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July 2025 | |||
 July 2025 | ART Klein's Colours. An Artistic Family's Universe, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2026 When you think of Yves Klein then you think of the colour blue. More especially, his colour blue, International Klein Blue which he patented in 1960. But this now world-famous blue did not come about...more |  July 2025 | NATURE The Future Flora of the Netherlands, Hortus Amsterdam, 2025-2028 The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, one of the world's oldest botanical gardens, is developing a new thematic garden: The Future Flora of the Netherlands, focused on the impact of climate change on nature in the...more |
 July 2025 | ART Averkamp returns to Kampen. Kampen through Hendrick and Barent Averkamp's Eyes, Stedelijk Museum Kampen, 2026-2027 Kampen is known for being a member of the former Hanseatic League, its picturesque and historic old town centre and its many monuments. Both Hendrick Averkamp and his nephew Barent...more |  July 2025 | ART Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen, Stadhuismuseum Zierikzee, 2025-2026 Stadhuismuseum Zierikzee is organising an exhibition about Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), a Dutch portraitist of Flemish and German origin. He was a pupil of Marcus Gerards de...more |
 July 2025 | NATURE Corsola, automated coral cultivation for reef restoration, the Caribbean, 2025-2026 BRANCH Foundation develops innovative, science-based solutions for restoring coral ecosystems. The foundation set up Project Corsola to focus on large-scale coral cultivation to restore biodiversity...more |  July 2025 | ART Groove Beast in your neigbourhood, BIMhuis Amsterdam, 2025-2026 Groove Beast, the BIMhuis' music education programme, is about renewing jazz education, centred on creative freedom and discovering one's own talents. Groove Beast in your Neighbourhood is part of this...more |
 July 2025 | ART 'Co Rentmeester - Universal Photographer', FOAM Amsterdam, 2025-2026 Dutch photographer Co Rentmeester belongs to the rare category of photographers who have not only captured images but have also actively contributed to the development of photographic language itself. His...more |  July 2025 | ART Acquisition of two portraits by Frans Hals (music-making children), Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem Frans Hals (c. 1583-1666) had an unmatched ability to portray people as if they were alive and moving right in front of you. These two small panels are part of Hals' genre scenes of 'ordinary...more |
 July 2025 | NATURE Scaling up community-led conservation of marine ecosystems, Madagascar, 2025-2026 Blue Ventures is an organisation that campaigns for the preservation and protection of the sea, and puts people first. It supports coastal communities in remote and rural communities to rebuild...more |  July 2025 | NATURE Accelerated transition Dutch aviation sector, Netherlands, 2025 Natuur & Milieu is one of the biggest and most influential environmental organisations in the Netherlands. It has various programmes with which it works on issues related to climate change. The aviation sector...more |
 July 2025 | NATURE Green Desert Initiative phase II, Mali, 2025 This is the Turing Foundation's second donation towards the Green Desert Initiative of Partners Pays-Dogon. The first projects supported by Turing were focused on countering environmental degradation: planting trees,...more |  July 2025 | LEPROSY Use of handheld ultrasound for the early detection of leprosy, India en Nepal, 2025 Early detection of leprosy is important to ensure treatment starts before the disease progresses and other people are infected. Leprosy symptoms are now often diagnosed "by hand and eye"...more |
 July 2025 | LEPROSY Role of drug resistance and M. lepromatosis in African leprosy transmission, Burundi, Cameroon, D.R. Congo, Ghana, België, 2025-2027 In a number of African countries leprosy is still discovered relatively late during which the disease has already advanced. In addition, there is no research conducted in...more |  July 2025 | LEPROSY Leprosy transmission and One Health. Holistic investigation for environmental presence of Mycobaterium leprae, India, 2025-2027 Leprosy infections are known to spread from person to person, but leprosy bacteria have also been found in certain animals, in water, and in the soil. Till date it is not clear...more |
 July 2025 | ART 'Welcome to the Orchestra - the premier league!, education for primary school and special needs schools, 2025-2026 Welcome to the Orchestra is the education program of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (NedPho) for primary schools and special needs schools. During five weeks children are...more | ||
May 2025 | |||
 May 2025 | NATURE Making the True Price Standard available worldwide, 2025-2028 The True Price Foundation is dedicated to calculating the true cost of products - a price which not only includes conventional production costs but also hidden social and environmental costs. By providing...more |  May 2025 | ART 'From Bauhaus to Mecca', Design Museum Den Bosch, 2025-2026 The exhibition From Bauhaus to Mecca explores German architect Dr Mahmoud Bodo Rasch's (b. 1943) life's work. His family background is rooted in Bauhaus architecture and art. He studied architecture in...more |
 May 2025 | ART Zuiderzeewijk Music Playground, Lelystad, 2025 - 2026 The Zuiderzeewijk Lelystad Music Playground opened its doors at the start of the 2024 - 2025 school year. Much like a sports field, children come after school to play: making music together. Although the concept of...more |  May 2025 | NATURE Together for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System, Social Cost-Benefit Analysis, 2025-2026 The Robin Food Coalition and the Food Transition Coalition are committed to creating a fairer and more sustainable food system. The current agricultural and food system in the Netherlands is...more |
 May 2025 | NATURE The Blue North: regeneration of the northern coastline of Mallorca, 2025-2027 As the Mediterranean Sea is in a poor ecological state, Commonland is supporting the Mallorca Land and Sea Alliance - a collaboration of several NGOs focused on regenerating seagrass meadows, developing...more |  May 2025 | ART 'Blaaskaken', Cadenza Music Association, Twello, 2025-2028 The project Blaaskaken ("windbags") is developing a structural in-school music education programme at primary schools in Twello and the surrounding area. The initiative was introduced by Cadenza Twello Music...more |
 May 2025 | NATURE Long-term, adaptive management systems to promote resilient reefs and communities, Honduras, 2025-2027 The coral reefs of the Bay Islands in Honduras are vital to biodiversity, economic development and cultural heritage. They support thousands of people through fisheries and tourism but face...more |  May 2025 | ART 'Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500 - 2025', Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2025 Calculating Empires is an impressive spatial installation, twenty-four metres wide and three metres high, created by artist-researchers Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler. The installation shows...more |
![Klasse[n]orkest, Stichting TacT Muziek, eastern Netherlands, 2025 - 2028](thumb/th_tact25.jpg) May 2025 | ART Klasse(n)orkest, Stichting TacT Muziek, eastern Netherlands, 2025-2028 Stichting TacT Muziek's Klasse(n)orkest East Netherlands project aims to give a boost to instrumental music education in the eastern Netherlands by establishing Klasse(n)orkesten (class orchestras). A...more |  May 2025 | LEPROSY ENL Genomic Signature and Neutrophil Interventions, Brazilië, 2025-2028 Patients with lepromatous leprosy and borderline leprosy can develop a severe immunological complication known as Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL). This reaction can affect patients even after completing...more |
 May 2025 | LEPROSY PUCP, Genetic susceptibility to leprosy and disease recurrence, 2025-2027 Development of a leprosy infection into the disease is strongly dependent on a patient's genetic makeup. Technological innovations have enabled DNA-related studies to successfully identify various...more |  May 2025 | NATURE Protection of the Wadden Sea, Advocaat van de Aarde, 2025-2026 Advocaat van de Aarde (Lawyer of the Earth) aims to support citizen initiatives that seek to compel better nature conservation through legal means. This project concerns the Wadden Sea, the only Dutch nature...more |
 May 2025 | ART Museum Het Spinozahuis exhibition, Rijnsburg, 2025-2026 Museum Het Spinozahuis is using powerful, innovative means to appeal to a broad range of people: interested laypeople (day-trippers, tourists), specialists and students. It makes philosophical themes accessible to...more | ||
January 2025 | |||
 January 2025 | ART 'The Men of Michelangelo, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2025-2026 In The Men of Michelangelo, the Teylers Museum explores the prominent role of the male body in nearly all of Michelangelo Buonarroti's (1475-1564) work. The figures are often nude, muscular and depicted in...more |  January 2025 | ART Brancusi from Centre Pompidou, H'Art Museum, Amsterdam, 2025-2026 H'ART Museum, formerly known as the Hermitage Amsterdam, is an independent museum found at Amstel 51 in the historic Amstelhof building. After severing ties with Russia in 2022, the museum was rebranded as...more |
 January 2025 | NATURE Zeegrasherstel in de Oosterschelde, Oosterschelde, 2025-2026 The Sea Ranger Service> wants to enable marine biodiversity recovery on a greater scale by developing maritime innovations and training young people as Sea Rangers to carry out operational nature restoration...more |  January 2025 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2025 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years. On top of this, every year we also donate directly to Netherlands...more |
 January 2025 | NATURE Boosting the habitat of hammerhead sharks, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, 2025 Misión Tiburón is an NGO set up by two marine biologists. During their work they discovered that the hammerhead shark is one of the planet's most endangered species. They also realised that in the last...more |  January 2025 | LEPROSY Evaluation of five transcriptomic biomarkers for leprosy, Colombia, 2025-2027 Approximately 400 of the leprosy cases reported each year in the world are from Colombia. In this project of the Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, researchers in the five regions with the...more |
 January 2025 | ART Het Leerorkest, 2025 The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity of discovering how much fun it is to play an instrument and make music together. They do so by giving primary school pupils weekly music...more |  January 2025 | ART In-school learning choir, Amsterdam, 2025 Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam (NVA) will start in May 2024 with in-school learning choirs in collaboration with the Leerorkest Amsterdam. With the donation from the Turing Foundation, NVA is able to provide two singing classes...more |
 January 2025 | LEPROSY COMBINE: Leprosy elimination by community screening & mass chemoprophylaxis, Kiribati, 2025-2026 Transmission of both leprosy and tuberculosis is through the respiratory tract and is greatly increased in places where many people live close together in poor economic conditions. The Pacific...more |  January 2025 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2024 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years. On top of this, every year we also donate directly to Netherlands...more |
 January 2025 | LEPROSY Mobile suitcase lab for rapid diagnosis of clinical and sub-clinical leprosy, Bangladesh, 2025 Early diagnosis of leprosy is crucial for effective treatment of cases and preventing infection of their close contacts, who are the group most at risk. Microbiological diagnosis of leprosy...more |  January 2025 | LEPROSY LepVax: safety and vaccin-induced immune response, Brazil, 2025-2026 Researchers from the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), in collaboration with the America Leprosy Mission (ALM), have developed a leprosy specific vaccine called LepVax. This vaccine has both...more |
 January 2025 | LEPROSY Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome Biomolecular Predictive Test, Papua and Nepal, 2025 Leprosy is treated with a combination of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine. People with dapsone allergy develop what is called dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS). DHS is...more |  January 2025 | LEPROSY Point-of-care tests for leprosy in South America, 2025 The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) team has developed a simple diagnostic test in previous studies. This point-of-care (POC) test uses a finger prick to determine whether and to what extent someone is...more |
October 2024 | |||
 October 2024 | ART 'Nieuw Parijs: van Monet tot Morisot', Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2025 The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is organising the exhibition New Paris: From Monet to Morisot. It focuses on the Impressionists' depictions of Paris during a transformative era for both modern art and the city...more |  October 2024 | OTHER 750 Trees for the City, Amsterdam, 2024-2025 A group of Amsterdam-based foundations and companies are donating 750 trees to celebrate Amsterdam's 750th anniversary. The trees are a contribution towards the city's greening efforts and represent a sustainable...more |
 October 2024 | ART 'Masterful Mystery - About Rembrandt's Enigmatic Contemporary', Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, 2025-2026 For the first time in history, the haunting and melancholic works of seventeenth-century artist Master I.S. are being brought together in an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal. Surrounded by...more |  October 2024 | ART Raad van de Raaf. Een doe-tentoonstelling voor klimaathelden. Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, 2024-2029 The Wereldmuseum is organising a new long-term exhibition as part of Wereldmuseum Junior. The Council of the Raven is a "hands-on exhibition for climate heroes," aiming to engage 180,000...more |
 October 2024 | ART Posters for the Planet in ARTIS, Design Museum Den Bosch, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam en Bonnefanten Maastricht, 2024-2025 The very best, most compelling and most persuasive posters submitted to Posters for the Planet - a competition for a better world are being exhibited at five Dutch...more |  October 2024 | NATURE Investigation into the Illegal Shark Fin Trade, 2024-2026 The Wildlife Justice Commission's mission is to disrupt and help dismantle the transnational criminal networks that trade in wildlife, timber and fish. They do this by gathering evidence and to use the collected...more |
 October 2024 | NATURE Protection of the Dogger Bank, the Netherlands, 2024-2026 Blue Marine Foundation is established in 2010 with the objective to protect and restore marine life. The organization was founded by the team that created the award-winning book and documentary "The End of the...more |  October 2024 | LEPROSY Extra clofazimine for MB cases at high risk of ENL reactions, 2024-2027 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. The disease can be treated with the drug clofazimine. This research project aims to evaluate whether treating leprosy...more |
 October 2024 | LEPROSY MetLep Trial: Metformin as adjunct therapy for MB leprosy, 2024-2025 Metformin is a cheap and safe medicine which has been used to treat diabetes for a long time. Research into tuberculosis patients, which is caused by a bacterium similar to leprosy, has demonstrated that...more |  October 2024 | NATURE Conserving the forest ecosystem of Wologizi-Wonegizi, Liberia, 2024-2025 Two rainforests, Wologizi and Wonegizi in northern Liberia, are seriously threatened by poaching, mining and rapidly increasing agricultural activity. As local communities have few alternatives, there is...more |
 October 2024 | NATURE Industry agreement on the protein transition, the Netherlands, 2024-2025 Questionmark is an independent thinktank. Their mission is to ensure our food environment supports a healthy, sustainable, fair and animal-friendly food system. The aim of this project is to reduce the...more | October 2024 | NATURE Green Desert Initiative phase II, Mali, 2024 This is the Turing Foundation's second donation towards the Green Desert Initiative of Partners Pays-Dogon. The first projects supported by Turing were focused on countering environmental degradation: planting trees,...more |
July 2024 | |||
 July 2024 | ART 'The Call of the O'o: Nature Under Pressure,' Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 2024-2025 The Allard Pierson Museum is organising the heritage event 'The Call of the O'o: Nature Under Pressure.' This exhibition will shed light on the consequences of climate change on nature, the loss...more |  July 2024 | ART 'Sag mir wo die Blumen sind', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam & Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, 2025 Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945, Germany) will celebrate his eightieth birthday in 2025. To mark this special occasion, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Van Gogh Museum are jointly organising an...more |
 July 2024 | ART 'Eventful Middle Ages: Sensory Experience in Late Medieval Devotion,' Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, 2025 In late medieval Europe, Christians deepened their religious experiences. Seeking ways to come closer to Mary, Christ and the saints, as well as to evoke empathy, they stimulated and...more |  July 2024 | ART 'How Van Gogh Came to Groningen,' Groninger Museum, Groningen, 2024-2025 The Groninger Museum is presenting the exhibition 'How Van Gogh Came to Groningen,' which tells the story of the independent-minded citizens and enterprising students of Groningen who brought modern art...more |
 July 2024 | ART 'Marianne von Werefkin, Pioneer of Expressionism,' Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, 2024-2025 Marianne von Werefkin is one of the most important representatives of expressionism. Yet she is much less known than several of her close collaborators, such as her partner Alexej von Jawlensky,...more |  July 2024 | ART Joan Miró - Sculptures, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, 2024-2025 Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the founders of surrealism, whose colourful, playful and experimental artworks are well known to a wide audience. Yet a comprehensive exhibition dedicated solely to his...more |
 July 2024 | ART 'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, The Netherlands, 2024 A new round of the Turing Foundation's 'Exceptional Opportunity' initiative, in collaboration with the Vereniging Rembrandt, commenced in 2024. The Exceptional Opportunity initiative focuses on collaboration...more | July 2024 | NATURE Accelerated transition Dutch aviation sector, Netherlands, 2024 Natuur & Milieu is one of the biggest and most influential environmental organisations in the Netherlands. It has various programmes with which it works on issues related to climate change. The aviation sector...more |
 July 2024 | NATURE 'Together for a healthy and sustainable food system', Netherlands, 2024-2025 Our daily food choices greatly influence the climate, biodiversity, our health, animal welfare and global food security. For this reason, ProVeg Netherlands campaigns for more plant-based production and...more |  July 2024 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2024 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more |
July 2024 | NATURE Scaling up community-led conservation of marine ecosystems, Madagascar, 2024 Blue Ventures is an organisation that campaigns for the preservation and protection of the sea, and puts people first. It supports coastal communities in remote and rural communities to rebuild...more |  July 2024 | NATURE Professionalisation of the Jonge Klimaatbeweging, 2024-2025 The Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Young Climate Movement campaigns for a world in which young people have a say in their future and caring well for the planet is only natural. It is fighting for a future-proof society...more |
 July 2024 | ART Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Bus transport to school matinees, 2024-2025 The mission of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NOB) is for everyone to experience the magic of opera and ballet and it welcomes visitors of all ages. The NOB focuses particularly on young people: it...more |  July 2024 | NATURE Long-term, adaptive management systems to promote resilient reefs and communities, Honduras, 2024 Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) works with local coastal communities to protect 'their' reefs, to create a network of healthy and diverse reef formations that can adapt to climate change. CORAL is...more |
 July 2024 | ART 'Welcome to the Orchestra - the premier league!, education for primary school and special needs schools, 2024 Welcome to the Orchestra is the education program of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (NedPho) for primary schools and special needs schools. During five weeks children are...more | ||
June 2024 | |||
 June 2024 | NATURE Posters for the planet - a competition for a better world, The Netherlands, 2024-2025 Research shows that nearly 80 percent of Dutch people are concerned about rising temperatures and declining biodiversity, but find it challenging to turn that concern into action. Posters for the...more | ||
March 2024 | |||
March 2024 | NATURE The Blue North: regeneration of the northern coastline of Mallorca, 2024 Commonland focuses on the holistic restoration of land and sea ecosystems worldwide. Active in 23 countries, Commonland has the ambitious goal of sustainably restoring 100 million hectares of land...more | March 2024 | NATURE Protection of the Wadden Sea, Advocaat van de Aarde, 2024 Advocaat van de Aarde (Lawyer of the Earth) aims to support citizen initiatives that seek to compel better nature conservation through legal means. This project concerns the Wadden Sea, the only Dutch nature...more |
 March 2024 | NATURE Making the True Price Standard available worldwide, 2024 The True Price Foundation works on a movement to promote fair prices, which also takes into account the costs of the external effects of producing a product (both social and environmental costs). It is still a...more |  March 2024 | ART 'The Art of Illusion. Samuel van Hoogstraten', Rembrandt House, Amsterdam, 2025 At the 'The Art of Illusion' exhibition visitors to the Rembrandt House Museum get to know Rembrandt the teacher through the eyes of his pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten. They discover how Van Hoogstraten...more |
 March 2024 | ART Wallerant Vaillant Exhibition, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, 2024-2025 Museum Van Loon is organising an exhibition on the seventeenth-century artist Wallerant Vaillant (1623-1677). His painting is of a high standard, and he was a true pioneer in developing techniques such as...more |  March 2024 | ART 'LIBERTÉ! Ary Scheffer (1795 - 1858) and French Romanticism' exhibition, Dordrechts Museum, 2024-2025 The Dordrechts Museum is organising 'LIBERTÉ! Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) and French Romanticism'. The exhibition showcases the greatest French Romantic painters. The Dordrechts Museum's aim...more |
 March 2024 | ART Leonetto Cappiello Exhibition, Dutch Lithography Museum, Valkenswaard, 2024 The Dutch Lithography Museum is organising an exhibition about Leonetto Cappiello (1875 - 1942). He was one of the most important international poster artists and a master of lithography. For his works...more |  March 2024 | ART Pieter Roelf Youth Concert, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2024 The North Netherlands Orchestra (NNO) is inviting 8,000 primary school children from Groningen, Friesland, and Drenthe for the 24th time in 2024 to the Pieter Roelf Concerts, where they will hear a...more |
March 2024 | ART Museum Het Spinozahuis exhibition, Rijnsburg, 2024 Museum Het Spinozahuis is using powerful, innovative means to appeal to a broad range of people: interested laypeople (day-trippers, tourists), specialists and students. It makes philosophical themes accessible to a...more | March 2024 | LEPROSY Use of handheld ultrasound for the early detection of leprosy, India en Nepal, 2024 Early detection of leprosy is important to ensure treatment starts before the disease progresses and other people are infected. Leprosy symptoms are now often diagnosed "by hand and eye"...more |
March 2024 | LEPROSY Role of drug resistance and M. lepromatosis in African leprosy transmission, Burundi, Cameroon, D.R. Congo, Ghana, België, 2024 In a number of African countries leprosy is still discovered relatively late during which the disease has already advanced. In addition, there is no research conducted in...more | March 2024 | LEPROSY Leprosy transmission and One Health. Holistic investigation for environmental presence of Mycobaterium leprae, India, 2024 Leprosy infections are known to spread from person to person, but leprosy bacteria have also been found in certain animals, in water, and in the soil. Till date it is not clear...more |
 March 2024 | LEPROSY Immunomodulation by Mycobacterium Indicus Pranii (MIP) in MB leprosy, 2024-2026 Leprosy patients can be effectively treated with multi-drug treatment (MDT), but they are still susceptible to being reinfected with leprosy. It has been demonstrated that the MIP (Mycobacterium...more | March 2024 | LEPROSY LepVax: safety and vaccin-induced immune response, Brazil, 2024 Researchers from the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), in collaboration with the America Leprosy Mission (ALM), have developed a leprosy specific vaccine called LepVax. This vaccine has both...more |
March 2024 | LEPROSY Point-of-care tests for leprosy in South America, 2024 The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) team has developed a simple diagnostic test in previous studies. This point-of-care (POC) test uses a finger prick to determine whether and to what extent someone is...more | March 2024 | LEPROSY Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome Biomolecular Predictive Test, Papua and Nepal, 2024 Leprosy is treated with a combination of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine. People with dapsone allergy develop what is called dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS). DHS is...more |
 March 2024 | NATURE Building an independent and sustainable community forests database, DR Congo, 2024 The British arm of the Rainforest Foundation, Rainforest UK, campaigns for the preservation of the rainforests in the Congo Basin and has been working on the development of community forestry since...more | ||
January 2024 | |||
 January 2024 | ART The Seven Deadly Sins, The Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 2024-2025 The battle between good and evil, morality and immorality is a universal theme. Whether it concerns an inner struggle or a tangible temptation, every person faces moral dilemmas. Because the forbidden fruit...more |  January 2024 | ART Radical - Female Artists & Modernism 1910-1950, Museum Arnhem, 2024-2025 Radical - Female Artists & Modernism 1910-1950 celebrates the work of female artists who pushed boundaries in the first half of the twentieth century. Museum Arnhem, the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken and...more |
 January 2024 | ART Maarten van Heemskerck, Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Teylers Museum, 2024-2025 Maarten van Heemskerck, famous in his own time and a pioneer in the art of the Northern Netherlands, is back in the spotlight. Through a special collaboration project between the Frans Hals...more |  January 2024 | ART Art on your Plate, dance and music in the classroom, 2024-2025 Since 2012 the Follow a Muse Foundation (FAM) has been producing and distributing online cultural education packages for primary education. FAM is a small foundation that originates from educational...more |
January 2024 | ART In-school learning choir, Amsterdam, 2024 Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam (NVA) will start in May 2024 with in-school learning choirs in collaboration with the Leerorkest Amsterdam. With the donation from the Turing Foundation, NVA is able to provide two singing classes...more |  January 2024 | ART SchoolSchubertiade 2024-2025 The Schubert Foundation wants to actively convey the passion for Schubert's music to secondary school students by organizing a School Schubertiade. A School Schubertiade is a theatrical musical performance based on music by...more |
 January 2024 | ART Vereniging Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2024 Dutch museums wanting to acquire a special work of art can seek assistance from the Vereniging Rembrandt. This association is committed to the protection and enrichment of Dutch public art collections. It was founded in...more | January 2024 | NATURE Boosting the habitat of hammerhead sharks, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, 2024 Misión Tiburón is an NGO set up by two marine biologists. During their work they discovered that the hammerhead shark is one of the planet's most endangered species. They also realised that in the last...more |
