers of agricultural companies and to offer guidance. TF1 News wants to produce reportage about the formula.

Activities: research and set-up.

France2 wants to produce a news reportage about the Netherlands functioning as tax haven for many multinationals and international companies. The Brussels correspondent is looking for a representative or a former employee that can explain why the Dutch tax system is so interesting and what the advantages are. 

Activities: research and advice.

After Schiphol Airport is partially evacuated on Friday after a man threatened people with a knife ABC News wants to know what happened. In the end the Dutch military police disables the man. The suspect had a fight with another man, whom he threatened with the knife. Then he was shot in his leg. According to the military police the victim has not been life-threateningly injured and terror is not at issue.

Activities: research.

A 16 year old Dutch boy beats up another youngster using crutches, while a third person films it. Because of the video the perpetrator is arrested and gets an alternative punishment. The video is taken off line. But the right wing Jayda Fransen from Brittan First sends a tweet and published the video again with the title: 'Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches'. Donald Trump retweets the message, while the perpetrator is not Muslim at all. In the end Trump states that the truth is not so important, it is all about the message.

Activities: research, set-up, organise alternative fixer.

Deutsche Welle is intending to produce a background reportage about euthanasia in the Netherlands and wants an update about the actual situation, the latest cases and news.

Activities: research and advice.

Euronews Insiders is producing background reportage about Syrian refugees in Europe that have been tortured in Syria and that want to witness and trigger a legal case in the state where they got asylum. Reporter Hans von der Brelie intends to film in Germany, the Netherlands and or Sweden and wants to know if there are cases to be found in the Netherlands.

Activities: researc and advice.

BBC presenter Brandon Holland suffers from gigantism and he wants to find out more about it. On the west coast of Ireland a skeleton is found of a giant and genetic research will show how close he is related to Brendon. The BBC NI crew also travels to Finland and the Netherlands. In the city of Haarlem the body of famous giant Daniel Cajanus was buried in the large Sint Bavo church. Cajanus was born in Finland and travelled Europe in the 18th Century to visit courts, but also to make money as an object of interest. Dutch opera singers Michael Poels and Petra Ehrismann produced an opera about Cajanus. It was performed in the Sint Bavo church.

Activities: research, planning, book and drive rental car, accompany filming.

The city of Amsterdam is leading the world in ending the obesity epidemic, thanks to a radical and wide-reaching programme which is getting results even among the poorest communities that are hardest to reach. The programme appears to be succeeding by hitting multiple targets at the same time – from promoting tap water to after-school activities to the city refusing sponsorship to events that take money from Coca Cola or McDonalds. TF1 reporter Julien Beaumont visits a primary school in Amsterdam to find out how this successful fight against obesity works in practice. Video Link!

Activities: bring up story idea, research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, interviews, and translations.

Synthetic drugs are distributed in larger and larger quantities and it is always unclear what ingredients are used, which often make the pills dangerous to use. This synthetic drugs market has surpassed the other drug markets. For the production there is no need for plantations, just a small laboratory is enough. The Southern Dutch province Brabant plays a large role in the production and trade of synthetic drugs. Since a few years mayors of Brabant want for the undermining role the criminal activities, including cannabis production, play in Dutch society. It was decided to take a multidisciplinary approach, where police, municipalities, the tax office and many other organisations cooperate to fight the undermining effect of drug production and trade on Dutch society. Also the regional drug addiction organisation Novadic Kentron plays a role, by regularly testing the pills of consumers. Video Link!

Activities: bring up story idea, research, set-up and planning, accompany filming.

After the USA, The Dutch are the 2nd largest agricultural exporters in the world. TF1 reporter Julien Beaumont wants to find out how this tiny country is feeding the world and what can be learned from the approach to find ways to keep on feeding an ever growing world population. An agricultural economist explains why the Dutch are such a large food exporter and a seeds specialist shows how seeds are improved so crops can grow in very dry or salty environments. A tomato grower shows his enormous new green house in the west of the Netherlands and explains how his family managed to seriously increase crops over generations.

Activities: bring up story idea, research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming.

My Red Light is a new sex workers collective that runs window brothels in the Red Light District in Amsterdam. The collective wants to provide a comfortable and safe workplace for all sex workers and their clients. What is the reason behind this initiative? Are the other window brothels not comfortable and not safe? In 2000 the Dutch prostitution branch became fully legal after the brothel ban was lifted. What is the status of the Dutch sex branch that has been fully legalized for almost 20 years and more importantly how is it for a sex worker to run a business? The authorities and media often paint a gloomy picture of criminality, forced prostitution and human trafficking, but is this really true? Or is the profession still suffering from the old negative stigma. The Scottish reportage program for Gaelic speakers wants to produce a 30 minute reportage about the actual status of the Dutch prostitution branch.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book rental can, driving, accompanying filming, interviews and translations.

The French government will unveil the paths of its justice reform with five major projects. One of them focuses on the effectiveness of the sentence. There are alternatives to prison, such as community service. France 2 plans a special broadcast about the French jail system. They need a specialist explaining why there are so many empty cells in the Netherlands. In the end criminologist Jan van Dijk gives the interview in front of a former jail in Amsterdam. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, filming, interview, FTP video material.

Soon the Swiss parliament will discuss new legislation to make more use of DNA traces in criminal cases. The Netherlands already has less strict rules for the use of DNA material and for DNA research amongst the population. The rape and murder of Marianne Vaatstra played a large role in the broadening of the Dutch DNA legislation. After a large DNA research in the Dutch province Friesland, the perpetrator was eventually found. At the same time more research is done in the European Union to predict even more precise detailed characteristics from a DNA trace. Professor Manfred Kayser explains the latest results of the EU DNA research Visage. Critic Victor Toom gives his views on the new developments and DNA specialist of the police in Friesland and the father Bauke Vaatstra explain how important the new legalisation was to solve the dreadful crime on Marianne Vaatstra.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, interview, organise extra video footage Vaatstra case.  

A gas extraction company and the Dutch government catch sight of the UN human rights commission. It demands measures from the State to protect the inhabitants of the province Groningen from increasingly frequent earthquakes caused by the intensive extraction of gas. The government has already partly given in to the pressure of the local residents. In recent years, the volume of gas extraction has been halved. According to the national gas extraction company this is not the right approach. They lodged an appeal with the Dutch Council of State to fight the new measure. The Senate will decide in the upcoming weeks.     Video Link!

Activities: book and drive car, camera and sound.

The horse meat scandal already shocked Europe in 2013. Now it turned out that the Dutch are still the head of the criminal network. European investigators have seized an international ring of meat fraudsters and seized a total of 66 suspects. The criminal network is responsible for the big European horse-meat scandal of 2013, Europol stated. The criminal network is said to have sold cheap horse meat as expensive beef. The meat was not suitable for human consumption and was partly treated with medicines. According to Europol the head of the gang is a Dutch meat merchant. He was arrested in Belgium. The suspects are, among other things, accused of fraud, document falsification and crimes against the health of the population. ARD Brisant needs a quick interivew with the Europol spokesperson. Article Link!

Activities: book camera crew, research, direction and interview. 

Daimee comes from the Netherlands and dreams of becoming a professional footballer one day. She plays in a team with only girls and together they have even won against guys! In her free time she supports her favourite club Ajax. On school Daimee and her class prepare for a musical and at the trainings pitch she is improving her skills and shape. Video Link!

Activities: book and drive car, camera and sound.

Over the last years the Dutch partly managed to process the large influx by using former jails to house of refugees and immigrants. France3 visits an asylum seekers centre in the former jail the Grittenborgh in the eastern town Hoogeveen. The location manager of the centre, and former employee of the jail, gives a tour through the complex to show how the immigrants are accommodated. The bars in front of the windows and part of the prison wall have been removed. The inhabitants of the asylum seekers centre do not care at all they live in a former jail. Soon most of them will get a permit and will be offered a normal house. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, translations.

After years of negotiations, Japan and Europe will finally sign a Free Trade Agreement. NHK correspondent Yasushi Kudo visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch dairy branch is preparing for new trade opportunities. The sales manager of Unie Kaas gives his views on the future Japanese and Asian market on the famous cheese market in Gouda. The CEO of VIV Buisman, a milk fat products producer shows a special factory production line, especially for the Japanese market and a Dutch dairy farmer and producer explains that he might see growth in his export.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, interview and direction, driving, organise extra video footage and photos.

For years the Dutch government has been decreasing the budget for the army. Over the last weeks more and more critics and complaints are passed on to the ministry of defence that there is not enough money anymore to perform the basic military tasks. There are even soldiers that complain about the lack of ammunition when they are on a mission. Reporter Antoine Mouteau interviews the chairman of the  Dutch  federation of military personnel stating that it is very severe and highly dangerous to be out of ammunition during a mission. He also does an anonymous interview with a Dutch soldier that is very unhappy with the current situation and a specialist of the Dutch institute of international relations Clingendael. Video Link!

Activities:  book and drive car, camera and sound.

The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is covering the Dutch general elections profoundly in a so-called 100 minute program Dutch society and culture is investigated intensively. Besides this extra reportages are produced about extreme right in the Netherlands, Wilders voters, Dutch Moroccans and the problems in Dutch elderly care. In the election week extra reportages are produced in The Hague. On election day Wilders I filmed during his vote and several live stand-up’s are transferred during the day, evening and following night. The morning after commuters on the The Hague central station give their views about the election results.

Activities: advice, research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, driving, translations, interviews, filming, audio.

After the recent escalation with Turkey the tension before the elections is particularly large: the right-wing populist Geert Wilders delivers a head-to-head race with the right-wing government division of Premier Marc Rutte. With his anti-Islamic and anti-EU course Wilders has led to a political turnaround in the former flagship country for liberality and tolerance. The fact that his right-wing slogans fall to fertile ground in the Netherlands, which is known for their openness, their progressive equality and liberal drug policies, astonished many. ORF Weltjournal reporter Alexander Steinbach has embarked on a journey through the Netherlands, analysing the political and social starting point before the elections, which could be directional for the whole of Europe.

Activities: advice, research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming and translations.

TF1 reporter Liseron Boudoul is assigned to create a news reportage about the upcoming Dutch general elections. She visits campaigning activities of Geert Wilders and other PVV politicians in the small town Valkenburg in the far south of the country. Liseron interviews Geert Wilders and some PVV voters, she also meets Dutch Muslims at a food festival in Utrecht and in the West of Amsterdam. Emeritus professor in political science Meindert Fennema gives his views on Wilders and populism in the Netherlands. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming.

A week before the Dutch general elections, Terry Moran the Foreign Europe Correspondent from the American TV-channel ABC, is visiting the Netherlands to cover campaigning activities of the right-wing ant-Islam politician Geert Wilders. Before France and Germany, the general elections in the Netherlands are the first test to see if and how populism might rule in Europe. Terry also meets a group of youngsters that is worried about the swing to the right and that talk to ordinary voters in shopping centres to discuss and understand the feelings of the Dutch voters.

Activities: research, advice and set-up.

A France 2 news reportage about the upcoming Dutch general elections. The France2 crew visits the picturesque former fishing village Volendam. A place where traditionally many inhabitants vote for the Freedom Party from Geert Wilders. A fisherman and a pensioned man playing accordion explain why they vote PVV. Video Link!

Activities: organise replacement fixer.

The news program of Channel One will cover the Dutch elections and especially the activities of Geert Wilders. Information on activities, debates and the date, time and location of the polling station where the PVV leader will votes is needed.

Activities: research and advice.

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, one of the toughest opponents of Islam in Europe, will maybe soon be the winner of the Dutch elections. In the polls on March 15, his party is just behind the liberal VVD of prime minister Mark Rutte. Why is it that this lone wolf and the right-wing politician succeeds in inspiring so many Dutchmen? For the background program SRF Rundschau SRF Europe correspondent Sebastian Ramspeck visits the Netherlands to find out. Video Link!

Activities: advice, research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, interview, audio.

For a news report for the France 3 program 19/20 on the Dutch elections reporter Pauline Armandet is looking for a Dutch citizen that supports the Party of Freedom of Geert Wilders. She visits the traditional bike repair shop of Frans van der Meer in the centre of Amsterdam to find out why Frans will vote for the PVV. Video Link!

Activities: research and set-up.

In the Dutch middle class the fear of decline is present. The dream of home ownership becomes a nightmare for many Dutch people and pulls down the whole country. The fate of over-indebted citizens is becoming an election campaign theme. For the DW TV-program Fokus Europa reporter Gunnar Köhne visits the Netherlands for a reportage about how the Dutch handle the problems people have with debts. He visits the North of Amsterdam and interviews people with debts and film at a centre where poor people in trouble are helped. At the local shopping centre people give their views and an spokesperson of a housing association explains how they handle rent arrears. Video Link!

Activities: organise replacement fixer.

The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is covering the Dutch general elections profoundly in a so-called 100 minute program Dutch society and culture is investigated intensively. Besides this extra reportages are produced about extreme right in the Netherlands, Wilders voters, Dutch Moroccans and the problems in Dutch elderly care.

Activities: advice, research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming.

Every year thousands of Dutch tourists visit Switzerland for skiing vacation. But how to learn and prepare for skiing down the Alps in a country without mountains? The solution is indoor skiing ramps where the Dutch can prepare for the winter sport vacation. Because of the indoor skiing facilities the Dutch can fly down the snow slopes throughout the year. Reporter Henriette Engbersen visits Snow World in Zoetermeer and meets Dutch families preparing for winter sport in Switzerland. She also interviews representatives from the Dutch Ski Association and from the Swiss ski region Saas-Fee. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book and drive rental car, accompany filming.

The Russian private channel RenTV needs a cameraman/journalist to cover campaigning activities for the upcoming Dutch general elections.

Activities: organise replacement fixer, advice on camera persons.

The Dutch lower house accepted new legislation to ban face covering clothing, also called the burka ban. Now the Dutch senate has to decide if this new legislation will be implemented. For the Austrian  ORF program Orientierung Europe correspondent Cornelia Primosch visits the Netherlands to find out why the Dutch want to ban burkas and how it is received.

