Moving forward is not just about finding a job.
Sometimes it’s about figuring out where you fit, what gives you stability, how to make your value visible, and what to do next.
That’s what Flux Forward is here to help with: making the next step a little clearer for internationals in the Netherlands.
Not sure what your next step is? Open the Flux Forward app and explore your next move.
🔗 app.fluxforward.world
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Sometimes it’s about figuring out where you fit, what gives you stability, how to make your value visible, and what to do next.
That’s what Flux Forward is here to help with: making the next step a little clearer for internationals in the Netherlands.
Not sure what your next step is? Open the Flux Forward app and explore your next move.
🔗 app.fluxforward.world
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World
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📌 Finding Care, Finding Place.
A new Bennu conversation with Hee Baek, Founder of OW Care, about care, community, and navigating life in the Netherlands.
We talk about emotional anchors, volunteering, language, uncertainty, and the people and communities that can make a new place easier to navigate.
Main signal: #Navigation
Where are you still trying to navigate alone?
🎧 Now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Castbox.
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A new Bennu conversation with Hee Baek, Founder of OW Care, about care, community, and navigating life in the Netherlands.
We talk about emotional anchors, volunteering, language, uncertainty, and the people and communities that can make a new place easier to navigate.
Main signal: #Navigation
Where are you still trying to navigate alone?
🎧 Now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Castbox.
@BennuCommunity | bennu.community
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If you’re building a tech startup in Brainport #Eindhoven, The Gate is worth knowing.
It’s an independent starting point for tech founders in the region. You can go there for practical advice, workshops, funding questions, specialist support, and connections to people across the #Brainport ecosystem.
A useful place to start if you have an idea or early-stage startup and you’re not sure what your next move should be.
You can explore The Gate here: brainporteindhoven.com/the-gate
And if you want to find more useful organisations across the Netherlands, explore the Flux Forward Actors map: fluxforward.world/actors
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It’s an independent starting point for tech founders in the region. You can go there for practical advice, workshops, funding questions, specialist support, and connections to people across the #Brainport ecosystem.
A useful place to start if you have an idea or early-stage startup and you’re not sure what your next move should be.
You can explore The Gate here: brainporteindhoven.com/the-gate
And if you want to find more useful organisations across the Netherlands, explore the Flux Forward Actors map: fluxforward.world/actors
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World
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One of our #Trusted_Partners, Magdalena Szumna, is launching the first beta edition of her Unwritten Rules Lab on 8 September.
It’s a small 90-minute session for professionals dealing with the kind of workplace situations that are hard to explain but difficult to ignore. Power dynamics, double standards, unclear expectations, or simply that feeling that something happened in the room that nobody is naming.
📌 The group is limited to 6 people.
📌 8 September | 13:00–14:30 | €99
If it sounds relevant, you can contact Magdalena directly on LinkedIn or at magdalena@indogodiversity.com to secure a spot.
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It’s a small 90-minute session for professionals dealing with the kind of workplace situations that are hard to explain but difficult to ignore. Power dynamics, double standards, unclear expectations, or simply that feeling that something happened in the room that nobody is naming.
📌 The group is limited to 6 people.
📌 8 September | 13:00–14:30 | €99
If it sounds relevant, you can contact Magdalena directly on LinkedIn or at magdalena@indogodiversity.com to secure a spot.
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You can do a lot in the #Netherlands in #English. But #Dutch can still change your options, especially for part-time work, some professions and daily life.
This week’s #Weekly_Signal looks at where Dutch can actually make a difference, and whether it should be a priority for you right now.
Swipe through the three checks.
🔗 Full Weekly Signal 👉 here
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This week’s #Weekly_Signal looks at where Dutch can actually make a difference, and whether it should be a priority for you right now.
Swipe through the three checks.
🔗 Full Weekly Signal 👉 here
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3 events worth knowing if you're building your life or work in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
📍 8 Sep, Rotterdam
Welcome to Rotterdam 2026, for people who are new to the city and want practical information, local connections and a chance to meet other internationals.
💬 11 Sep, Amsterdam
International Tech Drinks, for international founders, tech talent and anyone trying to understand the Dutch tech ecosystem.
🤝 7 Oct, Amsterdam area
AI Startup-Investor Matchmaking, for AI founders looking for funding, investor conversations and relevant introductions.
Swipe through for the details.
And if you're looking for more practical guides, opportunities and organisations that can help you move forward in the Netherlands, visit fluxforward.world.
📌 Save this one for late
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📍 8 Sep, Rotterdam
Welcome to Rotterdam 2026, for people who are new to the city and want practical information, local connections and a chance to meet other internationals.
💬 11 Sep, Amsterdam
International Tech Drinks, for international founders, tech talent and anyone trying to understand the Dutch tech ecosystem.
🤝 7 Oct, Amsterdam area
AI Startup-Investor Matchmaking, for AI founders looking for funding, investor conversations and relevant introductions.
Swipe through for the details.
And if you're looking for more practical guides, opportunities and organisations that can help you move forward in the Netherlands, visit fluxforward.world.
📌 Save this one for late
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How to find a job.