January 2024 | NATURE Zeegrasherstel in de Oosterschelde, Oosterschelde, 2024 The Sea Ranger Service> wants to enable marine biodiversity recovery on a greater scale by developing maritime innovations and training young people as Sea Rangers to carry out operational nature restoration...more | January 2024 | LEPROSY Mobile suitcase lab for rapid diagnosis of clinical and sub-clinical leprosy, Bangladesh, 2024 Early diagnosis of leprosy is crucial for effective treatment of cases and preventing infection of their close contacts, who are the group most at risk. Microbiological diagnosis of leprosy...more |
January 2024 | LEPROSY Evaluation of five transcriptomic biomarkers for leprosy, Colombia, 2024 Approximately 400 of the leprosy cases reported each year in the world are from Colombia. In this project of the Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, researchers in the five regions with the highest...more |  January 2024 | ART 'The Residents', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2024-2025 The Residents is the Residentie Orkest's prime educational project for children aged between eight and twelve. Every year, hundreds of children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in The Hague are given...more |
January 2024 | ART Het Leerorkest, 2024 The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity of discovering how much fun it is to play an instrument and make music together. They do so by giving primary school pupils weekly music...more | January 2024 | LEPROSY COMBINE: Leprosy elimination by community screening & mass chemoprophylaxis, Kiribati, 2024 Transmission of both leprosy and tuberculosis is through the respiratory tract and is greatly increased in places where many people live close together in poor economic conditions. The Pacific...more |
January 2024 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2023 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years. On top of this, every year we donate 5% of the total sum of these...more | ||
November 2023 | |||
 November 2023 | NATURE Vote for a climate candidate, Young Climate Movement election campaign, 2023 Do you already know who you are going to vote for? That's fine, but then choose to vote for a climate candidate instead of the party leader! The klimaatbeweging.nl/kies-voor-klimaat/"...more |  November 2023 | LEPROSY Endgame strategy for leprosy in the Maldives: optimal targeting of post-exposure prophylaxis to interrupt transmission, Maldives, 2023 The Maldives want to become leprosy-free in the next decade: the aim is to break transmission of the disease (zero children diagnosed with leprosy; zero patients contracting...more |
October 2023 | |||
October 2023 | NATURE Protection of the Dogger Bank, the Netherlands, 2023 Blue Marine Foundation is established in 2010 with the objective to protect and restore marine life. The organization was founded by the team that created the award-winning book and documentary "The End of the...more | October 2023 | NATURE Investigation into the Illegal Shark Fin Trade, 2023 The Wildlife Justice Commission's mission is to disrupt and help dismantle the transnational criminal networks that trade in wildlife, timber and fish. They do this by gathering evidence and to use the collected...more |
October 2023 | NATURE Industry agreement on the protein transition, the Netherlands, 2023 Questionmark is an independent thinktank. Their mission is to ensure our food environment supports a healthy, sustainable, fair and animal-friendly food system. The aim of this project is to reduce the...more |  October 2023 | ART 'On Edge', Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2024 'On Edge' is a large-scale exhibition at the Centraal Museum Utrecht about hyperrealism, an art movement that emerged in the United States in the 1970s. Hyperrealism includes lifelike works that show an extremely...more |
October 2023 | ART 'Welcome to the Orchestra - the premier league!, education for primary school and special needs schools, 2023 Welcome to the Orchestra is the education program of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (NedPho) for primary schools and special needs schools. During five weeks children are...more | October 2023 | NATURE Green Desert Initiative phase II, Mali, 2023 This is the Turing Foundation's second donation towards the Green Desert Initiative of Partners Pays-Dogon. The first projects supported by Turing were focused on countering environmental degradation: planting trees,...more |
October 2023 | NATURE Conserving the forest ecosystem of Wologizi-Wonegizi, Liberia, 2023 Two rainforests, Wologizi and Wonegizi in northern Liberia, are seriously threatened by poaching, mining and rapidly increasing agricultural activity. As local communities have few alternatives, there is...more |  October 2023 | EDUCATION EN-power, vocational training, Bafoussam, Cameroon 2023 Masterpeace is a network organisation of 50 local clubs in 40 countries. Its mission is to give young people perspective to combat polarisation, poverty and migration. Hope for a Better Future (H4BF) is one of the...more |
 October 2023 | EDUCATION Digital education, Niger en Togo, 2023 The Second Wave Education Foundation (SWEF) team has developed an application for primary school children in Francophone African countries. The start is in Togo and Niger, other countries will follow. Many children in the...more |  October 2023 | NATURE Sustainable mangrove conservation, Liberia, 2023-2024 Conservation International is one of the world's largest international nature conservation organisations and has been working for over 30 years towards a healthy and prosperous world in which society values and...more |
 October 2023 | NATURE Sustainable Seas, Inhambane Province, Mozambique, 2023 The Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) was founded in 2009 by two American marine biologists who have been working in Mozambique since 2005. As well as protecting manta rays and whale sharks, the organisation...more | ||
August 2023 | |||
 August 2023 | ART Sol Lewitt, Jewish Museum, 2023-2024 The Jewish Museum (part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter) organizes a large project about the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). This project is realized in close collaboration with the Sol LeWitt Estate. In...more | August 2023 | NATURE Professionalisation of the Jonge Klimaatbeweging, 2023 The Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Young Climate Movement campaigns for a world in which young people have a say in their future and caring well for the planet is only natural. It is fighting for a future-proof society...more |
 August 2023 | NATURE Unlocking knowledge on mangrove recovery, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Indonesia, Philippines, 2023 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Wetlands International is one of...more |  August 2023 | EDUCATION Nurse training, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2023 Médecins sans Frontičres (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) provides medical assistance to people in need. In some cases, MSF makes a long-term commitment to a country, such as Sierra Leone. Health care,...more |
July 2023 | |||
July 2023 | ART Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Bus transport to school matinees, 2023 The mission of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NOB) is for everyone to experience the magic of opera and ballet and it welcomes visitors of all ages. The NOB focuses particularly on young people: it...more | ||
April 2023 | |||
April 2023 | NATURE Accelerated transition Dutch aviation sector, Netherlands, 2023 Natuur & Milieu is one of the biggest and most influential environmental organisations in the Netherlands. It has various programmes with which it works on issues related to climate change. The aviation sector...more | April 2023 | NATURE 'Together for a healthy and sustainable food system', Netherlands, 2023 Our daily food choices greatly influence the climate, biodiversity, our health, animal welfare and global food security. For this reason, ProVeg Netherlands campaigns for more plant-based production and...more |
 April 2023 | ART 'Yayoi Kusama. The Dutch Years 1965-1970', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2023-2024 The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam is dedicating an exhibition to the Dutch years of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929). Kusama (now 93) is famed for her pop art and her large installations but also as...more |  April 2023 | ART 'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, 'Titus is back Home', Rembrandt House, 2023 The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association started a new initiative in 2022 entitled Exceptional Opportunity: more than 100 Dutch art museums were invited to make a exhibition with iconic...more |
 April 2023 | ART 'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, 'Giorgio Morandi and the Netherlands', Museum Belvédčre, 2023 The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association started a new initiative in 2022 entitled Exceptional Opportunity: more than 100 Dutch art museums were invited to make a presentation with...more | April 2023 | NATURE Scaling up community-led conservation of marine ecosystems, Madagascar, 2023 Blue Ventures is an organisation that campaigns for the preservation and protection of the sea, and puts people first. It supports coastal communities in remote and rural communities to rebuild...more |
April 2023 | NATURE Long-term, adaptive management systems to promote resilient reefs and communities, Honduras, 2023 Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) works with local coastal communities to protect 'their' reefs, to create a network of healthy and diverse reef formations that can adapt to climate change. CORAL is...more | April 2023 | NATURE Building an independent and sustainable community forests database, DR Congo, 2023 The British arm of the Rainforest Foundation, Rainforest UK, campaigns for the preservation of the rainforests in the Congo Basin and has been working on the development of community forestry since...more |
April 2023 | LEPROSY MetLep Trial: Metformin as adjunct therapy for MB leprosy, 2023 Metformin is a cheap and safe medicine which has been used to treat diabetes for a long time. Research into tuberculosis patients, which is caused by a bacterium similar to leprosy, has demonstrated that...more | April 2023 | LEPROSY Point-of-care tests for leprosy in South America, 2023 The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) team has developed a simple diagnostic test in previous studies. This point-of-care (POC) test uses a finger prick to determine whether and to what extent someone is...more |
April 2023 | LEPROSY Extra clofazimine for MB cases at high risk of ENL reactions, 2023 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. The disease can be treated with the drug clofazimine. This research project aims to evaluate whether treating leprosy...more | April 2023 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2023 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more |
 April 2023 | EDUCATION Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger, 2023 RAIN has been working on sustainable water and food systems, women's economic development and education in the Agadez region of Niger for nearly 20 years. The organisation has a local team with fourteen members...more |  April 2023 | EDUCATION Women Work! Empowerment through Employment, Koubri, Burkina Faso, 2023 Jugend Eine Welt is an Austrian development organisation that aims to improve the future prospects of children and young people by focusing on education. In West Africa, Jugend Eine Welt works with...more |
 April 2023 | EDUCATION Nursing Training, D.R. Congo, 2023-2023 Wonder Foundation was established in the United Kingdom in 2012. The organisation supports NGOs in eighteen countries that are committed to education and employment for girls and women. In D.R. Congo, Wonder has been...more | April 2023 | ART Vereniging Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2023 Dutch museums wanting to acquire a special work of art can seek assistance from the Vereniging Rembrandt. This association is committed to the protection and enrichment of Dutch public art collections. It was founded in...more |
January 2023 | |||
January 2023 | NATURE Zeegrasherstel in de Oosterschelde, Oosterschelde, 2023 The Sea Ranger Service> wants to enable marine biodiversity recovery on a greater scale by developing maritime innovations and training young people as Sea Rangers to carry out operational nature restoration...more |  January 2023 | ART 'Porcelain Fever', Keramiek Museum Princessehof, 2023-2024 The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics is housed in a grand eighteenth-century townhouse in the historical centre of Leeuwarden. The museum has one of the best collections of European and Asian ceramics,...more |
January 2023 | NATURE Boosting the habitat of hammerhead sharks, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, 2023 Misión Tiburón is an NGO set up by two marine biologists. During their work they discovered that the hammerhead shark is one of the planet's most endangered species. They also realised that in the last...more |  January 2023 | LEPROSY 5 year followup Maltalep/IDEAL, Bangladesh, 2023 The Maltalep trial in Bangladesh, co-funded by the Turing Foundation, evaluated the extent to which a single preventative dose of the antibiotic rifampicine reduced cases of leprosy in the year after a BCG...more |
January 2023 | LEPROSY Mobile suitcase lab for rapid diagnosis of clinical and sub-clinical leprosy, Bangladesh, 2023 Early diagnosis of leprosy is crucial for effective treatment of cases and preventing infection of their close contacts, who are the group most at risk. Microbiological diagnosis of leprosy...more | January 2023 | LEPROSY Evaluation of five transcriptomic biomarkers for leprosy, Colombia, 2023 Approximately 400 of the leprosy cases reported each year in the world are from Colombia. In this project of the Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, researchers in the five regions with the highest...more |
January 2023 | ART 'The Residents', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2023 The Residents is the Residentie Orkest's prime educational project for children aged between eight and twelve. Every year, hundreds of children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in The Hague are given the...more | January 2023 | ART Het Leerorkest, 2023 The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity of discovering how much fun it is to play an instrument and make music together. They do so by giving primary school pupils weekly music...more |
 January 2023 | ART 'Classic Express', Prinses Christina Concours, 2023 The Princess Christina Competition (founded in 1967) aims to acquaint all children and young people in the Netherlands with (classical) music. It wants to stimulate and support their musical talent. One of the...more | January 2023 | LEPROSY LepVax: safety and vaccin-induced immune response, Brazil, 2023 Researchers from the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), in collaboration with the America Leprosy Mission (ALM), have developed a leprosy specific vaccine called LepVax. This vaccine has both...more |
January 2023 | ART Pieter Roelf Youth Concert, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2023 The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra has organised the Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts every year since 1999: live performances by a symphony orchestra with high-quality classical music for school children...more |  January 2023 | ART Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2023 Stichting Klassiekfabriek has been organising the Klassifest festival in Paradiso since 2016: a one-day festival with bite-sized classical music for a young audience between the ages of 20 and 40. Whilst many orchestras...more |
January 2023 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2022 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years. On top of this, every year we donate 5% of the total sum of these...more |  January 2023 | ART 'Choose your instrument', Prinses Christina Concours, 2023 The Princess Christina Competition (PCC) aims to acquaint all children and young people in the Netherlands with (classical) music and then stimulates and supports them so that they can develop their musical...more |
 January 2023 | NATURE Collaborating with coastal communities in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands to protect marine resources, 2023 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been working on nature conservation in the Coral Triangle for 20 years: the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea (PNG)...more | January 2023 | LEPROSY COMBINE: Leprosy elimination by community screening & mass chemoprophylaxis, Kiribati, 2023 Transmission of both leprosy and tuberculosis is through the respiratory tract and is greatly increased in places where many people live close together in poor economic conditions. The Pacific...more |
 January 2023 | NATURE Forest Gardens, Mali, 2023 Trees for the Future aims to alleviate small-scale farmers' poverty and hunger by helping them revitalise land and plant trees. The organisation developed the forest garden approach by which a farmer develops an area of 0.5...more | January 2023 | LEPROSY Immunomodulation by Mycobacterium Indicus Pranii (MIP) in MB leprosy, 2023 Leprosy patients can be effectively treated with multi-drug treatment (MDT), but they are still susceptible to being reinfected with leprosy. It has been demonstrated that the MIP (Mycobacterium indicus...more |
 January 2023 | NATURE Restoration ARTIS-Aquarium, Amsterdam, 2023 Artis has committed itself to operating on a climate-neutral and fossil-free basis by 2030. Its almost 140-year-old Aquarium Building is in a poor state, caused by salt-water damage amongst other things. The Aquarium is...more |  January 2023 | LEPROSY Molecular Methods in Subclinical Models of Leprosy to Test PEP, 2023 Whilst multi-drug therapy has been very successful in reducing the global prevalence of leprosy, new cases still occur. This indicates that leprosy transmission is still taking place despite effective...more |
 January 2023 | ART 'Mondriaan - Schilder met een boodschap', Uitgeverij IJzer, 2023 Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was one of the most important artists in the twentieth century. He played a leading role in the international avant garde and the development from realistic to abstract art. Mondrian...more | January 2023 | LEPROSY Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome Biomolecular Predictive Test, Papua and Nepal, 2023 Leprosy is treated with a combination of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine. People with dapsone allergy develop what is called dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS). DHS is...more |
October 2022 | |||
October 2022 | NATURE Green Desert Initiative phase II, Mali, 2022 This is the Turing Foundation's second donation towards the Green Desert Initiative of Partners Pays-Dogon. The first projects supported by Turing were focused on countering environmental degradation: planting trees,...more |  October 2022 | ART Eye to Eye. The People behind the Mummy Portraits, Allard Pierson, 2023-2024 The Allard Pierson Museum's 'Eye to Eye' exhibition is the first in the Netherlands about mummy portraits: portraits of the deceased (mostly on wooden boards) attached to the faces of mummies in the...more |
 October 2022 | ART Van Gogh in Drenthe, Drents Museum, 2023-2024 In 1883, Vincent van Gogh lived and worked in Drenthe for three months, painting the landscape and the workers in the peatlands of Drenthe. It was an important period in his development; he was isolated from the art...more |  October 2022 | ART Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2023-2024 The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) is regarded as one of the pioneers of abstract painting. She created more than 1000 paintings, sketches and watercolours and was one of the first artists to...more |
 October 2022 | ART Futurism & Europe. The Aesthetics of a New World, Kröller-Müller Museum, 2023 Futurism (1909-1916) originated on the eve of the First World War in Italy. Futurists revolted against established norms and values and the traditions of the nineteenth century. Art should express the...more | October 2022 | NATURE Conserving the forest ecosystem of Wologizi-Wonegizi, Liberia, 2022 Two rainforests, Wologizi and Wonegizi in northern Liberia, are seriously threatened by poaching, mining and rapidly increasing agricultural activity. As local communities have few alternatives, there is...more |
October 2022 | NATURE Building an independent and sustainable community forests database, DR Congo, 2022 Rainforest Foundation was founded in 1987, with an American organisation focused on forest conservation in Latin America and a British organisation (RFUK) focused on forest conservation in the Congo...more |  October 2022 | NATURE Community Forest and Peatland Solutions project, D.R. Congo, 2022 Greenpeace wants to halt logging in the Congo basin, and sees community forestry as a sustainable alternative to destructive industrial logging and large-scale agricultural plantations. In the period...more |
October 2022 | EDUCATION EN-power, vocational training, Bafoussam, Cameroon 2022 Masterpeace is a network organisation of 50 local clubs in 40 countries. Its mission is to give young people perspective to combat polarisation, poverty and migration. Hope for a Better Future (H4BF) is one of the...more |  October 2022 | EDUCATION Local leaders to strengthen the education sector, Liberia, 2022 Teach for All is a network organisation with partners in 56 countries. The organisation has developed a model supported by data that aims to achieve more and better leadership in a country to improve the...more |
 October 2022 | EDUCATION Professional development and workforce placement for youth, Niger, 2022 The French Association Yara LCN gives more than 350 children and young people in Zinder (Niger) a better future by providing primary education and vocational training, and coordinating the management and...more | October 2022 | EDUCATION Digital education, Niger en Togo, 2022 The Second Wave Education Foundation (SWEF) team has developed an application for primary school children in Francophone African countries. The start is in Togo and Niger, other countries will follow. Many children in the...more |
July 2022 | |||
July 2022 | NATURE Professionalisation of the Jonge Klimaatbeweging, 2022 The Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Young Climate Movement campaigns for a world in which young people have a say in their future and caring well for the planet is only natural. It is fighting for a future-proof society...more |  July 2022 | ART Purchase of two works by Caspar van Wittel, Museum Flehite, 2022 Caspar van Wittel was born in Amersfoort in the Netherlands and went to Rome in 1674, where he was known as 'Gaspare Vanvitelli' and caused a furore. He is regarded as the founder of vedutism, the genre of...more |
 July 2022 | ART Vermeer in Delft, Museum Prinsenhof Delft, 2023 Museum Prinsenhof Delft is developing the exhibition 'Vermeer in Delft' parallel to the survey exhibition on the seventeenth-century master which will be in the same period at the Rijksmuseum. Johannes Vermeer...more |  July 2022 | ART Sofonisba Anguissola. Portraitist of the Renaissance, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2023 In collaboration with the Danish Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Rijksmuseum Twenthe is organising the first monographic exhibition in the Netherlands on the Italian renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola...more |
 July 2022 | ART Brueghel: the Family Reunion, Noordbrabants Museum, 2023-2024 The Noordbrabants Museum is organising a large-scale exhibition on the Brueghel dynasty, the most famous family of artists with roots in North Brabant. The Brueghel dynasty includes five generations of...more | July 2022 | NATURE Unlocking knowledge on mangrove recovery, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Indonesia, Philippines, 2022 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Wetlands International is one of...more |
July 2022 | NATURE Sustainable mangrove conservation, Liberia, 2022 Conservation International is one of the world's largest international nature conservation organisations and has been working for over 30 years towards a healthy and prosperous world in which society values and...more | July 2022 | NATURE Protection and Restoration of the Mesoamerican Reef, Honduras, 2022 Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) has been working with local coastal communities since 1994 to protect 'their' reefs, creating a network of healthy and diverse reefscapes that will be able to adapt to climate...more |
July 2022 | EDUCATION Nurse training, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2022 Médecins sans Frontičres (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) provides medical assistance to people in need. In some cases, MSF makes a long-term commitment to a country, such as Sierra Leone. Health care,...more |  July 2022 | NATURE Biodiversity Conservation Nyika National Park, Malawi, 2022 The Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) advocates the creation and development of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa with the ultimate goal of supporting sustainable economic development,...more |
July 2022 | ART Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Bus transport to school matinees, 2022 The mission of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NOB) is for everyone to experience the magic of opera and ballet and it welcomes visitors of all ages. The NOB focuses particularly on young people: it...more | July 2022 | LEPROSY Extra clofazimine for MB cases at high risk of ENL reactions, 2022 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. The disease can be treated with the drug clofazimine. This research project aims to evaluate whether treating leprosy...more |
July 2022 | LEPROSY Immunomodulation by Mycobacterium Indicus Pranii (MIP) in MB leprosy, 2022 Leprosy patients can be effectively treated with multi-drug treatment (MDT), but they are still susceptible to being reinfected with leprosy. It has been demonstrated that the MIP (Mycobacterium indicus...more | July 2022 | LEPROSY MetLep Trial: Metformin as adjunct therapy for MB leprosy, 2022 Metformin is a cheap and safe medicine which has been used to treat diabetes for a long time. Research into tuberculosis patients, which is caused by a bacterium similar to leprosy, has demonstrated that...more |
 July 2022 | EDUCATION Renovation of and teacher training at primary schools, Walungu, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2022 ChildFund Germany is one of eleven members of the global ChildFund Alliance and aims to empower children in disadvantaged positions and their families and communities. Together they work in more...more |  July 2022 | EDUCATION Educating and mentoring l'AMI language specialists, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2022 The Partners Pays-Dogon organisation facilitates projects that contribute to regional development in the Dogon country. The Turing Foundation is already supporting a nature conservation project that aims...more |
 July 2022 | EDUCATION Safer schools, improving education, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2022 Street Child, known as Children in Crisis until 2019, has been working since 2007 with its local partner Ebenezer Ministry International (EMI) on the isolated High Plateau in South Kivu to improve education...more | July 2022 | LEPROSY Erasmus MC: Monitoring the effect of prophylactic interventions, Bangladesh, 2022 This sudy by Leiden University Medical Centre and Erasmus University Rotterdam is focused on determining the long-term effect of the BCG vaccination on leprosy patients. New blood samples and new...more |
July 2022 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2022 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more | ||
April 2022 | |||
 April 2022 | ART 'Exceptional Opportunity' Initiative, The Netherlands, 2022 The Turing Foundation and the Rembrandt Association launched a new initiative in 2022 entitled Exceptional Opportunity: more than 100 Dutch art museums were invited to make a exhibition with iconic loans from...more |  April 2022 | ART 'Hockney's Eye', Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2022-2023 Since the beginning of his lengthy career, David Hockney (1937) has explored how we see the world around us and how artists over the centuries have captured this on the surface of a flat picture. In the exhibition...more |