Activities: research.

The drama series 'If the dykes break' tells about a contemporary flood in the Netherlands and parts of Flanders. What will be left of the Netherlands if a serious flood will unfold? The drama series has been broadcasted in the Netherlands and in Flanders. ARTE Info reporter Antoine Mouteau interviews the producer of the series in Amsterdam. Video Link!

Activities: book and drive car, camera and sound.

The Italian La7 discussion program Dimartedi discuss how prostitution is legalised abroad. Reporter Luca Santarelli is sent to Amsterdam to check out how a legalised prostitution branch works in practice and how professional prostitutes pay taxes. He covers the story in the Amsterdam Red Light District, and visits sex shows and interviews a prostitute at work behind a window, the spokeswoman of prostitute pressure group We Are Proud and visitors. Video Link!

Activities: organise replacement fixer.

The Dutch government decided there will be a new investigation into the violence in Indonesia in the late forties of the last century. Recently it became clear that Dutch soldiers used 'structural violence'. Not only the actions of the Dutch will be examined, but the researchers will also study to Bersiap period. That is a violent period in the Dutch East Indies by Indonesian independence fighters after the Japanese surrendered. ARTE Info reporter Antoine Mouteau visits the Dutch institute of war documentation and a Dutch woman that grew up in Indonesia during the period of decolonisation. Video Link!

Activities: book and drive car, camera and sound.

Since a few years some Dutch municipalities want to start experiments with a basic income, but although legislation has been adjusted, the ministry of Social Affairs does not permit experiments to start yet. 

Activities: research.

After it became clear Donald Trump was elected as the next president of the United States, the American SBG Full Measure reporter Scott Thuman wants to find out how the populist vote might influence elections in Europe. The Dutch are the first European state that hold national elections on March 15, 2017. Scott Thuman visits the Dutch parliament for an interview with Geert Wilders and his opposite MP Alexander Pechtold. Emeritus Professor of political science Meindert Fennema gives his views on Wilders and his political movement the Freedom Party (PVV). Scott also visits the former fishers town Volendam where the PVV traditionally gets a lot of votes. In a community centre some elderly playing cards explain for what party they will vote and why. Video Link!

Activities: research & advice, set-up & planning, hire and drive van, accompany filming, interviews Volendam, translations.

After research it runs out that migrant pupils score pretty good in the Dutch education system. Euronews Insider reporter Hans von der Brelie visits the Netherlands to find out what more about the Dutch formula. He visits a primary and secondary school in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. He interviews pupils, teachers, headmasters, the alderman of education of Nijmegen and a specialist in the success of Dutch schools. It turns out that pupils in the Netherlands get a lot personal attention, teachers have a lot of freedom and schools are very innovative.                                     Video Link!  Article Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, interviews and translations.

During Champions League football matches Sony launches a Twitter campaign called the 'Champions Sofa' promoting the Sony Experia smart phone, showing supporters on their sofa at home during all the matches. Firecracker Films produces the footage and WorldFixer.com organises the fixers to find fans and crews, and to accompany and direct the filming. In the small town Nederwetten, near Eindhoven, Han and his close friends support PSV that plays a Champions League match against Atletico Madrid. With a Sony A7S Camera the supporters are filmed. The footage is streamed via a LiveU box to Firecracker Films in Londen.

Activities: organise camera crew, equipment, accompany filming, direction.

After the Dutch government made clear that they intend to come up with new legislation for help with suicide for people that want to die. The Dutch current euthanasia legislation only works for people that are seriously ill and physically suffer severely, but there are people that are ready with life and that want to decide about their own ending of life. After covering the new Dutch euthanasia legislation in 2001, ORF Weltjournal reporter Alexander Steinbach visits the Netherlands again to find out why the Dutch want to make new Euthanasia legislation.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming and interviews.

'See and share the tension, the joy, the relief and disbelief as you watch followers of the UEFA Champions League react to the action in living rooms across Europe'. During Champions League football matches Sony launches a Twitter campaign promoting the Sony Experia smart phone, showing supporters on their sofa at home during all the matches. Firecracker Films produces the footage and WorldFixer.com organises the fixers to find fans and crews, and to accompany and direct the filming. In the small town Nederwetten, near Eindhoven, Han and his close friends support PSV that plays a Champions League match against Bayer Munich. With a Sony A7S Camera the supporters are filmed. The footage is streamed via a LiveU box to Firecracker Films in Londen. 

Activities: organise camera crew, equipment, accompany filming, direction.

For the coverage of the first day of trial again Dutch politician Geert Wilders about the remarks he made about Dutch Moroccan citizens during campaigning for the local elections in 2014, The New York Times reporter Nina Siegal needs translations and background information. Wilders is suspected of insulting a group of people based on race and inciting discrimination and hatred. This is because of his statements about Moroccans on 12 and 19 March 2014 in The Hague.

Activities: research and organise fixer.

The BBC’s Arts production team is making a new series art documentaries with the title The Art Lovers Guide. In the series art historians Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke that will visit different cites to explore its cultural and artistic identity. Besides discovering unexpected aspects of some iconic works of art, architecture, literature and performance, the BBC will be focusing on some of the hidden artistic and cultural treasures that most visitors would never know about. During the edit of the Amsterdam episode it turns out extra shots and aerial footage of the centre of Amsterdam and the canals is needed.

Activities: research, direction extra shots, upload video material, find aerial footage.

Paolo Marchetti is an award and grant winning independent photographer based in Rome, Italy. In his photography Paolo has always paid particular attention to political and anthropological issues and has embarked upon a freelance career to focus on a combination of long-term personal projects and client assignments. Now he is working on a European series of beauty contests for young girls, but also for aged body builders. In the Netherlands Paolo wants to make a reportage of a beautiy contest of young migrants girls.

Activities: research and set-up.

On 28 September the Joint Investigation Team organised a meeting with the press to present the first results of the criminal investigation into the crash of flight MH17. This press conference took place following the meeting with the relatives in the morning. They were the first to be informed about the results of the investigation. RenTV reporter Vitaliy Khanin is sent to the The Netherlands to report on the presentation of the new MH17 report and its conclusions.

Activities: research, set-up, organise replacement fixer.

On 28 September the Joint Investigation Team organised a meeting with the press to present the first results of the criminal investigation into the crash of flight MH17. This press conference took place following the meeting with the relatives in the morning. They were the first to be informed about the results of the investigation. SRF reporter Henriette Engbersen is send to the Netherlands to produce a news reportage that is broadcasted on the evening before the press conference. She meets relatives and a specialised newspaper journalist to find out what they expect from the investigation. On the day of the press conference Henriette has to do live stand-ups and a quick interview with relatives after they are informed on the conclusions needs to be done and filmed.

Activities: research, advice, set-up, planning, organise editor & editing suite, accompanying filming and camera & interview.

The BBC’s Arts production team is making a new series, called The Art Lovers Guide. The series is presented by art historians Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke, and in each episode we will visit a different city to explore its cultural and artistic identity. As well as discovering unexpected aspects of some iconic works of art, architecture, literature and performance, the BBC will be focusing on some of the hidden artistic and cultural treasures that most visitors would never know about. The aim is to get beyond the usual 'top ten must-see' lists, and offer an enjoyable, insider’s guide to what you could discover during a day in three extraordinary cities: Barcelona, Amsterdam and St Petersburg. The three documentaries of an hour will showcase contemporary and historic work in order to capture the spirit of the arts scene in each city today.
 
Activities: research, advice, recce’s, set-up, book rental van/car, boats & runners, organise bike, accompany filming, fixing, driving and organising signed release forms.

For a corporate film advertisement company The Packshot looks for a Dutch camera person that works with a DSLR camera and knows how to film with a green screen background.

Activities: research to find skilful camera persons.

'Who Do You Think You Are?' is an Australian television documentary reality series, part of the international franchise and adaptation of the original British series on BBC, airing on SBS One. Each episode profiles a celebrity tracing their family tree. In this episode Australian actress Rachel Griffiths is taken to the places where her ancestors lived and worked in London, the Dutch city Leiden and the German town Kleve. Griffiths's journey into the past takes her back to the re-emergence of Judaism in 17th century England. She discovered that her eight-time grandfather was one of the best known Jewish capitalists in London - associated with the Royal Exchange, the Bank of England, and the British East India Company. But his business interests extended further afield, and Rachel learns he was engaged in the international slave trade.

Activities: research, advice, recces, set-up, book rental vans and extra driver, accompany filming, fixing, driving, translations and organising signed release forms.

After the in-depth coverage before the Brexit referendum, NHK Europe correspondent Kaori Nagao plans a report on the effects of the Brexit on the Dutch society and economy.

Activities: research and set-up.

Straight after it became clear that a majority voted for the UK to leave the European Union reporter Patrick Hafner visits the Netherlands to find out how Euro sceptic the Dutch are, what they think of the Brexit and how large the chance of a Nexit will be. He meets Dutch citizens in the Euro sceptic village Volendam, Euro sceptic activists of the organisation Asylum Seekers Alert, Euro sceptic Thierry Baudet and political analyst Otto Holman.

Activities: research, book camera crew, set-up and planning, accompany filming and translations.

The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is seriously covering the upcoming Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom. They produce both a documentary as background- and news reportages. Apart from reporting from England, NHK is also visiting Denmark and the Netherlands, because they are known for their Euro scepticism. The Dutch voted against a EU treaty with Ukraine in a referendum earlier this year. Europe correspondent Kaori Nagao and Chihiro Tanaka a special reporter from Japan follow Euro sceptic Thierry Baudet and visit the debates at his Forum for Democracy. On the side the meet followers and Euro sceptic shop owners in Amsterdam.

Activities: research, advise, set-up, planning and accompaniment of filming.

After two Swiss Air Force F-5's belonging to the Patrouille Suisse aerobatic display team collided during a practice display at Leeuwarden air base, in the Netherlands, the Swiss TV channel SRF need facts and footage. One of the Tiger jets managed to land in spite of the damages whereas the other aircraft crashed. Fortunately, the pilot was able to eject from the plane suffering only few cuts and bruises.

Activities: research.

People in the Netherlands and Germany are becoming more and more worried about the bad state of the two Belgian nuclear power plants in Tihange and Doel. Together with the German city Aachen, the Dutch city Maastricht even started a court case to demand closure of the nuclear power plant in Tihange. After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March 2011, the Japanese broadcaster NHK send Brussels correspondent Kaori Nagao to the two nuclear power plants,  a Dutch couple just living close to the nuclear plant in Doel and to a demonstration against the plants in Maastricht to report about the unrest and fears.

Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompany filming.

On June 23 a referendum will be held to decide if the United Kingdom will step out of the European Union. French senior international correspondent Guillaume Debre from the first French TV channel TF1 visits the Dutch city Maastricht to find out how Eurosceptic the Dutch are. Maastricht was the place where the treaty of Maastricht was signed in 1992. A treaty to integrate Europe and to create a single European currency, the Euro. Debre takes a look at Mosa, a company that produces tiles and took to the CEO. He interviews the mayor of Maastricht, a Eurosceptic politician and café owner.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming and translations.

A portrait of Pleuni, a Dutch girl of 12 years old that takes part in an unique mermaid swim course given by her mother, swimming instructress Jolanda. In four weeks the course members learn how it is to swim as a mermaid, to develop the mermaid swim technique and how to safely use the mermaid tail. After passing the final test the participants will receive a mermaid diploma. Pleuni also shows her house, room and takes the viewers to her school, where she and her classmates get a theatre lesson preparing for a stage play. Video Link!

Activities: camera and sound.

Through an advertising agency the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs assigned production company &Bromet to produce a series of online 60 seconds anti-discrimination videos. The series title is 'Cross out discrimination'. The purpose of the short films is to show that employers can overcome their doubts and prejudices and set an example. Because both workers and employers in these movies are belonging to a discriminated group it will strengthen the credibility of the online videos. The target groups that will be portrayed are: elderly, pregnant women, Muslims, coloured people, lesbians and gays and people with disabilities.

Activities: research.

The most famous architectural style of Dutch origin is called the Amsterdam School (Amsterdamse School), and 2016 marks 100 years since the distinctive style began to transform the face of Amsterdam and the lives of the people within it. Entire neighbourhoods in the Dutch capital from the 1910s and 1920s were built in this style, with the Grand Hotel Amrâth as the most visible example in downtown Amsterdam. Video Link!

Activities: camera & sound.

On April 6 The Netherlands goes to the polls to take part in a referendum on whether or not the cabinet should support the EU’s treaty of association with Ukraine. The evening before the referendum the Swiss news broadcasts a reportage about the referendum. One of the initiators from the shock-blog Geen Stijl explains why they gathered the signatures to make the referendum possible, before a debate the participants explain why they are in favour or against the treaty and a scientist concludes that the referendum actually has more to do about Europe.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, direction, interviews, make rough edit, FTP material, advice about outcome and exit polls.

The Euronews program Reporter produces an extensive reportage about existing differences and problems across Europe to integrate recognized refugees successfully into the labour market. What are the obstacles to find professional recognition, is talent wasted because highly-qualified refugees are not finding a job at their level, are there problems to adapt to the western society, is there enough support by public institutions to integrate? Euronews reporter Hans von der Brelie makes two portraits of well-educated refugees in Germany and the Netherlands doing their best to find qualified work and to integrate in society.

Activities: research, book camera crew, set-up, planning, accompany filming, translations.

In France there is a debate about work time and competitiveness. There are a lot of political and economic critics against the 35 hour-week, which may destroy the competitiveness of French companies. But are the French employees working enough? The Dutch have a very short working week of 30 hours per week on average. The reason? Partial time is widespread with more than one employee in two in the country working part-time. France2 reporter Magali Boissin visits the Netherlands to make a portrait of a part-time employee working at job site company Monsterboard and of Yorrick a part-time salesman of a clothing company that would love to work full time, but does not get the possibility because he becomes too expensive for the employer.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming.

