Microsoft invests in local programs that benefit people of all ages. In the Netherlands, our collaborations are organized by our focus areas of Building Digital Skills, Enabling Sustainability, and Empowering Communities. The following program list contains a sample of the kinds of investments Microsoft makes on an annual basis.

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Talland College is an organization with a heart that invites you to grow into who you are. The college offers unconventional teaching methods. It’s a community that is part of the broader world.

• DC Academy e-learning and certification supports Talland College with funding to reduce the curriculum cost and make sure more students are continuously motivated and supported to achieve certification; cover the cost of hardware components that are added to lab fees, so more students can have access; and pilot e-learning support for a selected group of students. Talland College opened the first Datacenter Academy in North Holland in 2019. The program covers over 200 regular students a year. Talland College also opens the use of the DC lab for programs and education to adult learners and students from secondary education institutes.

Humanitas Den Helder divides its projects into themes to meet people’s needs, including money and administration, contact and support, caring for others, and well-being.

• Maatschappelijke Diensttijd (MDT) helps people between the ages of 18–27 to learn new skills, gain experience to add to their CV, and do something meaningful for someone else. Following an assessment and conversation with a professional youth coach, MDT offers a choice of various volunteer positions and the corresponding training courses. Youth meet regularly in a guidance group led by the youth coach. Planning is an important part of the individual counseling conversations, and MDT also offers time management courses and is flexible about when young people perform their volunteer work. The community also benefits from the program: MDT young people help others in a vulnerable situation. This gives them a helping hand and creates encounters between people who would otherwise probably not meet.

난민 인재 허브는 기술 부문인 RefugeeHire가 지원하는 원스톱 취업 지원 프로그램입니다. 새로 정착한 난민들이 고용 장벽을 극복하고 의미 있는 일자리를 확보할 수 있도록 지원합니다. 또한 고용주가 난민 인재를 쉽고 효율적으로 구인하고 채용할 수 있도록 지원합니다.

• Employment and tech skills for refugees includes an ICT support employee / Datacenter Technician class in collaboration with ITPH. The Refugee Talent Hub takes care of the selection process, a soft skill program, and support in finding a job for the participants through their extensive network. Another focus area offers basic digital skilling workshops, like Office 365, Word, and LinkedIn “How do I apply for a job in the Netherlands” workshops, to local refugee talent. This program uses Microsoft volunteers and where relevant teachers from ITPH to give the workshops, and the Refugee Talent Hub takes care of program management and supports local employers when they hire refugees.

Vonk is a broad educational organization that helps the young and old grow. It is committed to discovering everyone’s style of learning and working.

• Noord-Hollandse Bollenbozen implements a learning pathway for pupils from primary education, special primary education, and out-of-school care about growth, flowering, forcing, harvesting, processing, and technology around the cultivation of flower bulbs, bulbous plants, and flowers in North Holland. The learning track offers a broad orientation to the core activities of the bulb industry in North Holland, increasing the orientation towards further education at Vonk. Many vacancies in the sector remain unfilled and the influx into agricultural education is under pressure; therefore, this program focuses on increasing the number of pupils and students in a shrinking demographic.
• ICT Talentontwikkeling (ICT Talent Development) is a knowledge workshop within the TekPark campus. Students are given a permanent space to start their own business under the supervision of a teacher. The business offers refurbishing hardware for entrepreneurs, government, education, and individuals; supervising ICT-related activities for primary education (PO) and secondary education (VO); and providing an ICT helpdesk function and workshop for the elderly and remote workers.

코더스쿨 는 숙련된 교사를 배치하고 정책 수립을 지원함으로써 초등학생의 디지털 문해력을 향상시킵니다.

• Dreamspace NL DC program provides comprehensive digital technology educational experiences, reaching and inspiring every child irrespective of their socio-economic background. Facilitating every aspect from transportation to course execution, it ensures accessibility to all schools. This initiative not only nurtures digital skills but also fosters technological dreams and aspirations among students, preparing them for a future where these skills are imperative. The commitment extends to developing educators, ensuring the sustainability and propagation of digital literacy.

Stichting IT PerformanceHouse is the IT hotspot in the East Netherlands region. Founded to stimulate IT trends and developments in companies and organizations so that they can perform better through IT.

• Filling the ICT labor market gap in North Holland, Stichting IT PerformanceHouse offers training in digital skills and an IT Support Engineer program that guides candidates to a job in the region. The program works closely with Talland College and uses the Datacenter Lab for practical lessons to give the participants datacenter experience and organizes guest lectures with datacenter employees who share their practical work experience.

Stichting Techno Challenge promotes interest in teenagers for technical studies to maintain enough people with technical skills in the working population.