April 2022 | ART Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts 'Arcadia', North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2022 The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra has organised the Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts every year since 1999: live concerts with high-quality classical music for school children (9-12 years-old) in...more |  April 2022 | EDUCATION "Reading Liberia 20/22", Bomi, Margibi en Grand Bassa, Liberia, 2022 The Canadian Organisation for Development through Education (CODE) is committed to combating illiteracy in Liberia. CODE, together with its local partners, is increasing primary school teachers'...more |
 April 2022 | EDUCATION Growing small businesses through apprenticeship training, Pujehun, Sierra Leone, 2022 Action on Poverty UK stimulates employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. Turing has previously supported two of their programmes in the country....more | April 2022 | EDUCATION Women Work! Empowerment through Employment, Koubri, Burkina Faso, 2022 Jugend Eine Welt is an Austrian development organisation that aims to improve the future prospects of children and young people by focusing on education. In West Africa, Jugend Eine Welt works with...more |
April 2022 | EDUCATION Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger, 2022 RAIN has been working on sustainable water and food systems, women's economic development and education in the Agadez region of Niger for nearly 20 years. The organisation has a local team with fourteen members...more | April 2022 | EDUCATION Nursing Training, D.R. Congo, 2022 Wonder Foundation was established in the United Kingdom in 2012. The organisation supports NGOs in eighteen countries that are committed to education and employment for girls and women. In D.R. Congo, Wonder has been...more |
 April 2022 | ART Vereniging Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2022 Dutch museums wanting to acquire a special work of art can seek assistance from the Vereniging Rembrandt. This association is committed to the protection and enrichment of Dutch public art collections. It was founded in...more | ||
January 2022 | |||
 January 2022 | NATURE Creating an alternative for illegal natural resource exploitation in Upemba, D.R. Congo, 2022 Since 2017, Forgotten Parks Foundation (FPF) has been the official park manager of Upemba- Kundelungu National Parks Complex together with Institut pour la Conservation de la Nature. The park...more |  January 2022 | ART Exhibition 'Kees van Dongen: Daring and Seduction', Singer Museum, Laren, 2023 Kees van Dongen's (1877 - 1968) work is characterised by the expressive use of colour and bright colour contrasts. Together with Matisse and André Derain, amongst others, he was one of the leading...more |
 January 2022 | ART Exhibition 'Anthropocene', Museum Helmond, 2022 The exhibition Anthropocene in Museum Helmond is about the human footprint on the earth and combines art, photography and film with augmented reality, theory, science and activism. The exhibition consists of 30...more | January 2022 | LEPROSY COMBINE: Leprosy elimination by community screening & mass chemoprophylaxis, Kiribati, 2022 Transmission of both leprosy and tuberculosis is through the respiratory tract and is greatly increased in places where many people live close together in poor economic conditions. The Pacific...more |
January 2022 | LEPROSY LepVax: safety and vaccin-induced immune response, Brazil, 2022 Researchers from the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), in collaboration with the America Leprosy Mission (ALM), have developed a leprosy specific vaccine called LepVax. This vaccine has both...more | January 2022 | LEPROSY Endgame strategy for leprosy in the Maldives: optimal targeting of post-exposure prophylaxis to interrupt transmission, Maldives, 2022 The Maldives want to become leprosy-free in the next decade: the aim is to break transmission of the disease (zero children diagnosed with leprosy; zero patients contracting...more |
January 2022 | NATURE Collaborating with coastal communities in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands to protect marine resources, 2022 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been working on nature conservation in the Coral Triangle for 20 years: the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea (PNG)...more |  January 2022 | NATURE REEFolution sustainable use of restored coral reefs, Kenia, 2022 In Mkwiro village in the south of Kenya, Wageningen University & Research is collaborating with the active Beach Management Unit and the local community on coral reef restoration. A special foundation was...more |
 January 2022 | NATURE Extending community-centred conservation to include agroforestry, Eastern DR Congo, 2022 The Jane Goodall Institute is committed to protecting chimpanzees and their habitat. The organisation has been working in the east of D.R. Congo since 2005 to protect a large and important habitat...more | January 2022 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2021 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years. On top of this, every year we donate 5% of the total sum of these...more |
January 2022 | LEPROSY Point-of-care tests for leprosy in South America, 2022 The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) team has developed a simple diagnostic test in previous studies. This point-of-care (POC) test uses a finger prick to determine whether and to what extent someone is...more |  January 2022 | NATURE Habitat Restoration in Loma Mountains National Park, Sierra Leone, 2022 Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary looks after captive and orphaned chimpanzees, but also wants to prevent this by teaching children in schools and communities about the importance of nature. The organisation...more |
January 2022 | LEPROSY Molecular Methods in Subclinical Models of Leprosy to Test PEP, 2022 Whilst multi-drug therapy has been very successful in reducing the global prevalence of leprosy, new cases still occur. This indicates that leprosy transmission is still taking place despite effective...more | January 2022 | NATURE Forest Gardens, Mali, 2022 Trees for the Future aims to alleviate small-scale farmers' poverty and hunger by helping them revitalise land and plant trees. The organisation developed the forest garden approach by which a farmer develops an area of 0.5...more |
 January 2022 | ART Publication Mondriaan in Woord en Beeld, Uitgeverij IJzer, 2022 Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He played a leading role in the international avant garde and in the evolution from realistic to abstract art. Mondrian...more |  January 2022 | ART Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht, 2022 The Festival Oude Muziek ('Early Music Festival') is the biggest early music festival in the world, attracting around 65,000 visitors a year. The festival's theme in 2018 is 'The Burgundy Lifestyle'. The inspiration was...more |
October 2021 | |||
 October 2021 | ART Exhibition: 'Manhattan Masters', Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2022-2023 The Mauritshuis has had the special opportunity to exhibit ten masterpieces from The Frick Collection in New York. The Frick Collection is the art collection of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick...more | October 2021 | NATURE Building an independent and sustainable community forests database, DR Congo, 2021 Rainforest Foundation was founded in 1987, with an American organisation focused on forest conservation in Latin America and a British organisation (RFUK) focused on forest conservation in the Congo...more |
 October 2021 | ART Exhibition: 'Henry Moore by the Sea: Form and Material', Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, 2023 Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of the most influential artists in the previous century. He was instrumental in introducing a new form of modernism to the UK. The sculptor is best known to...more |  October 2021 | ART Exhibition: 'Living the Landscape - Nicholson, Hepworth and the Artists of St. Ives, 1939-1975', Museum Belvédčre, Oranjewoud, 2022 Museum Belvédčre is organising an exhibition on the art created in St. Ives on the south-west coast of Great Britain in the period 1939-1975. The artist couple Ben Nicholson...more |
 October 2021 | ART Exhibition: 'Living Landscape. Six Centuries of South Holland Maas Delta', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2022 The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam is organising an exhibition about the city of Schiedam and its surrounding landscape: the Maas Delta between Dordrecht and the Hook of Holland. The...more | October 2021 | ART 'Classic Express', Prinses Christina Concours, 2022 The Princess Christina Competition (founded in 1967) wants all children and young people in the Netherlands to be acquainted with (classical) music. It aims to stimulate and support their musical talent. One of the...more |
October 2021 | ART Het Leerorkest, 2022 The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity to discover how much fun it is to play an instrument and make music together. Affiliated primary schools offer pupils a weekly music...more |  October 2021 | ART School performances, Het Nederlands Dans Theater, 2022 The Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT, founded in 1959) is a leading international contemporary dance company based in The Hague. Every year the NDT reaches about 150,000 visitors all over the world with innovative...more |
October 2021 | EDUCATION Professional development and workforce placement for youth, Niger, 2021 The French Association Yara LCN gives more than 350 children and young people in Zinder (Niger) a better future by providing primary education and vocational training, and coordinating the management and...more |  October 2021 | ART The first anthology of Dutch poetry, 100 poems from the Netherlands from 1945 to now, Querido, 2021-2022 Tsead Bruinja, Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021, has compiled an anthology consisting of 100 poems in 'all languages in the Netherlands'. As well as poems in Dutch, poems in regional...more |
October 2021 | NATURE Community Forest and Peatland Solutions project, D.R. Congo, 2021 Greenpeace wants to halt logging in the Congo basin, and sees community forestry as a sustainable alternative to destructive industrial logging and large-scale agricultural plantations. In the period...more | October 2021 | NATURE Sustainable Seas, Inhambane Province, Mozambique, 2021 The Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) was founded in 2009 by two American marine biologists who have been working in Mozambique since 2005. As well as protecting manta rays and whale sharks, the organisation...more |
 October 2021 | NATURE Community-led Nature Reserves, Lubutu, Mukingiti and Kingombe, D.R. Congo, 2021 Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world's oldest conservation organisation, founded in 1903. FFI is active in 47 countries, including D.R. Congo since 2003. Since 2012, FFI has been...more | October 2021 | EDUCATION EN-power, vocational training, Bafoussam, Cameroon 2021 Masterpeace is a network organisation of 50 local clubs in 40 countries. Its mission is to give young people perspective to combat polarisation, poverty and migration. Hope for a Better Future (H4BF) is one of the...more |
October 2021 | EDUCATION Local leaders to strengthen the education sector, Liberia, 2021 Teach for All is a network organisation with partners in 56 countries. The organisation has developed a model supported by data that aims to achieve more and better leadership in a country to improve the...more | October 2021 | EDUCATION Digital education, Guinea and Niger, 2021 The Second Wave Education Foundation (SWEF) team has developed an application for primary school children in Francophone African countries. The start is in Togo and Niger, other countries will follow. Many children in...more |
 October 2021 | EDUCATION Employment coaching for young people, rural Cameroon, 2021 VIA Don Bosco is a Belgian NGO that has been supporting educational institutions and employment initiatives for young people in Africa and Latin America for 50 years. The Turing Foundation supported the...more |  October 2021 | NATURE Alternative livelihoods to protect an important habitat for chimpanzees, Guinea, 2021 The British David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation was founded in 1984 to support initiatives protecting wildlife. The team in the UK does long-term work through local partners and currently supports...more |
October 2021 | ART Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2022 Stichting Klassiekfabriek has been organising Klassifest in Paradiso since 2016: a one-day festival with bite-sized classical music for a young audience between the ages of 20 and 40. Whilst many orchestras and ensembles...more |  October 2021 | EDUCATION "The Light of Learning", teacher training and quality improvement, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger, 2021 Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is an international humanitarian organisation committed to fighting poverty in the poorest countries, focused on emergency aid, education, HIV/AIDS, health...more |
July 2021 | |||
 July 2021 | ART Oerol Festival, Terschelling, 2020-2021 Every year the Frisian island of Terschelling is transformed into one large stage for theatre, dance, street theatre, visual art and music for ten days. The theatre performances take place on the beach, in the dunes,...more | July 2021 | ART Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht, 2020-2021 The Festival Oude Muziek ('Early Music Festival') is the biggest early music festival in the world, attracting around 65,000 visitors a year. The festival's theme in 2018 is 'The Burgundy Lifestyle'. The inspiration was...more |
 July 2021 | ART Oranjewoud Festival, Heerenveen, 2020-2021 The Oranjewoud Festival takes place every summer at the Oranjewoud estate near Heerenveen. This colourful music festival presents high-quality classical music in the most accessible and stimulating way possible. A total...more |  July 2021 | ART String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, 2021-2022 In 2022 the String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, the world's biggest string quartet festival, took place in a reduced form. The continuing uncertainty about COVID-19 measures led to the cancellation of this...more |
 July 2021 | ART Wonderfeel Festival, 's Graveland, 2021 The Wonderfeel festival has been organised on a former estate in 's-Graveland since 2015: a three-day outdoor classical music festival with the relaxed atmosphere of a pop festival. The seven Wonderfeel stages highlight...more |  July 2021 | ART 'Paula Rego', Kunstmuseum The Hague, 2021-2022 Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego's (Lisbon, 1935) oeuvre spans decades and deals with topical themes such as colonial history and feminism. Her early work is often politically tinted and directed against the...more |
July 2021 | ART 'The Residents', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2021-2022 'The Residents' is the Residentie Orkest's prime educational project for children between the ages of eight and twelve. For ten years now, hundreds of children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in The...more |  July 2021 | ART 'Welcome to the Orchestra', classical music for children aged eight to eleven, 2021-2022 Welkom bij het Orkest (Welcome to the Orchestra) introduces primary school pupils aged eight to eleven to classical music and the symphony orchestra. The programme's central theme is a weekly vlog...more |
 July 2021 | ART 'Beauty and the Beast', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2021-2022 The Dutch Ballet Orchestra is a symphony orchestra consisting of 45 permanent musicians and is the permanent musical partner of the Dutch National Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater. The...more |  July 2021 | EDUCATION Educational improvement for schools, Burkina Faso, 2021 Climbing the Right Tree collaborates closely with the Ghanaian organisation Maxim Nyansa IT Solutions to use information technology in order to increase career opportunities for young Africans. This project...more |
 July 2021 | ART 'The Forgotten Princesses of Thorn', Limburgs Museum, Venlo, 2021-2022 Until the end of the eighteenth century, part of the small town of Thorn was home to a convent: an ecclesiastical institution which only hosted unmarried ladies of high nobility. The convent ladies were...more | July 2021 | NATURE Sustainable mangrove conservation, Liberia, 2021 Conservation International (CI) is one of the world's largest international nature conservation organisations and has been working for over 30 years towards a healthy and prosperous world in which society values and...more |
July 2021 | NATURE Biodiversity Conservation Nyika National Park, Malawi, 2021 The Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) advocates the creation and development of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa with the ultimate goal of supporting sustainable economic development,...more | July 2021 | NATURE Protection and Restoration of the Mesoamerican Reef, Honduras, 2021 Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) has been working with local coastal communities since 1994 to protect 'their' reefs, creating a network of healthy and diverse reefscapes that will be able to adapt to climate...more |
July 2021 | EDUCATION Renovation of and teacher training at primary schools, Walungu, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2021 ChildFund Germany is one of eleven members of the global ChildFund Alliance and aims to empower children in disadvantaged positions and their families and communities. Together they work in more...more | July 2021 | EDUCATION Nurse training, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2021 Médecins sans Frontičres (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) provides medical assistance to people in need. In some cases, MSF makes a long-term commitment to a country, such as Sierra Leone. Health care,...more |
 July 2021 | EDUCATION "Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2021 The British NGO Street Child started in 2008 with a small project for 100 street children in Sierra Leone. Street Child has now reached more than 100,000 children in Africa and Asia with its 'Education,...more | July 2021 | EDUCATION Educating and mentoring l'AMI language specialists, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2021 The Partners Pays-Dogon organisation facilitates projects that contribute to regional development in the Dogon country. The Turing Foundation is already supporting a nature conservation project that aims...more |
 July 2021 | EDUCATION Health, wealth and wellbeing for women, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2021-2022 Tools for Self Reliance is a British organisation which aims to enable people in Africa to make a sustainable living by giving them professional training and tools in the form of a start kit. A large part...more |  July 2021 | ART 'Golden Boy Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse', Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2022-2023 The Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) lived and worked in Vienna's belle époque, a period of unparalleled artistic achievement. Klimt was a member of the symbolist art movement and...more |
April 2021 | |||
 April 2021 | ART Exhibition 'At Home with Jordaens', Frans Hals Museum, 2021-2022 The Frans Hals Museum is devoting an exhibition to the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), one of the giants of Antwerp Baroque painting alongside Rubens and Van Dyck. A total of about 30 pieces by...more | April 2021 | EDUCATION Women Work! Empowerment through Employment, Koubri, Burkina Faso, 2021 Jugend Eine Welt is an Austrian development organisation that aims to improve the future prospects of children and young people by focusing on education. In West Africa, Jugend Eine Welt works with...more |
April 2021 | EDUCATION Nursing Training, D.R. Congo, 2021 Wonder Foundation was established in the United Kingdom in 2012. The organisation supports NGOs in eighteen countries that are committed to education and employment for girls and women. In D.R. Congo, Wonder has been...more |  April 2021 | EDUCATION Play for the Advancement of Quality Education, Mali, 2021 Right to Play was founded in 2000 by Johann Olav Koss. Having witnessed the importance of play for children during a trip to war-ravaged Eritrea in 1993, he started providing children with sports and play...more |
April 2021 | EDUCATION Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger, 2021 RAIN has been working on sustainable water and food systems, women's economic development and education in the Agadez region of Niger for nearly 20 years. The organisation has a local team with fourteen members...more |  April 2021 | ART Exhibition 'Thérčse Schwartze. Her Customer was King', Paul Tetar van Elven Museum, 2021-2022 Paul Tetar van Elven Museum was founded in 1927 and is located on the Koornmarkt in Delft, in the former home of the painter Paul Tetar van Elven (1823-1896). The museum is organising an...more |
April 2021 | ART Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Bus transport to school matinees, 2021 The mission of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NOB) is for everyone to experience the magic of opera and ballet and it welcomes visitors of all ages. The NOB focuses particularly on young people: it...more | April 2021 | NATURE Unlocking knowledge on mangrove recovery, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Indonesia, Philippines, 2021 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Wetlands International is one of...more |
 April 2021 | EDUCATION Job Booster social venture, north-western regions, Burkina Faso, 2021-2022 The JobBooster Burkina Faso social venture was founded in 2017 by Woord en Daad. Although Woord en Daad wants the social venture to operate more and more independently over time, it is still closely...more | April 2021 | EDUCATION "Reading Liberia 20/22", Bomi, Margibi en Grand Bassa, Liberia, 2021 The Canadian Organisation for Development through Education (CODE) is committed to combating illiteracy in Liberia. CODE, together with its local partners, is increasing primary school teachers'...more |
April 2021 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2021-2022 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more | April 2021 | LEPROSY Extra clofazimine for MB cases at high risk of ENL reactions, 2021 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. The disease can be treated with the drug clofazimine. This research project aims to evaluate whether treating leprosy...more |
April 2021 | LEPROSY Immunomodulation by Mycobacterium Indicus Pranii (MIP) in MB leprosy, 2021 Leprosy patients can be effectively treated with multi-drug treatment (MDT), but they are still susceptible to being reinfected with leprosy. It has been demonstrated that the MIP (Mycobacterium indicus...more | April 2021 | LEPROSY MetLep Trial: Metformin as adjunct therapy for MB leprosy, 2021 Metformin is a cheap and safe medicine which has been used to treat diabetes for a long time. Research into tuberculosis patients, which is caused by a bacterium similar to leprosy, has demonstrated that...more |
 April 2021 | EDUCATION Teacher Training on school gardens, Cameroon, 2021 IDAY is a network organisation with members in 19 countries which helps local civil society organisations advocate good education for all children. IDAY-Cameroun was founded in 2010 and has 24 local member...more | April 2021 | EDUCATION Safer schools, improving education, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2021 Street Child, known as Children in Crisis until 2019, has been working since 2007 with its local partner Ebenezer Ministry International (EMI) on the isolated High Plateau in South Kivu to improve education...more |
April 2021 | EDUCATION Growing small businesses through apprenticeship training, Pujehun, Sierra Leone, 2021 Action on Poverty UK stimulates employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. Turing has previously supported two of their programmes in the country....more |  April 2021 | NATURE Donation to Egelbescherming Nederland (Hedgehog Protection Netherlands), 2021 Egelbescherming Nederland was founded in 1994 and merged with Stichting Eekhoornopvang (Squirrel Protection Foundation) in 2015. Its shelter is in Huizen and is run by 82 volunteers, including Jenny...more |
March 2021 | |||
 March 2021 | ART Vereniging Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2021 Dutch museums wanting to acquire a special work of art can seek assistance from the Vereniging Rembrandt. This association is committed to the protection and enrichment of Dutch public art collections. It was founded in...more | ||
January 2021 | |||
January 2021 | NATURE Collaborating with coastal communities in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands to protect marine resources, 2021 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been working on nature conservation in the Coral Triangle for 20 years: the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea (PNG)...more |  January 2021 | NATURE Public campaign 'Maak Toekomst', the Netherlands, 2020-2022 The Turing Foundation wants to reach more people and convince them in a positive way to make more conscious and thus better choices which benefit nature and biodiversity. Together with Greenpeace, we have...more |
January 2021 | NATURE REEFolution sustainable use of restored coral reefs, Kenia, 2021 In Mkwiro village in the south of Kenya, Wageningen University & Research is collaborating with the active Beach Management Unit and the local community on coral reef restoration. A special foundation was...more | January 2021 | NATURE Extending community-centred conservation to include agroforestry, Eastern DR Congo, 2021 The Jane Goodall Institute is committed to protecting chimpanzees and their habitat. The organisation has been working in the east of D.R. Congo since 2005 to protect a large and important habitat...more |
January 2021 | NATURE Habitat Restoration in Loma Mountains National Park, Sierra Leone, 2021 Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary looks after captive and orphaned chimpanzees, but also wants to prevent this by teaching children in schools and communities about the importance of nature. The organisation...more | January 2021 | NATURE Forest Gardens, Mali, 2021 Trees for the Future aims to alleviate small-scale farmers' poverty and hunger by helping them revitalise land and plant trees. The organisation developed the forest garden approach by which a farmer develops an area of 0.5...more |
 January 2021 | ART 'Aztecs. The People behind the Myths', Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, 2021-2022 2021 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest which brought an end to the Aztec empire. Museum Volkenkunde is taking this opportunity to organise the first major Dutch exhibition on the...more | January 2021 | LEPROSY Molecular Methods in Subclinical Models of Leprosy to Test PEP, 2021 Whilst multi-drug therapy has been very successful in reducing the global prevalence of leprosy, new cases still occur. This indicates that leprosy transmission is still taking place despite effective...more |
January 2021 | LEPROSY Point-of-care tests for leprosy in South America, 2021 The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) team has developed a simple diagnostic test in previous studies. This point-of-care (POC) test uses a finger prick to determine whether and to what extent someone is...more |  January 2021 | ART 'Lucio Fontana - The Conquest of Space', Design Museum Den Bosch, 2021-2022 The avant-garde artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is best known for his monochrome paintings with vertical cuts. This departed from the notion of a painting as a flat painted surface on which space is...more |
January 2021 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2020 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years. On top of this, every year we donate 5% of the total sum of these...more |  January 2021 | EDUCATION Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone, 2021-2022 The Pan African Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) was established in 1992 by five female African ministers of education and nineteen senior policy makers, with the aim of improving education...more |
 January 2021 | EDUCATION Apprenticeships programme for women in Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2020-2021 The British NGO Action on Poverty specifically focuses on creating jobs for disadvantaged groups in Sri Lanka and four African countries, including Sierra Leone. The Turing Foundation already supported one...more | January 2021 | LEPROSY Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome Biomolecular Predictive Test, Papua and Nepal, 2021-2022 Leprosy is treated with a combination of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine. People with dapsone allergy develop what is called dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS). DHS is...more |