On July 17th 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine. On board were 283 passengers and 15 crew members. Among the passengers were 196 Dutch nationals. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), the Netherlands Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Dutch National Police, the police and judicial authorities of Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine are executing a criminal investigation to establish the facts, identify those responsible for the crash and to collect evidence which can be used in court. Ren TV reporter Vitaliy Kahin meets relatives of the crash victims and a journalist to find out what they expect of the investigation and the outcome.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, driving, accompany filming.

The Netherlands is a tax paradise for many international companies like Ikea, Starbucks and pop stars like The Rolling Stones and U2. They transfer money to the Netherlands in order to hide away from the taxes in the countries where the money was earned. In the first half of 2016 the Netherlands is chairman of the EU. One of the spearheads of the Dutch government is to urge on a durable and robust Eurozone. The actual fact that the Dutch are known to be a tax paradise for multinationals undermines this goal and the credibility of the Dutch government. The German International Channel Deutche Welle plans a reportage about it and needs an idea what is possible.

Activities: research.

TF1 produces a series of travel reportages to show that it is possible to visit cities in Europe for a good price. In Amsterdam reporter Axel Cariou rents a bike, visits the Rijksmuseum, some traditional cafes and the daily Albert Cup market. He views some original hotels, eats herring from the tail and has a Dutch dinner in a restaurant.

Activities: research and planning.

For a news reportage to be broadcasted around Valentine's Day the news program from the first French TV channel TF1 produce a reportage about the Flora Holland flower auction in Aalsmeer. French buyers are portrayed while they check the quality and buy of flowers. They explain how the enormous amounts are processed every day and that the numbers double around Valentine's Day. After the auction the flowers are packaged and loaded into trucks to leave for the wholesale market Rungis near Paris, form where the flowers will be distributed in Paris and France.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompaniment filming.

There are signs that human traffickers are active close to refugee centres in the Netherlands attempting to recruit young women as prostitutes. In the past dozens of young, unaccompanied asylum seekers disappeared from refugee centres and are thought to have ended up in the hands of people traffickers.

Activities: research.

The Dutch city Utrecht takes a step towards paying people a salary whether they work or not by allowing small groups of benefit claimants to be paid £660 a month – and keep any earnings they make from work on top of that. Their monthly pay will not be means-tested. They will instead have the security of that cash every month, and the option to decide whether they want to add to that by finding work.

Activities: research, set up and advice.

Donald Trump and the Netherlands, it is not a good combination. The man who turn's American politics upside down these days did some loss-making business in the Netherlands. All involved investors and companies lost their money. And they never heard from Trump since.

Activities: filming, advice, driving.

Last year the owl that attacked people in Purmerend became world news. Der Spiegel reporter Ralf Hoppe visits the Netherlands to write an article about what the owl did to the city and its inhabitants. Although many were victim of the owl attacks there is large support for a pettion to release the wild bird in nature. Although the owl is a protected animal, it is not allowed to set the owl free if it has been born in captivity.  

Activities: research, set up and advice.

Nordisk Film TV produces the crime documentary series Eftersøgt (Wanted), aired by broadcaster SBS Discovery on the Danish TV channel Kanal 5. The series investigates fugitives wanted by Danish police via Interpol. One of them is an American that supposed to be connected to the production of synthetic drugs in the Netherlands. In February 2011 a location in the south of the Netherlands was raided and the precursors for the production of synthetic drugs were found.  Research needs to be done after the English fugitive, the scene of the crime and interviews with the Dutch authorities about the raid need to be se-up.

Activities: research.

Over the last years Dutch innovative initiatives in elderly care attracted worldwide attention. The BBC Scotland program Eorpa produces a background reportage about the phenomena and covers three innovations. An old people’s home from Humanitas in Deventer offers free housing for students in exchange for 30 hours of assistance per month to bring the energy of younger generations in the centre. Hogewijk, a centre for people growing demented in Weesp, created a closed village where the residents can freely move around. There is a supermarket, restaurant, café, theatre, hairdresser and other shops. The residents live in life style group apartments where the interior and way of living corresponds with their cultural background. Buurtzorg (Neighbourhood care) is a totally decentralised national organisation of district nurses without managers and planners. Small local teams manage themselves with the use of innovative applications. The care organisation is so successful that it is introduced everywhere in the world.  

Activities: advice, research, set-up, planning, book and drive rental van, accompany filming, interviews and translations.

The CAI Herderwijk Project in The Netherlands used a participatory process -pro-actively stimulating demand for high-speed connectivity in the local community. It also developed a detailed map inventorying existing ducts in civil infrastructures and town works planned by local municipalities as well as by energy companies operating in the area. CAI Herderwijk received the European Broadband Award in the category Open access and Competition. The European Broadband Awards competition is organized by the European Commission and showcase best practices to many project promoters across Europe. Produced and directed by Ángel Varela Pena.

Activities: filming.

The Finish public broadcaster YLE is producing a series of international climate stories to transmit and publish during the Paris Climate Summit 2015. Foreign correspondent Maria Tolsa also visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch cope with the changing climate. She visits a Room for the River location in the Dutch delta where land is prepared for flooding and farms and houses were put on higher grounds and walks along with the Climate Miles walk to Paris by the Dutch environmental pressure group Urgenda. On the island Texel a story is produced about salt potatoes that can be cultivated with salt water and in Rotterdam YLE covers the efforts that are made to fight the increasing rainfall. Maria visits the water square that can function as a water storage and a farm on a rooftop  that promotes green rooftops because they retain rain water.

Activities: research, advice, set-up, planning, accompanying filming.

Since a few years the Dutch are renting out jails to states like Belgium and Norway. Since there are rumours that Switzerland is also interested, Swiss TV wants to produce a background reportage about the Norwegian jail in the Netherlands. At the same time Swiss research comes out that concludes that imprisoning Swiss people in the Netherlands might not be such a good idea.

Activities: research, advice, set-up and planning, book camera crew, direction and interview, organise archive footage.

On the day of the official presentation of the MH17 airplane disaster by the Dutch Safety Board, reporter Henriette Engbersen attends the presentation and does live stand-ups. Silene and Rob Fredriksz, who lost their son and his girlfriend, give their views before and after the presentation of the report.

Activities:  research, advice, set-up and planning, directions and interviews, driving and filming.

A day before the research after the MH17 airplane disaster will be presented, reporter Henriette Engbersen is visiting the Netherlands to check out what people expect for a Swiss TV news report. A specialised journalist and people give their views about the airplane that very probably was shot out of the sky with an anti-aircraft missile.

Activities: research, advice, set-up, planning, book editing suite and editor, filming, accompany edit.

Gordon Watson is recognised as one of the world's leading authorities of 20th Century design. He says he was always destined to work in antiques having caught the ‘dealer bug' at a young age. For BBC 2 Gordon is followed while he is in the Netherlands visiting leading Dutch designers and art dealers. Very excited about the meetings with the designers, and even more about their designs Gordon Watson travels through the Netherlands to buy Dutch design for specific clients, for his shop in London or just for himself.

Activities: research, advice, set-up and planning, book and drive rental van, accompany filming, boom audio at some of the interviews.

European agricultural ministers are holding emergency talks about the problems European farmers have with the decreasing prices for agricultural products.NHK Europe correpondent Kaori Nagao produces a reportage about a small Belgian dairy farmer that will demonstrate in Brussels to get financial support from the EU and a portrait of Dutch dairy farmer Jan Jonkman. He has enlarged his farm seriously to be prepared for the moment the milk quotum was lifted earlier this year. Jonkman is buying more cows and is looking at the long term and expects exports to grow anyway. He takes the NHK correspondent to the cooperative dairy factory nearby to show how many different cheeses they produce for the world market.  

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, translations.

Sail Amsterdam is the largest free public event in the world. Its inaugural edition took place in 1975 as part of celebrations marking Amsterdam’s 700th jubilee. At the heart of this internationally renowned event is an immense flotilla of Tall Ships, maritime heritage, naval ships and impressive replicas. The ninth Sail Amsterdam commenced with a parade of around fifty Tall Ships accompanied by hundreds of small boats during the trip from IJmuiden to Amsterdam. Hundreds of thousands of people watched the spectacle from ashore or in accompanying boats. NHK Europe correspondent Kaori Nagao is present to cover the Sail In parade, the opening of the nautic event.

Activities: propose story, research, advice, set-up and planning, organise accreditation, accompany filming and FTP feed.

From the 16th till the 19th century the Netherlands was 'wind power world champion' with more than 10,000 windmills. Today the Dutch are stay-behinds because in the use of renewable energies the country is ranked 26th among the 28 EU countries. The government wants to change that and increase the renewable share of 4% to 14%, the EU target for 2020. But against almost all onshore wind power projects there is resistance from residents - one group is even called Don Quixote - and there are also protests against big offshore projects. Rixt de Boer, chairwoman of a foundation that fights the construction of the largest onshore wind park in the Netherlands, takes reporter Sebastian Ramspeck to large wind turbines to explain what the problem is. Marjan Minnesma, the director of Urgenda an organisation that strives for a durable and circular economy, explains why all forms of durable energy are needed to be able to change around the system in 20 years. At the historic Zaanse Schans footage is recorded of Dutch traditional windmills in action.

Activities: research and advice, set-up and planning, organise archive footage, accompany filming, translations.

After the public prosecution department in Austria launched an investigation into a speech made by Dutch anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders in Vienna, ORF wants an interview with the PVV politician. Wilders made the speech in March to members of the Austrian far-right party FPÖ. In the speech, he compared the Koran to Hitler’s book Mein Kampf and said Europe is at war with Islam.

Activities: research, request interview.

After the majority of the Greeks voted 'no' in the referendum about the possible financial rescue of Greece by Europe and  the IMF, the news program 20 Heures of the public French TV channel France2 wants the opinion of some citizens in Europe, including the Netherlands.

Activities: filming and interviewing Dutch people in the centre of Amsterdam, interviews and general views.

Soon it will be a year ago that the dramatic crash of the MH17 took place in the east of Ukraine. Reporter Henriette Engbersen got the assignment to make a reportage about the ongoing research after the cause of the crash by Dutch media and the Dutch Safety Board and about the relatives of the victims. Some of the relatives still could not organise a funeral because they are not sure if the body parts that were found of their loved ones are all identified. Video Link! Article Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, driving and sound.

Because the president of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem is in the media daily negotiating with Greece to find a solution for the financial problems, Swiss correspondent Sebastian Ramspeck want to make a portrait of the Dutch finance minister.

Activities: research, request at Dutch ministry of Finance.

Traumatised British veterans helped by looking for remains of the battle of Waterloo. Archaeology as therapy for British veterans that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and ended up with a post-traumatic stress syndrome. An ambitious charity project that started this months will put traumatised veterans at work together with archaeologists to refine the historiography of the famous battle of Waterloo and to help the soldiers to recover and give them meaning in life again.

Activities: research and set-up.

For a conference in the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre the German marketing and production company Schonith Media  needs a camera team to film in Amsterdam for promotion film to be shown on a trade fair. Senior executives of participating companies meet each other and cross Amsterdam in a carrier tricycle passing known landmarks.

Activities: research, organise quotes, organise camera team.

The discussion program C dans l’air from the 5^th French public channel  debates about a French mayor that admits that his municipalities keeps statistics per migrant group, something that is not done in the French republic. Reporter Maxime Vautier is send to the Netherlands to report about how the Dutch keep detailed statistics per ethnic group. Some criticise this and say it is racist, others say it helps fighting problems in the different ethnic groups. One thing gets very clear, in a society that becomes more and more multi-cultural it becomes more and more difficult to make a distinction between natives and migrants, or autochthonous and allochthonous, as the Dutch call it.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, interview, translations and driving.

The next Euronews discussion program On The Front Line will be about legal highs and will be broadcasted on 4^th of June, the day that the European Drug Agency will publish its annual report. Despite many EU countries imposing bans on these substances they continue to pose significant health risks to users as the active ingredients are not always known and frequently change to get around government restrictions. 

Activities: research and advice.

Hungry, homeless young boys in the Central African Republic were forced by French UN soldiers to perform sex acts on them in return for food or money. Sources close to the case said UN Aid worker Anders Kompass passed the document to the French authorities because of the UN’s failure to take action to stop the abuse. The internal report on the sexual exploitation was passed to media by Paula Donovan, of the advocacy group Aids Free World, who is demanding an independent commission inquiry into the UN’s handling of sexual abuse by peacekeepers. Donovan, the co-director of AIDS-Free World, said: 'The regular sex abuse by peacekeeping personnel uncovered here and the United Nations’ appalling disregard for victims are stomach-turning, but the awful truth is that this isn’t uncommon.' The France2 news needs an interview with Paula Donovan.

Activities: research, interview, camera, sound, FTP video material.

The Netherlands is the forerunner in Europe in the reduction of the use of antibiotics in intensive cattle farming. The densely populated country is the second largest agricultural exporter in the world and this has its negative effects on public health. Lately local doctors have warned the Dutch authorities that multi-resistant bacteria occur more often at farmers and people that live nearby the farms. And a study by a Dutch research institute that has been published recently concludes that there is a direct relation between the stench and the health of the local population surrounding the farms. A Dutch pig farmer decided to develop the farm of the future, a durable farm where a minimum of energy is used and pigs are forced to go to their toilet by innovative floors that are cooled and heated. The manure is processed in a durable way and used to produce energy. This all results in much happier pigs and no need any more of antibiotics. An important example because it is predicted that the use of antibiotics in intensive farming will rise with 70% worldwide in the upcoming years.

Activities: research, set-up.

After it becomes clear that after Belgian detainees also Norwegian detainees will be locked up in the Netherlands, the French public broadcaster France2 comes to the Netherlands to film for a reportage about Dutch jails. The goal of the reportage is to find out why the Dutch close so many jails and still have loads of empty cells and to see what the differences are with the French jails. The filming takes place in the Dordrecht jail. The jail director, the head of the rehabilitation department and an inmate are interviewed. It becomes clear that the Dutch treat prisoners like human beings and prepare them as well as possible for life after imprisonment by offering courses and education, including certificates, and giving them restricted access to internet to find housing and jobs.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, organise filming in a jail, accompany filming and translations.