How to get a BSN.
How to find housing.
How to figure out health insurance.
Start with the question.
Find a practical answer.
HowToIn.nl
by Flux Forward
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How to get a BSN.
How to find housing.
How to figure out health insurance.
Start with the question.
Find a practical answer.
HowToIn.nl
by Flux Forward
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Where you work matters.
But so does where your life happens.
New WEF analysis based on BCG’s Cities of Choice research found a 30-point gap in job satisfaction between workers in high- and low-experience cities.
And even in IT, one of the most remote-friendly sectors, the gap was still 20 percentage points.
The takeaway is simple:
A good job may get people there.
A good life may help them stay.
🔗 Read the full article: The ‘experience dividend’: How a location can bolster job satisfaction
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But so does where your life happens.
New WEF analysis based on BCG’s Cities of Choice research found a 30-point gap in job satisfaction between workers in high- and low-experience cities.
And even in IT, one of the most remote-friendly sectors, the gap was still 20 percentage points.
The takeaway is simple:
A good job may get people there.
A good life may help them stay.
🔗 Read the full article: The ‘experience dividend’: How a location can bolster job satisfaction
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World
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The talent is here. The transition is where things get lost.
New Nuffic figures show a useful pattern: international students face more friction in the first year, but those who continue often complete at strong rates. And after graduation, wanting to stay is still very different from being able to build a life here.
This week’s #Weekly_Signal looks at three transition points: settling in, getting through your studies, and what happens after graduation.
Swipe through the main numbers and the question we think matters most:
What could become the bottleneck in your #transition?
🔗 Full Weekly Signal: blog.fluxforward.world
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New Nuffic figures show a useful pattern: international students face more friction in the first year, but those who continue often complete at strong rates. And after graduation, wanting to stay is still very different from being able to build a life here.
This week’s #Weekly_Signal looks at three transition points: settling in, getting through your studies, and what happens after graduation.
Swipe through the main numbers and the question we think matters most:
What could become the bottleneck in your #transition?
🔗 Full Weekly Signal: blog.fluxforward.world
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World
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Starting over in a new country takes a lot of energy: Paperwork, language, uncertainty, new routines, new people.
Some days feel exciting. Some feel exhausting. Often both. That part counts too.
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Some days feel exciting. Some feel exhausting. Often both. That part counts too.
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A Step Towards Freedom
In this episode of Bennu, Ben Brink and Charline Baker-Friesen speak with Shivangi Dhakad about what moving countries really changes.
Not just where you live, but how you think about freedom, work, identity, home and belonging.
Shivangi shares her move from India to the Netherlands, what she found here, what she still misses, and how her idea of home has changed over the years.
The conversation also touches on the pressure to fit in, slowing down, building community, and staying yourself while adapting to a new culture.
One idea sits at the heart of the episode:
You can respect the culture you move into without losing your own.
Bennu, Chapter Two, Episode 04
with Shivangi Dhakad, Hosted by Ben Brink and Charline Baker-Friesen
🔗 Listen here 👉 bennu.community
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In this episode of Bennu, Ben Brink and Charline Baker-Friesen speak with Shivangi Dhakad about what moving countries really changes.
Not just where you live, but how you think about freedom, work, identity, home and belonging.
Shivangi shares her move from India to the Netherlands, what she found here, what she still misses, and how her idea of home has changed over the years.
The conversation also touches on the pressure to fit in, slowing down, building community, and staying yourself while adapting to a new culture.
One idea sits at the heart of the episode:
You can respect the culture you move into without losing your own.
Bennu, Chapter Two, Episode 04
with Shivangi Dhakad, Hosted by Ben Brink and Charline Baker-Friesen
🔗 Listen here 👉 bennu.community
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Moving to a new country comes with a ridiculous number of things to sort out.
Residence permits. Housing. Work. Dutch. Meeting people. Learning how everything works.
It’s easy to feel behind because you’re not dealing with all of it at once. But you don’t need to.
Focus on what matters now. Let the rest wait. That counts as progress too.
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World
Residence permits. Housing. Work. Dutch. Meeting people. Learning how everything works.
It’s easy to feel behind because you’re not dealing with all of it at once. But you don’t need to.
Focus on what matters now. Let the rest wait. That counts as progress too.
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World
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If your housing comes with your job in the #Netherlands, check these three things:
1. Your rental contract
2. What is being taken from your payslip
3. What happens to your housing if the job ends
It is easier to check this now than when something goes wrong.
This week’s Weekly Signal explains what to look for and where to get help if something does not seem right.
🔗 Read the full signal: blog.fluxforward.world
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1. Your rental contract
2. What is being taken from your payslip
3. What happens to your housing if the job ends
It is easier to check this now than when something goes wrong.
This week’s Weekly Signal explains what to look for and where to get help if something does not seem right.
🔗 Read the full signal: blog.fluxforward.world
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
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“I belong everywhere and nowhere at the same time.”
In this episode of Bennu, Ingrid Tappin talks with Ben Brink and Alex Baker-Friesen about identity, belonging, and what happens when you build a life across different cultures and contexts.