January 2021 | LEPROSY LepVax: safety and vaccin-induced immune response, Brazil, 2021 Researchers from the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), in collaboration with the America Leprosy Mission (ALM), have developed a leprosy specific vaccine called LepVax. This vaccine has both...more |  January 2021 | NATURE Restoring Koulikoro, Mali, 2021-2022 Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas of Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. The Turing Foundation supported one of their regreening projects in Mali in the period 2016-2018, with...more |
January 2021 | LEPROSY Erasmus MC: Monitoring the effect of prophylactic interventions, Bangladesh, 2021 This sudy by Leiden University Medical Centre and Erasmus University Rotterdam is focused on determining the long-term effect of the BCG vaccination on leprosy patients. New blood samples and new...more |  January 2021 | EDUCATION Mobile school for vocational training, East D.R. Congo, 2021 Stichting De Toekomst Zaaiers is a young organisation working on education, entrepreneurship and peace building in the Great Lakes region, including D.R. Congo. The founders fled D.R. Congo, Burundi and Rwanda...more |
 January 2021 | EDUCATION "Rebuilding Young Lives", North Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2021 Chance for Childhood (CfC) has been improving the position of the most vulnerable children in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and D.R. Congo since 1992. It works bottom-up, with progressive community leaders, local...more |  January 2021 | EDUCATION Effective teachers for better learning results, Kinshasa district, D.R. Congo, 2021-2022 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation founded in 2002 and specialised in education for underprivileged children. Together with the organisations Bambale and Tosangana, Edukans is introducing...more |
 January 2021 | ART Het Grachtenfestival (The Canal Festival), Amsterdam en omstreken, 2021 The Grachtenfestival, founded in 1998, is a ten-day festival with classical music at special locations in Amsterdam, with performances that are free or have a low admission price. No fewer than 265...more |  January 2021 | NATURE Forest conservation by introducing green briquettes, Coyah, Guinea, 2021 The Milly Mamoudou Foundation helps the Guinean organisation ONG Sarinka in its mission to create employment in two villages in Coyah. This multifunctional park with accommodation which is let to tourists...more |
 January 2021 | ART 'Telescope' translation competition, Netherlands Association of Teachers of Living Languages, 2020 The American poet Louise Glück (New York, 1943) was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature on 10 December 2020. She is one of the leading poets in the United States, but only a few of...more | January 2021 | NATURE Wildlife Ranger Challenge, Malawi, 2020 The Tusk Foundation organised the Wildlife Ranger Challenge on 3 October 2020 to raise additional funds for ranger teams which have continued their important conservation work despite the loss of tourism revenue due to...more |
October 2020 | |||
October 2020 | EDUCATION EN-power, vocational training, Bafoussam, Cameroon 2020 Masterpeace is a network organisation of 50 local clubs in 40 countries. Its mission is to give young people perspective to combat polarisation, poverty and migration. Hope for a Better Future (H4BF) is one of the...more | October 2020 | EDUCATION Local leaders to strengthen the education sector, Liberia, 2020 Teach for All is a network organisation with partners in 56 countries. The organisation has developed a model supported by data that aims to achieve more and better leadership in a country to improve the...more |
 October 2020 | ART 'Face to Face with Gustav Klimt', Van Abbemuseum, 2020-2021 The Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) lived and worked in Vienna's belle époque, a period of unparalleled artistic achievement. In Face to Face with Gustav Klimt, the Van Abbemuseum is displaying drawings...more | October 2020 | EDUCATION Digital education, Guinea and Niger, 2020 The Second Wave Education Foundation (SWEF) team has developed an application for primary school children in Francophone African countries. The start is in Togo and Niger, other countries will follow. Many children in...more |
October 2020 | EDUCATION Employment coaching for young people, rural Cameroon, 2020 VIA Don Bosco is a Belgian NGO that has been supporting educational institutions and employment initiatives for young people in Africa and Latin America for 50 years. The Turing Foundation supported the...more | October 2020 | NATURE Alternative livelihoods to protect an important habitat for chimpanzees, Guinea, 2020 The British David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation was founded in 1984 to support initiatives protecting wildlife. The team in the UK does long-term work through local partners and currently supports...more |
 October 2020 | ART '"Your Loving Vincent." Van Gogh's Greatest Letters', Van Gogh Museum, 2020-2021 Vincent van Gogh signed his letters 'Your loving Vincent'. The eponymous exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum is focused on 40 letters: the best letters Vincent van Gogh wrote to his family, his brother...more |  October 2020 | ART 'Hansken. Rembrandt's Elephant', Rembrandt House Museum, 2021 The elephant called Hansken travelled around Europe with her owner from 1633 to 1655 and was a spectacle wherever she went. Rembrandt van Rijn sketched her when she visited Amsterdam. The Rembrandt House Museum...more |
 October 2020 | ART Exhibition 'The Botanical Revolution - About the Necessity of Art and Gardening', Centraal Museum, 2021-2022 In the exhibition About the Necessity of Art and Gardening, the Centraal Museum is exploring how gardens have served as a microcosm and metaphor of society in different ways. A cross...more |  October 2020 | ART Spinoza's Daily Life, Spinoza House, The Hague 2020-2021 Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), one of the world's greatest thinkers, was co-founder of rationalism and one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy. The greatest Dutch philosopher was born in Amsterdam and lived...more |
 October 2020 | ART Parallel Lives, Parallel Aesthetics: Léon Ferrari and Gülsün Karamustafa, Van Abbemuseum, 2021-2022 Parallel Lives, Parallel Aesthetics is a combination of two solo exhibitions: a large retrospective of León Ferrari (3 September 1920 - 25 July 2013, Buenos Aires) and an overview of Gülsün...more | October 2020 | EDUCATION "The Light of Learning", teacher training and quality improvement, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger, 2020 Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is an international humanitarian organisation committed to fighting poverty in the poorest countries, focused on emergency aid, education, HIV/AIDS, health...more |
 October 2020 | NATURE Protecting forests by preventing oil palm plantations, Liberia, 2019-2020 Both Ends collaborates with social and environmental groups from developing countries to achieve a green and sustainable global economy through research, influencing policy and mutual capacity building....more | October 2020 | NATURE Community-led Nature Reserves, Lubutu, Mukingiti and Kingombe, D.R. Congo, 2020 Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world's oldest conservation organisation, founded in 1903. FFI is active in 47 countries, including D.R. Congo since 2003. Since 2012, FFI has been...more |
 October 2020 | EDUCATION Youth at Work, Vocational training, Kalehe, D.R. Congo, 2020 War Child was founded in 1995 to make a positive and lasting change to the lives of children and young people in conflict areas by stimulating education, providing psychosocial care, and protecting them from...more |  October 2020 | EDUCATION Agro-vocational Training in Cassave processing, Margibi, Boni, Nimba and Montserrado, Liberia, 2020 ZOA provides support during reconstruction in areas where a disaster or conflict has occurred until the local population's self-reliance has been restored. The organisation has been operating...more |
 October 2020 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for women and young people, Dabwe Town, Liberia, 2020 The Mineke Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tonia Dabwe to continue her parents' life work in Liberia. The organisation has a training centre in Dabwe Town, 20 km from Monrovia, for vocational training...more |  October 2020 | NATURE Protecting and restoring nature around water sources, Cameroon, 2020 LiveBuild works with local organisations and communities on sustainable development in the Anglophone western part of Cameroon. Its projects employ a community-driven approach and are related to water....more |
 October 2020 | EDUCATION Quality Education with local co-investment, North West Region, Cameroon, 2020 The Turing Foundation has been supporting Knowledge for Children with their book programme in Cameroon since 2009. The foundation teaches primary schools how to manage their stock of schoolbooks...more |  October 2020 | NATURE Post plantation, sustainable agriculture and landscape restoration, D.R. Congo, 2021 The Institute for Human Activities and the local organisation Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise founded a centre, a White Cube, in the middle of abandoned plantations in the...more |
July 2020 | |||
 July 2020 | ART The power of our Dutch collections, 2020-2021 The Rembrandt Association is committed to protecting and enriching Dutch public art collections. It was founded in 1883 and now has more than 15,000 members. As an independent, private organisation, the association not...more | July 2020 | EDUCATION Nurse training, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2020 Médecins sans Frontičres (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) provides medical assistance to people in need. In some cases, MSF makes a long-term commitment to a country, such as Sierra Leone. Health care,...more |
 July 2020 | ART 'Maria Magdalene', Museum Catharijneconvent, 2021-2022 Museum Catharijneconvent presents the aesthetic, cultural and historical values of Christian and other religious heritage as well as this history's influence on our society. The museum is planning an exhibition in...more |  July 2020 | ART School performances of Circus Charms Music Theatre Production, 2020-2022 Frank and René Groothof return to the theatre with the project 'Circus Charms', a music theatre production based on the stories, plays and poems of Russia's greatest absurdist writer Daniil Charms...more |
July 2020 | NATURE Protection and Restoration of the Mesoamerican Reef, Honduras, 2020 Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) has been working with local coastal communities since 1994 to protect 'their' reefs, creating a network of healthy and diverse reefscapes that will be able to adapt to climate...more |  July 2020 | ART The Twelfth Poetry Contest 2020-2021 The Turing Poetry Contest was organised between 2009 and 2018 by the Turing Foundation and the Poetry Club. The Poetry Club continued the competition in 2019 with a new name, The Poetry Contest, and made it part of Prijs...more |
 July 2020 | ART Exhibition 'Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: A Love Revolution', Cobra Museum, 2021 The Cobra Museum has had the rare opportunity to organise an exhibition of works from Jacques and Natasha Gelman's collection of modern Mexican art. This collector couple compiled several art...more | July 2020 | NATURE Biodiversity Conservation Nyika National Park, Malawi, 2020 The Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) advocates the creation and development of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa with the ultimate goal of supporting sustainable economic development,...more |
July 2020 | NATURE Sustainable mangrove conservation, Liberia, 2020 Conservation International (CI) is one of the world's largest international nature conservation organisations and has been working for over 30 years towards a healthy and prosperous world in which society values and...more | July 2020 | EDUCATION Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone, 2020 The Pan African Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) was established in 1992 by five female African ministers of education and nineteen senior policy makers, with the aim of improving education...more |
July 2020 | EDUCATION Health, wealth and wellbeing for women, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2020 Tools for Self Reliance is a British organisation which aims to enable people in Africa to make a sustainable living by giving them professional training and tools in the form of a start kit. A large part...more | July 2020 | EDUCATION Educating and mentoring l'AMI language specialists, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2020 The Partners Pays-Dogon organisation facilitates projects that contribute to regional development in the Dogon country. The Turing Foundation is already supporting a nature conservation project that aims...more |
July 2020 | EDUCATION Renovation of and teacher training at primary schools, Walungu, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2020 ChildFund Germany is one of eleven members of the global ChildFund Alliance and aims to empower children in disadvantaged positions and their families and communities. Together they work in more...more | July 2020 | NATURE Community Forest and Peatland Solutions project, D.R. Congo, 2020 Greenpeace wants to halt logging in the Congo basin, and sees community forestry as a sustainable alternative to destructive industrial logging and large-scale agricultural plantations. In the period...more |
July 2020 | NATURE Sustainable Seas, Inhambane Province, Mozambique, 2020 The Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) was founded in 2009 by two American marine biologists who have been working in Mozambique since 2005. As well as protecting manta rays and whale sharks, the organisation...more | July 2020 | ART 'Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse', Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2020-2021 The Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) lived and worked in Vienna's belle époque, a period of unparalleled artistic achievement. Klimt was a member of the symbolist art movement and gained...more |
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 June 2020 | ART Top pieces from the art depot, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2020-2021 The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam is exhibiting a selection of top pieces from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from its own art collection, including Portrait of a Boy by the...more |  June 2020 | ART Masterpieces in Van Loon: Art, Inspiration and Relevance, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, 2020 Museum Van Loon is exhibiting six masterpieces from its own collection, varying in time and discipline. Three speakers are highlighting the relevance of each work in a short film. First a...more |
 June 2020 | ART Views of the Hofvijver, Historical Museum of The Hague, The Hague, 2020-2021 The Historical Museum of The Hague is organising a presentation of its permanent collection around a number of views of the Hofvijver and the Binnenhof - two of the most popular places in The...more |  June 2020 | ART Refurbishment former Post Office, Museum The Ship, Amsterdam, 2020-2021 From September 2020, Amsterdam School Museum The Ship is exhibiting a former post office which is entirely in the Amsterdam School style and was designed by architect Michel de Klerk. The magnificent...more |
 June 2020 | ART Arts and Crafts with Character, Museum Kennemerland, 2020-2021 Museum Kennermerland in Beverwijk is exhibiting the presentation 'Characteristic Arts and Crafts. Kinheim Carpet Weaver and Potterie Kennemerland 1918-1939.' Kinheim carpets and Potterie Kennemerland have...more |  June 2020 | ART From École de Paris to Cobra: the Roef-Meelker Collection, Museum Helmond, 2020-2021 Museum Helmond is exhibiting an extensive part of the Roef-Meelker art collection in Kunsthal Helmond. This collection of 45 masterpieces by 32 artists mainly consists of works of the École de Paris...more |
 June 2020 | ART Three Centuries of Burchvliet, Museum Rijswijk, 2020 Museum Rijswijk is exhibiting a new acquisition: the seventeenth-century panel it acquired in 2019 and restored this year, depicting Burchvliet house and the Nieuwe Tolbrug bridge in Rijswijk, painted by Jacob van...more |  June 2020 | ART 'Alone with Vermeer', Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2020-2021 The Mauritshuis is organising an exhibition around a single work: Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft. The work has been celebrated since the nineteenth century for its extraordinary impact on the viewer and still...more |
 June 2020 | ART Liebermann in Laren, Singer Museum, Laren, 2020 The Singer Museum in Laren reopened on 30 June 2020 and is publicly displaying an important acquisition for the first time: the painting Gehendes Mädchen (walking girl), which Max Liebermann painted in 1897 in...more |  June 2020 | ART Sientje Mesdag's network, Mesdag Collection, The Hague, 2020-2021 The Mesdag Collection in The Hague is exhibiting a selection of artworks by female artists that Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his wife Sientje Mesdag-van Houten personally collected. Sientje was also an artist,...more |
 June 2020 | ART Yamuna Forzani, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, 2020 The TextielMuseum in Tilburg is presenting two outfits by Yamuna Forzani it purchased in April 2020. The artist/designer Yamuna Forzani's visual language plays with the body and sexuality, the psychedelic aesthetics of...more |  June 2020 | ART The Simpelveld Sarcophagus, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, 2020-2021 The Dutch National Museum of Antiquities is organising a presentation on the extraordinary sarcophagus excavated in Simpelveld in Limburg in 1930. The sarcophagus contained jewellery, household goods...more |
 June 2020 | ART 'Touching Worlds', Design Museum Den Bosch, 2020-2021 The Design Museum Den Bosch is organising a ceramic presentation of several masterpieces in its collection, which will be exhibited shortly after the museum's reopening. Two important ceramic works will be the...more |  June 2020 | ART Sara Rothé's doll's house, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2020-2021 One of the most popular pieces at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem is a beautiful showpiece doll's house belonging to the Amsterdam merchant's wife Sara Rothé (1699-1751), who had a country house on the...more |
 June 2020 | ART Sketches of Jan Voerman Sr., Voerman Museum Hattem, 2020 The Voerman Museum Hattem proudly presented the exhibition 'In vervoering van Voerman' (enraptured by Voerman) at the end of 2019. The large exhibition about Jan Voerman Sr. (1857-1941), known for his landscape...more |  June 2020 | ART 'The power of the ADO Collection', CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, 2020-2021 The CODA Museum in Apeldoorn is exhibiting the Ko Verzuu estate's ADO collection. Verzuu, the workshop manager of Berg en Bosch sanatorium near Apeldoorn, designed toys inspired by De Stijl art...more |
 June 2020 | ART Turner - Silence in the City, Amsterdam City Archives, 2020 The Amsterdam City Archives is presenting one of its masterpieces, Westermarkt by the great English painter Benjamin Brecknell Turner. The photograph, taken in 1857 using the oldest photographic process,...more |  June 2020 | ART Tower bells and their use, Museum Klok & Peel, 2020-2021 Museum Klok & Peel in Asten has devoted an entire room to tower bells from the twelfth to the nineteenth century with a great diversity in design and decoration. In a new presentation, the museum is letting...more |
 June 2020 | ART The Westfries Museum Art Cabinet, Hoorn, 2020 The Westfries Museum in Hoorn has a large collection of paintings by artists who worked in Hoorn or Enkhuizen between 1500 and 1800, including Herman Meyndertsz Doncker, Olfert de Vry, Herman Hengstenburgh, Johannes...more |  June 2020 | ART The Werkman Cupboard, Groninger Museum, 2020-2021 The Groninger Museum is presenting the story and the restoration of the 'Werkman Cupboard' (1943). The museum acquired this 'Cupboard with Old Testament Scenes' by Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882-1945) in 2017 with...more |
 June 2020 | ART Roses of Sypesteyn, Castle-Museum Sypesteyn, 2020 In a new presentation of its permanent collection, Castle-Museum Sypesteyn in Loosdrecht has focused on the rose as an overarching theme of fragile beauty. The central feature is the eighteenth century 131-piece Rose...more |  June 2020 | ART 'Delft masters. In art and science', Museum Prinsenhof Delft, 2020-2021 Museum Prinsenhof Delft is presenting three masterpieces by the successful Delft portrait painter Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1566-1641). Van Mierevelt painted many prominent figures in the Dutch...more |
 June 2020 | ART 'Hazardous Undertaking: Rennenberg capturing Deventer', Museum de Waag, 2020-2021 Museum de Waag in Deventer is organising a presentation based on a centrepiece in its collection, the painting of the siege of Deventer by Dutch State troops led by Rennenberg. The months-long siege...more |  June 2020 | ART Eighteenth-century water board glasses, Het Gouverneurshuis Museum, Heusden, 2020-2021 Het Gouverneurshuis Museum in Heusden has a special collection of eighteenth-century water board glasses. These 'hand cups' were donated in the second half of the eighteenth century by new members...more |
 June 2020 | ART 'Our Lady ter Linde - Comforter in the Hour of Need', Museum Krona, Uden, 2020 A cult statue of the Virgin Mary has occupied a central place in Museum Krona in Uden since this summer. According to local tradition, the Virgin Mary has been venerated in Uden since the thirteenth...more |  June 2020 | ART The Altar of Our Lady, Museum Our Lord in the Attic, 2020 The Altar of Our Lady at Museum Our Lord in the Attic is a popular place for visitors to stop. Amsterdammers have found comfort and encouragement in the Virgin Mary for centuries. The beautifully carved...more |
 June 2020 | ART 'Life/Time - Rembrandt, Van Dijck and Veldhoen', Rembrandt House Museum, 2020 The Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam is publicly exhibiting for the first time a work purchased at the end of 2019: The Old Painter from around 1657 by Abraham van Dijck (1635-1680). The painting is...more |  June 2020 | ART 'Old collections. New discoveries', Allard Pierson Museum, 2020 The Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam has set up an intimate Story Cabinet especially for unexpected objects in its large museum collection. The Story Cabinet is starting with a collection of designs for...more |
 June 2020 | ART 'Binnenste Buitenland', Museum Het Valkhof, 2020 Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen is organising a small exhibition Binnenste Buitenland (nearest abroad) with fifteen romantic landscape paintings of the region east of Nijmegen. The undulating region around Beek...more |  June 2020 | ART 'Hidden Pearl', Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 2020-2021 Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht is presenting The Crucifixion of the Master of the Lamentation of Christ in Lindau this summer. The painting was made in Bavaria around 1425 and shows Christ after his...more |
 June 2020 | ART Self-portrait Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2020 The Kunstmuseum Den Haag organised a substantive presentation on Self-Portrait with Hat and Veil (1906-1907) by the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). The museum is exhibiting the painting for...more |  June 2020 | ART Hygiene tour by way of ten art objects in Sonneveld House, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2020-2021 The Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam manages the adjacent museum, Sonneveld House, an icon of Nieuwe Bouwen modernist architecture built in 1933 and opened to the public in 2001. Public information...more |
 June 2020 | ART 'OEPTS - Code Yellow & Sunny', Museum Henriette Polak, 2020 Museum Henriette Polak in Zutphen is the museum for Dutch figurative art with work by among others Kees Verwey, Charlotte van Pallandt, Wim Oepts, Arie Schippers and Wendelien Schönfeld. This summer the museum...more |  June 2020 | ART BLKNWS, Kahlil Joseph, Bonnefanten Museum, 2020-2021 For the first time the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht is presenting the controversial installation BLKNWS (black news) by the American artist Kahlil Joseph (Seattle, 1981). The installation was purchased in 2019...more |
 June 2020 | ART Highlights by Hendrik Werkman, Museum Belvédčre, 2020-2021 Museum Belvédčre in Heerenveen is organising a presentation about the expressionist artist Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945) in close collaboration with the collector couple Van Toledo. The representative private...more |  June 2020 | ART The power of Katwijk in painting, Katwijks Museum, 2020-2021 The Katwijks Museum is organising a presentation on paintings focusing on Katwijk as an artists' village, and that have been acquired throughout the years with support from the Rembrandt Association. The most...more |
 June 2020 | ART Altarpieces, Museum Gouda, 2020-2021 Museum Gouda has an important collection of religious art. The sixteenth-century monumental altarpieces which survived the Iconoclastic Fury are unique in the Netherlands. The seventeenth-century altar paintings illustrate...more |  June 2020 | ART Trade over Time, Museum Zaanse Tijd, 2020-2021 Museum Zaanse Tijd in Zaandam is a small museum located in a wooden merchant's house on the Zaanse Schans. The museum has a rich collection of timepieces, on which the presentation 'Trade over time' is based. The...more |
 June 2020 | ART Arie Spaarman's Jisper cupboard, Museum In 't Houten Huis, 2020 Museum In' t Houten Huis in De Rijp organised a presentation about the collection of domestic objects painted by father and son Arie and Willem Spaarman at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the...more |  June 2020 | ART 'Would you like a Biscuit?', National Glass Museum, Leerdam, 2020-2021 One of the Leerdam Glass Factory's most famous and best-selling designs is Jacques Boon's glass biscuit tin from 1934. This is being celebrated by the National Glass Museum in Leerdam, which is dedicating...more |
 June 2020 | ART Porcelain at the Heart of the Duivenvoorde Collection, Duivenvoorde Castle, 2020-2021 One of the largest and most unique parts of the Duivenvoorde Castle collection in Voorschoten is ceramics and porcelain. Porcelain and ceramics from all over the world have been collected in the...more |  June 2020 | ART Palempore, Amerongen Castle, 2020 Amerongen Castle has a unique textile collection which has been cared for and restored for 40 years by a group of volunteers, the 'Angels'. This summer Amerongen Castle paid tribute to the textile collection and the Angels...more |
 June 2020 | ART Leo Gestel's Drawings and Paintings, Stadsmuseum Woerden, 2020-2021 The centrepiece of Stadsmuseum Woerden's collection is without a doubt the drawings and paintings of the local artist Leo Gestel (1881-1941). The town museum celebrated its reopening with a new presentation...more |  June 2020 | ART Two portraits by Piero di Cosimo, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2020 The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is devoting a presentation to two radiant portraits by Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) of Giuliano da Sangallo and Francesco Giamberti. The portraits are among the earliest works to...more |
 June 2020 | ART Gerrit Schouten's dioramas, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2020-2021 Gerrit Schouten's dioramas from the period 1810-1834 are absolute masterpieces of the National Museum of World Cultures' Surinamese collection. They have important art-historical, ethnographic and historical...more | ||
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 March 2020 | ART Vereniging Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2020 Dutch museums wanting to acquire a special work of art can seek assistance from the Vereniging Rembrandt. This association is committed to the protection and enrichment of Dutch public art collections. It was founded in...more |  March 2020 | ART Bruce Nauman retrospective exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2021 In collaboration with Tate Modern, the Stedelijk Museum is organising the first major retrospective of work by American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). Nauman is a visionary contemporary artist who has...more |
 March 2020 | ART Calder NOW, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2021-2022 The American sculptor Alexander Calder (1868 - 1976) was fascinated by movement and added dynamism to the previously static art of sculpture. The progressive and experimental nature of his work has had a major influence...more | March 2020 | EDUCATION Teacher Training on school gardens, Cameroon, 2020 IDAY is a network organisation with members in 19 countries which helps local civil society organisations advocate good education for all children. IDAY-Cameroun was founded in 2010 and has 24 local member...more |