On April 1, the 31 year old European milk quota is lifted. Swiss TV broadcasts a news reportage from the Netherlands, the second largest dairy producer and exporter in the world. Two Dutch dairy farmers give their views about the new situation. A small scale farmer that fears the future because milk prices might decrease due to over production, and a farmer that has expanded his farm to be ready for unlimited milk production. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, direction, interviews, FTP video material, translations.

After it comes out that the German Wings plane was crashed into the French Alps deliberately, ABC News wants an interview with the chairman of the German Airline Pilots Association James Phillips about the latest news. James Phillips is accidentally in the Netherlands to meet his Dutch colleagues, so a Dutch producer/cameraman is needed. The interview is done at the Dutch Airline Pilots Association using the speaker phone of a mobile phone.  

Activities: research, set-up, planning, filming and FTP video material.

In Purmerend, a small town north of Amsterdam, an aggressive eagle owl (Oehoe in Dutch) is attacking residents for weeks. Often the bird of prey hides out in a complex for mental handicapped. It has attacked dozens of times, usually at the start of the evening. It fly’s in from behind and hit the person on the head. Victims stated that it feel like you are hit by a brick. Since the eagle owl is a protected species the city hall has asked for a special permit to catch the aggressive animal. After the ‘terror owl’ becomes world news, the news program from the French public TV channel France2 wants video footage and interviews. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, filming and interviews, FTP video material.

In Switzerland it is decided to seriously start reducing the use of antibiotics on pig farms. The Dutch are famous for the extensive cattle breeding and for the reduction of antibiotics use. Since a few years they are even trying to achieve the antibiotics free breeding of cattle. A knowledge network funded by the ministry of Economic affairs has been cooperating with a group of durable pig farmers. Hans Verhoeven is the initiator and even developed his farm of the future. Through all kinds of technical innovation his farm is close to being antibiotics free. The pigs need a good and clean climate to live in, clear water and a happy life. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, direction, interviews, FTP video material, translations.

The day after a disturbed armed 19 year old man entered the studios of the Dutch public news program NOS Journaal to demand air time, the France2 news program wants some interviews with Dutch people about the incident.

Activities: research, filming, interviews, general views, FTP video material.

An armed man walked into the editorial offices of the Dutch public TV news program NOS Journaal just before 20.00 hours demanding broadcasting time. The man was directed to an empty studio and after this the personnel warned the police. A little later the intruder was arrested by the police.

Activities: research & advice.

The correspondent from the French channel France2 want to know if it is true that the Dutch have set-up programs for returning extremist fighters from Syria and Iraq. Previously it has been in the news that the Dutch, apart from surveillance and prosecution, also have programs to receive extremist fighters to help them getting back in society by organising housing, a job or education. After the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris it has become clear that these returning fighters have become a serious threat that needs all sorts of extra attention, including the softer and non-legal approach.

Activities: research.

On January 8 the 'Pioneering Spirit', the largest vessel in the world arrived in the Rotterdam harbour. The ship will be docked in Alexia harbour, where the final assembly will take place. The 65 metre long beams of the topsides lift system will be installed on the vessel during the first months of 2015. The Pioneering Spirit is 382 metres long and 124 metres wide and will be able to lift complete oil rigs, and will be used to lay cables on the sea bed. It is expected the Pioneering Spirit  will be completed in March and will leave Rotterdam in April to start offshore operations in the North Sea in the summer of 2015.

Activities: research.

One day before the English conductor Simon Rattle celebrates his 60^th birthday on the 19th of January, Swiss TV broadcasts the Rachmaninov and Strawinksky concert Rattle conducted at the Lucerne Festival in the summer of 2014. Additional to the concert the program SRF Sternstunde Musik broadcasts a short film about Simon Rattle. Some musicians that are close to him will talk about their relation, cooperation and about Simon Rattle himself. One of the interview partners is Barbara Hannigan, one of the most famous sopranos specialized in modern music. She has done numerous concerts with Simon Rattle as a singer. Barbara Hannigan lives in Amsterdam, an interview is needed at short notice.

Activities: research, set-up, book camera crew and equipment, planning, direction, interview, FTP material.

Norway has more convicted prisoners than prison beds, and the Netherlands has more prison guards than prisoners. For a while Belgium is already using a Dutch jail to lock up Belgian inmates in Tilburg, and now the Norwegian and Dutch prison departments made a deal to move inmates from Norway to a jail in Veenhuizen in the north east of the Netherlands. First negotiations need to take place and a treaty has to be signed. The Norwegian second TV channel TV2 needs a camera crew in Veenhuizen and set-up services are needed  for the production of a background reportage in the Netherlands as soon as the treaty is signed.

Activities: research and set-up.

After it becomes clear that the Dutch mother Monique managed to rescue her daughter Aïcha from IS in Syria, the news program from the French public TV channel France2 wants to make a reportage about the spectacular escape. When it turns out that mother Monique does not communicate with media anymore, and the Dutch authorities do not allow her lawyer to talk to the media, research needs to be done after video archive footage.

Activities: research.

Three dimensional printing starts to play a role in the future of architecture. In Switzerland a university is investing in new innovative construction techniques, while in Amsterdam a canal house is constructed with a huge homemade 3d printer. It seems 3d printing will change architecture and construction totally. With a few printers at location one can build a complete house, eliminating waste, cutting on transport costs and high level of detail is no longer more expensive. It will no longer be cheaper to have things produced in faraway countries like China. The design and construction of the 3D print canal house is an experiment to learn more about and develop the technique. Swiss reporter Fritz Muri comes to Amsterdam to discover and cover this revolutionary development.

Activities: research and set-up.

After European Commission published the latest report on human trafficking, the debate program Euronews On The Front line will produce a program on the subject. Since the largest group of victims of human trafficking is women in the prostitution branch a reportage with a portrait of a victim and the views of people in the field is needed. Logic location is the Amsterdam Red Light District. Since most of the women working behind the window in the Netherlands are coming from the east of Europe, it is eventually decided to produce the reportage from that part of the European Union.

Activities: research and set-up.

The football teams of Kazakhstan and the Netherlands meet in the Amsterdam Arena stadium for the second qualification match for the European Championships in France in 2016. Kazakh TV wants a report to find out what Kazakh and Dutch supporters expect from the game and what their predictions are. After the match the Kazakh supporters are proud of their team. They managed to score a goal and it took the Dutch till the 60iest minute to score. Although the Dutch won with 3-1, the Kazakh supporters are proud of their heroes. They managed quite well to withstand the attacks from the team that ended third in the last World Cup. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, filming, interviews, select & FTP video footage.

For car manufacturer Jaguar Shine TV produces a series of commercials. For one of the commercials  research needs to be done after routes and locations in the North of France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Activities: research locations and routes.

Besides fishing and selling fish and oysters on Dutch organic markets and to restaurants, durable fisherman and fish dealer Jan Geertsema also sells Wadden Sea oysters on European food fairs. On the 'Markt des Guten Geschmacks' the Slow Food food fair in Stuttgart in April 2013 Jan Geertsema opens and sells an oyster to a young boy. It turns out the oyster contains a large wild oyster, at least worth €. 1.000,=  Since the oyster is already sold the pearl belongs to the buyer. The unique find becomes national news and the Hamburg based production house Eco Media decides to produce a story about the Wadden Sea oysters and fisherman Jan for the German program ZDF Terra Xrpess. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning

In the Netherlands the authorities are obliged to react on a request or an appeal to make official documents public within 28 days and an extra four weeks, otherwise the municipality, ministry, but also the police and the tax office will have to pay a fine. Especially municipalities are flooded with requests and since there is often not enough time to react many cases have to be compensated. The maximum fine is €. 1260,=

Activities: research.

For BBC 1 the production house Matchlight is asked to produce a documentary about the famous actress Audrey Hepburn. As a young woman Hepburn lived in Arnhem, in the far east of the Netherlands. She arrived in the Netherlands just before the Second world war started and experienced German occupation and the traumatic end of the war, known from movies like a ‘Bridge too far’. This period in her live must have had a large influence on her. Former dancer Darcey Bussel presents the documentary and visits the local theatre, an old villa where Hepburn’s grandparents lived and the Airborne museum in Oosterbeek. Since all the trams were destroyed in the war, the director is driven back to the only historic tram left in the Arnhem Open Air museum. Video Link!

Activities: find protagonists, recce locations, final planning and set-up, organise and drive rental van, accompany filming, research for lunch and dinners.

The children’s BBC program All Over The Place travels through Europe and also visits the Netherlands. Presenters Ed and Iain visit several iconic Dutch locations like the windmills on the Zaanse Schans, the cheese market in Alkmaar, the witches weigh house in Oudewater, the cat boat in Amsterdam and a ditch jumping tournament in the middle of the country.

Activities: research some of the locations, accompany filming, driving, research lunch locations.

One month after the MH17 plane crash the Japanese public broadcaster NHK broadcasts two special programs about the tragic disaster. NHK reporter Koji Gondaira visits the Netherlands to find out how the identification of the victims is doing and if there is already something to say about the investigation of the Dutch Safety Board. Since none of the authorities can say anything yet alternative sources need to be found. A representative of the Dutch Airline Pilots Association and a specialised forensic pathologist give their views on the cause of the crash and problems forensic specilaist face in the identification process. Several relatives of Dutch MH17 victims are portrayed. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, find interview partners and relatives, book cameraman, accompany filming, find and organise archive footage.

For Deutsche Welle European Journal reporter Oliver Glasenapp comes to the Netherlands to find out how society is coping with the tragic plane crash in Ukraine. People are still visiting commemoration sites at the Amsterdam airport and at the military complex where an international team of experts is working on the identification of the victims. A scientist is giving his views on what the Dutch can do to determine, find and punish the offenders and what sanctions can be taken. A colleague of the famous aids researcher Joep Lange, who was also among the victims, explains what important role Lange played in providing cheap aids medicines to the poor. The chairman of the Dutch Press Council gives insight in the effect of the aviation disaster on Dutch society.
Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, driving, vox pops, translations.

ARD Correspondent Arnim Sauth is covering the day the first human remains of the MH17 plane crash in Ukraine, an official day of mourning. The question if flying over a war zone was an irresponsible thing to do, since other airlines already decided to stop flying over Ukraine. How did the long distance flight briefing go, and were there doubts about the flight schedule?

Activities: research.

On the day the first human remains of the tragic crash of flight HM17 arrive in the Netherlands, ABC needs help to cover the arrival on Airport Eindhoven, and the transport to a military complex in Hilversum. Also a sudden church service for the victims by the Dutch church council in a church in Amersfoort needs to be covered.

Activities: research, set-up, organise accreditation.

After the news comes out that flight HM17 has crashed in east Ukraine, the American broadcaster ABC and the Autstrian ORF need help to cover the tragic event.

Activities: research.

As soon as it becomes clear that flight MH17 crashed French correspondent Francois Beaudonnet needs to rush the Amsterdam airport Schiphol to report on location. A producers is needed.

Activities: research, set-up, accompany filming and live stand-ups.

For an interview in Amsterdam the Berlin based production company Mmpro Film und Medienproduktion needs a camera crew working with a Canon 5D DSLR camera at short notice.

Activities: research and find crew and right equipment.

The Dutch national football team has surprised the nation and is almost in the final. The last hurdle is Argentina in the semi-final. On a cold, grey and wet evening almost every Dutch person is watching the match, resulting in an absolute viewers record of more than 12 million. The news program of the second France public cannel France 2 wants video footage of and interviews with the Dutch watching the match. In the North of Amsterdam some streets are heavily decorated and the fanatic supporters gather in front of the TV-set, obviously all totally dressed in orange. A revenge for the defeat against Argentina in the final of 1987 is expected, so also the revenge of the 1974 defeat against German will become a possibility. In the end this turn out to be nothing but a dream. The Dutch play a draw and lose on penalties.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, filming, interviews, FTP video footage.

When it turns out that the formation of an anti-European seven party coalition by Geert Wilders and Marine le Pen has failed, Swiss correspondent Jonas Projer wants to know why it all went wrong. Most Dutch newspapers state that the reason for the failure is that the Polish party KNP is too right wing for the PVV. Party leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke has plead for the abolition for women to vote and has made anti-Semitic remarks. But a reporter from the Dutch public NOS news said that the KNP stepped out of the talks because they could not forget the anti-polish workers website the PVV has set-up in the past and the anti-Polish workers statements Wilders has made a while ago.

Activities: research.

Around 20% of the Dutch office buildings are empty. At the same time there is a continuous shortage of student housing, especially in the West of the Netherlands. For a few years a special expert team for the transformation of office buildings it creating student apartments in unused office buildings. It turns out that it is profitable to build in simple student housing for a few years. The Dutch also came up with other solutions, like student housing in sea containers and lately a new formula called The Student Hotel. This year the shortage of student housing in Switzerland is so bad, that some students need to temporarily live in one of the many atomic bunkers in the country. Reporter Fritz Muri comes to the Netherlands to have a look at innovation in student housing.  Video Link!

Activities: research, advise, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, driving.

On June 13, Shigeru Ban received the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize in front of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation and sponsor of the prize, decorated the Japanese architect personally.  Shigeru Ban, a Tokyo-born, 56-year-old architect with offices in Tokyo, Paris and New York, is rare in the field of architecture. He designs elegant, innovative work for private clients, and uses the same inventive and resourceful design approach for his extensive humanitarian efforts. For twenty years Ban has travelled to sites of natural and man-made disasters around the world, to work with local citizens, volunteers and students, to design and construct simple, dignified, low-cost, recyclable shelters and community buildings for the disaster victims.

Activities: research fast internet, book hotel room, research, advice, set-up, planning and accompanying filming.

It turns out that it is impossible for the Dutch PVV to form a group with six other parties in the European Parliament before the deadline of 24 June. The PVV would like to form a group with the French Front National, the Italian Lega Nord, the Austrian FPO and the Flemish Vlaams Belang. But the needed cooperation with the Polish party KNP does not work out. Geert Wilders will keep on cooperating with the other parties even without the framework of a  formal EP group, and he decides to abandon his claim for a seat in the Dutch and the European parliament.

