Global civil society activity in Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean territories.
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Meetings Statistics
From UIA's International Meetings Statistics Report
Top 25 over 20 years
Netherlands is ranked #12 over a 20 year period,
with 6941 meetings since 2004.
Top 25 in 2023
Netherlands is ranked #12 for 2023, with 222 meetings.Local UIA Partner
Amsterdam-RAI Congress Centre
website: http://www.rai.nl/nl/pages/default.aspxWe believe in the power of connecting. To bring people, ideas and visions together in a world full of opportunities.
As a facilitating and organising party, Amsterdam RAI connects context, content and communities with one another. We create the right conditions in which inspiring meetings can take place. In which various languages can understand each other as one. This synergy creates the added value of a good experience and/or a business success. Amsterdam RAI links people both physically and virtually so they can inspire, surprise and enrich one another. Always with an open mind and a global perspective.
In addition to organising 25 of its own exhibition titles, Amsterdam RAI facilitates over 500 events a year, including exhibitions, conferences, corporate events and other niche events organised in the exhibition halls and conference centre.
Amsterdam RAI Exhibitions annually organises over 25 national and international consumer and trade fairs. As the organising party, we wish to act as a matchmaker between visitors and exhibitors. Our international titles have regional spin-offs in China, America, Poland, India, Mexico and Turkey. Wherever they may be held around the world, the emphasis is on generating and maintaining new and existing business for our exhibitors, visitors, sponsors and partners.
Local UIA Partner
Maastricht Convention Bureau
website: http://maastrichtconventionbureau.com/Maastricht Convention Bureau (MCB) offers professional, independent and objective information, advice and mediation regarding any aspect of organising business meetings: congress centres, hotels, venues for your party or dinner, transportation, organisational support, catering, social and partner programmes. Their services are entirely free of charge.
They know the possibilities of Maastricht & region like no one else and they represent more than forty different organisations which offer you their services. MCB works together with event agencies, PCOs, caterers, transport companies and suppliers of audio-visual equipment and personnel. They also represent several design and classic venues: convention centres, hotels, party and dinner locations, castles and caves. In the historical part of the city, but also in the parts with modern architecture and in the green, hilly surroundings of Maastricht.
In short: whatever you want to organise, thanks to the wide range of possibilities in Maastricht & surrounding area and our expertise, your event will never be forgotten.
Curious about Maastricht & region and the possibilities for your event? Take a look at theyr website. You will get to know Maastricht & region and you will discover which organizations can offer you their services. Using their Venue & Service Finder, you can specifically search for organizations that meet your wishes. You can also request an offer.
Local UIA Partner
Conference Compass
website: https://www.conferencecompass.com/
Making bright people brighter
At Conference Compass, we develop customizable mobile & web apps making events more inclusive, accessible, and engaging. And we serve some of the largest conferences worldwide.
Local UIA Partner
Conferli
website: https://www.conferli.com/
World’s First Match-making Platform for Association Events, a data-driven application that helps associations, destinations and venues find each other directly, enabling a transparent and efficient tender process. It cuts lead time, increases success rate and makes the tender process easy and fast.
Local UIA Partner
Amsterdam Convention Bureau
website: https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/conventions
Known for its progressive and liberal spirit, Amsterdam is the ideal destination for your next purpose-driven meeting, conference or business event. World-class venues, exceptional connectivity, a collaborative business and knowledge network, and expert support from the Amsterdam Convention Bureau make the city ideally placed for meetings to achieve success and inspire progress towards the creation of a better future.
Join Amsterdam’s dynamic meetings industry and benefit from over 750 years of culture and innovation to inspire lasting change with your next event in our city.
Local UIA Partner
The Hague & Partners
website: https://thehague.com/partners/en/business-units/convention-bureau
The Hague & Partners is the official marketing organisation for the promotion of leisure, conferences, and business developments in The Hague. It is made up of three business units: the Marketing Bureau, the Convention Bureau, and the Business Agency. As a professional non-profit organisation we aim to strengthen the economy of our city by sharing our diverse and distinguished city with visitors from all over the world.
It is our organisation’s mission to establish The Hague as one of the world’s most attractive destinations for tourists, events, and businesses. Our combined knowledge and expertise in the field as well as great enthusiasm for this city drives this ambition forward. Together, our three business units will strengthen the city’s profile and promote it to a wide range of target groups: leisure travellers, event organisers, event participants, as well as companies who are looking to establish their businesses in The Hague.