 March 2020 | ART "Negative Beauty", FOAM, Amsterdam, 2021-2022 In autumn 2020 FOAM is organising an exhibition on the origins, function and value of photographic negatives. In recent decades digitisation has brought an end to the era of 'old-fashioned' photography, with final...more | March 2020 | EDUCATION Safer schools, improving education, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2020 Street Child, known as Children in Crisis until 2019, has been working since 2007 with its local partner Ebenezer Ministry International (EMI) on the isolated High Plateau in South Kivu to improve education...more |
March 2020 | EDUCATION Growing small businesses through apprenticeship training, Pujehun, Sierra Leone, 2020 Action on Poverty UK stimulates employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. Turing has previously supported two of their programmes in the country....more | March 2020 | ART Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Bus transport to school matinees, 2020 The mission of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NOB) is for everyone to experience the magic of opera and ballet and it welcomes visitors of all ages. The NOB focuses particularly on young people: it...more |
 March 2020 | NATURE Research phase public campaign, the Netherlands, 2020 The Turing Foundation wants to know if it has a role to play in reaching more people and convincing them in a positive way to make more conscious and thus better choices which benefit nature and biodiversity. If we...more |  March 2020 | NATURE Nature conservation through local community projects, Kwilu district, D.R. Congo, 2020 Congodorpen is a Belgian organisation that works with its local partners on regional development in four provinces in D.R. Congo. The organisation has a bottom-up approach; it focuses on the local...more |
March 2020 | NATURE Forest conservation by introducing green briquettes, Coyah, Guinea, 2020 The Milly Mamoudou Foundation helps the Guinean organisation ONG Sarinka in its mission to create employment in two villages in Coyah. This multifunctional park with accommodation which is let to tourists...more |  March 2020 | EDUCATION Vocational training for vulnerable youth, Burkina Faso, 2020 Terre des Hommes' local partner ATTous has previously been supported by Turing through the Stichting Kinderpostzegels Foundation in 2012 and 2013. Terre des Hommes wants to prevent child exploitation by...more |
 March 2020 | ART Acquisition of 'Granido and Daifilo' (1623) van Dirck van Baburen, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2020 Centraal Museum has acquired a work by Dirck van Baburen, an Utrecht caravaggist and founder of pastoral painting. The Utrecht nobleman Pieter van Hardenbroeck commissioned the canvas in 1623...more |  March 2020 | ART Pärt Festival, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, 2022 Muziekgebouw aan' t IJ is honouring composer Arvo Pärt (Estonia, 1935) with a festival presenting an overview of his oeuvre. Pärt composed sacred minimalist compositions with emotion and warmth unprecedented in...more |
March 2020 | ART Het Grachtenfestival (The Canal Festival), Amsterdam en omstreken, 2020 The Grachtenfestival, founded in 1998, is a ten-day festival with classical music at special locations in Amsterdam, with performances that are free or have a low admission price. No fewer than 265...more | March 2020 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2020 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more |
 March 2020 | NATURE Green Desert Initiative, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2020 The Partners Pays Dogon foundation (PPD) , in collaboration with its local implementing organisation Association Dogon Initiative, is committed to helping the Dogon, an ethnic group that lives around the Bandiagara...more | March 2020 | EDUCATION "Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2020 The British NGO Street Child started in 2008 with a small project for 100 street children in Sierra Leone. Street Child has now reached more than 100,000 children in Africa and Asia with its 'Education,...more |
March 2020 | LEPROSY Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome Biomolecular Predictive Test, Papua and Nepal, 2020 Leprosy is treated with a combination of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine. People with dapsone allergy develop what is called dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS). DHS is...more | March 2020 | NATURE Unlocking knowledge on mangrove recovery, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Indonesia, Philippines, 2020 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Wetlands International is one of...more |
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January 2020 | LEPROSY Extra clofazimine for MB cases at high risk of ENL reactions, 2020 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. The disease can be treated with the drug clofazimine. This research project aims to evaluate whether treating leprosy...more | January 2020 | LEPROSY Immunomodulation by Mycobacterium Indicus Pranii (MIP) in MB leprosy, 2020 Leprosy patients can be effectively treated with multi-drug treatment (MDT), but they are still susceptible to being reinfected with leprosy. It has been demonstrated that the MIP (Mycobacterium indicus...more |
January 2020 | LEPROSY MetLep Trial: Metformin as adjunct therapy for MB leprosy, 2020 Metformin is a cheap and safe medicine which has been used to treat diabetes for a long time. Research into tuberculosis patients, which is caused by a bacterium similar to leprosy, has demonstrated that...more | January 2020 | EDUCATION "Reading Liberia 20/22", Bomi, Margibi en Grand Bassa, Liberia, 2020 The Canadian Organisation for Development through Education (CODE) is committed to combating illiteracy in Liberia. CODE, together with its local partners, is increasing primary school teachers'...more |
January 2020 | EDUCATION Job Booster social venture, north-western regions, Burkina Faso, 2020 The JobBooster Burkina Faso social venture was founded in 2017 by Woord en Daad. Although Woord en Daad wants the social venture to operate more and more independently over time, it is still closely...more |  January 2020 | ART Acquisition of Vincent van Gogh's 'Farmer Burning Weeds' (1883), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2019-2020 The Drents Museum and the Van Gogh Museum have acquired one of Vincent van Gogh's early paintings: Farmer Burning Weeds (1883). This small but powerful work depicts a lonely figure on a...more |
January 2020 | NATURE A geospatial database to facilitate the growth of community forestry, D.R. Congo, 2020 Rainforest Foundation was founded in 1987 and collaborates with an American organisation focused on forests in Latin America and a British organisation (RFUK) focused on forests in the Congo Basin....more |  January 2020 | EDUCATION Green jobs in Mali: supporting job creation through waste management, Mali, 2020 The Norwegian Strřmme Foundation combats poverty in eleven countries in West and East Africa and Asia by strengthening civil society, promoting education and improving livelihoods. The Turing...more |
 January 2020 | ART Candlelight, Museum Gouda, 2021-2022 Museum Gouda curates the historical collection of the mediaeval town of Gouda, a town famous for Gouda cheese and Gouda pottery. Since the Stearine Candle Factory opened in 1853, Gouda has also been a candle manufacturer....more | January 2020 | EDUCATION Mobile school for vocational training, East D.R. Congo, 2020 Stichting De Toekomst Zaaiers is a young organisation working on education, entrepreneurship and peace building in the Great Lakes region, including D.R. Congo. The founders fled D.R. Congo, Burundi and Rwanda...more |
 January 2020 | ART John Constable, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2020-2021 Teylers Museum is organising the first retrospective on the English landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837), who was a member of the Romantic school and was ground breaking in his realistic portrayal of...more |  January 2020 | ART Delft Chamber Music Festival 2020 The Delft Chamber Music Festival combines a high-quality programme featuring leading national and international musicians with a multidisciplinary and accessible character, enabling it to reach a wide and varied audience....more |
January 2020 | ART Klassifest, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2020 Stichting Klassiekfabriek has been organising Klassifest in Paradiso since 2016: a one-day festival with bite-sized classical music for a young audience between the ages of 20 and 40. Whilst many orchestras and ensembles...more | January 2020 | ART Wonderfeel Festival, 's Graveland, 2020-2021 The Wonderfeel festival has been organised on a former estate in 's-Graveland since 2015: a three-day outdoor classical music festival with the relaxed atmosphere of a pop festival. The seven Wonderfeel stages...more |
 January 2020 | ART The 48 hours of Beethoven & Shostakovich, Haarlem, 2020 Stadsschouwburg and Philharmonie Haarlem are organising 'The 48 Hours of...', a three-day festival focusing on two composers. Beethoven (1770-1827) is the focus of the 2020 edition, to mark the 250th anniversary...more | January 2020 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2019 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years. On top of this, every year we donate 5% of the total sum of these...more |
January 2020 | LEPROSY Erasmus MC: Monitoring the effect of prophylactic interventions, Bangladesh, 2020 This sudy by Leiden University Medical Centre and Erasmus University Rotterdam is focused on determining the long-term effect of the BCG vaccination on leprosy patients. New blood samples and new...more | January 2020 | LEPROSY LepVax: safety and vaccin-induced immune response, Brazil, 2020 Researchers from the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), in collaboration with the America Leprosy Mission (ALM), have developed a leprosy specific vaccine called LepVax. This vaccine has both...more |
January 2020 | NATURE Restoring Koulikoro, Mali, 2020 Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas of Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. The Turing Foundation supported one of their regreening projects in Mali in the period 2016-2018, with good...more | January 2020 | EDUCATION "Rebuilding Young Lives", North Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2020 Chance for Childhood (CfC) has been improving the position of the most vulnerable children in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and D.R. Congo since 1992. It works bottom-up, with progressive community leaders, local...more |
January 2020 | EDUCATION Effective teachers for better learning results, Kinshasa district, D.R. Congo, 2020 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation founded in 2002 and specialised in education for underprivileged children. Together with the organisations Bambale and Tosangana, Edukans is introducing...more |  January 2020 | OTHER Grant to Stichting Bio Child Rehabilitation, Arnhem, 2019 Stichting Bio was established in 1927 by the Dutch cinema industry. The foundation enables children with multiple disabilities to go on an affordable holiday with their families in specially adapted holiday...more |
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 October 2019 | ART 'Frida Kahlo. Viva la Frida - Life and art of Frida Kahlo', Drents Museum, 2021-2022 In 2020 the Drents Museum is organising the largest project in the museum's history: an exhibition on Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Kahlo's predominantly autobiographical work is...more |  October 2019 | ART 'Willem van de Velde: Father & Son', Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, 2021-2022 From October 2020 the National Maritime Museum is presenting an exhibition on Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-1693) and his son Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707). The pair worked together...more |
October 2019 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for women and young people, Dabwe Town, Liberia, 2019 The Mineke Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tonia Dabwe to continue her parents' life work in Liberia. The organisation has a training centre in Dabwe Town, 20 km from Monrovia, for vocational training...more |  October 2019 | ART Children's Music Week, De Doelen, Rotterdam, 2020-2022 The 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is the reason for De Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam to organise the Angry Young Beethoven Festival. All five Beethoven piano concertos...more |
 October 2019 | ART Poetry Week gift book, 2020 The CPNB (Dutch Foundation to Promote Reading of Dutch Books) has been organising Poetry Week since 2009, with the aim of making poetry more familiar to a broad audience. Like the annual Book Week, which has become a public...more | October 2019 | EDUCATION Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone, 2019 The Pan African Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) was established in 1992 by five female African ministers of education and nineteen senior policy makers, with the aim of improving education...more |
 October 2019 | NATURE Establishing protected marine areas with local communities, Madagascar, 2019 Blue Ventures works with local communities to find ways to protect marine biodiversity which at the same time have a positive effect on their livelihoods. A total of 65 marine areas are currently...more | October 2019 | EDUCATION Agro-vocational Training in Cassave processing, Margibi, Boni, Nimba and Montserrado, Liberia, 2019 ZOA provides support during reconstruction in areas where a disaster or conflict has occurred until the local population's self-reliance has been restored. The organisation has been operating...more |
October 2019 | EDUCATION Youth at Work, Vocational training, Kalehe, D.R. Congo, 2019 War Child was founded in 1995 to make a positive and lasting change to the lives of children and young people in conflict areas by stimulating education, providing psychosocial care, and protecting them from...more |  October 2019 | EDUCATION Training for 300 youth in motorcycle maintenance and repair, Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso, 2019 In 2002 the Stichting Hárparako foundation started working in Passakongo, in north-western Burkina Faso, informally training young people on the job as mechanics, welders etc. At the request...more |
October 2019 | EDUCATION "The Light of Learning", teacher training and quality improvement, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger, 2019 Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is an international humanitarian organisation committed to fighting poverty in the poorest countries, focused on emergency aid, education, HIV/AIDS, health...more |  October 2019 | EDUCATION Teacher Training - Meaningful Language Skills, Dogon area, Mali, 2019 A consortium of motivated organisations, including Partners Pays Dogon (PPD), provides assistance to the Dogon region. Together with its local partner Association Dogon Initiative (ADI), PPD is improving...more |
 October 2019 | ART Vereniging Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2019 Dutch museums wanting to acquire a special work of art can seek assistance from the Rembrandt Association. This association is committed to protecting and enriching Dutch public art collections. Founded in 1883, it now has...more | ||
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July 2019 | NATURE Biodiversity Conservation Nyika National Park, Malawi, 2019 The Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) advocates the creation and development of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa with the ultimate goal of supporting sustainable economic development,...more | July 2019 | NATURE Sustainable mangrove conservation, Liberia, 2019 Conservation International (CI) is one of the world's largest international nature conservation organisations and has been working for over 30 years towards a healthy and prosperous world in which society values and...more |
July 2019 | EDUCATION Health, wealth and wellbeing for women, Sierra Leone, 2019 Tools for Self Reliance is a British organisation which aims to enable people in Africa to make a sustainable living by giving them professional training and tools in the form of a start kit. A large part of...more | July 2019 | EDUCATION Educating and mentoring l'AMI language specialists, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2019 The Partners Pays-Dogon organisation facilitates projects that contribute to regional development in the Dogon country. The Turing Foundation is already supporting a nature conservation project that aims...more |
July 2019 | EDUCATION Renovation of and teacher training at primary schools, Walungu, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2019 ChildFund Germany is one of eleven members of the global ChildFund Alliance and aims to empower children in disadvantaged positions and their families and communities. Together they work in more...more |  July 2019 | ART 'In the light of Cuyp. Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough - Constable - Turner', Dordrechts Museum, 2021-2022 The landscape painter Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) lived and worked for his entire life in the town of Dordrecht. During his life his work was sold predominantly in and around Dordrecht, but in...more |
 July 2019 | ART 'Niki de Saint Phalle aan Zee', Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, 2019-2020 The work of the French sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is regarded as Nouveau Realism and is associated with Pop Art. The self-taught Saint Phalle played an important role in...more |  July 2019 | ART International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, 2019 The International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht hosts a total of nearly 50 concerts and activities at over twenty venues around the city of Utrecht, allowing it to reach a wide audience. The number of visitors to...more |
July 2019 | NATURE Post plantation, sustainable agriculture and landscape restoration, D.R. Congo, 2020 The Institute for Human Activities and the local organisation Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise founded a centre, a White Cube, in the middle of abandoned plantations in the...more | July 2019 | NATURE Community Forest and Peatland Solutions project, D.R. Congo, 2019 Greenpeace wants to halt logging in the Congo basin, and sees community forestry as a sustainable alternative to destructive industrial logging and large-scale agricultural plantations. In the period...more |
July 2019 | NATURE Protecting and restoring nature around water sources, Cameroon, 2019 LiveBuild works with local organisations and communities on sustainable development in the Anglophone western part of Cameroon. Its projects employ a community-driven approach and are related to water....more |  July 2019 | EDUCATION Good education for all, South Kivu plateau region, D.R. Congo, 2019 Children in Crisis, now merged into Street Child, is a British NGO aiming to give children in some of the world's poorest countries education. Street Child works in places where resources are sparse,...more |
July 2019 | NATURE Community-led Nature Reserves, Lubutu, Mukingiti and Kingombe, D.R. Congo, 2019 Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world's oldest conservation organisation, founded in 1903. FFI is active in 47 countries, including D.R. Congo since 2003. Since 2012, FFI has been...more | July 2019 | EDUCATION Apprenticeships programme for women in Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2019 The British NGO Action on Poverty specifically focuses on creating jobs for disadvantaged groups in Sri Lanka and four African countries, including Sierra Leone. The Turing Foundation already supported one of...more |
July 2019 | NATURE Protecting forests by preventing oil palm plantations, Liberia, 2019 Both Ends collaborates with social and environmental groups from developing countries to achieve a green and sustainable global economy through research, influencing policy and mutual capacity building....more | July 2019 | NATURE Sustainable Seas, Inhambane Province, Mozambique, 2019 The Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) was founded in 2009 by two American marine biologists who have been working in Mozambique since 2005. As well as protecting manta rays and whale sharks, the organisation...more |
 July 2019 | EDUCATION Quality improvement and continuation vocational education, Cameroon, 2019 The Dutch foundation Babungo has been committed to improving health care and education in the Babungo valley in Cameroon for the last eight years. It provides, among other things, the annual school fees...more |  July 2019 | NATURE Environmentally friendly farming using best practice videos, Benin, Mali en Kenia, 2019 Biovision African Trust (BvAT) was founded in 2009 by the Biovision Foundation Switzerland. Both organisations combat poverty and improve living conditions by disseminating information and...more |
 July 2019 | ART The Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, 2019 The Dutch National Opera & Ballet is renowned for its varied programming of both classical and modern operas and the consistently high quality of the performances. Its mission is to develop a broad traditional as...more | ||
April 2019 | |||
 April 2019 | ART Lucas van Gassel, Meester van het landschap, Museum Helmond, 2020 In 2020 Museum Helmond is organising the first retrospective exhibition on the Helmond-born Lucas Gassel (1480/1500 - 1568/69), a landscape painter famous in his time. A total of 62 works from around the...more |  April 2019 | ART Francis Alÿs, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 2019-2020 Eye Filmmuseum is presenting an exhibition on the Belgian-Mexican artist Francis Al˙s (1959) in the winter of 2019/20. Francis Al˙s is internationally renowned for his engaged video and film art, and his...more |
April 2019 | ART String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, 2019-2020 The second edition of the String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam (SQBA) will be held in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in the beginning of 2020. The festival programme consists of more than 36 concerts in which more than 25 of the...more |  April 2019 | ART Delft Chamber Music Festival 2019 Every year the city of Delft is dominated by chamber music in the summer. The Delft Chamber Music Festival has been going since 1997: a festival with international and Dutch top musicians and a high-quality programme that is...more |
 April 2019 | ART Mahler Festival 2021, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 2021 The Concertgebouw intends to organise another large-scale Mahler Festival in 2020, 100 years after the first edition. Over the space of ten days, all of Mahler's symphonies will be performed in the Main Hall by...more | April 2019 | ART The Eleventh Poetry Contest 2019-2020 In the period 2009 - 2018 the Turing Foundation organised the Turing Poetry Competition in collaboration with the Poëzieclub, which was a great success with a total of nearly 100,000 poems submitted by 17,000 poets. The...more |
April 2019 | EDUCATION "Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2019-2021 The British NGO Street Child started in 2008 with a small project for 100 street children in Sierra Leone. Street Child has now reached more than 100,000 children in Africa and Asia with its 'Education,...more | April 2019 | LEPROSY IDRI: Integration of rapid diagnostic tests to facilitate earlier diagnosis and simplified case management of Leprosy, 2019 The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) is doing research on the island of Cebu in the Philippines into the effectiveness of two new leprosy tests. The project aims to...more |
April 2019 | NATURE Green Desert Initiative, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2019 The Partners Pays Dogon foundation (PPD) , in collaboration with its local implementing organisation Association Dogon Initiative, is committed to helping the Dogon, an ethnic group that lives around the Bandiagara...more | April 2019 | EDUCATION Quality Education with local co-investment, North West Region, Cameroon, 2019 The Turing Foundation has been supporting Knowledge for Children with their book programme in Cameroon since 2009. The foundation teaches primary schools how to manage their stock of schoolbooks...more |
 April 2019 | EDUCATION Betere doorstroom na basisonderwijs voor kinderen in 22 dorpen, Niger, 2019 In the isolated north of Niger, RAIN, a small American organisation with two Nigerien offices, has been working with the local population to improve its future for 15 years. Education is one of its most...more |  April 2019 | EDUCATION Strengthening two vocational training centers, Burkina Faso, 2019 Since 1987, Tools to Work (TtoW) has been revising high-quality tools and machinery at its Dutch workshop, shipping them to developing countries, and provided training in revising and maintenance. In this...more |
 April 2019 | EDUCATION Teacher training at six primary schools, Guinea, 2019 School-to-School International's Whole Child Model provides teaching, as well as health (food and hygiene), and stimulating an engaged community for a better future for the children. To improve education,...more | ||
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January 2019 | NATURE Unlocking knowledge on mangrove recovery, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Indonesia, Philippines, 2019 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Wetlands International is one of...more | January 2019 | NATURE Restoring Koulikoro, Mali, 2019 Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas of Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. The Turing Foundation supported one of their regreening projects in Mali in the period 2016-2018, with good...more |
January 2019 | EDUCATION "Rebuilding Young Lives", North Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2019 Chance for Childhood (CfC) has been improving the position of the most vulnerable children in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and D.R. Congo since 1992. It works bottom-up, with progressive community leaders, local...more | January 2019 | EDUCATION "Reading Liberia 20/20", Bomi, Margibi en Grand Bassa, Liberia, 2019-2020 The Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE) is committed to combating illiteracy in Liberia. Based on internationally-recognized best-practice, 'Reading CODE' strengthens the...more |
January 2019 | LEPROSY Erasmus MC: Monitoring the effect of prophylactic interventions, Bangladesh, 2019 This sudy by Leiden University Medical Centre and Erasmus University Rotterdam is focused on determining the long-term effect of the BCG vaccination on leprosy patients. New blood samples and new...more | January 2019 | LEPROSY Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome Biomolecular Predictive Test, Papua and Nepal, 2019 Leprosy is treated with a combination of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine. People with dapsone allergy develop what is called dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome (DHS). DHS is...more |
January 2019 | LEPROSY LepVax: safety and vaccin-induced immune response, Brazil, 2019 Researchers from the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), in collaboration with the America Leprosy Mission (ALM), have developed a leprosy specific vaccine called LepVax. This vaccine has both...more | January 2019 | ART Oranjewoud Festival, Heerenveen, 2019 The Oranjewoud Festival takes place every summer at the Oranjewoud estate near Heerenveen. This colourful music festival presents high-quality classical music in the most accessible and stimulating way possible. A total of...more |
January 2019 | ART Wonderfeel Festival, 's Graveland, 2019 The Wonderfeel festival has been organised in a former estate in' s-Graveland since 2015: a three-day outdoor classical music festival with the relaxed atmosphere of a pop festival. The seven Wonderfeel stages highlight...more |  January 2019 | ART aus LICHT, The Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, 2019 The Dutch National Opera, the Holland Festival and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, in partnership with the Stockhausen Stiftung für Musik, are performing the unique project aus LICHT by composer Karlheinz...more |
 January 2019 | ART "Geert Lap - Specific Objects", Design Museum Den Bosch, 2019 The ceramic oeuvre of the Dutch designer and artist Geert Lap (1951-2017) can be regarded as a relentless search for perfection; the perfect symbiosis of shape, colour and material. Lap's work is held in high...more |  January 2019 | NATURE Disrupting illegal ape trade, Indonesia, 2019 The Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC)'s mission is to disrupt and help dismantle transnational organised criminal networks trading in wildlife, timber and fish. The WJC conducts intelligence-led undercover...more |