Activities: research and advice.

Documentary maker Frans Bromet explores why conflicts play a large role in his life. Via a small secret family feud his search for lost relatives leads to Israel where a major conflict, the Palestinian issue, also leaves deep marks. Why is it so hard to end disputes and make a clean sweep? Info link

Activities: research, set-up, accompany filming in the Netherlands, sound.

Before, during and after the European elections in the Netherlands ORF news produce TV- and radio reportages about the debates, the voting itself, the elections night of the PVV and the first exit poll and the way the Dutch receive the first results.

Activities: research, set-up, book camera crew, organise editor, editing suite and FTP facilities.

The news program of the French public channel France 2 wants to cover the first day of the European elections in the Netherlands and in Great Brittan. Footage of voting and some interviews with Dutch voters is needed. Some voters are clearly pro-European, others have their doubts but do not want to leave the European Union because that would be even worse. Other voters are far more sceptic and negative about the Dutch membership of the European Union. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, filming and interviews, FTP material.

Since jails in France are seriously overcrowded, the French broadcaster France 2 want to find out why the Dutch jails are getting emptier and emptier. Over the last years many prisons were closed and some even say that there are even more guards than prisoners in the Netherlands. Also the Dutch Lower House wants to know why are so little prisoners in Dutch jails. They asked the responsible minister to come with an explanation. In June or July the minister will write a letter to the Dutch parliament with some clear explanations.

Activities: research & set-up.

Preceding the European elections ORF Europe correspondent Ernst Kenmayer visits the Netherlands to report about and talk to politicians of the parties leading in the polls. He attends the campaign visit of the PVV party leader Geert Wilders on a market in Spijkenisse and Alexander Pechtold, the leader of D66, handing out flyers in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. A political analyst comments on the last results in the polls and on the possible electoral alliance between the PVV and the Austrian party FPÖ. At a debate organised by various migrant organisations, participants give their views on the possible rise of right wing parties in Europe.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, interview.

ANNE is a theatre performance based on the life of Anne Frank. It covers the two years spent by Anne and her family in the Secret Annex as well as the events of the times before and after. ANNE is the first ever theatre performance based on all the versions of her diaries, including the uncensored ones, edited by Anne Frank herself. The ARD wants to broadcast background reportages a day before the premiere and on the day itself. In the theatre Amsterdam, especially designed and built for the ANNE production, the last preparations are made for the world premiere. The actress who plays Anne Frank, the director and one of the script writers give their views on the new spectacular play about Anne Frank. It is not easy to film during the last rehearsals because the producers are afraid the enormous life seize décor will be filmed and shown before the premiere. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, direction, interviews, organise and accompany satellite feed.

For news reportages before and during the upcoming  European elections Europe correspondent Olaf Bruns visits the Netherlands to report on the PVV leading in the polls and to check out the locals. After an in-depth interview with Geert Wilders in the Dutch parliament, he travels to Volendam, a touristy fishing village on south side of Amsterdam, known for its Wilders support.

Activities: research, set-up, organise Wilders interview.

Since the PVV from Geert Wilders is teaming up with Front National and the Dutch party is leading the polls preceding the European Elections the news program from the second  French public channel France 2 reports on the new right wing powers of Europe. Besides this the ‘Less Moroccans’ speech from Geert Wilders drew a lot of attention in France. They want to know how the Dutch people think about Wilders and about the presence of Moroccans in the Netherlands. In a shopping centre in the North of Amsterdam locals give their views.

Activities: research, set-up, filming and interviews, FTP material.

On Friday 18 April the Supreme Court decided to prohibit the Martijn Association, because their activities are violating public order. The Supreme Court sentenced that the association trivialises, glorifies and propagates sexual contact with children and that this is a serious infringement of the physical and sexual integrity of a child, which can cause permanent psychological damage. Europe correspondent Dmitry Soshin from Channel One Russia is sent to The Hague to report on the outcome. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, filming, translations, FTP material.

A 22-year-old Dutch woman with a life-threatening brain disorder was recently given a whole new cranium, thanks to the help of the innovative technology. Doctors at Utrecht Medical Center in the Netherlands used a 3D printer to build a plastic prosthetic bone for what they said was the first full-skull transplant. The surgery was performed in December, lasting 23 hours. The news program of the French second channel broadcasts a reportage and needs some reactions from the Dutch and some general views. Video Link!

Activities: research, vox pops, general views, FTP material.

Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking. One of the agents was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway, hotel personnel stated. The hotel staff alerted the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands after finding the unconscious agent Sunday morning, a day before Obama arrived in the country. The embassy then alerted Secret Service managers on the presidential trip, which included the Secret Service Director. The US Secret Service spokesman confirmed Tuesday evening that the agency “did send three employees home for disciplinary reasons” and that they were put on administrative leave pending an investigation. ABC News wants to cover the story but needs to know in what hotel it happened and needs footage from the hotel. It turns out that the management of the possible hotels, but also the US embassy in the Netherlands, do not want to confirm anything. The journalist of the Washington Post articles finally reveals that it was the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin, where Obama stayed over as well.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, film exteriors hotel, FTP material.

An increasing number of paedophiles are making use of darknet, a part of internet that is hidden. It is the opposite of the everyday internet called clearnet. Through special software that makes use of a large amount of different IP-addresses it is possible to be anonymously online. SRF Rundschau is producing 15 minute reportage about darknet and the activities of paedophiles in this part of internet where people can stay totally anonymous. Insiders compare darknet with a huge ocean, and the fight against criminals making use of it, with a tiny boat. For the reportage an interview with Troels Oerting, the head of the Europol Cybercrime Centre, is required. In the end Europol also gives permission to film in the hyper modern cyber crime centre's research lab. Text link! Video Link!

Activities: research, book cameraman, planning, interview and direction, accompany satellite feed.

At July 28 this year it is exactly 100 years ago that the First World War started. The Great War will be commemorated everywhere, especially in Belgium and the North of France. The Dutch were neutral at the time and never took part in the war itself. Most people think that nothing happened in the Netherlands, but according to a researcher from the First World War study centre this is not true. It were very insecure and difficult times for the Dutch. They were stuck in between two countries at war. Because of this the Netherlands received 1.3 million Belgian refugees and were confronted with huge problems, especially with food supply resulting in a revolt in Amsterdam. Parts of the South West province of Zeeland were accidentally bombed and throughout the country there were many internment camps with Germans, Belgians and French. The Swiss broadcaster Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) will cover the commemoration of the Great War extensively, and want to know what events will be organised in the Netherlands.

Activities: research.

ARD journalist Michael Heussen is covering the latest developments in the south east of Ukraine. A Ukraine convoy is stopped by pro-Russian forces and forced to turn around. The soldiers decide to only give an interview to Dutch TV, and the ARD would like to include some quotes in their coverage.

Activities: research, organise footage.

ARD Weltspiegel re-broadcasts a more extensive reportage about Jewish people in Antwerp using genetic tests to fight the chance of diseases that are widespread in the Jewish community. Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community diseases like Tay-Sachs relatively often occur. In the 1980ties Rabbi Joseph Ekstein, based in Brooklyn New York, started an organisation with the name Dor Yeshorim ('upright generation'), to fight genetic diseases to appear and to spread. Since then many young Jewish orthodox school children all around the world give blood that gets an anonymous code and is stored in the Dor Yeshorim database. If two partners want to marry and have children they can anonymously check at the organisation in New York if there is a genetic disease match. In Antwerp Joseph Weiss and his wife, a couple with five children, give their views on the matter. In the laboratory of the University hospital of Antwerp Professor Blaumeiser explains what kinds of genetic diseases occur in the Jewish community. Family doctor Martin Rosenblum, is carrying a genetic disease himself, but has his doubts about genetic selection since it might only make things worse.  Text link!  Video link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming.

The Government of Japan has donated €13.25 million to a special OPCW Trust Fund to support the Organisation’s operations related to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons programme. It is the single largest donation received to date into this Trust Fund. The donation was formalised with an exchange of letters today by Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü and Japan’s Permanent Representative to the OPCW, H.E. Masaru Tsuji, at a ceremony today in the OPCW headquarters in The Hague.

Activities: covering ceremony, FTP material.

It turns out that hundreds of copies of the famous diary of Anne Frank are vandalized in libraries in Japan. More than 300 copies of the diary of Anne Frank and other books related to Anne Frank were found in public libraries in and around Tokyo with pages torn out. Nobody claimed responsibility, but many think it is right wing elements that want Japan to slide to the political right. NHK news wants a reaction from the director of the Anne Frank museum. Due to the sensitivity of the matter the director does not want to give an interview, but exteriors from the Anne Frank House and vox pops are needed.

Activities: filming exteriors and interviews, FTP material.

The international jury of the 57th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by American photographer John Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency as the World Press Photo of the Year 2013. The picture shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city at night, raising their phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from

neighboring Somalia—a tenuous link to relatives abroad. Djibouti is a common stop-off point for migrants in transit from such countries as Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, seeking a better life in Europe and the Middle East. The picture also won 1st Prize in the Contemporary Issues category, and was shot for National Geographic. The members of the jury announced the winners at a press conference held at the World Press Photo offices in Amsterdam on 14 February. For an overview of all the winners visit the World Press Photo site.

Activities: book cameraman, research, set-up, planning, direction, interviews, accompany sattelite feed.

Only the father of documentary maker Frans Bromet was Jewish, but he felt a feeling of home coming when he was filming in Israel in 1990. Now he makes a 50 minutes documentary about jewish people that returned or will return to the land of Israel. This is called doing Aliyah, the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel. The return to the Holy Land has been the aspiration of many Jews since the Babylonian exile. Bromet follows and interviews Dutch Jews that already immigrated to Israel and some that are in the middle of moving to Isreal permanetnly. He wants to find out why these immigrants feel the need to leave the calm and peacefull Netherlands and start a new life in the holy land, and how this relates to his own feeling of home coming.

Activities: research, set-up, accompany filming in the Netherlands, sound.

Christmas is boom-time for manufacturers and retailers as consumers engage in an annual shopping frenzy that sends profits soaring and can give a much-needed boost to ailing economies. But it’s not just the makers and sellers of the perfumes, handbags and watches we buy who are cashing in. Counterfeiters are increasingly getting in on that act, thanks to advances in technology and a change in the law in Europe. That’s the focus of this edition of On the Frontline. We’re out on the streets of Amsterdam and speak to customs officers in the port of Rotterdam trying to tackle the rip-off merchants. In our studio discussion we also hear from two experts in customs operations and anti-counterfeiting. They tell us of a surge in fake products – from luxury goods to medicines – and speak of their concerns for the safety of consumers in Europe.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, accompany filming, organise archive footage.

The Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention has its Eighteenth Session in the first week of December 2013 at the World Forum in The Hague, next to the OPCW Headquarters. As requested by the OPCW Executive Council, Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü submits a plan for destroying the Syrian Arab Republic’s chemical weapons outside of the country to the Council. The plan aims to meet a deadline set by the Council to destroy Syria’s priority chemicals by 31 March 2014 and other mostly commodity chemicals by 30 June 2014.

Activities: camera, audio.

Each November in the Netherlands, the red-and-white-clad Sinterklaas arrives by steamboat to great fanfare. In Amsterdam alone, hundreds of thousands turn out along the canals to greet the tall, bearded saint and his helpers, jolly types called “Zwarte Pieten” or “Black Petes.” After riding off on a white horse, Sinterklaas is said to roam the country until December 5th, when he lands on Dutch roofs and sends his Black Petes down chimneys to deliver gifts to good little girls and boys. Over the last years there are Dutch that feel that the Black Pete tradition is outdated and discriminating. This year a huge debate arises about the future of Black Pete dividing the Dutch over their Sinterklaas tradition. RSI reporter Tomas Miglierina travels to the Netherlands to cover the arrival of the children's friend and his black faced helpers and the debate.

Activities: find, and organise interview with initiator anti-black Pete movement.

On November 15, the OPCW Executive Council approves a detailed plan of destruction to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. In the plan, Syrian chemical weapons will be transported for destruction outside its territory to ensure their destruction in the “safest and soonest manner”, and no later than June 30th 2014. A statement from the OPCW spokes person is postponed a few times. Finally he comes out around 20.30 hours in the evening.

Activities: camera, audio.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French party the Front national (FN), visits The Hague today to meet with Dutch politician Geert Wilders, in an effort to build a powerful far-right political force during the 2014 EU elections. Receiving Le Pen in The Hague, Wilders said that she was 'an important politician and a good friend', reported the Dutch public broadcaster NOS. The two organise a joint press conference, underlining their plans to work together. Due to a lot of press interest and a very small press room, SRF has difficulties to attend the press conference.

Activities: research, get correspondent in press conference.

Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community genetic diseases like Tay-Sachs relatively often occur. In the 1980ties Rabbi Joseph Ekstein, based in Brooklyn New York, started an organisation with the name Dor Yeshorim ('upright generation'), to fight genetic diseases to appear and to spread. Since then many young Jewish orthodox school children all around the world give blood that gets an anonymous code and is stored in the Dor Yeshorim database. If two partners want to marry and have children they can anonymously check at the organisation in New York if there is a genetic disease match. In Antwerp Joseph Weiss and his wife, a couple with five children, give their views on the matter. In the laboratory of the University hospital of Antwerp Professor Blaumeiser explains what kinds of genetic diseases occur in the Jewish community. Family doctor Martin Rosenblum, is carrying a genetic disease himself, but has his doubts about genetic selection since it might only make things worse. Text Link!  Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming.

It suddenly turns out that not the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai will win the Nobel peace prize 2013, but the OPCW, the Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, which has its head quarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. At 11.00 hours the Nobel committee states in a press conference that the OPCW won the Nobel peace price. At 13.30 hours the OPCW director-general Ahmet Üzümcü gives a press conference in the Bel Air Hotel, just besides the headquarters of the OPCW. NHK Europe correspondent Takashi Ichinose reports on location, interviews OPCW delegates about the surprising news, does some stand-ups and covers the press conference.

