Engage Amsterdam

Engage Amsterdam

Focus on Corporate Community Engagement
and visit to AFC Ajax and Amsterdam South East

Please register through e-mail to Ms. Ebru Onsoz, [email protected]

The public-private partnership ‘Engage Amsterdam’ invites GRI attendees to participate in a site visit, which brings you to the heart of the Amsterdam corporate community projects. You will learn about the partnership and the business case for youth-at-risk, entrepreneurship and employment. Secondly the tour continues to the Amsterdam ArenA (home of the famous football club AFC Ajax), meeting Dutch business partners and NGO´s.

Timeschedule

14.00 hrs. Departure by bus at Okura Hotel, visiting Amsterdam South East (Zuidoost) an exiting area of Amsterdam as a global village and a glance of some major urban renewal projects

14.35h Welcome at the innovative community house ‘CEC Southeast’

• ‘Engage Amsterdam’: presentation by Mr. Jan van den Herik Managing Director of CSR KPMG, on corporate community investment and employee engagement in Amsterdam with focus on Youth at Risk.

14.45h Teaching Entrepreneurship

• Presentation by Ms. Jamy Goewie and KPMG mentors
• Followed by meetings and presentations of young participants

15.45h Welcome at AFC AJAX at Amsterdam ArenA:

• ‘Young Amsterdam at work’, screening of the film commissioned by ING, Randstad and the Dutch employers association ‘VNO-NCW’
• Youth Sport Foundation; Presentation by Mr. Charles Eijsbouts, partner Clifford Chance
• Informal meeting with drinks and snacks

16.45h Departure for Okura Hotel

“Engage” is a global business initiative campaigning corporate community investment and employee engagement. Since 2006, in Europe, this campaign is focused on 5 capital cities, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, London and Amsterdam. The aim is to launch ´Engage Amsterdam` as the major public-private partnership on corporate community investment for Youth-at-Risk in December 2006.

Information: [email protected] / tel:+31650668285.