January 2019 | EDUCATION Teacher Training on school gardens, Cameroon, 2019-2020 IDAY is a network organisation with members in 19 countries which helps local civil society organisations advocate good education for all children. IDAY-Cameroun was founded in 2010 and has 24 local member...more | January 2019 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2019 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more |
January 2019 | ART Oerol Festival, Terschelling, 2019 Every year the Frisian island of Terschelling is transformed into one large stage for theatre, dance, street theatre, visual art and music for ten days. The theatre performances take place on the beach, in the dunes, forest...more |  January 2019 | EDUCATION Promoting Youth Employability, Dioïla, Mali, 2019 PlanBŘRNEfonden is a Danish organisation founded in 1972, which works in four fields in Mali: education, child health, income-generating activities and children's development. PlanBŘRNEfonden wants to use this...more |
 January 2019 | EDUCATION Vocational and entrepreneurial training for young people from the slums of Lome, Togo, 2019 Y Care is the international relief and development agency of the YMCA youth organisation. Their strategy for 2020 is focused on the creation of jobs for young people in fifteen core countries,...more | January 2019 | EDUCATION Effective teachers for better learning results, Kinshasa district, D.R. Congo, 2019 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation founded in 2002 and specialised in education for underprivileged children. Together with the organisations Bambale and Tosangana, Edukans is introducing...more |
January 2019 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2018-2019 For many years the Turing Foundation has cofinanced projects to combat leprosy with the Netherlands Leprosy Relief . In 2018 alone the Turing Foundation contributed €356.961 towards projects...more |  January 2019 | EDUCATION Strengthening the 'sandwich' educational method in rural Cameroon, 2019 DISOP Cameroon is formalising the sandwich method of teaching in Cameroon. This involves alternating two weeks in the classroom with two weeks of practical experience. This means there is a continuous...more |
January 2019 | LEPROSY Identification of leprosy associated immune signatures that aid as early signals for determination of type I and type II reactions in leprosy, Karigiri, India, 2019 Early recognition and treatment of leprosy reactions helps prevent nerve damage and disfigurement. The Schieffelin Institute of Health (SIHR) is developing a...more |  January 2019 | ART Terras Magazine, 2019 Terras is a magazine for international literature with a varied range of articles in the fields of poetry, literary texts, essays, film, photos and blog posts. Dutch poets often make their debut in Terras, and it introduces...more |
October 2018 | |||
 October 2018 | ART "Van Goghs Intimates", Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, 2019-2020 Based on Vincent van Gogh's art collection, the exhibition "Van Goghs Intimates: friends, family, models" will be in the Noordbrabants Museum. The exhibition is focused on Vincent van Gogh's relationships...more |  October 2018 | ART Sprezzatura, 50 years of Italian Painting 1860-1910, Drents Museum, 2019 In 2019 the Drents Museum is organising an exhibition on Italian painting in the period 1860 - 1910. Over 70 works from approximately 30 (mostly Italian) collections give an impression of the development...more |
 October 2018 | ART Sixth World Minimal Music Festival, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, 2019 The Minimal Music Festival is a biennial benchmark for a growing number of musicians, composers and lovers of 'minimal 'music - compositions based on a limited number of building blocks and consisting of...more | October 2018 | EDUCATION Helping young women to become teachers, Kambia, Sierra Leone, 2018 The Pan African Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) was established in 1992 by five female African ministers of education and nineteen senior policy makers, with the aim of improving education...more |
 October 2018 | EDUCATION Equipment for improved vocational training, Monrovia, Liberia, 2018-2019 The Stichting Betuwe Wereldwijd foundation (SBW) was founded in 1987 and reconditions tools, bicycles, computers and machines for training centres in developing countries. In the Netherlands, the...more | October 2018 | EDUCATION Youth at Work, Vocational training, Kalehe, D.R. Congo, 2018 War Child was founded in 1995 to make a positive and lasting change to the lives of children and young people in conflict areas by stimulating education, providing psychosocial care, and protecting them from...more |
October 2018 | EDUCATION Training for 300 youth in motorcycle maintenance and repair, Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso, 2018 In 2002 the Stichting Hárparako foundation started working in Passakongo, in north-western Burkina Faso, informally training young people on the job as mechanics, welders etc. At the request...more | October 2018 | EDUCATION "The Light of Learning", teacher training and quality improvement, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger, 2018 Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is an international humanitarian organisation committed to fighting poverty in the poorest countries, focused on emergency aid, education, HIV/AIDS, health...more |
October 2018 | EDUCATION Agro-vocational Training in Cassave processing, Margibi, Boni, Nimba and Montserrado, Liberia, 2018 ZOA provides support during reconstruction in areas where a disaster or conflict has occurred until the local population's self-reliance has been restored. The organisation has been operating...more | October 2018 | ART The Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, 2018 The Dutch National Opera & Ballet is renowned for its varied programming of both classical and modern operas and the consistently high quality of the performances. Its mission is to develop a broad traditional as...more |
 October 2018 | NATURE Regreening projects, Mopti to Segou, Mali, 2018 Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas in Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. Together with local conservation organisations, such as the Malian Association for the Conservation...more |  October 2018 | EDUCATION Vocational skills development and income generation for youth, Sierra Leone, 2018 Action on Poverty (APT) is a British NGO that aims to create employment for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. APT is supporting the local organisation Movement for...more |
October 2018 | ART Terras Magazine, 2018 Terras is a magazine for international literature with a varied range of articles in the fields of poetry, literary texts, essays, film, photos and blog posts. Dutch poets often make their debut in Terras, and it introduces...more |  October 2018 | EDUCATION Strengthening of three vocational education institutions, Sierra Leone, 2018 Since 1987 the Dutch organisation Tools to Work has been providing vocational education institutions and novice entrepreneurs in developing countries with reconditioned tools and machinery. This teaches...more |
 October 2018 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for women and young people, Dabwe Town, Liberia, 2018 The Mineke Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tonia Dabwe to continue her parents' life work in Liberia. The organisation has a training centre in Dabwe Town, 20 km from Monrovia, which provides vocational...more | ||
August 2018 | |||
August 2018 | NATURE Community Forest and Peatland Solutions project, D.R. Congo, 2018 Greenpeace wants to halt logging in the Congo basin, and sees community forestry as a sustainable alternative to destructive industrial logging and large-scale agricultural plantations. In the period...more | August 2018 | NATURE Sustainable Seas, Inhambane Province, Mozambique, 2018 The Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) was founded in 2009 by two American marine biologists who have been working in Mozambique since 2005. As well as protecting manta rays and whale sharks, the organisation...more |
August 2018 | NATURE Establishing protected marine areas with local communities, Madagascar, 2018 Blue Ventures works with local communities to find ways to protect marine biodiversity which at the same time have a positive effect on their livelihoods. A total of 65 marine areas are currently...more |  August 2018 | NATURE Trees for the Sahel, Regreening North Burkina Faso 2018 Tiipaalga was founded in 2006 by the Swiss organisation newTree and is its local partner in Burkina Faso,. The organisation wants to green the Sahel and which requires interventions that are implemented in...more |
August 2018 | NATURE Community-led Nature Reserves, Lubutu, Mukingiti and Kingombe, D.R. Congo, 2018 Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world's oldest conservation organisation, founded in 1903. FFI is active in 47 countries, including D.R. Congo since 2003. Since 2012, FFI has been...more | August 2018 | ART The Tenth Turing Poetry Contest 2018-2019 The Turing Poetry Competition is the only Dutch-language poetry contest open to everyone and that is about a poem, not a poet. Previous editions were a resounding success. There are cash prizes for the best three...more |
 August 2018 | ART "Monet. The garden paintings", Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2019-2020 For the first time in 30 years the Kunstmuseum Den Haag is organising a monographic exhibition on Claude Monet (1840-1926), in which the artist's development in the last 25 years of his life will take centre...more | August 2018 | NATURE Environmentally friendly farming using best practice videos, Benin, Mali en Kenia, 2018 Biovision African Trust (BvAT) was founded in 2009 by the Biovision Foundation Switzerland. Both organisations combat poverty and improve living conditions by disseminating information and...more |
August 2018 | NATURE Protecting forests by preventing oil palm plantations, Liberia, 2018 Both Ends collaborates with social and environmental groups from developing countries to achieve a green and sustainable global economy through research, influencing policy and mutual capacity building....more |  August 2018 | ART "Rembrandts Social Network", Het Rembrandthuis Amsterdam, 2019 The Rembrandt House Museum is opening the Rembrandt Year 2019 with an exhibition entitled 'Rembrandt's Social Network' - devoted to Rembrandt's family and friends and the role they played in his life and work....more |
August 2018 | EDUCATION Apprenticeships programme for women in Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2018 The British NGO Action on Poverty specifically focuses on creating jobs for disadvantaged groups in Sri Lanka and four African countries, including Sierra Leone. The Turing Foundation already supported one of...more |  August 2018 | ART Poetry Week gift book, 2019 The Dutch Foundation to Promote Reading of Dutch Books (CPNB) has encouraged people in the Netherlands to read books and drawn many people's attention to Dutch books since 1930. The CPNB has been organising Poetry Week since...more |
 August 2018 | EDUCATION Vocational and entrepreneurial training, Monrovia, Liberia 2018 Y Care is the international arm of the youth organisation YMCA. This foundation has been working in Liberia for more than 30 years and helps young people start a business or find work. In partnership with YMCA...more | August 2018 | NATURE Protecting and restoring nature around water sources, Cameroon, 2018 LiveBuild works with local organisations and communities on sustainable development in the Anglophone western part of Cameroon. Its projects employ a community-driven approach and are related to water....more |
August 2018 | EDUCATION Good education for all, South Kivu plateau region, D.R. Congo, 2018 Children in Crisis (CIC) is a British NGO aiming to give children in some of the world's poorest countries education. CIC works in places where resources are sparse, education is needed for recovery, and it...more |  August 2018 | NATURE Community forestry in the Equateur province, DR Congo, 2017 Greenpeace is an international campaigning organisation deeply committed to forest protection. Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation, globally, by 2020, which means no further decline in our...more |
August 2018 | EDUCATION Quality improvement and continuation vocational education, Cameroon, 2018 The Dutch foundation Babungo has been committed to improving health care and education in the Babungo valley in Cameroon for the last eight years. It provides, among other things, the annual school fees...more | ||
May 2018 | |||
May 2018 | NATURE Green Desert Initiative, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2018 The Partners Pays Dogon foundation (PPD) , in collaboration with its local implementing organisation Association Dogon Initiative, is committed to helping the Dogon, an ethnic group that lives around the Bandiagara...more | May 2018 | EDUCATION "Right to Learn", Kono, Kallahun and Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2018 The British NGO Street Child started in 2008 with a small project for 100 street children in Sierra Leone. Street Child has now reached more than 100,000 children in Africa and Asia with its 'Education,...more |
 May 2018 | ART Main supporter "Manzoni in Holland", Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2019 Piero Manzoni was one of the great innovators in visual arts in the 20th century. In his short life (1933-1963) he produced an impressive oeuvre and was highly influential on the development of conceptual...more |  May 2018 | ART 'Young Rembrandt', Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, 2019-2020 2019 will be the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt's death, and has been declared 'Rembrandt and the Golden Age' year. Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden, the city of Rembrandt's birth, is marking this with an exhibition...more |
May 2018 | LEPROSY IDRI: Integration of rapid diagnostic tests to facilitate earlier diagnosis and simplified case management of Leprosy, 2018 The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) is doing research on the island of Cebu in the Philippines into the effectiveness of two new leprosy tests. The project aims to...more | May 2018 | EDUCATION Strengthening two vocational training centers, Burkina Faso, 2018 Since 1987, Tools to Work (TtoW) has been revising high-quality tools and machinery at its Dutch workshop, shipping them to developing countries, and provided training in revising and maintenance. In this...more |
May 2018 | EDUCATION Job Booster social venture, north-western regions, Burkina Faso, 2018 Woord en Daad was founded in 1973 with the aim of combating poverty and currently works in 26 countries around the world. The Job Booster is a social enterprise that connects companies with vacancies to...more |  May 2018 | ART HortusFestival 'Death speaks', 2018 The Hortus Festival, founded in 2004, connects chamber music with exceptional nature in five Dutch botanical gardens: in Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, Rotterdam and Wageningen. Its emphasis is on chamber music from the period...more |
 May 2018 | ART 'Made in Holland: world brand for 400 years', Ceramics Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, 2018-2019 Dutch ceramics have been known around the world for centuries. Manufacturers used foreign styles and techniques to produce their products. These new ceramics were successfully produced and...more | May 2018 | EDUCATION Quality Education with local co-investment, North West Region, Cameroon, 2018 The Turing Foundation has been supporting Knowledge for Children with their book programme in Cameroon since 2009. The foundation teaches primary schools how to manage their stock of schoolbooks...more |
 May 2018 | EDUCATION Participatory and game based teaching practice for 3,360 children, Burkina Faso, 2018 Association Soeur Emmanuelle (Asmae) is a French development organisation focused on education and children. Asmae works with the local organisation JCCV in Burkina Faso. They want to improve the...more |  May 2018 | LEPROSY Translation of Mycobacterium Leprae molecular viability assays (MVA) to the clinical setting and application of MVA to a chemoprophylaxis-of-contacts-model, 2018 The recently developed molecular viability test has proved to be able to quickly and accurately determine the viability of the leprosy bacterium in laboratory...more |
 May 2018 | NATURE Conserving the biodiversity of the Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau, 2018 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Their work in West Africa is focused,...more |  May 2018 | NATURE Asmat Coastal Wetland, Papua, Indonesië, 2018 Coastal Wetland Asmat, Papua, Indonesia, 2015-2018 WWF Netherlands is part of the WWF, the world's largest and most well-known nature conservation organisation, operating in over 100 countries from offices in 60...more |
 May 2018 | NATURE Scaling up capabilities for Effective rehabilitation and conservation of mangroves, Philippines, 2018 The mangroves-in-the-philippines" target=_blank>Zoological Society of London (ZSL) connects science, nature conservation organisations and people on the ground in order to contribute as...more | May 2018 | EDUCATION Betere doorstroom na basisonderwijs voor kinderen in 22 dorpen, Niger, 2018 In the isolated north of Niger, RAIN, a small American organisation with two Nigerien offices, has been working with the local population to improve its future for 15 years. Education is one of its most...more |
 May 2018 | EDUCATION Vocational training for 250 young people, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2018 Christian Aid has been working in Sierra Leone for more than 20 years with a local team of 24 people and local organisations like the national NGO Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD). The...more | May 2018 | EDUCATION Teacher Training - Meaningful Language Skills, Dogon area, Mali, 2018 A consortium of motivated organisations, including Partners Pays Dogon (PPD), provides assistance to the Dogon region. Together with its local partner Association Dogon Initiative (ADI), PPD is improving...more |
 May 2018 | EDUCATION Self-sufficient Vocational Training Center for women, Parakou, Benin, 2018-2019 The Belgian Hubi & Vinciane Foundation supports regional development in the city of Parakou (central Benin) and its environs with projects in healthcare, economic (agricultural) development and...more |  May 2018 | ART Master of Elsloo 'From lonely hand to collection of masters', Bonnefantenmuseum, 2019 In the 16th century the so-called 'Master of Elsloo' worked in the Euroregion of Dutch and Belgian Limburg and the adjacent German region. This was a collective name for a group of highly skilled...more |
January 2018 | |||
January 2018 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2018 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more | January 2018 | EDUCATION Promoting Youth Employability, Dioïla, Mali, 2018 PlanBŘRNEfonden is a Danish organisation founded in 1972, which works in four fields in Mali: education, child health, income-generating activities and children's development. PlanBŘRNEfonden wants to use this...more |
January 2018 | EDUCATION Effective teachers for better learning results, Kinshasa district, D.R. Congo, 2018 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation founded in 2002 and specialised in education for underprivileged children. Together with the organisations Bambale and Tosangana, Edukans is introducing...more |  January 2018 | ART "Maestro van Wittel, Dutch master of the Italian townscape", 2019 Kunsthal KAdE and Museum Flehite are organising an exhibition in 2019 about the artist Caspar van Wittel (1653 - 1736), who was born in Amersfoort. Van Wittel went to Rome in 1674, and using the name 'Gaspare...more |
 January 2018 | ART "Leonardo da Vinci", Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2018-2019 In 2018, Teylers Museum is organising the first international exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) in the Netherlands. Leonardo was a master in portraying emotions and characters, and this is the approach...more |  January 2018 | ART "Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe", Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2018-2019 One of the Centraal Museum's core collections is the Utrecht Caravaggists. From the autumn of 2018, the museum will present a special overview that will provide insight into the way the three Utrecht...more |
 January 2018 | ART "Frans Hals and the Moderns", Frans Hals Museum, 2018-2019 Frans Hals is regarded as one of the most innovative painters of the Dutch Golden Age for his characteristic virtuoso brushstroke. The artist fell into oblivion in the 18th century, but was rediscovered in the...more |  January 2018 | ART "Pure Rubens", Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2018-2019 At the end of 2018, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, together with the Museo Nacional del Prado, is presenting an exhibition of Pieter Paul Rubens' oil sketches. Rubens prepared many of his compositions with...more |
 January 2018 | ART "Giacometti - Chadwick, Facing Fear", Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, 2018-2019 From 22 September 2018 to 6 January 2019, Museum de Foundatie is organising an exhibition of the works of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003 ). Together they contributed...more |  January 2018 | ART "Jean Cocteau / Metamorphosis", Design Museum Den Bosch, 2018-2019 Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was an incredibly versatile artist who was particularly known for his visual work: he made illustrations, drawings, posters, tapestries, sculptures, ceramics and jewellery. The...more |
 January 2018 | ART "I, Mary of Guelders", Museum Het Valkhof, 2018-2019 Mary of Guelders' prayer book is one of the greatest medieval art treasures from the Netherlands. It could not be viewed for years - neither by the general public, nor even by researchers. Museum Het Valkhof will...more | January 2018 | ART Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht, 2018 The Festival Oude Muziek ('Early Music Festival') is the biggest early music festival in the world, attracting around 65,000 visitors a year. The festival's theme in 2018 is 'The Burgundy Lifestyle'. The inspiration was...more |
 January 2018 | ART Wonderfeel Festival, 's Graveland, 2018 The Wonderfeel festival has been organised in a former estate in' s-Graveland since 2015: a three-day outdoor classical music festival with the relaxed atmosphere of a pop festival. The seven Wonderfeel stages highlight...more |  January 2018 | EDUCATION Sustainable living for young people in agriculture, Liberia, 2018-2019 ActionAid The Netherlands and ActionAid Liberia (AAL) want a world without poverty and injustice, and help people to stand up for their rights. AAL is helping 500 young people in Liberia earn a sustainable...more |
January 2018 | EDUCATION Strengthening the 'sandwich' educational method in rural Cameroon, 2018 DISOP Cameroon is formalising the sandwich method of teaching in Cameroon. This involves alternating two weeks in the classroom with two weeks of practical experience. This means there is a continuous...more | January 2018 | EDUCATION Teacher training at six primary schools, Guinea, 2018 School-to-School International's Whole Child Model provides teaching, as well as health (food and hygiene), and stimulating an engaged community for a better future for the children. To improve education,...more |
January 2018 | EDUCATION Vocational and entrepreneurial training for young people from the slums of Lome, Togo, 2018 Y Care is the international relief and development agency of the YMCA youth organisation. Their strategy for 2020 is focused on the creation of jobs for young people in fifteen core countries,...more | January 2018 | LEPROSY Identification of leprosy associated immune signatures that aid as early signals for determination of type I and type II reactions in leprosy, Karigiri, India, 2018 Early recognition and treatment of leprosy reactions helps prevent nerve damage and disfigurement. The Schieffelin Institute of Health (SIHR) is developing a...more |
 January 2018 | LEPROSY INDIGO, field evaluation of novel immunodiagnostic tools for early detection of leprosy in a BCG vaccination field trial amongst contacts of leprosy patients, 2018 The IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) is developing a new generation of tests to detect leprosy infections at...more |  January 2018 | EDUCATION 'Active learning and teaching' at twelve primary schools and three teacher training colleges, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2018 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation dedicated to education. The organisation has developed a training programme to teach teachers to give lessons in an active way, which...more |
January 2018 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2017 For many years the Turing Foundation has cofinanced projects to combat leprosy with the Netherlands Leprosy Relief . In 2017 alone the Turing Foundation contributed in excess of €449.404 towards...more |  January 2018 | ART Main Supporter 'Pieter de Hooch in Delft', Museum Prinsenhof Delft, 2019-2020 Never before has Pieter de Hooch been seen monographically in the Netherlands, even though everyone in the country knows his name and work, and almost every Dutch city has a Pieter de Hooch street....more |
 January 2018 | ART Main Supporter 'Zadkine Aan Zee', Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, 2018-2019 Exhibiting sculptures in the Netherlands is not easy. But Museum Beelden aan Zee - which was only founded 23 years ago! - has been exceptional for a long time and is now working on a grand...more | ||
October 2017 | |||
 October 2017 | ART The Fifth Turing Art Award, 2017 One of the objectives of the Turing Foundation is to get more people to enjoy art in Dutch museums. For this purpose, the Turing Foundation launched the Turing Art Award, a donation of €500,000 and a donation of...more | October 2017 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for women and young people, Dabwe Town, Liberia, 2017 The Mineke Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tonia Dabwe to continue her parents' life work in Liberia. The organisation has a training centre in Dabwe Town, 20 km from Monrovia, which provides vocational...more |
October 2017 | EDUCATION Improving the learning environment and job opportunities, Haho, Togo, 2018 PlanBŘRNEfonden is a Danish organisation which was founded in 1972 and operates in Togo, Mali, Cape Verde, Burkina Faso and Benin in four areas: education, child health, income generating activities and...more |  October 2017 | ART Exhibition 'Gaudi in de Amsterdamse School', Museum Het Schip, 2018-2019 Museum Het Schip has been based in the social housing block called 'Het Schip' in Amsterdam's Spaarndammerbuurt neighbourhood since 2001. The museum draws many parallels between the methods of architects...more |
October 2017 | EDUCATION Agro-vocational Training in Cassave processing, Margibi, Boni, Nimba and Montserrado, Liberia, 2017 ZOA provides support during reconstruction in areas where a disaster or conflict has occurred until the local population's self-reliance has been restored. The organisation has been operating...more |  October 2017 | ART Oranjewoud Festival, Heerenveen, 2018 Since 2012 a music festival has been organised on the Oranjewoud estate in Heerenveen: the Oranjewoud Festival. This festival wants to use innovative presentation forms to reach a wide and diverse audience. A total of 110...more |
 October 2017 | ART International Chamber Music Festival The Hague, 'Classical Encounters', 2018 The Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Den Haag Foundation organises a music festival at special venues in the centre of the Hague every spring. The festival's goal is to increase interest for...more | October 2017 | EDUCATION Vocational skills development and income generation for youth, Sierra Leone, 2017 Action on Poverty (APT) is a British NGO that aims to create employment for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. APT is supporting the local organisation Movement for...more |
October 2017 | ART The Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, 2017 The Dutch National Opera & Ballet is renowned for its varied programming of both classical and modern operas and the consistently high quality of the performances. Its mission is to develop a broad traditional as...more |  October 2017 | EDUCATION Accelerated primary education, Fizi district, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2017 ZOA supports people who suffer because of armed conflict or natural disasters, in helping them to rebuild their livelihoods, like in east D.R. Congo. In the Fizi District of D.R. Congo, ZOA enables 960...more |
 October 2017 | EDUCATION Girl-friendly school EAF, Guinée, 2017 The French education organisation Aide et Action is a major international player aiming to improve access to and quality of education in Guinea. It is improving education for 5,000 students at twenty schools in four rural...more | October 2017 | NATURE Establishing protected marine areas with local communities, Madagascar, 2017 Blue Ventures works with local communities to find ways to protect marine biodiversity which at the same time have a positive effect on their livelihoods. A total of 65 marine areas are currently...more |