Activities: research, advice, filming, audio, co-ordinate live stand-up, FTP material to Tokyo.

'We make war so we are war'. That, some would say chilling quotation, came from Abdelkarim Honing, a young man in the Netherlands who has converted to Islam. He has seen many of his friends leave to take up arms in the bloody conflict in Syria. In Amsterdam leaders in the Muslim community are deeply concerned by the exodus of more than 100 young men to the war-torn country which has become the number one destination for jihadists. Does the civil conflict pose a major terrorist threat to Europe? ‘On The Frontline’ confronts the issues behind the exodus of fighters to Syria and what it means for Europe. A debate between a former Islamist extremist and counter-terrorism expert. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, translations.

The Yong Sheng is the first ever container-transporting vessel sailing transit along the Northern Sea Route. When arriving in the port of Rotterdam the 19,000-ton vessel “Yong Sheng” will get its place in the history books as the first container-transporting vessel which made it transit along the Arctic shortcut between Asia and Europe. The melting Arctic ice is quickly expanding the sailing season on the Arctic route, shaving two weeks off the traditional route between Asia and Europe via the Suez Canal.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming.

After years of negotiation a new European rule to ban discarding unwanted fish overboard was agreed upon in May this year. Fisherman and fish dealer Jan Geertsema wants to change the system by promoting fishing in a much more durable way, decreasing the number of non-commercial discard fish to a minimum. For the rest he sells and promotes the fish surplus, extra caught fish and unknown sorts of fish to exclusive restaurants and he sells fish on organic markets. Geert Buruma, chef cook and owner of restaurant Merkelbach in Amsterdam, loves to work with the special surplus fish from Geertsema. Both Jan and Geert strive for durable changes in fishing which actually would make the new European discard rules unnecessary to implement. In his kitchen Buruma shows what you can do with fishery discards and underlines how important it is to eat and work with durable food, a durable fisherman in the harbour of Den Over states that bringing discards ashore is bad for the system because young fish that would have survived is taken out of the system. Jan Geertsema uses ancient fishing techniques with large-mesh nets, so young fish can escape. To promote durable fishing he established the 'Goeie Vissers' organisation. The fishermen that joined the ‘Goeie Vissers’ group also use more durable nets and techniques. According to Jan, a follower of the Slow Food movement, people should really be conscious about what they eat, where it is coming from and how it is produced or caught. Many colleagues think Jan is crazy to work with large-mesh nets, but he just does not want to catch the young fish. Within the Slow Food organisation he now founded the Slow Fish movement, to spread his durable fishing philosophy around the world. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, part of the direction and interviews, translations, organise and accompany satellite feed.

Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister Akira Amari visits the Netherlands and Denmark. He is hoping to find out how those countries boosted their economies. Revitalizing the agricultural and medical industries is a key part of the growth strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. While in the Netherlands, Amari visits an area in the Wageningen region known as 'Food Valley'. Officials from the public and private sectors conduct research there in an effort to create new businesses. Amari hopes to study the conditions that led the Netherlands to become the world's 2nd largest exporter of food products, trailing only the US. NHK News wants HD video footage from the minister arriving at his Amsterdam hotel after his Dutch tour, and from an exclusive interview by NHK journalist Yasunori Okazaki.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, filming general shots minister Amari and interview, FTP material to Tokyo.

Since the seventies of the last century the fans of the Amsterdam football club Ajax identify themselves with Jews. Although officially Ajax is not a Jewish club, many of the supporters sing and yell 'Jews, Jews, Jews' during every match. A Dutch foundation against anti-Semitism wants the supporters to stop using the term Jew as a nickname, even though discrimination has nothing to do with it. The problem is that the tradition evokes anti-Semitic utterances from the supporters of opponents. Most of the Ajax supporters are proud of their "Jewish identity", and do not want to stop using it. But there are also older Jewish supporters Ajax fans that are hurt by the chanting. In the meantime Ajax, the Dutch Football Association, Ajax supporters and representatives of the Jewish community try to find a solution. The documentary researches the remarkable nickname tradition, the link between Ajax and the Jews and what the Jewish identity actually means. The Dutch Jewish broadcaster De Joodse Omroep will broadcast the 60 minutes documentary about Ajax and the identification with the Jewish culture on August 25, 2013. Video Link!

Activities: research, gather and meet protagonists, set-up and planning, accompany filming, sound.

A ban on discarding unwanted fish overboard is the most contentious new rule agreed to in late May after years of negotiation. Fishermen currently discard nearly a quarter of Europe's total catch on average, and as much as 70% of the hauls in some areas, European Commission data show. Scientists and environmental groups blame the practice for speeding the decline of fish stocks. Fisherman and fish dealer Jan Geertsema wants to change the system by promoting fishing in a much more durable way, decreasing the number of non-commerical discard fish to a minum. For the rest he promotes the fish surplus, extra caught fish and unknown sorts of fish to exclusive restaurants. Geert Buruma, cook and owner of restaurant Merkelbach in Amsterdam, loves to work with the special surplus fish from Geertsema. The fish is always super fresh and has a minum transportation time. Both Jan and Geert strive for durable changes in fishing which actually would make the new European discard rules unnecessary to implement. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, part of the direction and interviews, translations, organise and accompany satellite feed.

In November 2012 the MTV UK show Geordie Shore is filmed in Amsterdam on the flower market, the Leidseplein and Rembrandtsplein, the Albert Cuyp market, the Red Light District and sex theatre Casa Rosso. Something went wrong with the release forms, and since the video material is now edited, the forms need to be signed.

Activities: organise involved to sign the release forms.

Documentary maker Frans Bromet has a Jewish father and felt a feeling of home coming when he was filming in Israel in 1990. Now he makes a 50 minutes documentary about jewish people that returned or will return to the land of Israel. This is called Aliyah, the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel. The return to the Holy Land has been the aspiration of many Jews since the Babylonian exile. Bromet follows and interviews Dutch Jews that already immigrated to Israel and some that plan to immigrate in the near future. He wants to find out why these immigrants feel the need to leave the calm and peacefull Netherlands and start a new life in the holy land, and how this relates to his own feeling of home coming.

Activities: research, set-up, accompany filming in the Netherlands, sound.

Hollywood has come to Welsh football club Swansea to tell the story of the Swans' triumphant rise to the Premier League in big-hitting movie Jack To A King. Oscar and BATFA award-winners are taking the Swansea football dream to the big screen. Executive Producer Mal Pope: “This is a truly remarkable story of how a ‘rag tag’ band of builders, housewives, teachers and travel agents came together to save their football club and ended up turning their city into a worldwide brand. A story of how sometimes even the wildest dreams can come true!”. John van Zweden owns a Wallpaper and interior shop in The Hague. Since he was young he has been supporter of Swansea and he was one of the sponsors that helped Swansea to survive. Now he is one of the owners of a Premiere League club.

Activities: driving and accompanying filming.

Switzerland is reforming its system to handle asylum seekers using the Dutch system as an example. On the 1 of July 2013 Dutch deputy minister Fred Teeven will present changes to the asylum seekers system. He is forced to do so because the outcry of some hopeless refugees exhausted of all legal procedures and the bureaucratic mistakes resulting in the suicide of Russian detained political refugee Alexander Dolmatov. Also the Board of Europe, the UN and the Dutch ombudsman have criticised the Dutch for its asylum seekers policy that is far too restrictive and inhuman. Some detained refugees in a deportation centre started a hunger strike to ask attention for the hopeless situation they are in. Outside the deportation centres demonstrators give support stating that deportation should be stopped, and that there should be no borders and nations. SRF 10 vor 10 requests help to find some current Dutch background reportages. 
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Activities: research to find Dutch reportages, translate selected reportages.

In May the European Parliament adopted the European Protection Order and protection certificate. New EU-wide protection measures for victims of stalking, violence, intimidation, soon to be valid in all Member States. In early June the European Justice Ministers will enforce the new measures. Euronews Right On reporter Seamus Kearney visits the Netherlands to find out how victims of domestic violence are protected. A victim of stalking and the manager of a reception centre in Utrecht give their views on the practices of stalking and how difficult it is to protect victims of domestic violence. Cees Nierop, a lawyer specialised in stalking, admits that protection of victims will be better guaranteed in Europe.  Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, acting as fake stalker, translations.

On April 30, 2013 the whole world can follow the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the investiture of King Willem Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima. The city of Amsterdam is full of people dressed in orange. While the city is partying, in the centre on the Dam Square everything is going according to protocol. Video Link 1 ; Video Link 2

Activities: research & advise, accompany live stand-up's and interviews.

On April 30, 2013, the very last queens day will take place in the Netherlands. Next year the national celebration day will take place three days earlier, and it will be called Kings day. Foregoing the coronation, SRF journalist Henriette Engbersen checks out the traditional activities, like the claiming of parts of pavement for the flea market sales and youngsters constructing their special skill games for the day that all Amsterdam will be orange. Video Link!

Activities: research, book editing suite, book editor, accompany filming, edit and satellite feed.

ZDF Mona Lisa wants to show the preparations for the Dutch coronation. Activities on Dam Square in Amsterdam, shops full of orange t-shits, hats and sun glasses and a German-Dutch family living in Amsterdam explaining what the monarchy and the upcoming coronation and Queens day means for them.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, direction and interviews, organise and accompany satellite feed.

Suddenly it turns out that the kings’ song that is written and performed by Dutch artists get loads of critics. Tens of thousands of people in the Netherlands have objected to an official King's Song marking the 30 April investiture of Willem-Alexander. The writer of the song withdraws the song, but in the end the song is taken on again. ARD wants to know what the Dutch people think about the song. On the Dam Square, where the preparations for the event started, the Dutch give their diverse views.

Activities: research, direction & interviews, accompany satellite feed.

By law Maastricht coffee shops, are only allowed to sell marijuana to people who officially live in the Netherlands. However, a court ruling in favour of one coffee shop, closed by the Maastricht mayor Onno Hoes because it broke the rules, has given rise to hopes that the ban on foreigners may be dropped.

Activities: research & set-up.

For the coverage of the coronation Euronews correspondent Olaf Bruns is looking for a specialist on the Dutch royal house. The person needs to be interviewed in Amsterdam during the event. Quite difficult because many specialists are already booked by colleagues of other channels.
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Activities: research and advice.

NHK correspondent Takashi Ichinose wants to be well prepared and well positioned to cover the abdication of the Dutch Queen and the investiture of the new King. For a news reportage he wants to find out how popular the monarchy is in the Netherlands and to show the preparation of queens day and of the inauguration of the new monarch.

Activities: research & advice.

The famous BBC car program Top Gear is thinking about filming in Amsterdam. The idea is to sail around a Toyota van thats reconstructed as a hovercraft through te Amsterdam canals. To see if the plan is feasible research needs to be done, and the right civil servants need to be contacted. In the end it turns out that it is impossible to execute the plan because the hovercraft-van does not fit under some of the bridges on preferred routes and locations.

Activities: research, advice, meetings.

For the background to the news program SRF '10 vor 10' Swiss correspondent Jonas Projer wants to check out how popular the monarchy is in the Netherlands and what future it has. He also researches the fortune of the Queen and the royal family. The republican and anti-monarchy organisations team up for protest. They criticize the fact that the monarch does not pay any taxes and that it still has too much political power. Royal fans on the traditional peninsula, still in costumes, see the royal family as their own family and look very much forward to the new king. A president is as expensive, to them the monarchy is an important fundament of Dutch society. Video Link!

Activities: research, advice, set-up and planning, accompany filming.

Since the seventies of the last century the fans of the Amsterdam football club Ajax identify themselves with Jews. Although officially Ajax is not a Jewish club, many of the supporters sing and yell 'Jews, Jews, Jews' during every match. A Dutch foundation against anti-Semitism wants the supporters to stop using the term Jew as a nickname, even though discrimination has nothing to do with it. The problem is that the tradition evokes anti-Semitic utterances from the supporters of opponents. Most of the Ajax supporters are proud of their "Jewish identity", and do not want to stop using it. But there are also older Jewish supporters Ajax fans that are hurt by the chanting. In the meantime Ajax, the Dutch Football Association, Ajax supporters and representatives of the Jewish community try to find a solution. The documentary researches the remarkable nickname tradition, the link between Ajax and the Jews and what the Jewish identity actually means. The Dutch Jewish broadcaster De Joodse Omroep will broadcast the 60 minutes documentary about Ajax and the identification with the Jewish culture on August 25, 2013. Video Link!

Activities: research, gather and meet main protagonists, set-up and planning, accompany filming, sound.

For a report on the on-going crisis in Cyprus EU correspondent Takashi Ichinose needs data to get in touch with the team around Eurogroup chairman, and Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem.

Activities: research and supply needed data.

For filming in the renovated Rijksmuseum a crew from the  BBC Scotland needs a soundman. The museum opens on April 13, 2013.

Activities: research sound people.

These days bank bonuses and especially decreasing them is a lot in the news. The Swiss decided by referendum that the shareholders should decide about how height or low bonuses should be, and on the European level is decided that a maximum bonus should be maximum a year’s salary. In the Netherlands the minister of Finance will introduced this coming summer to cap the bonuses to a maximum of 20%. The news program of the broadcaster ARTE plans to come to the Netherlands to see how the Dutch banks are handling the issue, especially because three of the four large banks have been nationalised.

Activities: research & set-up.

The Dutch National Team is the all-time leader in European Championship titles, winning 20 titles out of 32 tournaments including 5 of the last 7, and finishing as runner-up in the two most recent years (2010, 2012). Their win in 2007 qualified them for the Olympics in 2008, in which they finishing in 4th place in Beijing. During the World Baseball Classic tournament the Dutch team is doing well again. The might play the final against Japan. In that case  NHK will report from the Netherlands. In the meantime the EU correspondent wants to get detailed information about the team, and about the progress they make.

Activities: research.

The ARD wants actual video footage of the Dutch Queen Beatrix. One of the last official activities of the queen is visiting the European School in Bergen to celebrate the 50 years anniversary of the international school. a very special events, since Beatrix also opened the school when she was still a princes.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, direction and interviews, mail footage.

