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The Netherlands Consulate-General in Sydney organises Pop-up Passport Desks in various Australian cities, enabling Dutch citizens in Australia to apply for a Dutch passport or ID card ‘closer to home’.
You can now book an appointment for Adelaide on 10, 11 or 12 October by sending your appointment request to SYD-NAT@minbuza.nl with the following details:
Please note: Only complete applications are accepted, so prepare your application well in advance. Click here for an overview of the required application forms, supporting documents and applicable fees. We are expecting an increase in passport applications in the coming years. This may result in longer waiting times to get an appointment, or longer processing times. If your Dutch passport expires within the next 12 months, you are kindly advised to book an appointment now. Click here for an appointment at the Consulate-General in Sydney, or the offices at our external service provider VFS in Melbourne or Perth. This option is available all year round! For those attending the DutchSA Kings's Day Celebration, please note that the venue has been changed from the Belgian Beer Cafe to the Malt Shovel Tap House. You can find the Tap House at the Festival Theatre (Festival Drive) at the beginning of the Adelaide Oval footbridge. We look forward to seeing you there. If you don't have your tickets yet, please go to King's Day Function and order them while registration is still open. Tickets are only $15 and include a welcome drink and nibbles.
 We are pleased to announce that Lilian Mellink has joined the board of DutchSA. Lilian recently moved to Adelaide, coming from Canberra, where she was a Senior Advisor Trade and Economic Affairs at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. We are excited about the experience and connections Lilian will bring to the board and look forward to working with her!
At DutchSA we love bringing together people of different walks of life and enable the sharing of ideas, knowledge and support. It's nice to hear back sometimes from those attending our events that they found a new client, a perfect job, or joint forces in an exciting business venture. Yes, we love to hear your stories and want to hare them to encourage others to also reach out and connect. Last week we got a call from a member with a simple 'thank you' for helping her partner find the perfect internship for his law study. What happened is that at one of our events, law student Richie met business coach Yorien and did some work together. When Yorien checked in later with Richie, she found that good law internships were hard to find due to covid restrictions. Yorien then introduced Richie to one of her clients, RSA Law Barristers and Solicitors (www.rsalaw.com.au), which turned out to be a perfect match! It is a nice reminder that we can all make a difference by caring and making an effort. That is what makes a community. Want to be part of it, go to www.dutchsa.com.au/join and join DutchSA.  Left to right: Nienke Bloem, CX Expert and professional speaker, Paul ter Wal, HR expert and professional speaker, Edwin Roman, President DutchSA, Richie Davids, lawyer to be, Jorien Staats, Business Coach. Photo Christo Photography, at the DutchSA Strategy Execution Event, February 2020.
 DutchSA welcomes Maurits de Graeff to the board as director external relationships. Maurits studied hospitality management at the Hoge Hotelschool Maastricht and has an extensive international background in the hospitality industry. With the addition of Maurits, the DutchSA board further strengthens its ability to make successful connections between South Australians and those with a Dutch background or affiliation.
 For over 30 years, the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge has welcomed the greatest minds from around the world to Australia to push the limits of technological innovation and travel the outback in a vehicle powered only by the energy of the sun. Traversing 3,000km from Darwin to Adelaide, teams comprise of tertiary and secondary students from over 30 countries. These students and their support team have achieved greatness by engineering and building a vehicle with their own hands and powering it across some of the world's most challenging landscape. Solar Team Eindhoven is the most successful team in the Cruiser Class for efficient, practical solar cars with two or more seats. This team, consisting of 20 students of the Eindhoven University of Technology, has won every single edition of the race, since its inception and its co-founder, Lex Hoefsloot, went on to commercialise the concept of a long-range solar electric vehicle, designed to be grid-independent. He found that building a commercial solar car is not a science problem, but an engineering problem. And an engineering problem can be solved by finding the right people, build a team and find funding and get going. This led to the start of a new Dutch car company called LightYear. Its first car, the Lightyear One, is up to 3 times more energy efficient (83 Wh/km) than the electric vehicles currently on the market. This results in the lowest emissions, lowest charging frequency and 7,000km to 20,000km of free, clean solar range every year! The production of the LightYear One is expected to start in about a year and reservations for those keen to be the first to drive a solar car (in the EU, Norway and Switzerland) are now open via the LightYear Website. >> LightYear One, The Video >> LightYear, The Story  The biannual World Solar Challenge is never complete without a Dutch Event to celebrate the many Dutch successes at this “world championship” for solar cars. In the photo, Lex Hoefsloot, LightYear CEO and co-founder is presenting at the 2019 World Solar Challenge Dutch Event on 18 October 2019 at the finish location, Victoria Square in Adelaide.
This DutchSA initiated event attracted the participation of well known South Australian (second generation) Dutchies, like SA Power Networks CEO, Rob Stobbe and Hon. Minister for Energy and Mining, Dan van Horst Pellekaan MP, as well as the Consul-General of The Kingdom of The Netherlands for Australia, Frank van Beuningen.
JOIN US ON 26 FEBRUARI FOR AN EVENING OF NETWORKING WITH THE EUROPEAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.    Famous Dutch Agile Management Thinker, Jurgen Appelo, is coming to Adelaide for presentations at the 1st Conference (24 Feb) and a workshop (25-26 Feb).
Jurgen was rated #40 management & leadership expert in the world, one of the Top 100 leadership speakers, and #6 most influential person in Agile; his blog was rated #3 most popular Agile blog in the world; and his books are considered best-sellers. You can book your tickets for the workshop here: Jurgen Appelo's Shiftup Business Agility & Innovation Leader Workshop - Adelaide and for the conference here: Adelaide 1st Conference.
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