October 2017 | NATURE Regreening projects, Mopti to Segou, Mali, 2017 Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas in Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. Together with local conservation organisations, such as the Malian Association for the Conservation...more |  October 2017 | EDUCATION Vocational & literacy training for 400 urban youth, Monrovia, Liberia, 2017 ZOA has been working in Liberia since 2003 to increase the local population's self-reliance in education, water and sanitation, and food security. ZOA and its partner organisation SHIFSD are using this...more |
October 2017 | EDUCATION Strengthening of three vocational education institutions, Sierra Leone, 2017 Since 1987 the Dutch organisation Tools to Work has been providing vocational education institutions and novice entrepreneurs in developing countries with reconditioned tools and machinery. This teaches...more | October 2017 | ART Terras Magazine, 2017 Terras is a magazine for international literature with a varied range of articles in the fields of poetry, literary texts, essays, film, photos and blog posts. Dutch poets often make their debut in Terras, and it introduces...more |
July 2017 | |||
 July 2017 | EDUCATION Sustainable livelihood for 150 unemployed youth in Bo City, Sierra Leone, 2017 Tools for Self Reliance is a British organisation whose purpose is to increase employment in Africa by providing young people with a training course and a starter kit of refurbished tools. The...more | July 2017 | EDUCATION Quality improvement and continuation vocational education, Cameroon, 2017 The Dutch foundation Babungo has been committed to improving health care and education in the Babungo valley in Cameroon for the last eight years. It provides, among other things, the annual school fees...more |
 July 2017 | EDUCATION Consolidating twenty Family Farm Schools, Cameroon, 2017-2018 The French development organisation Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD) was established in 1988 with the aim of teaching people skills to further their own development and contribute to...more | July 2017 | NATURE Community forestry in the Equateur province, DR Congo, 2017 Greenpeace is an international campaigning organisation deeply committed to forest protection. Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation, globally, by 2020, which means no further decline in our...more |
July 2017 | EDUCATION Good education for all, South Kivu plateau region, D.R. Congo, 2017 Children in Crisis (CIC) is a British NGO aiming to give children in some of the world's poorest countries education. CIC works in places where resources are sparse, education is needed for recovery, and it...more | July 2017 | NATURE Protecting and restoring nature around water sources, Cameroon, 2017 LiveBuild was founded in 2007 and has been working for years with local organisations and communities on sustainable development in the Anglophone eastern part of Cameroon. Its projects employ a...more |
July 2017 | EDUCATION Vocational and entrepreneurial training, Monrovia, Liberia 2017 Y Care is the international arm of the youth organisation YMCA. This foundation has been working in Liberia for more than 30 years and helps young people start a business or find work. In partnership with YMCA...more | July 2017 | NATURE Trees for the Sahel, Regreening North Burkina Faso 2017 Tiipaalga was founded in 2006 by the Swiss organisation newTree and is its local partner in Burkina Faso,. The organisation wants to green the Sahel and which requires interventions that are implemented in...more |
 July 2017 | ART IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2017 The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's most important documentary festival. From the over 3,500 international documentaries that are published each year, 300 are selected...more | July 2017 | EDUCATION Teacher Training - Meaningful Language Skills, Dogon area, Mali, 2017 A consortium of motivated organisations, including Partners Pays Dogon (SBD), provides assistance to the Dogon region. Together with its local partner Association Dogon Initiative (ADI), SBD is improving...more |
 July 2017 | NATURE Mangrove Rehabilitation, Verde Island Passage, Philippines, 2017 For more than 25 years Conservation International (CI) has been doing valuable work protecting the environment, and involving politicians, policy makers, business and society in these efforts. CI wants to...more | ||
April 2017 | |||
April 2017 | EDUCATION Quality Education with local co-investment, North West Region, Cameroon, 2017 The Turing Foundation has been supporting Knowledge for Children with their book programme in Cameroon since 2009. The foundation teaches primary schools how to manage their stock of schoolbooks...more | April 2017 | EDUCATION Participatory and game based teaching practice for 3,360 children, Burkina Faso, 2017 Association Soeur Emmanuelle (Asmae) is a French development organisation focused on education and children. Asmae works with the local organisation JCCV in Burkina Faso. They want to improve the...more |
April 2017 | EDUCATION Betere doorstroom na basisonderwijs voor kinderen in 22 dorpen, Niger, 2017 In the isolated north of Niger, RAIN, a small American organisation with two Nigerien offices, has been working with the local population to improve its future for 15 years. Education is one of its most...more |  April 2017 | ART 'Van Gogh & Japan', Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2018 Vincent van Gogh's first contact with Japanese art was in 1885 and he collected Japanese prints and woodcuts from the winter of 1886/1887. The Van Gogh Museum is organising the exhibition 'Van Gogh & Japan' in...more |
 April 2017 | ART Main Supporter 'Neo Rauch', Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, 2018 Museum de Fundatie is organising the first major retrospective exhibition of the German artist Neo Rauch (1960). Rauch is one of the founders of the Neue Leipziger Schule and his big, surrealistic and narrative...more |  April 2017 | ART 'Ferdinand Bol: Het Huis, De Collectie, De Kunstenaar', Museum van loon, Amsterdam, 2017-2018 The painter Ferdinand Bol was the first person to live in the property on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam where the Museum Van Loon is now located. Which is why the museum has organised an...more |
April 2017 | ART Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht, 2017 The Festival Oude Muziek ('Early Music Festival') is the biggest early music festival in the world, with more than 250 concerts over 10 days, attracting around 65,000 visitors every year. It is 500 years in 2017 since...more | April 2017 | ART Wonderfeel 2017, 's Graveland, 2017 Since 2015, the Wonderfeel festival has been organised at a former estate in 's-Graveland: a three-day outdoor classical music festival - a total experience of classical music for a wide contemporary audience. Over 300...more |
 April 2017 | ART Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2017 The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NNO) was founded in 1862 in Groningen, making it the oldest professional symphony orchestra in the Netherlands. The NNO has organised the Pieter Roelf Youth...more |  April 2017 | ART The Ninth Turing Poetry Contest 2017-2018 The Turing Poetry Competition is the only Dutch-language poetry contest open to everyone and that is about a poem, not a poet. Previous editions were a resounding success. There are cash prizes for the best three...more |
 April 2017 | NATURE Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger, 2017 BothEnds and CRESA have been working together since 2010 to encourage farmers to grow trees and plants on their land. The Turing Foundation has contributed € 268,000 towards this project since 2010....more | April 2017 | NATURE Asmat Coastal Wetland, Papua, Indonesië, 2017 Coastal Wetland Asmat, Papua, Indonesia, 2015-2018 WWF Netherlands is part of the WWF, the world's largest and most well-known nature conservation organisation, operating in over 100 countries from offices in 60...more |
April 2017 | NATURE Conserving the biodiversity of the Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau, 2017 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Their work in West Africa is focused,...more |  April 2017 | NATURE Nature-friendly construction of wind farms, North Sea, the Netherlands, 2017-2018 Stichting de Noordzee (North Sea Foundation, SDN) is committed to a healthy North Sea with sustainable fisheries, no pollution, clean energy and protected areas. The Dutch government pledged in its...more |
 April 2017 | LEPROSY Translation of Mycobacterium Leprae molecular viability assays (MVA) to the clinical setting and application of MVA to a chemoprophylaxis-of-contacts-model, 2018 The recently developed molecular viability test has proved to be able to quickly and accurately determine the viability of the leprosy bacterium in laboratory...more | April 2017 | EDUCATION Vocational training for 250 young people, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2017 Christian Aid has been working in Sierra Leone for more than 20 years with a local team of 24 people and local organisations like the national NGO Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD). The...more |
April 2017 | EDUCATION Self-sufficient Vocational Training Center for women, Parakou, Benin, 2017 The Belgian Hubi & Vinciane Foundation supports regional development in the city of Parakou (central Benin) and its environs with projects in healthcare, economic (agricultural) development and...more |  April 2017 | NATURE Greening the Green Wall Initiative, Burkina Faso, 2017 The focus of most of the work of the Netherlands Society for the Protection of Birds (VBN) is in the Netherlands and in countries along 'Dutch' migratory birds' routes, which includes Burkina Faso. Since 2005 VBN...more |
April 2017 | NATURE Scaling up capabilities for Effective rehabilitation and conservation of mangroves, Philippines, 2017 The mangroves-in-the-philippines" target=_blank>Zoological Society of London (ZSL) connects science, nature conservation organisations and people on the ground in order to contribute as...more |  April 2017 | NATURE Bringing back Bluefin tuna to the North Sea, the Netherlands, 2017 WNF-Nederland is part of the WWF, the world's largest and most well known nature conservation organisation, operating in over 100 countries. The North Sea is the largest nature area in the Netherlands, which...more |
January 2017 | |||
January 2017 | ART Oranjewoud Festival, Heerenveen, 2017 Since 2012 a music festival has been organised on the Oranjewoud estate in Heerenveen: the Oranjewoud Festival. This festival wants to use innovative presentation forms to reach a wide and diverse audience. A total of 110...more |  January 2017 | ART International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, 2017 The International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht (IKFU) includes a total of nearly 50 concerts and activities, held in over 20 different venues across the city of Utrecht, enabling it to reach a wide audience. After...more |
 January 2017 | ART Festival Classique, The Hague, 2017 Festival Classique is an annual music festival in The Hague that presents classical music in an accessible way to a wide audience. The festival's move from the Hofvijver in The Hague to Scheveningen in 2016 was highly...more | January 2017 | EDUCATION Sustainable living for young people in agriculture, Liberia, 2017 ActionAid The Netherlands and ActionAid Liberia (AAL) want a world without poverty and injustice, and help people to stand up for their rights. AAL is helping 500 young people in Liberia earn a sustainable...more |
January 2017 | EDUCATION Strengthening the 'sandwich' educational method in rural Cameroon, 2017 DISOP Cameroon is formalising the sandwich method of teaching in Cameroon. This involves alternating two weeks in the classroom with two weeks of practical experience. This means there is a continuous...more | January 2017 | EDUCATION Teacher training at six primary schools, Guinea, 2017 School-to-School International's Whole Child Model provides teaching, as well as health (food and hygiene), and stimulating an engaged community for a better future for the children. To improve education,...more |
January 2017 | EDUCATION Vocational and entrepreneurial training for young people from the slums of Lome, Togo, 2017 Y Care is the international relief and development agency of the YMCA youth organisation. Their strategy for 2020 is focused on the creation of jobs for young people in fifteen core countries,...more | January 2017 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2016 For many years the Turing Foundation has cofinanced projects to combat leprosy with the Netherlands Leprosy Relief . In 2016 alone the Turing Foundation contributed in excess of €436,989 towards...more |
January 2017 | LEPROSY Identification of leprosy associated immune signatures that aid as early signals for determination of type I and type II reactions in leprosy, Karigiri, India, 2017 Early recognition and treatment of leprosy reactions helps prevent nerve damage and disfigurement. The Schieffelin Institute of Health (SIHR) is developing a...more | January 2017 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2017 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more |
 January 2017 | LEPROSY Comparative sequencing analysis of genes associated with susceptibility to leprosy and its reactive states, 2017 Developing leprosy is highly dependent on the host's genetic risk factors. Molecular studies have been conducted to determine the genetic characteristics of leprosy patients. A number...more |  January 2017 | LEPROSY Biomarkers for early detection of leprosy using comparative transcriptomics, 2017 Leprosy is usually only diagnosed at a late stage. Diagnosis is based mainly on the presence of clinical symptoms (loss of sensation from nerve damage) and detection of the bacterium in a skin scrape...more |
January 2017 | LEPROSY INDIGO, field evaluation of novel immunodiagnostic tools for early detection of leprosy in a BCG vaccination field trial amongst contacts of leprosy patients, 2017 The IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) is developing a new generation of tests to detect leprosy infections at...more |  January 2017 | LEPROSY IDRI: Integration of rapid diagnostic tests to facilitate earlier diagnosis and simplified case management of Leprosy, 2017 The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) does research into improving the early diagnosis of leprosy patients in Cebu City in the Philippines. An easily usable test was...more |
January 2017 | EDUCATION 'Active learning and teaching' at twelve primary schools and three teacher training colleges, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2017 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation dedicated to education. The organisation has developed a training programme to teach teachers to give lessons in an active way, which...more |  January 2017 | EDUCATION Education programme, Tahoua district, Niger, 2017 Concern International is a humanitarian organisation with international offices in Ireland, Great Britain and the US and local teams in the twenty-five countries where it operates. Concern has been working in Niger...more |
 January 2017 | EDUCATION 'Good schools, safe schools', Walungu, D.R. Congo, 2017 War Child aims to make a positive and lasting change to the lives of children and young people in conflict zones by promoting education, amongst others. In Walungu, in the east of DR Congo, War Child provides 3000...more | ||
October 2016 | |||
October 2016 | NATURE Establishing protected marine areas with local communities, Madagascar, 2016 Blue Ventures works with local communities to find ways to protect marine biodiversity which at the same time have a positive effect on their livelihoods. A total of 65 marine areas are currently...more |  October 2016 | ART Main supporter Georgio Morandi and Bologna, Museum Belvédčre, 2018 In 2018 Museum Belvédčre is devoting an exhibition to the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). The exhibition Giorgio Morandi and Bologna aims to give an insight into the links between Morandi's work...more |
 October 2016 | ART Fauvism to Surrealism. Jewish avant-garde art from Hungary, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2017 In 2017 the Jewish Historical Museum is organising an exhibition on the work of Jewish avant-garde artists from Hungary: adherents of Fauvism, Cubism, German Expressionism and Surrealism....more |  October 2016 | ART 'Jean Arp - The Poetry of Forms', Kröller-Müller Museum, 2017 Jean Arp (1886-1966) was a Franco-German sculptor, painter and poet, as well as being an influential artist in the European avant-garde movement. In 2017 the Kröller-Müller Museum is organising the first...more |
October 2016 | ART The Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, 2016 The Dutch National Opera & Ballet is renowned for its varied programming of both classical and modern operas and the consistently high quality of the performances. Its mission is to develop a broad traditional as...more |  October 2016 | ART Turning East - The Great Stars from the Middle East in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 2017 With the festival Turning East, the Concertgebouw is turning its attention to new audiences with roots in the Middle East and the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). For five days in November...more |
 October 2016 | ART Fifth World Minimal Music Festival, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, 2017 Minimal Music is a genre in modern music which has been growing since the 1970s. In 2017 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ is organising the fifth edition of the World Minimal Music Festival . This festival is a...more | October 2016 | ART Terras Magazine, 2017 Terras is a magazine for international literature with a varied range of articles in the fields of poetry, literary texts, essays, film, photos and blog posts. Dutch poets often make their debut in Terras, and it introduces...more |
October 2016 | EDUCATION Vocational skills development and income generation for youth, Sierra Leone, 2016 Action on Poverty (APT) is a British NGO that aims to create employment for disadvantaged groups in five countries, including Sierra Leone. APT is supporting the local organisation Movement for...more | October 2016 | EDUCATION Strengthening of three vocational education institutions, Sierra Leone, 2016 Since 1987 the Dutch organisation Tools to Work has been providing vocational education institutions and novice entrepreneurs in developing countries with reconditioned tools and machinery. This teaches...more |
 October 2016 | ART Eye Attack, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2017 The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam has had the special opportunity to take over the exhibition Eye Attack - Op Art and kinetic art from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humblebaek, Denmark. Op Art had its glory days in...more | October 2016 | EDUCATION Teacher Training - Meaningful Language Skills, Dogon area, Mali, 2016 A consortium of motivated organisations, including Partners Pays Dogon (SBD), provides assistance to the Dogon region. Together with its local partner Association Dogon Initiative (ADI), SBD is improving...more |
 October 2016 | ART The Fifth Turing Art Award, 2017 One of the objectives of the Turing Foundation is to get more people to enjoy art in Dutch museums. For this purpose, the Turing Foundation launched the Turing Art Award, a donation of €500,000 and a donation of...more |  October 2016 | EDUCATION Technical vocational training in Leo and Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 2016 Woord and Daad has been working in Burkina Faso with the local development organisation CREDO for many years. Turing has previously supported their projects, and they have had good results. CREDO...more |
October 2016 | EDUCATION Girl-friendly school EAF, Guinée, 2016 The French education organisation Aide et Action is a major international player aiming to improve access to and quality of education in Guinea. It is improving education for 5,000 students at twenty schools in four rural...more | October 2016 | EDUCATION Accelerated primary education, Fizi district, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2016 ZOA supports people who suffer because of armed conflict or natural disasters, in helping them to rebuild their livelihoods, like in east D.R. Congo. In the Fizi District of D.R. Congo, ZOA enables 960...more |
October 2016 | NATURE Regreening projects, Mopti to Segou, Mali, 2016 Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas in Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. Together with local conservation organisations, such as the Malian Association for the Conservation...more |  October 2016 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for rural communities, River Cess, Liberia, 2016 Children in Crisis is an English NGO that sets up educational projects in conflict affected countries like D.R. Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. With partner organization FAWE, Children in Crisis offers...more |
October 2016 | EDUCATION Vocational & literacy training for 400 urban youth, Monrovia, Liberia, 2016 ZOA has been working in Liberia since 2003 to increase the local population's self-reliance in education, water and sanitation, and food security. ZOA and its partner organisation SHIFSD are using this...more | October 2016 | EDUCATION Improving educational quality for young apprentices, Haho district, Togo, 2016 PlanBŘRNEfonden (BF) has many years of experience in getting more young people into work in West Africa. BF aims to increase 150 apprentices' job opportunities in Togo by improving the learning...more |
 October 2016 | EDUCATION Enhancing Quality Education in three rural primary schools, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2016 ActionAid is an international development organisation that aims to improve access to and quality of education because it believes this as a fundamental human right. It operates in 45 countries,...more | ||
July 2016 | |||
July 2016 | NATURE Protecting and restoring nature around water sources, Cameroon, 2016 LiveBuild was founded in 2007 and has been working for years with local organisations and communities on sustainable development in the Anglophone eastern part of Cameroon. Its projects employ a...more | July 2016 | EDUCATION Good education for all, South Kivu plateau region, D.R. Congo, 2016 Children in Crisis (CIC) is a British NGO aiming to give children in some of the world's poorest countries education. CIC works in places where resources are sparse, education is needed for recovery, and it...more |
July 2016 | NATURE Community forestry in the Equateur province, DR Congo, 2016 Greenpeace is an international campaigning organisation deeply committed to forest protection. Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation, globally, by 2020, which means no further decline in our...more |  July 2016 | ART Govert Flinck and Ferdinand Bol, Amsterdam Museum and the Rembrandt House Museum, 2017-2018 The Rembrandt House Museum and the Amsterdam Museum are organising the first ever major retrospective exhibition of the painters Govert Flinck (1615-1660) and Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680): Rembrandt...more |
 July 2016 | ART The Renaissance in Northern Italy, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2017 Rijksmuseum Twenthe plans to organise an exhibition on the Renaissance's Golden Age: from the 'Cinquecento' (ca. 1500 to 1530) to Mannerism (ca. 1530 to 1580). This exhibition will consist of around thirty...more |  July 2016 | ART Slow Food: Still Lives from the Dutch Golden Age, Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2017 The Mauritshuis is working on an exhibition on still lives with made tables from the Dutch Golden Age. The museum aims to give an idea of the origin and development of this sub-genre of still life...more |
July 2016 | ART The Eighth Turing Poetry Contest 2016-2017 The Turing Poetry Competition is the only Dutch-language poetry contest open to everyone and that is about a poem, not a poet. Previous editions were a resounding success. The submission period for the eighth edition...more |  July 2016 | ART Gardens of Wonder, NTR Dutch public-service broadcaster, 2016-2017 'Gardens of Wonder' is a project focused on presenting 'land art' or 'site-specific art'. It will involve filming a total of six sculpture gardens in various parts of the world, in which nature and (in many...more |
 July 2016 | ART String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam, 2018 The String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam Foundation is organising the first edition of the String Quartet Biennial Amsterdam (SQBA) in early 2018. The Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ will be entirely dedicated to the string quartet,...more |  July 2016 | EDUCATION Strengthening a vocational training project, Liberia, 2016 In 2016 the Turing Foundation approved a contribution towards ZOA's vocational training project, which will train 400 young people in Monrovia, Liberia. On our advice ZOA contacted Woord en Daad and they have...more |
July 2016 | EDUCATION Consolidating twenty Family Farm Schools, Cameroon, 2016 The French development organisation Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD) was established in 1988 with the aim of teaching people skills to further their own development and contribute to...more | July 2016 | EDUCATION Quality improvement and continuation vocational education, Cameroon, 2016 The Dutch foundation Babungo has been committed to improving health care and education in the Babungo valley in Cameroon for the last eight years. It provides, among other things, the annual school fees...more |
July 2016 | EDUCATION Sustainable livelihood for 150 unemployed youth in Bo City, Sierra Leone, 2016 Tools for Self Reliance is a British organisation whose purpose is to increase employment in Africa by providing young people with a training course and a starter kit of refurbished tools. The...more | July 2016 | NATURE Trees for the Sahel, Regreening North Burkina Faso 2016 Tiipaalga was founded in 2006 by the Swiss organisation newTree and is its local partner in Burkina Faso,. The organisation wants to green the Sahel and which requires interventions that are implemented in...more |
July 2016 | ART IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2016 The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's most important documentary festival. From the over 3,500 international documentaries that are published each year, 300 are selected...more |  July 2016 | LEPROSY Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2016-2017 The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in which 14 researchers from renowned research institutes all over the world work together,...more |
July 2016 | EDUCATION Vocational and entrepreneurial training, Monrovia, Liberia 2016 Y Care is the international arm of the youth organisation YMCA. This foundation has been working in Liberia for more than 30 years and helps young people start a business or find work. In partnership with YMCA...more | July 2016 | NATURE Mangrove Rehabilitation, Verde Island Passage, Philippines, 2016 For more than 25 years Conservation International has been doing valuable work protecting nature, and involving politicians, policy makers, business and society in these efforts. Conservation International...more |
 July 2016 | EDUCATION Speed schools for 250 Adolescents, Dosso en Tillabéri, Niger, 2016 The Stromme Foundation is an international development organisation focused on microfinance and education. They operate in 12 countries across the world, including Niger, where - together with the local...more | ||
April 2016 | |||
April 2016 | EDUCATION Vocational training for 250 young people, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2016 Christian Aid has been working in Sierra Leone for more than 20 years with a local team of 24 people and local organisations like the national NGO Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD). The...more | April 2016 | EDUCATION Self-sufficient Vocational Training Center for women, Parakou, Benin, 2016 The Belgian Hubi & Vinciane Foundation supports regional development in the city of Parakou (central Benin) and its environs with projects in healthcare, economic (agricultural) development and...more |
April 2016 | NATURE Greening the Green Wall Initiative, Burkina Faso, 2016 The focus of most of the work of the Netherlands Society for the Protection of Birds (VBN) is in the Netherlands and in countries along 'Dutch' migratory birds' routes, which includes Burkina Faso. Since 2005 VBN...more | April 2016 | NATURE Bringing back Bluefin tuna to the North Sea, the Netherlands, 2016 WNF-Nederland is part of the WWF, the world's largest and most well known nature conservation organisation, operating in over 100 countries. The North Sea is the largest nature area in the Netherlands, which...more |