• 북홀랜드의 STEM 교육 은 교육과 비즈니스를 연결하여 맥락이 풍부한 교육을 활성화하는 것을 목표로 합니다. 이러한 연결을 촉진하기 위해 이 프로그램은 6세에서 16세 사이의 어린이들이 기술과 과학에 흥미를 가질 수 있도록 초등 교육을 위한 12개의 기술 홍보 행사(PET), 중등 교육을 위한 2개의 커리어 데이, 학교의 다양한 기술 실험실 등 북홀랜드 전역에서 이벤트와 활동을 개최하고 있습니다. 교사들은 교실에서 이러한 행사를 진행하기 위한 후속 교육을 받습니다. 또한 클라우드크래프트를 활용한 Microsoft 직원의 학교 초청 강연도 제공합니다.

VHTO: Landelijk expertisebureau meisjes/vrouwen en bèta/techniek (VHTO) works to encourage more girls and women to get involved in science, technology, and ICT in the Netherlands. VHTO covers the whole spectrum from primary education to secondary education, science/technology and ICT courses in secondary vocational and higher education, and the workplace.

• Women & Digital Inclusion holds code events with different Dutch high schools at the Microsoft Datacenter Lab in Talland College/KnN, where girls meet women role models who work in STEM and work on their digital skills during programming workshops. They can build confidence, develop interests in IT, and broaden their career perspective. The program also trains high school teachers to teach STEM subjects in an inclusive manner and support all their students in developing STEM interests and skills. The impact of this training is beneficial not only to current students but also future students. Further, the program educates mothers/guardians together with their daughters on digital skills, improving the position of these mothers/guardians in the labor market and encouraging their daughters to explore careers in IT.

Vrijwilligerspunt stands as an independent expert in volunteering for quality, continuity, connecting parties, and making volunteering and language accessible to everyone.

• Lesgroepen laaggeletterdheid put together extra classes to help students with their language education, promoting their digital skills with the aim of becoming independent. Depending on the level and the request for help, the lessons consist of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and digital skills. In addition, teachers coach students to apply learnings into everyday life through regular or extracurricular assignments. The lessons are given at various locations in the West-Friesland region. To make the location as accessible as possible for the target group, the lessons take place in community centers and schools.

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Climate change requires swift, collective action and technological innovation. We are committed to meeting our own goals while helping communities to do the same.  

Stichting Greenport Noord-Holland Noord is a dynamic and powerful representative of agribusiness in Noord-Holland Noord and strives for a structural connection of knowledge, experience and ambition. It is a partnership of entrepreneurs, government, and knowledge institutions that stands for strengthening agribusiness in the region.

• The Agritech Partnership North Holland stimulates and develops farmer-driven innovation by collaborating with agricultural parties in the Kop van Noord Holland. The collaboration focuses on projects and initiatives that make a positive economic, social, technological, and ecological impact on the environment and agricultural sector and are in line with the activities of agricultural entrepreneurs. Projects include precision agriculture and smart farming; food cycle sustainability; water management, minimization, and recycling; and knowledge sharing and accessible training.

LTO Noord is an interest group of farmers and horticulturists. By helping farmers and horticulturists with entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability, it takes them into the future.

• AMS FarmBeats is a five-year collaboration between Microsoft and CRM Partners (part of Fellowmind), in close cooperation with CAV Agrotheek and LTO North, to help farmers to raise productivity, optimize their inputs, and produce more sustainably by reducing their carbon dioxide emissions. The project has expanded to gather additional datapoints from satellite images, sensors, and weather stations on potato and onion fields. Besides gathering data, it calls for active participation from the farmers. Farmers obtain field information using a Farmbeats PowerApp that asks for feedback on their actions and observations of the crop and field.

Stichting biomimicryNL is the biomimicry expert in the Netherlands and facilitates nature-inspired innovation, biomimicry education, and training for professionals.

• The Biomimicry Education Community Program trains primary and secondary educators by offering biomimicry modules and a “biomimicry experience” day so both teachers and students learn to apply essential biomimicry skills for creating their regenerative future. The program also has installed edible forests on school grounds and floatlands at Campus De Terp to boost biodiversity and improve water quality. The program adds biomimicry knowledge to existing and new recreational walking routes through physical or digital signposts. Together with the community, the program develops and organizes outdoor activities to reconnect with nature and each other.

Stichting Clean2Anywhere uses the construction of 17th-century ships from recycled plastic to discover the building blocks for a cleaner future and make unexpected encounters happen.

• Werkboten met betekenis is building a 17^th-century freighter from waste plastic. It tackles the world’s biggest problem because if we see plastic not as waste but as building material, that building material is there for the taking. Waste is a major global problem and a direct result of habitual behavior. The project doesn’t build these ships alone; everyone can participate, because everyone has potential if they just want to discover it. For example, workboats are built with volunteers and people with a distance to the labor market. A large part flows into paid work, studies, or experiencing great personal growth—building ships is not only for society as a whole, but also for the development of the people within that society.

Stichting Landzijde facilitates farmers, organizes care, and as a contract partner guarantees the quality of care. Together, it invests in the development of care agriculture to be of value to its participants every day and for an accessible, green, and social countryside for everyone.