The Convention Bureau promotes The Hague as a meetings and conference destination and that facilitates event organisers in hosting conferences in The Hague. We are eager to facilitate the remarkable experiences that will live on in the memories of everyone involved and to contribute to the success of your company or association.
We offer a wide range of services that support events taking place in the city. The Hague is a wonderful event destination and is more than well equipped to turn any event into an outstanding one. Event organisers have enough to worry about without worrying about logistics, delegates’ safety and convenience, accommodation, travel to and from the venue, finding specialists in the field, entertainment, sustainability… The list is endless. We have professional staff and networks in every imaginable field to get you started.
We offer:
Customised advice for your meeting, conference or congress on accommodation, whether it's an association event or corporate event;
personal advice before, during and after the event; and mediation to establish contact with relevant business partners & service suppliers;
connect you to venues, government authorities and a variety of networks such as the Hybrid City Alliance.
Organizations based in Netherlands
Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield - The Hague
International Society for Sexual Medicine - Wormerveer
International Esperantist Scientific Association - Rotterdam
International Society for Agricultural Meteorology - Bruchem
Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society - Meerssen
Association internationale de dialectologie arabe - Amsterdam
Benelux Organization for Intellectual Property - The Hague
European Pocket Billiard Federation - Brunssum
International Association of Independent Art and Design Schools - Enschede
European Association of Intellectual Disability Medicine - Rotterdam
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - The Hague
International Society for the Study of Trophoblastic Disease - Nijmegen
European Association of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust - Amsterdam
International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin - Utrecht
Electrical Engineering STudents' European assoCiation - Delft
International Debate Education Association - Utrecht
International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology - Groningen
International Forwarding Association - Venlo
JRE- Jeunes Restaurateurs - Eindhoven
Circuits International - Zandvoort
Unión de Asociaciones Ibéricas e Iberoamericanas del Benelux - The Hague
International Association of Customs Museums - Rotterdam
European Air Law Association - Leiden
European Federation of Autonomic Societies - Hoofddorp
European Brushware Federation - Tilburg
View More profiles (1279) in the Yearbook of International Organizations
Future Events in Netherlands
2032 World Contest – World Ploughing Organization - Tilburg
2030 World Congress – International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association - Amsterdam2029 Annual Congress – European Orthodontic Society - Amsterdam2028 Congress – European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery - Amsterdam2028 Annual Conference – International Society for Medical Innovation and Technology - Rotterdam2027 International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) – International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - The Hague2027 EE Meeting – Entente Européenne d'Aviculture et de Cuniculture - The Hague2026 Annual Meeting – International Continence Society - Maastricht2026 Annual Congress – International Society of Addiction Medicine - Rotterdam2026 Annual Congress – International Union of Marine Insurance - Rotterdam2026 Triennial Conference – International Association of Word and Image Studies - Amsterdam2026 World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics – International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - Amsterdam2026 International Congress on in Vitro Toxicology – European Society for Toxicology In Vitro - Maastricht2026 International Conference – International Association for Education in Ethics - Amsterdam2026 World Congress on Adult Capacity – International Guardianship Network - AmsterdamView More Future Events (69) in The International Congress Calendar
Past Events in Netherlands
2024 Global Energy Transition Conference (GET) – European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers - Rotterdam
2024 international MicroNano Conference (iMNC) – international MicroNano Conference - Eindhoven
2024 RE-Source – RE-Source Platform - Amsterdam
2024 Annual International Conference – European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training - Amersfoort
2024 User Day Meeting – European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking - Amsterdam
2024 International Fundraising Congress – Resource Alliance - Noordwijkerhout
2024 Conference – International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement - Amsterdam
2024 Conference – International Co-operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic safety - The Hague
2024 International YAKULT Symposium – International Yakult Symposium - Amsterdam
2024 Session – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - The Hague
2024 Sourcing with Respect Conference – Union for Ethical BioTrade - Amsterdam
2024 Annual Conference – International Association of Airline Internal Auditors - Amsterdam
2024 National Correspondents Meeting – European Judicial Network - The Hague
2024 Annual Symposium – The Organization for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs - Rotterdam
2024 Annual Planetary Congress – Association of Space Explorers - Amsterdam,Noordwijk
View More Past Events (18314) in The International Congress Calendar
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