1.0Jan Oostenbrinkhttps://janoostenbrink.eu/en/Jan Oostenbrinkhttps://janoostenbrink.eu/en/author/jan-oostenbrink/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="n432hEVrP7"><a href="https://janoostenbrink.eu/en/about/">About</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://janoostenbrink.eu/en/about/embed/#?secret=n432hEVrP7" width="600" height="338" title="“About” — Jan Oostenbrink" data-secret="n432hEVrP7" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> Jan Oostenbrink’s expertise is his strength in initiating, organizing and implementing cross-border cooperation between institutions, authorities and companies in the Netherlands, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower-Saxony. He has more than 15 years’ experience of this, including with Euregio and the Association of Dutch – German Enterprises (VNDU). For many years he has been commuting between the places where he lives, Groningen (NL) and Münster (D). He knows the German-Dutch border region very well. He easily switches between themes, from economics to technology, from health care to tourism, spatial planning and public security. He can navigate his way around the workings of government, politics, business and society. Jan Oostenbrink is available for your cross-border activities as moderator, process manager, communicator, chair, workshop leader or project developer and project coordinator. You also can rely on Jan Oostenbrink for cooperation on a Europe wide scale. He speaks German and Dutch fluently in addition to English and knows his way around European institutions and organizations. From profit to non-profit, from trade and industry to water authorities, provinces and social partners. Jan Oostenbrink (LL.M.) studied Law at the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Groningen. A number of examples of his work and activities from recent years: Cross-border innovation and business Industry Day Germany: enhancing cross-border business with Germany, program development and moderation, with WTC Hengelo and Association of enterprises (Hengelo, NL, 2017) Bionic for SME, cross-border innovation and knowledge transfer, moderator (Emmen, NL, 2016) ROCKET, kick off of German – Dutch cooperation project aiming at enhancing innovation in the field of health, energy and production, OOST NV (Eastern NL Development Agency) and NMWP.NRW, moderator (Kleve, D, 2016) Conference Network Surface (technology) North Rhine-Westphalia, innovation and high-tech with many SMEs, moderator Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Interior: moderator of expert meeting on “cross-border business” Moderator of kick-off meeting of project “Sustainable Surfaces and Membranes” (S2M) Cross-border business development: enhancing the position of the company DEMCON in  North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower-Saxony towards companies, networks and research institutions in the field of medical technology, with possible participation in INTERREG V project Workshop “VNDU 2017”, new impetus towards cross-border cooperation by employers’ organizations Dutch – German business event: Smart Industries / Industry 4.0 for the supplier industry and engineering, with among others VDMA, Dutch consulate general and NRW.International Managing director Association of Dutch – German Enterprises (VNDU) Final responsibility for the INTERREG IV A “Mechatronics project for SMEs” (2009-2014), a Dutch-German project aiming at cross-border innovation in which more than 200 SMEs participated Work visit SEC Overijssel to North Rhine-Westphalia   Cross-border infrastructure, traffic and logistics Province of Groningen, Strategy consultant Wunderline (Quality improvement of the railway connection Groningen – Bremen), enhancing the support in Lower-Saxony and Bremen for the railway connection and the future investment (2016 – …) Transport conference The Netherlands – North Rhine-Westphalia, with NRW minister of Transport and 3 Dutch regional ministers, signing the Common Declaration on Mobility and Infrastructure and the Agenda on Cross-border railways, moderator and workshop leader (Neuss, D, 2016) Green2, Green Logistics in Agrobusiness: cooperation of among others Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and Fontys University of Applied Sciences, moderator of Final Event TEN-T workshops concerning Corridor 2 / North Sea Baltic Corridor in Berlin and Hengelo Monitoring “Quick Scan“ – Study Mittelland Canal – Twente Canal “Green in Between”, Quick Scan East – West Corridor Euregio Chair Dutch-German Advisory Board Airfield Wenningfeld Moderator international start-up conference for TEN-T / Corridor 2   Energy, regional and cross-border developments and projects Energy conference Northern Netherlands – Lower Saxony, with Lower Saxony Minister of Energy and Climate and 4 Dutch Regional ministers signing the Common Declaration; program development and moderator (Emmen, NL, 2017) Expert conference “Routes of Innovations”, with companies Evonik and Innogy; KlimaExpo.NRW and Regionalverbund Ruhr, moderator (Essen, D, 2016) “Optimised integration of variable renewable energy sources”, partner search in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower-Saxony and project development for the province of Flevoland, with EnergyAgency.NRW, Fraunhofer Institute and Energy Cluster Oldenburg as well as universities of applied sciences and SMEs Climat Protection Region Münsterland, moderator Kick-off Event with KlimaExpo.NRW, EnergieAgentur.NRW and Münsterland, the City of Münster and some Kreise (districts) (concepts, best practices and electromobility) Euregio ClimateEnergy 2020, a planning project for an integrated cross-border use of energy   Cross-border health care and medical technology Symposium Telemonitoring and cardiac devices (DE – BE – NL), MedLife GmbH, moderator (Aachen, D, 2016) Cross-border conference Healthcare Economy, NRW Centre for Health, moderator (Mönchengladbach, D, 2016) Health 3.0, The Innovation congress for 2016, moderator and workshop leader (Düsseldorf, D 2016) Telemedicine: Business meeting NRW Centre for Health (www.lzg.nrw.de) und Zentrum für Telematik und Telemedizin (www.ztg-nrw.de) – KSYOS TeleMedical Centre (http://ksyos.co.uk/) on Teledermatology, TeleOphthalmology, TeleHolter and eMental Health Moderator NL – D Symposium “Chances in health care: utilizing the optimalization potentials, e.g. in telemedicin and in procurement, with a.o. the health care minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Moderator Closing Event NL – D project “MIAS – Euregio Platform for medical technology for an aging society” Scanbalt Forum 2014 (Healthy Ageing Network Northern Netherlands), workshopleider Health Tourism Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), coördinator Task Force Cross Border Health Symposium “Borderless cooperation of German and Dutch hospitals in border areas” / Workshop on enhancing cross-border patient mobility Kick off INTERREG IV A project MIAS (2009)   Cross-border labour market, education and neighbouring language Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg und University Medical Center (UMCG) Groningen, (European Medical School): “Report on the tandem cooperation”, aiming at strengthening the cooperation by German – Dutch tandems of researchers (2016-2017) EURES Scheldemond (labour market NL – Flanders), process management for developing strategic vision, goals and organization chart (2016-2017) Province of Overijssel, Cross-border labour market and neighbouring language: inventory and coordination of initiatives, networks and projects on Dutch-German labour market, vocational training and education and enhancing the position of German language and culture in the Dutch education system Ministry of Education, Culture and Science: moderator of expert meeting on enhancing the position of German language and culture in the Dutch education system in border regions Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment: moderator of two expert […]http://janoostenbrink.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/383671_133421820100339_1889690989_n1.jpg