• 케어팜의 생물 다양성 는 농촌의 자연과 건강하고 생물다양성이 풍부한 생활환경에 기여하는 데 도움이 됩니다. 이 프로젝트에서 농촌자연협회의 현장 코디네이터는 농부들과 함께 농장의 생물다양성을 높일 수 있는 가능성을 모색합니다. 농장을 스캔하고 농장의 자연 및 문화적 역사에 대한 조사, 농부의 바람을 바탕으로 '회사 자연 계획'을 작성합니다. 이를 통해 경관의 문화사적 맥락과 네덜란드 자연 네트워크와의 관계에서 해당 지역의 생물 다양성을 증진하는 구체적인 식물 조언과 활동이 이루어집니다. 또한 이 프로젝트는 생물 다양성과 자연 관리에 관한 맞춤형 학습 경로를 개발하고 있습니다.

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Microsoft는 커뮤니티를 강화하고 커뮤니티의 번영을 돕는 조직의 역량을 강화하기 위해 최선을 다하고 있습니다. 최근의 긴급 상황이나 수십 년에 걸친 어려움의 영향을 받든, Microsoft는 데이터, 기술, 전략적 투자를 통해 미래 세대를 위해 복구하고 지원합니다.

디자인아톤 작품 는 전 세계 어린이들이 더 나은 세상을 디자인할 수 있도록 지원합니다.

• 식습관은 학습입니다디자인아톤 웍스 네덜란드 크룬 건강 리터러시 프로젝트는 네덜란드 크룬의 8~12세 어린이들이 더 건강한 식습관과 라이프스타일을 선택할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 디자인아톤 웍스 팀은 "건강한 음식, 건강한 삶"을 주제로 어린이들이 완전한 아이디어 설계 및 개발 과정을 거치는 네 가지 수업을 진행합니다. 이 프로젝트의 목표는 청소년의 건강한 식단 선택을 지원하기 위한 교실 기반 및 학교 전반의 혁신을 모색하는 데 어린이를 중심에 두는 것입니다. 디자인 중심의 문제 기반 아동 중심 방법론인 이 프로젝트에 사용된 디자인아톤 방식은 ^21세기 기술 개발에 도움이 되는 학습 환경 개발을 촉진하여 홀랜드 크룬 지방 자치 단체의 교실을 미래에 대비할 수 있도록 구축할 것입니다.

Stichting Cultuurschuur is developing, managing, and using the former town hall of the municipality of Wieringermeer in the context of the welfare, history, and culture in the Wieringermeer.

• 비링헤르메르 문화 센터 는 현재 컬투르슈어에 있는 기존 벽화를 보강하여 타워의 난간과 기둥에 설치된 태블릿에 위링거마이어의 디지털 역사를 표시하고 있습니다. 이 지역의 박물관 전문가, IT 및 네트워크 전문가, Het Historisch Genootschap Wieringermeer의 자원봉사자들의 노력으로 장기적으로 품질이 보장되는 전시가 탄생했습니다. 하드웨어와 소프트웨어의 선택으로 간섭 감도를 최소화했습니다. 이 전시는 매립 계획, 실제 매립, 전쟁 기간 동안의 침수, 행정 구조, 최근 개발 및 현재 토지 이용 현황을 보여줍니다.

Stichting Hollands Kroonse Uitdaging stimulates projects and partnerships between the business community, educational institutions, healthcare institutions, and social organizations. This can take place by means of knowledge, hands, or equipment in principle on the basis of a closed exchange.

• 커뮤니티 보조금 프로그램 네덜란드 크룬 은 지역사회의 디지털 포용, 건강, 친환경화에 초점을 맞춘 보조금으로 하이퍼로컬 미니 펀드를 운영합니다. 또한 동일한 중점 분야를 가진 두세 개의 더 큰 프로젝트에도 보조금을 지원합니다. 많은 소규모 조직과 이니셔티브가 소규모 보조금을 신청하여 네덜란드 크룬 지역에 큰 영향을 미치고 있습니다.

TechSoup Global builds a dynamic bridge that uses technology to enable connections and innovative solutions for a more equitable planet.

• Nonprofits Digital Transformation Journey builds the digital resilience of EMEA nonprofits through the delivery of information, guidance, digital skills training, IT services, and access to technology products and solutions through a collaboration with Microsoft. The project raises awareness about the benefits of digital transformation and helps organizations move towards a standardized posture across the six digital capability areas in line with the TechSoup digital capability framework.

Vrijwilligerspunt stands as an independent expert in volunteering for quality, continuity, connecting parties, and making volunteering and language accessible to everyone.

• 커뮤니티 보조금 프로그램 웨스트 프리슬란드 는 지역사회의 디지털 포용, 건강, 친환경화에 초점을 맞춘 보조금을 지원하는 하이퍼로컬 미니 펀드를 운영합니다. 또한 동일한 중점 분야를 가진 두세 개의 더 큰 프로젝트에도 보조금을 지원합니다. 많은 소규모 조직과 이니셔티브가 소액 보조금을 신청하여 웨스트 프리슬란트 지역에 큰 영향을 미치고 있습니다.