In case the new pope will be a Dutchman, ABC News wants to know what Dutch church specialist can be interviewed and a package of footage of the Dutch cardinal Wim Eijk needs to be stand-bye.

Activities: research and find specialist, organise footage package.

The Swiss public TV program 10 for 10 wants to produce a reportage about the unknown business side of the Dutch queen. It is known that Beatrix is one of the richest women on earth, but how rich is she exactly.

Activities: research, set-up and planning.

The NHK European correspondent will have to cover the abdication of the Dutch queen on April 30, 2013.

Activities: research, organise accreditation.

ORF Weltjournal is planning a background reportage about the Loverboy phenomena and wants to know what the actual situation is in The Netherlands. Around 15 years ago the term Loverboy came into use in the Netherlands and Belgium. Loverboys are young men that make young girls emotionally dependent and subsequently force them to work in prostitution, usually taking all their earnings.

Activities: research.

The EU's law enforcement agency, Europol, has been asked to assist in the investigations into the Europe-wide horse meat scandal. It comes after Findus beef lasagne products, which are made by a French company, were found to contain up to 100% horse meat. The alarm was raised after Comigel, the French food producer, alerted Findus and retailer Aldi that their products did not conform with production standards. An Aldi spokesman said: “Tests have been completed that show horse meat in the withdrawn products. In samples selected at random, tests demonstrated that the withdrawn products contained between 30% and 100% horse meat. Horse DNA has also been found in products in Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands. ARD Tagesthemen wants an interview with the responsible Europol executive.

Activities: research, set-up & planning, organise satellite feed, direction & interview, accompany satellite feed.

The lives of four-year-old Sophie and Sarah, aged two, are well documented by their parents who post pictures of their everyday lives, playing chess, reading books and behaving at the dinner table. However, Sophie and Sarah are not children, but a pair of shaggy Old English sheepdogs. Owners Cees Bol and Hanneke van de Watering record the adventures of their dogs and their furry friends throughout the year in picturesque locations near their small Dutch village of Sibculo.

Activities: research, find Cees Bol and link him and stock agencies to GMA.

Civil society groups everywhere in Europe are gearing up to fight the European Commission’s new attempts to privatize public water services. Civil society organizations believe this privatization conditionality is “unacceptable” and “seriously undermines the right to water.” The Netherlands is famous for its water works and -management, but also for its liberal economic climate and that fact that many public services have been privatized. How is the public drinking water supply organised in the Netherlands? In April last year a new drinking water law is taken on that forbids the privatization of drinking water facilities. According to a specialist, this already was impossible anyway. The drinking water services are all owned by Dutch municipalities and provinces, but they are run as commercial companies. Sounds pretty commercial and privatized, but the specialist underlines that all the shares are in the hands of the authorities, so the drinking water supply stays a public service.

Activities: research, find specialist for info live news stand-up.

A Dutch court has rejected four out of five allegations against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over oil pollution in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. But it found a subsidiary of the firm, Shell Nigeria, responsible for one case of pollution, ordering it to pay compensation to a Nigerian farmer. Shell said it was "happy" with the verdict in the landmark case. The case was brought by four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth, which says it is "flabbergasted". The campaign group says it intends to appeal. However, it has welcomed the Dutch court's ruling that Shell's subsidiary was liable on one count. Video Link 1 ; Video Link 2

Activities: research, set-up and planning, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feeds.

Suddenly it becomes clear that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will resign in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander this year. In a pre-recorded address broadcast on TV, she said she would formally stand down on 30 April. The queen, who is approaching her 75th birthday, said she had been thinking about this moment for several years and that now was "the moment to lay down my crown". Queen Beatrix has been head of state since 1980, when her mother abdicated. In the short televised statement, the queen said it was time for the throne to be held by "a new generation", adding that her son was ready to be king. For ARD Nachtmagazin, ARD Morgenmagazin, ARD Mittagsmagazin, ARD Brisant, ARD Tagesschau, ARD Tagesthemen, ARD Nachtmagazin.

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Activities: research camera crew and interview location, vox pops, accompany satellite feeds, accompany live stand-ups.

Euronews Reporter produces a series of reportages about youth unemployment in Europe. While youth unemployment rates in Greece and Spain hover around 60 percent, the figure in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands is below ten percent. How do the Dutch combat youth unemployment? How do they get young people into the labour market? Caused by the on-going economic crisis also in the Netherland many more youngsters are getting unemployed now. Especially the unemployment figure of Dutch migrant youngsters is rising seriously. While the government and local municipalities are introducing even more spending cuts this year, youngsters and also companies cannot expect much from the authorities. They will have to take action themselves. The Dutch Luckily have a dual system. This approach combining training and practical learning forms the basis of education in the Netherlands. 
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Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming & translations.

For quite some time it is known that the prime minster of the UK will give a speech to make clear how the English see their future in Europe. Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher gave her famous Europe speech in Bruges, Belgium, in September 1988. Suddenly Cameron decides to give his speech in the Netherlands. Out of security reasons the location and time is kept secret till the last moment. Because of the violent liberation of hostages in Algeria, including English civilians, Cameron eventually has to cancel his Europe speech till a later date.

Activities: research & set-up.

Suddenly it becomes clear the Geert Wilders will visit Australia next month. He is invited by an organisation called the Q Society to give a few lectures about his views about the Islam. Originally the plan was to already travel to last year, but it took the Australian authorities much longer to allow Geert Wilders to come and to give him the needed visa.

Activities: research, set-up and planning.

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has been elected as the new head of the Euro group, replacing the outgoing Jean-Claude Juncker. The 46 year-old, who has been head of the Dutch Finance Ministry for two months, was expected to take over. He said he hoped he would be able to focus on longer-term policies rather than just crisis management. The Euro group is made up of the finance ministers from the 17 nations that use the single European currency. Mr Dijsselbloem insisted the Eurozone should continue with economic reforms and austerity measures designed to resolve the debt crisis.

Activities: research, request Dijsselbloem interview.

The Dutch start the transport of the Patriot missiles to Turkey for the NATO protection of the cities close to the border of Syria. The Turkish government asked for extra NATO protection because over the last months some missiles have landed in Turkey causing damage and even casualties. The Patriot system can detect a missile and shoot it out of the sky. On a Dutch army base the Patriot systems, soldiers and extra's leave for the Eems harbour in the north of the Netherlands to be shipped to Turkey. The Dutch general and responsible commander give a press conference to explain what the NATO mission, with the name Anatolian Protector, exactly means in practice. After the pressconference a Patriot system is demonstrated just besides the airstrip where the convoys are gathering and departing.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, translations.

The Dutch have insect farms where grasshoppers, crickets and all kinds of worms are produced. Dutch insect munchers love their creepy crawly snacks so much that they released a special Insect Cookbook this year. Their creation is said to be dedicated to promoting insects as a great source of nourishment. The cookbook contains some pretty unique recipes like how to add worms to your chocolate muffin mix, or grasshoppers on a mushroom risotto. According to Arnold van Huis, a professor at the laboratory of entomology at the Wageningen University, the world population is expected to hit 9 billion by 2050, and there may not be sufficient land to raise livestock that meets everybody’s needs. We might just have to turn to bugs as a protein alternative. The nutritional value of insects is quite similar to that of meat, and it is more environmentally friendly to raise insects instead of livestock. The science program Einstein, from the Swiss public broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen, will transmit a live program around Christmas where insects like mealworms, cricket’s ad grasshoppers will be prepared and eaten. The reportage about the Dutch insects breeders, a delicatessen shop where insects are sold, and an interview with professor Van Huis will be broadcasted in between the cooking and eating. Video Link!

Activities: research, book cameraman, set-up ad planning, direction and interviews, courier shipment.

Richard Nieuwenhuizen was doing what he loved: watching his son play football and helping out his local club by running the touchline as a volunteer linesman. On Monday the 41-year-old father's passion for football cost him his life. Prosecutors announced on Tuesday they were charging three players, two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old, with manslaughter, assault and public violence for alleged involvement in a vicious attack on Nieuwenhuizen after a youth match between two local clubs, Buitenboys and Nieuw Sloten. The players, whose identities were not released, will be arraigned on Thursday at a closed-door hearing. Link!

Activities: research, follow news, write regular updates with latest information.

Nato has approved the deployment of Patriot anti-missile batteries along Turkey's border with Syria. The long-expected move emerged from a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels, and amid growing fears that Syria could use chemical weapons. Nato's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said "The patriot missiles have been deployed, making it necessary for any potential aggressor to think twice before attacking Turkey". The Patriot system would probably be supplied by the United States, the Netherlands or Germany and is designed mainly to bring down missiles. But Turkish papers say it won't be the US ones, but Dutch or Geman, or both. The NHK EU correspondent wants to show the preparations, transport and placement of the Dutch Patriots.

Activities: research, organise permission, set-up filming.

For a four hour ABC documentary about the Bible, hosted by Christiane Amanpour, a romantic looking boat is needed to film the presenter sailing through the Amsterdam canals, drenched by the autumn sun.

Activities: research, find and book romantic salon boat, prey for sun.

Since the seventies of the last century the fans of the Amsterdam football club Ajax identify themselves with jews. Although Ajax is not an official Jewish club, many of the supporters sing and yell 'Jews, Jews, Jews' during every match. A Dutch foundation against anti-Semitism wants the supporters to stop using the term jew as a nickname, even though discrimination has nothing to do with it. The problem is that the tradition evokes anti-Semitic utterances from the supporters of opponents. Most of the Ajax supporters are proud of their "Jewish identity", and do not want to stop using it. But there are also older Jewish supporters Ajax fans that are hurt by the chanting. In the meantime Ajax, the Amsterdam mayor, the supporters association and a few rabbi’s try to find a solution. The documentary researches the remarkable nickname tradition, the link between Ajax and the Jews and what the Jewish identity actually means in practice. The Dutch Jewish broadcaster De Joodse Omroep will broadcast the 60 minutes documentary about Ajax and the identification with the Jewish culture on August 25, 2013 .

Activities: research, gather and meet main protagonists, set-up and planning, accompany filming, sound.

Steve Jobs‘ yacht was unveiled in a Dutch shipyard, where the unusual boat designed by Jobs and famed minimalist designer Philippe Starck was christened “Venus,” after the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. The finished ship was launched at shipbuilder Koninklijke De Vries in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. Jobs’ widow Laurene and three of their children, Reed, Erin and Eve, were at the ceremony. The yacht appears to be as it was described in the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. In the book, Isaacson wrote about Jobs showing him models and architectural drawings of the yacht, which Isaacson described as “sleek and minimalist.”

Actvitities: research, set-up and planning, film, interviews, FTP upload.

Like in other parts of the world also the Dutch are thinking about winning shale gas. Some tests were done, and a journalist from Euronews wants to know if the moratorium on these shale gas test drillings is now lifted. It turns out that the moratorium on Shale gas test drilling is still in place. The Dutch ministry first asked for a research after the effects on humans and the environment. This research needed to be offered Europe wide, and it is not clear yet what organisation will do the research. A press officer of the Dutch ministry of Agriculture says that it is expected that the results of the research will come out in the middle of 2013.
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Activities: research.

In Germany a congress is organised about the security in hospitals against resistant bacteria and viruses. Tagesthemen wants to find out how the Dutch are protecting patients and hospital personnel against antibiotics resistant bacteria. It turns out that washing hands frequently and in the right way is vital. Also the fact that in the Netherlands labs are located in hospitals turns out to speed up the monitoring and discovery. A professor in Molecular Epidemiology of infection diseases from the University medical centre in Utrecht explains and shows how the Dutch organise the protection of hospitals against resistant bacteria.

Activities: research, advice, book cameraman, set-up and planning, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feed.

Several important works of art of considerable value have been stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal art gallery in an overnight burglary. The stolen works are Picasso's Harlequin Head (1971), two 1901 Monet canvases (Waterloo Bridge, London and Charing Cross Bridge, London), Matisse's Reading Girl in White and Yellow (1919), Paul Gauguin's Girl in Front of Open Window (1898), Meyer de Haan's Self-Portrait, (ca. 1890) and Woman with Eyes Closed, a 2002 painting by Lucian Freud. Although such works would fetch millions of dollars at auction, the stolen paintings will be impossible to unload through legitimate channels, given their high profile, and a sale on the black market is likely to bring in only a fraction of the paintings' real value.

Activities: research, follow news, write regular updates for a variety of ABC News personnel.

For a while it known that the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party Geert Wilders is planning to visit Australia. Although the trip was originally planned in 2012, it now seems that he will travel to Australia early next year. Mr Wilders is invited by the Q Society, which spokesman Andrew Horwood described as a group of a few hundred Australians "concerned about the march of Islam into this country". The right-wing Dutch MP, who once compared the Koran to Mein Kampf, applied for a visa a few weeks ago to give speeches in Sydney and Melbourne. The Channel 9 program '60 Minutes' is planning to cover the visit, and to come over to make a portrait of Wilders before he leaves for Australia.

Activities: research, request cooperation of Wilders and communicate 60 Minutes plans to PVV.

France's minister for women is to organise a consultation on ways to abolish prostitution in France and Europe, she has told the Guardian. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the high profile women's rights minister and government spokeswoman, said in an interview that she would be organising a conference of experts on how to contain the sex-trade and human-trafficking. For a special program for France 3, the presenter and documentary maker Mireille Dumas produces a documentary about prostitution policy in Europe. For MD Productions reporter Lionel Baillon visits Switzerland and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In Switzerland prostitution is legal and regulated; it has been legal since 1942. Prostitutes work in licensed brothels, typically with a reception and leading to several studio apartments. Street prostitution is illegal, except in specially designated areas in the major cities. In the Netherlands the prostitution branch is legal since 2000. It has one of the most liberal prostitution policies in the world and attracts sex tourists from many European countries and from the US. In Amsterdam most of the prostitutes work in window brothels. In 2009 the city council decided to fresh up the red light district by starting to restrict the number of window brothels. Window renters, a prostitute, the manager of the new policy and an ex-prostitute running an information centre explain how the Dutch system works and what the effects will be of the new policy.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, interviews.

