2 September 2010, "In Nederland wordt veel te weinig gedaan om nieuwe kennis ten behoeve van ontwikkelingsvraagstukken en mondiale uitdagingen te genereren en uit te dragen. Onderzoek, innovatie en (hoger) onderwijs op dit terrein zijn van essentieel belang voor Nederland". Dit zegt prof.dr. L.M. Bouter, rector magnificus aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam aan de vooravond van de opening van het academisch jaar door Jan Peter Balkenende, demissionair minister-president en alumnus van de VU. Download persbericht: Kennis en ontwikkelingsvraagstukken; Nederland dreigt de boot te missen.
22 June 2010, Seminar Knowledge for Development: Towards a new vision on the Dutch contribution to capacity building for knowledge in a globalising world. More information about the programme and registration via the invitation . Results are available in reports of the workshops and discussion paper.
20 April 2010, After serving two terms as Board Members of PIE, Lem van Eupen, Ben Beuming and Han Aarts passed on the tasks to four new Board Members: Kees Kouwenaar, Andre v.d. Ven, Erwin Ploeger and Johan van Dijk.
1 April 2010, Debate with Peter van Lieshout on WRR report "Minder pretentie, meer ambitie" and the role of Higher Education. Debaters are Doekle Terpstra (HBO-raad), Adam Szirmai (UNU-MERIT), Isa Baud (University of Amsterdam), Bram van Ojik (Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DSO) and Henk Molenaar (NWO/Wotro). Location: conference centre Hoog Brabant, Utrecht. Time: 15.00 - 17.00 hrs. Registration via PIE secretariat.
26 March 2010, Saxion University of Applied Sciences joined PIE as a member.
18 November 2009, PIE seminar on Erasmus Mundus programmes at ITC in Enschede. More information about the programme and registration can be otained by e-mail from the PIE secretariat.
26 June 2009, International PIE seminar on Capacity Development and HRM as a follow up of the first seminar in January 2009. More information via the invitation or the seminar website. Booklet with results of both seminars can be purchased at the PIE secretariat (7,50 euro).
21 January 2009, PIE seminar on Capacity Development and Human Resources Management. Results are published on the Seminar website.
6 March 2008, Seminar on cooperation in education, research and capacity building with non-EU countries in Brussels. For the programme, please have a look at the conference website.
1 January 2008, ICRA is registered as the newest member of PIE.
6 December 2007, Herman Snelder of MDF was elected as the sixth board member of PIE.
30 October 2007, Nuffic won the tender for the last part of the present NFP & NPT programme. 14 September 2007, Han Aarts won the Leadership Prize of the European Association for International Education in Trondheim, Norway. 30 June 2007, PIE Chair Lem van Eupen signed the Agreement of Schokland together with the Minister Development Cooperation, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, the Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Life Sciences, VSNU, SAIL, KNAW, NWO-WOTRO, DPRN. 10 May 2007, During the Annual Meeting of PIE, the PIE members have elected one new board member. Paul Althuis (TU Delft) and Thea de Jager ( Codarts) left as Board Members of PIE. Paul was Co-Chair of PIE from the start up phase until May this year. Thea was also Board Member during the entire existence of PIE. Thea will be replaced by Dick Wijnands from INHolland University of Applied Sciences. PIE is still looking for Paul's successor. In the meantime Lem van Eupen will chair PIE. 12 April 2007, the results of the Evaluation report on NFP and NPT has been discussed by DCO with various Dutch Players in de field, among which the Board of PIE. 30 March 2007, Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DCO has published the evaluation report of ECORYS on the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) and the Programme for Capacity Building in Developing Countries (NPT).
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