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WWW.WORKINGATVU.NL Human Resource Management, the International Office and ProVU have teamed up to publish the new online English­language manual Nice to meet you @ VU University Amsterdam

The manual contains

information from A to Z about VU University, what expats need to know and arrange before coming to the Netherlands and what they need to do once they arrive Read Nice to meet you @ VU University Amsterdam as a PDF on the updated site

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WADLOPEN'WITH PROVU InternationalPhDs and post­docs can go walking

VOLUME 4 ­ NR. 17 ­ 10 MAY 2012 ­ WWW INTRANETVU NL/PP ­ REACTIONS'? PP@VU NL

on the mud flats on the northern coast near Pieterburen on 16 June This f u l l day excursion IS the first in a series under the motto

NEW MANUAL FOR INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYEES AND GUESTS

Get to

know the Netherlands , organized by ProVU, the PhD candidates association, to give international employees the opportunity to see and experience special places in our country

Price

is € 4 0

@ VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM

including t r a n s p o r t and guide Would you like to go a l o n g ' Send an e ­ m a i l to iprovu(S)gmail com More information on ProVU activities • http / / p r o v u nl/international html

VU MULTICULTURAL The second edition of VU Multicultural w i l l take place on 6 June Communication

During the day the Food and in a Diverse

World

seminar

will take place in the Agora room There w i l l be international workshops

in the fields of food

diversity communications and networks in today s dynamic

world

A cultural

exhibition

entitled

Around the World in One Day will take place in the afternoon during which international employees

International employees and guests who come to w o r k at VU University

lity, c o m p l e t e t h e i r residence p e r m i t a p p l i c a t i o n s , and visit a b r a n c h of

and students of VU University w i l l present their

often find themselves caught up in a maze of rules and immigration

the A B N AMRO bank to take care of t h e i r f i n a n c i a l needs This saves

country by offering typical food drinks traditions

procedures

Resource

people long w a i t s at a n u m b e r of d i f f e r e n t offices and a t r i p to the i m m i ­

music and literature

Management, the International Office and ProVU have prepared a

g r a t i o n s e r v i c e in Rijswijk A big advantage these days is that the i m m i ­

Participants w i l l receive

€100 to decorate their stands The most original

To make life a bit easier for t h e m , Human

handy m a n u a l

gration

and attractive stand will win a travel voucher worth €750 At 17­30 dialoog@vu nl a platform of VU

The Dutch are direct I like that Unfortunately, w h e n I t r y to be direct as

University student associations, will organize the

w e l l , they think I m r u d e It s difficult to find the balance, says P r o f e s s o r

Dialogue Festival on the campus

s e r v i c e s t r i v e s to p r o c e s s the a p p l i c a t i o n s

of

knowledge

w o r k e r s w i t h i n t w o w e e k s S t i l l , it is d i f f i c u l t to explain a l l the steps and s t r i n g e n t r u l e s r e l a t i n g to i m m i g r a t i o n p r o c e d u r e s

For e x a m p l e the

fact that PhD candidates in the N e t h e r l a n d s a r e in fact e m p l o y e e s and

A l l employees

Roberta Croce, w h o joined the Faculty of Sciences a year ago f o l l o w i n g

not s t u d e n t s

and students are welcome this is your chance to

five years at the University of Groningen What did she encounter w h e n

The m a n u a l t h e r e f o r e explains not only w h a t you need to do but also

get to meet people from different countries

she c a m e to the N e t h e r l a n d s as an i n t e r n a t i o n a l

w h y you need to do it

• www vu multicultural nl

The b u r e a u c r a c y of getting f o r m s and s t a m p s and s i g n a t u r e s in the c o r r e c t order,

PERSONNEL SERVICES International employees translation

knowledge worker '

m e a n i n g they need health i n s u r a n c e and a w o r k p e r m i t

she says HRM and the I n t e r n a t i o n a l Office (10) hope to

have solved that p r o b l e m w i t h the publication of the m a n u a l Nice to meet

can find an English

of a l l VU University

Amsterdam

you @ VU University

Amsterdam,

BIGSTEP The m a n u a l or t h e Expatcenter cannot cover every s i t u a t i o n , however

w h i c h has been online since the end of

PhD candidate Ivan Razo Zapata w a n t e d to r e t u r n to Mexico for his

A p r i l The m a n u a l contains a s t e p ­ b y ­ s t e p guide to things i n t e r n a t i o n a l

b r o t h e r s w e d d i n g w h e n his visa had e x p i r e d , but his residence p e r m i t

conditions of employment on the HRM intranet

employees should k n o w and a r r a n g e before coming to the N e t h e r l a n d s ,

had not yet been p r o c e s s e d

. www intranet vu nl/personnelservices

and w h a t they should do once they arrive Elke Z i m m e r is very happy w i t h

always a p r o t o c o l The I n t e r n a t i o n a l Office helped me every step of the