On the day of the Dutch national elections Austrians Europe correspondent Ernst Kernmeyer covers the vote and the outcome itself. Since the Dutch vote with the red pencil, it takes till 3 o'clock at night before it is definite that the liberal party VVD won again. At 21.00 hours a huge surprise came out of the first exit polls. The large amount of floating voters finally decided to vote on the liberals and the social democrats. For the first time in years the VVD and the PvdA end up with around 40 seats and it gets clear that these two parties will have to form a new government. It also gets clear that the outcome is very pro-European. The populists are pushed back to the political outsides of the political spectrum again.

Activities: research, advise, set-up and planning, translations, mind news footage, accompany live stand-ups.

On the last day before the Dutch national elections Euronews visits Amsterdam to find out how the Dutch are thinking about the political future of the country and of the European Union. A bicycle repairman, clients of a traditional cafe and a cheese vendor on the Albert Cuyp market gives their views. Video Link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning.

The new Dutch austerity measures also include serious spending cuts in the youth care branch. In Rotterdam the company Sagenn lost all its subsidies, and according to the personnel it is not if, but when things will go horribly wrong with some of the youngsters in the harbour town. Some of the youngsters need some extra attention and motivation to find the right track to work or education again. Now they will have to figure it all out themselves. Some will not manage and end up into crime.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, direction and interviews.

On the last weekend before the Dutch national elections the party leaders hit the streets again to meet the Dutch voters and to show their faces to national and international media. The leader of the social democrats Diederik Samsom visits Utrecht. During the last week he became the new runner up. Suddenly it is a neck and neck race between Samsom and the actual liberal prime minster Mark Rutte. Samsom and his elections caravan walk through a sunny centre of Utrecht, and hand out roses. At the end of the tour the new social democrat leader gives a speech.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, translations.

With less than 10 days to go before the Dutch national elections, the Swiss Italian correspondent visits the Netherlands to check out how the Dutch see yet another moment to elect a new government. It will be the 5th government in 5 years and everybody in the world is curious how anti-European the Dutch became.

Activities: research, set-up and planning.

The Netherlands scrambled two F16 fighter jets Wednesday to escort a Spanish passenger plane to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after air traffic controllers could not make contact with the aircraft's crew. Dutch media initially reported a possible hijacking, but local police and Vueling, the Spanish carrier whose jet was at the centre of the scare, later confirmed there was never a hijacking or a hostage situation.

Activities: research, follow news, updates.

At the shipyard of Hollandia an enormous platform needs to be assembled for the Energy company Vattenfall. The platform needs to hold the transformers for yet another off shore wind park. For the last phase of the process the base of the platform is transported into a gigantic assembling hall with robot caterpillar machines. The footage will be used for a company film about off shore wind parks

Activities: research & planning, accompany filming, direction & interview.

In Rotterdam, 'the city of Pim Fortuyn', the PVV kicks off his national elections campaign. Surrounded by an army of security guards- and equipment, and accompanied by the song 'The eye of the tiger' Geert Wilders make his appearance and clearly expresses his anti-European viewpoints.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, film event.

A 15-year-old Dutch boy has been sentenced to a year in juvenile detention after he confessed to killing a schoolgirl over a row that appears to have begun on Facebook. Jinhua K was 14 when he fatally stabbed Joyce "Winsie" Hau at her home. Later in the year a teenage couple will appear in court, charged with ordering the killing.

Activities: research basic data of court, public prosecutor, family, media.

A month before the Dutch national elections the parties are kicking off their campaigns. The Socialist Party gathers in the Open-air Museum in Arnhem. On an extremely hot Sunday party leader Roemer gives his campaign speech. The party is the runner up in the polls, and even seems to be able to compete with the liberal party VVD.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, translations.

While the results of the European nuclear stress test are discussed in Brussels, NHK Europe correspondent Takashi Ichinose visits the one and only Dutch nuclear power plant in Borselle. The managing director gives him a tour, including a visit to the heart of the plant, the basin where the nuclear fuel elements are kept. It turns out that the plant survived the stress test well. The future of nuclear power is also unclear in the Netherlands, since the plans for a second nuclear power plant are postponed indefinitely.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming.

After an organ transplant scandal involving data manipulation to have patients jump the long waiting lists for organs has shocked Germany, ARD Tagesthemen wants to know how the Dutch, also part of the Eurotransplant area, are treating waiting lists and organs. A liver specialist and liver surgeon from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam explain how their transplant department handles the waiting lists and organ that are offered. It turns out that the main difference seems to be the less hierarchical way the Dutch are working. Weekly a team of minimum ten transplant team members discuss the patients that will get or just got a transplant organ, and obviously the organ waiting list. The director of the Dutch kidney patients association gives his view on the German scandal and on the Dutch situation. Video link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning, book camera crew, find satellite feed point, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feed.

Canadian documentary maker Sheona McDonald from Dimestore Productions got the commission to make a pilot for a documentary about Woman and porn. Over the last years woman became much more active in the porn industry. As producers and as end users. In the Netherlands Dusk TV, a special channel broadcasts women porn 24 hours a day, and after the sudden success of Fifty shades of grey from by the British author E. L. James, women and porn are definitely in the spotlight. Sheona interviews the founder and the director of Dusk TV and American women porn producer/director Jennifer Lyon Bell, who is based in Amsterdam. For many years porn has been totally heterosexual and male orientated. With the new market of female end users, the approach changes completely. Dusk TV already came up with a new name: 'porna'.

Activities: organise crew, equipment, set-up and planning, accompany filming.

The FBI is investigating how needles came to be placed in sandwiches served on four Delta Airline flights from Amsterdam to the US on Sunday. The sandwiches were produced by Amsterdam catering company Gate Gourmet, which has launched its own investigation into the incident. Needles were found in five turkey sandwiches on flights to Atlanta, Seattle and Minneapolis. As soon as the needles were discovered, flight crew replaced the sandwiches with pizza, news agency AP reported.

Activities: research, get actual information, research footage and provide data agencies and archives.

There is a rumour that a Russian series for kids “Guest from the future” is banned by a court in Amsterdam. This science fiction children series was made in 1985 and many kids in Soviet Union were in love with it and especially with the main character of this movie Alisa Selezneva. The series was based on the novel “One Hundred Years Ahead” by Kir Bulychev.

Activities: research.

Robin van Helsum persuaded Berlin officials he was an orphaned 'Forest Boy' who lived in the woods. Now his Dutch identity is revealed - and his troubled story with it. ABC News wants confirmation the forest boy is Dutch, more information about his life and contact to family and friends.

Activities: get latest information, organise contact with Dutch police, trace down Dutch journalist that made exclusive interview, news updates

A European directive, officially entitled "on the right of information in criminal proceedings", was adopted last in April by the Council, after the European Parliament approved it last December. It will enter into force upon publication, but will give Member States a two-year period to pass legislation to transpose it into national law. First, it gives any suspect or accused person to receive adequate information on (some of) their procedural rights, including the right to a lawyer, the right to legal aid when applicable, the right to remain silent. When the suspect or accused person is deprived of liberty, this information must be provided in writing. When he is not deprived of liberty (and for instance he is questioned by the police while at large), this information may be provided orally or in writing, Member States will be free to choose. Euronews Right On visits England and the Netherlands to see how the actual system works, where it went wrong and how the new rules will be implemented. In England somebody explains how he did not get any rights after being arrested in Portugal, and in the Netherlands a criminal lawyer, a judge and the head of a cell block in a police station give their views. The lawyer is extremely happy with the improvement and it turns out that the Dutch police have most of the new rules already in place. Video link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, translation.

The program ORF Weltjournal will focus on European subsidies and especially how these subsidies are wasted and how corruption plays a role.

Activities: research Dutch angles.

The TV-program Euronews Reporter sends a reporter to make background reportage about the crisis in the Netherlands. In the report a portrait of an unemployed skipper and his daughter and from a freelance builder, and one that just has been fired. Two economists gives their pro- and anti-Europe and Euro views and in the Dutch money museum a curator explains the history of the previous monetary unions and former Dutch treasurer Cees Maas explains that the Euro is not in a crisis, but the states are - because they have spent too much. At the end also finance minister Jan Kees de Jager explains that the Dutch will meet the 3% deficit rule and will work hard to keep the triple status. Video link!

Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, translations.

After it became clear that the Dutch also need to come up with serious budget cuts to reach the European 3% deficit rule, the French Swiss correspondent comes to the Netherlands to make a report about the crisis in the Netherlands. How is it possible that such a rich EU state has such deficit problems, and why are there so many families that need to survive with the help of food banks. In a food bank in a suburb of Rotterdam people explain what they think what went wrong and a politician from the Socialist Party  gives his views, showing the large amount of empty office space, and houses for sale. It seems reforms are very much needed.

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming.

Straight after the Dutch Cabinet fell, a debate is organised in the Lower House. Main theme is the necessity to keep to the European 3% deficit rule and the accompanying cuts. After many weeks of budget talks failed, and when it becomes clear that elections will be held in September the political confrontation is inevitable.

Activities: keep track of debate, make notes, update Japanese EU correspondent.

On Monday April 23 is becomes clear that Geert Wilders pulled the plug out of the vital budget talks after 7 weeks. This means that that since the toleration of the PVV stops and the majority of the Dutch cabinet disappeared. Prime minster Mark Rutte does not have any choice but to ask Queen Beatrix for the resignation of his cabinet.

Activities: follow news, write regular updates for Brussels correspondent.

Since the seventies of the last century the fans of the Amsterdam football club Ajax identify themselves with the Jews. Although Ajax is not an official Jewish club, many of the supporters sing and yell 'Jews, Jews, Jews' during every match. A Dutch foundation against anti-Semitism wants the supporters to stop using the term Jew as a nickname, even though discrimination has nothing to do with it. The problem is that the tradition evokes anti-Semitic utterances from the supporters of opponents. Most of the Ajax supporters are proud of their "Jewish identity", and do not want to stop using it. But there are also older Jewish supporters Ajax fans that are hurt by the chanting. In the meantime Ajax, the Amsterdam mayor, the supporters association and a few rabbi’s try to find a solution. The documentary researches the remarkable nickname tradition, the link between Ajax and the Jews and what the Jewish identity actually means in practice. The Dutch Jewish broadcaster De Joodse Omroep will broadcast the 60 minutes documentary about Ajax and the identification with the Jewish culture in autumn 2013 .

Activities: research, gather and meet main protagonists for the documentary, make a basic scenario/plan.

On Monday April 2, 2012, it was exactly 10 years ago that the Dutch where the first in the world to pass a law that legalised euthanasia. On this historic day Ren TV broadcasts background news reportage about the law, and how it works in practice. While in Russia euthanasia is very controversial and illegal, the Netherlands has ten years of experience with ending life. The director of the Association of Voluntary Euthanasia and ex-family doctor explains how the ending life procedure works and according to what rules euthanasia can be executed. The director also explains why the Netherlands has an End Life clinic and mobile euthanasia teams, for patients that want their life to be ended but where the doctors do not go along. A daughter of a euthanasied father explains why the legalisation is so important, and how peaceful her terminally ill father died. The chairman of a pro-life patients association explains why they have the pro-life declaration, as a reaction of the euthanasia declaration of the NVVE.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book car, drive, accompany filming, translations.

During the French presidential elections Euronews broadcasts a special program. One of the issues is the renewed popularity of the extreme right party Front National. A background reportage looks at the reasons behind the increase of populism in France and Europe. Why became Front National so popular again? What are the reasons why people vote for extreme right? Why do the voters reject the traditional parties? French Front National voters explain why. To put Front National in the European context Euronews make a cross profile of the PVV, the Freedom Party, from Geert Wilders. The PVV grew enormously over the last years and is now tolerating the conservative coalition. Correspondent Sophie Desjardin visits the north of Amsterdam, a district where a majority of the population voted for the PVV, to find out where the PVV is different from Front National and where they have similar ideas. In the run down idealistic garden village, many shops went bankrupt, the authorities seem to take no notice of the inhabitants and people live more and more on their own. An anti-authoritarian, anti-migrants and anti-Europe attitude is the result.       Video link!

Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, interview, translations.

Also the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands abused many young boys and girls over the last decades. And also in the Netherlands a special commission is appointed to research the cases of abuse. Now it also becomes clear that besides the abuse, also boys have been castrated after the accusation of homosexuality. One case was reported to the commission by the Rogge brothers, but never ended up in the report. For over 50 years Cornelius and IJsbrand Rogge did their best to report the abuse and castration of Henk Heithuis, but nothing came out of it. The story finally gets attention when a Dutch journalist writes an article about the Heithuis case. The Rogge brothers met Heithuis in Japan after the castration. Henk was very sick and was send back to Amsterdam where the open minded Rogge mother helped him. He was send to a sexologist, got hormones, totally recovered and started to press charges against the church. Before a trial could start Henk Heithuis died in a suspicious car accident. A policeman took away all the evidence just before the Rogge brothers and in this way the case was swept under the carpet for over 50 years.

Activities: research, set-up, planning, book car, drive, accompany filming, translations.

Tony’s Chocolonely is premium chocolate bar quality in classic chocolate bar form. Delectable Belgian chocolate ─ milk, dark, and milk with hazelnuts ─ Tony’s goes steps beyond Fair Trade in their chocolate-making, industry-changing, slavery-free chocolate mission. Because the child slavery in the coca branch is discussed in the European Parliament, the ARD wants a portrait of the Dutch chocolate brand Tony's Chocoloneley.

Activities: advise, research, set-up and planning, book camera crew, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feed.

After the commotion and critics about the PVV website to report annoyance by East European immigrant workers, the Euronews legal program Right On comes to the Netherlands to make a reportage about Polish immigrant workers. In a green house Polish workers explain why they work in the Netherlands, and what they think about the PVV website. The director of an employment agency specialised in Polish workers states that Polish workers mostly work hard and are vital for the Dutch economy. The founder of the migrant workers support group Migrada helps stranded workers, and plea's for better European legislation. The support group created a special information site for the east European workers in the Netherlands.
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Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, translations.