The conversation moves through Ingrid’s own journey, from media and entrepreneurship to Diverse Leaders in Tech, and into a bigger question: how much of who we are do we adapt, explain, or hold on to when we enter new spaces?
They also talk about starting again in the Netherlands, finding your place, and why belonging is never something you build entirely on your own.
🎙 Everywhere and Nowhere
Identity, belonging, and the strength we build through difference
With Ingrid Tappin
Hosted by Ben Brink & Alex Baker-Friesen
🔗 Listen now at bennu.community
@BennuCommunity | bennu.community
In this episode of Bennu, Ingrid Tappin talks with Ben Brink and Alex Baker-Friesen about identity, belonging, and what happens when you build a life across different cultures and contexts.
The conversation moves through Ingrid’s own journey, from media and entrepreneurship to Diverse Leaders in Tech, and into a bigger question: how much of who we are do we adapt, explain, or hold on to when we enter new spaces?
They also talk about starting again in the Netherlands, finding your place, and why belonging is never something you build entirely on your own.
🎙 Everywhere and Nowhere
Identity, belonging, and the strength we build through difference
With Ingrid Tappin
Hosted by Ben Brink & Alex Baker-Friesen
🔗 Listen now at bennu.community
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A few useful things for the week ahead.
If you’re looking for work, trying to speak more Dutch, raising a round, or still figuring out life in the Netherlands, there are a few things worth checking.
This week’s Weekly Signal includes:
• free career sessions
• a Dutch speaking webinar
• Pitch Elevator for founders
• newcomer events in The Hague and Eindhoven
• practical Flux Forward tools and guides
You do not need to do all of it.
Pick the one thing that is useful for where you are now.
🔗 Read the full Weekly Signal 👉 here
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
If you’re looking for work, trying to speak more Dutch, raising a round, or still figuring out life in the Netherlands, there are a few things worth checking.
This week’s Weekly Signal includes:
• free career sessions
• a Dutch speaking webinar
• Pitch Elevator for founders
• newcomer events in The Hague and Eindhoven
• practical Flux Forward tools and guides
You do not need to do all of it.
Pick the one thing that is useful for where you are now.
🔗 Read the full Weekly Signal 👉 here
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
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Major transitions can affect more than just the practical side of life.
When a lot is changing, small things can help you feel more grounded. A familiar routine. Going for a walk. Calling someone you trust. Getting enough rest. Giving yourself some space.
For this post, Nelleke Verbunt from The Butterfly Phase shared her thoughts on finding those small anchors during periods of change.
A simple reminder: you may not be able to control everything around you, but you can still create some stability within your day.
Thanks Nelleke for sharing your perspective.
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
When a lot is changing, small things can help you feel more grounded. A familiar routine. Going for a walk. Calling someone you trust. Getting enough rest. Giving yourself some space.
For this post, Nelleke Verbunt from The Butterfly Phase shared her thoughts on finding those small anchors during periods of change.
A simple reminder: you may not be able to control everything around you, but you can still create some stability within your day.
Thanks Nelleke for sharing your perspective.
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
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Thinking about starting a business in the Netherlands?
The Dutch #startup_visa can be one route for international founders, but the process has a few important steps and requirements.
We’ve put the route in one place, with clear explanations and links to the official sources.
📌 Explore the guide on HowToIn.nl, By Flux Forward
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The Dutch #startup_visa can be one route for international founders, but the process has a few important steps and requirements.
We’ve put the route in one place, with clear explanations and links to the official sources.
📌 Explore the guide on HowToIn.nl, By Flux Forward
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
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24% of HBO and university graduates in the Netherlands spent part of their studies abroad in 2024/25.
What stood out to us was what students said they gained from it: more independence, better cultural awareness, stronger knowledge in their field, language skills, and different perspectives.
A useful reminder that international experience is not just about being somewhere else. It can change how you learn, work and see things.
👉 Click here to see more
Source: CBS, Grenzeloos Studeren, 2026.
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What stood out to us was what students said they gained from it: more independence, better cultural awareness, stronger knowledge in their field, language skills, and different perspectives.
A useful reminder that international experience is not just about being somewhere else. It can change how you learn, work and see things.
👉 Click here to see more
Source: CBS, Grenzeloos Studeren, 2026.
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
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Moving to a new country often means building your network from scratch.
Diana Enache shares a few simple ways to make that easier, one conversation at a time.
Thanks Diana for sharing your experience with the Flux Forward community.
👉 Click here
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Diana Enache shares a few simple ways to make that easier, one conversation at a time.
Thanks Diana for sharing your experience with the Flux Forward community.
👉 Click here
@fluxforward | FluxForward.World | howtoin.nl
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Getting a BSN is one of the first things to sort out when you move to the Netherlands.
Which route you use depends on your situation: BRP if you live here, or RNI if you are registering as a non-resident.
The guide explains what to do, what to bring and where to start.
🔗 howtoin.nl
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Which route you use depends on your situation: BRP if you live here, or RNI if you are registering as a non-resident.
The guide explains what to do, what to bring and where to start.
🔗 howtoin.nl
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