W h e n cases get this specific t h e r e is not

the m a n u a l As the c h a i r p e r s o n of i­ProVU the i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m i t t e e

way

HOW TO SEARCH A DATABASE

of the ProVU PhD candidates association, she is r e g u l a r l y approached by

Melanie Uy, a guest PhD at the Faculty of Social Sciences, w i s h e d to

Eventually it a l l w o r k s out You j u s t have to be patient

When

Do you want to know more about efficient search

i n t e r n a t i o n a l PhD candidates w h o get bogged down in i m m i g r a t i o n

stay on a f t e r h e r g r a n t had r u n out, she needed assistance extending

techniques of databases' Subscribe online to the

paperwork

This is w h y the board d r e w up a questionnaire and asked

her residence p e r m i t as a guest she w a s neither a university employee

workshop Information

of VU University

HRM and 10 to p r e p a r e a m a n u a l Nice to meet you m a k e s a l l kinds of

nor a s t u d e n t A n d r e s e a r c h e r David Mann of the Faculty of H u m a n

Library The result is a comprehensive overview

u s e f u l i n f o r m a t i o n available in English, including i n f o r m a t i o n on visas,

M o v e m e n t Sciences did not k n o w if his a c c o m m o d a t i o n had been o r g a ­

of information for your paper report or thesis The

residence p e r m i t s , social s e c u r i t y n u m b e r s

workshop on 23 May is free for VU faculty staff

m e n t s and paying taxes This w a s sorely needed, for most of this infor­

t h i n g s f r o m the other side of the w o r l d is quite a challenge It has been

• www ub vu nl/en/news agenda/agenda

mation w a s only available in Dutch The m a n u a l contains c h e c k l i s t s on

a very difficult first two months

i m m i g r a t i o n p r o c e d u r e s w i t h f l o w c h a r t s , A to Z i n f o r m a t i o n on the

Z i m m e r feels that the m a n u a l is a big step

university direct links to insurance and tax r u l e s , i n f o r m a t i o n on lear­

c o m i n g ' Definitely not the relaxed Dutch w o r k m e n t a l i t y is a breath of

ning Dutch and on enjoying a l l A m s t e r d a m has to offer

f r e s h air, he says And M e l a n i e ' She got her extension, l e a r n e d to ride

literacy

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I m m i g r a t i o n has b e c o m e a lot easier since the cities of A m s t e r d a m and A m s t e l v e e n opened the E x p a t c e n t e r at WTC t o g e t h e r w i t h the IND

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LOOKING FURTHER THAN YOUR WORK

1

JULIE B IRKHOLZ

The f u n thing about being

is available at

a lot of my t i m e , but it is very i m p o r t a n t , espe­ cially because policy m a k e r s have a different perspective on tnternationals than the i n t e r n a ­ I m here to build bridges

between t h e m and us

B i r k h o l z states

now on the VU agenda

A l l VU employees, including

Internationalization is but there is always

those f r o m abroad, should be able to p a r t i c i ­

r o o m for m o r e initiatives

pate fully in c a m p u s life

One way to guarantee

sees a real need for a one­stop office, which

this IS a m o r e consistent language policy at the

w o u l d not necessarily a r r a n g e everything but

university, says B i r k h o l z , w h o is a PhD c a n d i ­

which w o u l d point people m the right direction

at the D e p a r t m e n t

Department

1

Amsterdam

tionals t h e m s e l v e s

of

Organizational

Sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences

"I'M HERE TO BUILD BRID GES"

A n d does David r e g r e t

Even before the interview has begun, Julie

date

I :

Organizing these

in the N e t h e r l a n d s is to become Dutch i

Houkje Vliefstra Photography Riechelte van der

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Anita

nized as h e j e t t e d t o w a r d A m s t e r d a m at 30,000 feet

m e e t i n g s a r e usually

held in

says B i r k h o l z She

If the i m m i g r a t i o n service i n f o r m s you that you have ten days to leave the country and you don t k n o w what to do about it then you might

Dutch When decisions are taken on i n t e r n a t i o ­

panic a bit Your w o r k w i l l obviously be affec­

nalization policy, they are published exclusively

ted And s o m e of these things can be solved in

in Dutchi

a really s i m p l e way such as w i t h the new

For the past year

B irkholz, origi­

nally f r o m the USA has been r e p r e s e n t i n g PhD

m a n u a l Nice

candidates and post­docs on the P r o g r a m m e

employees

to meet

you f o r

international

You need to help people navigate

C o m m i t t e e on behalf of ProVU She is on the

the bureaucracy

special i­ProVU c o m m i t t e e , w h i c h d r a w s up

employees that everyone is included

policy f o r international employees

w i l l result in a s t i m u l a t i n g w o r k environment

It takes up

It is really vital for a l l VU which

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