April 2016 | NATURE Scaling up capabilities for Effective rehabilitation and conservation of mangroves, Philippines, 2016 The mangroves-in-the-philippines" target=_blank>Zoological Society of London (ZSL) connects science, nature conservation organisations and people on the ground in order to contribute as...more | April 2016 | NATURE Nature-friendly construction of wind farms, North Sea, the Netherlands, 2016 Stichting de Noordzee (North Sea Foundation, SDN) is committed to a healthy North Sea with sustainable fisheries, no pollution, clean energy and protected areas. The Dutch government pledged in its...more |
 April 2016 | ART Jean-Antoine Watteau, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2017 Teylers Museum is organising an exhibition on the work of the 18th-century French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). His style of painting, also known as 'fętes galantes', depicts people disporting themselves...more |  April 2016 | ART Hollandse Meesters uit de Hermitage, Hermitage Amsterdam, 2017-2018 From the autumn of 2017 the Hermitage Amsterdam is exhibiting a survey of the Dutch Masters collection from the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg. A total of 60 Dutch masters are coming to Amsterdam, most of...more |
 April 2016 | ART Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht, 2016 The Organisatie Oude Muziek ('Early Music Organisation') promotes knowledge about and love for early music. Its flagship production is the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht ('Early Music Festival Utrecht'), which is the biggest...more | April 2016 | NATURE Conserving the biodiversity of the Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau, 2016 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Their work in West Africa is focused,...more |
April 2016 | NATURE Asmat Coastal Wetland, Papua, Indonesië, 2016 Coastal Wetland Asmat, Papua, Indonesia, 2015-2018 WWF Netherlands is part of the WWF, the world's largest and most well-known nature conservation organisation, operating in over 100 countries from offices in 60...more |  April 2016 | LEPROSY Research into macro- and micro-epidemiology of leprosy 2016 The Leonard Wood Memorial Research Centre in Cebu, Philippines, is conducting research into the transmission patterns of leprosy. In many areas, the transfer of leprosy seems to continue despite years of...more |
 April 2016 | EDUCATION Teacher training and a community-led library, Bameli Village, Cameroon, 2016 The AgriDynamic Foundation is committed to improving school performance by training teachers and providing better teaching materials. After the good results of an earlier project supported by the Turing...more |  April 2016 | EDUCATION Teacher Training Rural Primary Education, Tambakha, Sierra Leone, 2016 Street Child is dedicated to make quality education available for the most vulnerable children in Sierra Leone, and so far they have reached 20,000 children in 30 locations throughout the country already....more |
April 2016 | LEPROSY Translation of Mycobacterium Leprae molecular viability assays (MVA) to the clinical setting and application of MVA to a chemoprophylaxis-of-contacts-model, 2016 The recently developed molecular viability test has proved to be able to quickly and accurately determine the viability of the leprosy bacterium in laboratory...more | ||
January 2016 | |||
 January 2016 | ART 'Jean Tinguely: Machine Spectacle', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2016-2017 The Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) was part of the Nouveau Réalisme artistic movement and is best known for his kinetic art works. The Stedelijk Museum is organising a major retrospective of...more | January 2016 | EDUCATION 'Good schools, safe schools', Walungu, D.R. Congo, 2016 War Child aims to make a positive and lasting change to the lives of children and young people in conflict zones by promoting education, amongst others. In Walungu, in the east of DR Congo, War Child provides 3000...more |
 January 2016 | ART 'Rembrandt's Naked Truth', Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 2016 The Rembrandt House Museum is organising an exhibition on drawing nude models in Rembrandt van Rijn's time. Fifty works by Rembrandt, his predecessors, pupils and contemporaries are being showcased to illustrate...more |  January 2016 | NATURE Energy Exchange Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam and Hermitage Amsterdam, 2016-2018 The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is building a connection with the Hermitage Amsterdam's thermal energy storage system. The heat generated in the summer by the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the...more |
 January 2016 | ART Holland Festival, 2016 For 68 years Holland Festival has been presenting a diverse range of world class performances and concerts. The Turing Foundation is supporting the Holland Festival 2016 with a contribution of...more |  January 2016 | ART Festival Classique, Den Haag, 2016 Festival Classique is an annual music festival in The Hague that presents classical music in an accessible way to a new and wide audience. Its annual highlight until 2015 was the Hofvijver concert. The tenth edition of...more |
 January 2016 | ART International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, 2016 The top violinist Janine Jansen has been the leading light and standard bearer of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht (IKFU) since 2003. This five-day annual chamber music festival has a total of nearly...more | January 2016 | LEPROSY ENLIST Randomised controlled trials of methotrexate in Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, 2016 Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL) is a serious and very painful leprosy complication. It is often chronic and causes serious morbidity, not only affecting the skin but also bones, joints, eyes,...more |
January 2016 | LEPROSY Identification of leprosy associated immune signatures that aid as early signals for determination of type I and type II reactions in leprosy, Karigiri, India, 2016 Early recognition and treatment of leprosy reactions helps prevent nerve damage and disfigurement. The Schieffelin Institute of Health (SIHR) is developing a...more | January 2016 | LEPROSY Comparative sequencing analysis of genes associated with susceptibility to leprosy and its reactive states, 2016 Developing leprosy is highly dependent on the host's genetic risk factors. Molecular studies have been conducted to determine the genetic characteristics of leprosy patients. A number...more |
January 2016 | LEPROSY Biomarkers for early detection of leprosy using comparative transcriptomics, 2016 Leprosy is usually only diagnosed at a late stage. Diagnosis is based mainly on the presence of clinical symptoms (loss of sensation from nerve damage) and detection of the bacterium in a skin scrape...more | January 2016 | LEPROSY INDIGO, field evaluation of novel immunodiagnostic tools for early detection of leprosy in a BCG vaccination field trial amongst contacts of leprosy patients, 2016 The IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) is developing a new generation of tests to detect leprosy infections at...more |
January 2016 | LEPROSY IDRI: Integration of rapid diagnostic tests to facilitate earlier diagnosis and simplified case management of Leprosy, 2016 The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) does research into improving the early diagnosis of leprosy patients in Cebu City in the Philippines. An easily usable test was...more | January 2016 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2015 For many years the Turing Foundation has co-financed projects to combat leprosy with the Netherlands Leprosy Relief. In 2015 alone, the Turing Foundation contributed over €463.751 to projects...more |
January 2016 | EDUCATION 'Active learning and teaching' at twelve primary schools and three teacher training colleges, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2016 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation dedicated to education. The organisation has developed a training programme to teach teachers to give lessons in an active way, which...more | January 2016 | EDUCATION Education programme, Tahoua district, Niger, 2016 Concern International is a humanitarian organisation with international offices in Ireland, Great Britain and the US and local teams in the twenty-five countries where it operates. Concern has been working in Niger...more |
 January 2016 | ART Purchase of 'Talmudic Anatomy' by Meijer de Haan, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2016 The Jewish Historical Museum has been given the opportunity to acquire the painting 'Talmudic Anatomy' (1880) by Meijer de Haan. Popularly known as 'Is the chicken kosher?' this is an allegorical...more | ||
October 2015 | |||
 October 2015 | ART Main supporter Alma-Tadema Exhibition, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 2016-2017 The Fourth Turing Award I was awarded to the Fries Museum on 21 May 2015. In the run-up to Leeuwarden's year as the European Capital of Culture, the Fries Museum is organising an exhibition on Lourens -...more |  October 2015 | ART Main supporter Caesar van Everdingen, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, 2016-2017 The Fourth Turing Award II was presented to the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar on 21 May 2015 to enable the exhibition 'Flattering Brush. Caesar van Everdingen (1616-1678)'. On the occasion of the 400th...more |
October 2015 | EDUCATION Improving educational quality for young apprentices, Haho district, Togo, 2015 PlanBŘRNEfonden (BF) has many years of experience in getting more young people into work in West Africa. BF aims to increase 150 apprentices' job opportunities in Togo by improving the learning...more | October 2015 | EDUCATION Vocational & literacy training for 400 urban youth, Monrovia, Liberia, 2015 ZOA has been working in Liberia since 2003 to increase the local population's self-reliance in education, water and sanitation and food security. ZOA and its partner organisation SHIFSD are using this...more |
October 2015 | NATURE Regreening projects, Mopti to Segou, Mali, 2015 Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas in Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. Together with local conservation organisations, such as the Malian Association for the Conservation...more |  October 2015 | ART Nineveh, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, 2017-2018 In the first millennium BC Nineveh was the world's largest city and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian Empire and Nineveh collapsed in 612 BC. As a result of excavations in the 19th century...more |
 October 2015 | ART Buddha, Tropenmuseum Amsterdam en Museum Volkenkunde Leiden, 2016-2017 The National Museum of World Cultures is organising an exhibition on the phenomenon of the Buddha in 2016. A total of 200 top works from the Netherlands and abroad will demonstrate why the Buddha has...more |  October 2015 | ART Hercules Segers, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2016-2017 In 2016 the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is organising an exhibition on Hercules Segers (1589/90 - 1633/38), one of the most intriguing artists of the Dutch Golden Age. His work is distinguished by its individualistic and...more |
October 2015 | ART Myth unravelled: Master of Elsloo, Bonnefantenmuseum, 2019 In the 16th century the so-called 'Master of Elsloo' worked in the Euroregion of Dutch and Belgian Limburg and the adjacent German region. This was a collective name for a group of highly skilled carvers. The...more | October 2015 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for rural communities, River Cess, Liberia, 2015 Children in Crisis is an English NGO that sets up educational projects in conflict affected countries like D.R. Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. With partner organization FAWE, Children in Crisis offers...more |
October 2015 | EDUCATION Girl-friendly school EAF, Guinée, 2015 The French education organisation Aide et Action is a major international player aiming to improve access to and quality of education in Guinea. It is improving education for 5,000 students at twenty schools in four rural...more | October 2015 | EDUCATION Technical vocational training in Leo and Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 2015 Woord and Daad has been working in Burkina Faso with the local development organisation CREDO for many years. Turing has previously supported their projects, and they have had good results. CREDO...more |
October 2015 | EDUCATION Enhancing Quality Education in three rural primary schools, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2015 ActionAid is an international development organisation that aims to improve access to and quality of education because it believes this as a fundamental human right. It operates in 45 countries,...more | October 2015 | EDUCATION Accelerated primary education, Fizi district, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2015 ZOA supports people who suffer because of armed conflict or natural disasters, in helping them to rebuild their livelihoods, like in east D.R. Congo. In the Fizi District of D.R. Congo, ZOA enables 960...more |
 October 2015 | EDUCATION Improvement of educational quality at 8 schools, Kalehe, Kabare en Walungu, D.R. Congo, 2015 War Child is devoted to giving children who have experienced war a peaceful future. War Child wants 3,000 children aged between 11-14 years old in the conflict-ridden district of East Kivu to...more |  October 2015 | EDUCATION Access to quality education in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone, 2015 In Sierra Leone, the number of children receiving an education is extremely low, and especially girls are often not going to school at all. This research project set up by Plan Nederland will allow 1,500...more |
October 2015 | ART The Seventh Turing Poetry Contest 2015-2016 The Turing Poetry Contest is the only poetry competition that's open to everyone, and isn't about a poet, but a poem. Previous editions have been a major success. Poems for the sixth edition can be entered up to and...more | ||
June 2015 | |||
June 2015 | EDUCATION Vocational and entrepreneurial training, Monrovia, Liberia 2015 Y Care is the international arm of the youth organisation YMCA. This foundation has been working in Liberia for more than 30 years and helps young people start a business or find work. In partnership with YMCA...more |  June 2015 | NATURE Trees for the Sahel, Regreening North Burkina Faso 2015 Tiipaalga was founded in 2006 by the Swiss organisation newTree and is its local partner in Burkina Faso,. The organisation wants to green the Sahel and which requires interventions that are implemented in...more |
June 2015 | ART IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2015 The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's most important documentary festival. From the over 3,500 international documentaries that are published each year, 300 are selected...more |  June 2015 | ART 'Barbara Hepworth. Sculpture for a Modern World', Kröller-Müller Museum, 2015-2016 The Kröller-Müller Museum is organising a Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) retrospective, 50 years after the last exhibition of her work in the Netherlands. The exhibition's emphasis is on the prominent...more |
 June 2015 | ART Doe Maar, Dicht Maar, 2015-2016 Doe Maar Dicht Maar is the largest poetry contest for secondary-school students aged 12-16 in the Netherlands. The contest is open to all secondary schools and comes with an education package. This September will see the...more |  June 2015 | ART Turing Museum Bus - Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2015 The Turing Museum Square bus transported 60,000 schoolchildren since 2012 to the three major museums in the Museum quarter (the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum and the Van Gogh Museum). The Turing...more |
June 2015 | EDUCATION Speed schools for 250 Adolescents, Dosso en Tillabéri, Niger, 2015 The Stromme Foundation is an international development organisation focused on microfinance and education. They operate in 12 countries across the world, including Niger, where - together with the local...more |  June 2015 | ART Munch / Van Gogh expositie, Van Gogh Museum, 2015-2016 The artists Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944) are both renowned for their emotionally charged paintings and drawings, their innovative styles, and their troubled lives. Both wanted to...more |
 June 2015 | LEPROSY Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2015 The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in which 14 researchers from renowned research institutes all over the world work together, combining...more | June 2015 | NATURE Mangrove Rehabilitation, Verde Island Passage, Philippines, 2015 For more than 25 years Conservation International has been doing valuable work protecting nature, and involving politicians, policy makers, business and society in these efforts. Conservation International...more |
 June 2015 | EDUCATION Schoolbook project for primary schools, Cameroon, 2015 Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon in setting up a proper book collection as well as a teacher training for the effective use of books in education. A book fund is also being...more | ||
March 2015 | |||
 March 2015 | ART Acquisition of Jan Asselijn 'The breach of the St. Anthony's Dike', Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2015 Painter Jan Asselijn was an eyewitness of the breach of the St. Anthony's Dike in Amsterdam in 1651. He captured the news in a single image, like a photo journalist would do nowadays; accurate...more |  March 2015 | NATURE Conserving the biodiversity of the Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau, 2015 Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands, their resources and biodiversity. Their work in West Africa is focused,...more |
March 2015 | NATURE Asmat Coastal Wetland, Papua, Indonesië, 2015 Coastal Wetland Asmat, Papua, Indonesia, 2015-2018 WWF Netherlands is part of the WWF, the world's largest and most well-known nature conservation organisation, operating in over 100 countries from offices in 60...more |  March 2015 | ART Restoration of 'Jardin d'émail', Kröller-Müller Museum, 2015-2016 The artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) designed a special object for the Kröller-Müller Museum's garden in 1974: the Jardin d'émail. This artificial (glacial) garden - a grand 20 by 30 metres in size - is a...more |
 March 2015 | ART Poetry Calendar 2016 Since 2013, publishing house Van Oorschot and Poetry International have been issuing the Poetry Calendar. The block calendar has one poem a day, and offers QR links to the poetry archive. The 2015 Poetry Calendar will touch on...more | March 2015 | EDUCATION Teacher training and a community-led library, Bameli Village, Cameroon, 2015 The AgriDynamic Foundation is committed to improving school performance by training teachers and providing better teaching materials. After the good results of an earlier project supported by the Turing...more |
 March 2015 | EDUCATION Accelerated educational programme for 900 children in Ménaka district, Mali, 2015-2016 Netherlands Refugee Foundation (Stichting Vluchteling) gives refugees emergency aid, supports repatriation and helps with reconstruction, including in the field of education. Unrest in Ménaka in...more |  March 2015 | EDUCATION Making two teacher training schools self-sufficient in Parakou, Benin, 2015-2016 The Hubi & Vinciane Foundation supports regional development around the city of Parakou (central Benin) through projects in health, economic (agricultural) development and education. Since its...more |
March 2015 | LEPROSY Translation of Mycobacterium Leprae molecular viability assays (MVA) to the clinical setting and application of MVA to a chemoprophylaxis-of-contacts-model, 2015 The recently developed molecular viability test has proved to be able to quickly and accurately determine the viability of the leprosy bacterium in laboratory...more |  March 2015 | ART Opening Concert Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht, 2015 The Organisatie Oude Muziek ('Early Music Organisation') aims to promote knowledge about and love for early music. Its flagship production is the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, which is the biggest early music...more |
 March 2015 | ART 'The Oasis of Matisse', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2015 Henri Matisse (1868-1954) was one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century, and one of the founders of modern art. Matisse was confined to a wheelchair for the final years of his...more | March 2015 | LEPROSY Research into macro- and micro-epidemiology of leprosy 2015 The Leonard Wood Memorial Research Centre in Cebu, Philippines, is conducting research into the transmission patterns of leprosy. In many areas, the transfer of leprosy seems to continue despite years of...more |
 March 2015 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy, 2ndphase, 2015 The leprosy bacterium (M.leprae) knows a high affinity for Schwann cells, which are cells that create a protective layer around peripheral nerves. A team of the Leiden University Medical Centre is researching...more | March 2015 | EDUCATION Teacher Training Rural Primary Education, Tambakha, Sierra Leone, 2015 Street Child is dedicated to make quality education available for the most vulnerable children in Sierra Leone, and so far they have reached 20,000 children in 30 locations throughout the country already....more |
 March 2015 | ART Poetry anthologies, 2015 Over a four-year period, publisher Van Oorschot will be publishing twelve beautiful, hardcover anthologies. These anthologies include the best poems of excellent poets (whose fame is unfortunately waning), recommended by...more | ||
January 2015 | |||
 January 2015 | NATURE Bringing back Bluefin tuna to the North Sea, the Netherlands, 2015 WNF-Nederland is part of the WWF, the world's largest and most well known nature conservation organisation, operating in over 100 countries. The North Sea is the largest nature area in the Netherlands, which...more | January 2015 | NATURE Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger, 2015-2016 BothEnds and CRESA have been working together since 2010 to encourage farmers to grow trees and plants on their land. 'Farmer Managed Natural Regreening' is a cost effective method, and the initiative has...more |
January 2015 | LEPROSY IDEAL, field evaluation of novel immunodiagnostic tools for early detection of leprosy in a BCG vaccination field trial amongst contacts of leprosy patients, 2015 The IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) is developing a new generation of tests to detect leprosy infections at...more | January 2015 | LEPROSY IDRI: Integration of rapid diagnostic tests to facilitate earlier diagnosis and simplified case management of Leprosy, 2015 The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) does research into improving the early diagnosis of leprosy patients in Cebu City in the Philippines. An easily usable test was...more |
January 2015 | EDUCATION 'Active learning and teaching' at twelve primary schools and three teacher training colleges, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2015 Edukans is a Dutch development organisation dedicated to education. The organisation has developed a training programme to teach teachers to give lessons in an active way, which...more |  January 2015 | ART William Turner exhibition, Museum de Fundatie and Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2015-2016 Museum de Fundatie and Rijksmuseum Twenthe are organising a double exhibition on William Turner (1775 - 1851), the most important English Romantic painter. Turner is renowned as a painter who was far...more |
 January 2015 | ART As Big As The Sky, Holland Festival, 2015 The Holland Festival (founded in 1947) is the oldest and largest international performing arts festival in the Netherlands. Every year the festival presents a diverse range of world class performances and concerts....more | January 2015 | ART Pieter Roelf Youth Concerts, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, 2015 The North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NNO) was founded in 1862 in Groningen, making it the oldest professional symphony orchestra in the Netherlands. Every year since 1999 the NNO has organised the...more |
 January 2015 | ART International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, 2015 The top violinist Janine Jansen has been the leading light and standard bearer of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht (IKFU) since 2003. This five-day annual chamber music festival has a total of nearly...more |  January 2015 | LEPROSY Research into how mycobacteria lyse the phagosomal membrane 2015 The Tumor Biology Department of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) conducts fundamental research into the BCG vaccine. The vaccine is used to prevent tuberculosis, but also contributes to prevention of...more |
 January 2015 | EDUCATION Education programme, Tahoua district, Niger, 2015 Concern International is a humanitarian organisation with international offices in Ireland, Great Britain and the US and local teams in the twenty-five countries where it operates. Concern has been working in Niger...more |  January 2015 | NATURE Development of Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, Mozambique, 2015 The Peace Parks Foundation protects nature in the border regions of Southern Africa. There are currently 10 Peace Parks. The Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve was set up with the help of the Turing...more |
January 2015 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2014 For many years the Turing Foundation has co-financed projects to combat leprosy with the Netherlands Leprosy Relief. In 2014 alone, the Turing Foundation contributed over €350,000 to projects...more |  January 2015 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 10,000 school children, Thika, Kenya, 2015 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more |
 January 2015 | NATURE 'Solutions project': identifying sustainable alternatives for land use, D.R. Congo, 2015 Greenpeace is an international campaigning organisation dedicated to protecting nature through research, consultation and - if all else fails - action. Greenpeace wants to stop the deforestation...more | ||
October 2014 | |||
October 2014 | EDUCATION Accelerated primary education, Fizi district, South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2014 ZOA supports people who suffer because of armed conflict or natural disasters, in helping them to rebuild their livelihoods, like in east D.R. Congo. In the Fizi District of D.R. Congo, ZOA enables 960...more | October 2014 | LEPROSY Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2014 The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in which 14 researchers from renowned research institutes all over the world work together, combining...more |
October 2014 | EDUCATION Enhancing Quality Education in three rural primary schools, Kono district, Sierra Leone, 2014 ActionAid is an international development organisation that aims to improve access to and quality of education because it believes this as a fundamental human right. It operates in 45 countries,...more | October 2014 | EDUCATION Technical vocational training in Leo and Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 2014 Woord and Daad has been working in Burkina Faso with the local development organisation CREDO for many years. Turing has previously supported their projects, and they have had good results. CREDO...more |
 October 2014 | ART Festival Classique, Den Haag, 2015 Festival Classique is an annual music festival at the Hofvijver pond in The Hague, which successfully reaches a wide audience by presenting classical music in an accessible way. About half of Festival Classique concerts are...more |  October 2014 | ART IDFA 2014: The Female Gaze, Amsterdam, 2014 Since the first edition in 1988, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has developed into the most important documentary film festival in the world. From the over 3,500 international documentaries...more |
October 2014 | EDUCATION Girl-friendly school EAF, Guinée, 2014 The French education organisation Aide et Action is a major international player aiming to improve access to and quality of education in Guinea. It is improving education for 5,000 students at twenty schools in four rural...more |  October 2014 | ART Mark Rothko, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, 2014-2015 In autumn of 2014, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag will be organising an exhibition about abstract artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970). It will be the first retrospective of the influential artist in the Netherlands in forty...more |
 October 2014 | ART Poetry anthology Rutger Kopland, 2014 Over a four-year period, publisher Van Oorschot will be publishing twelve beautiful, hardcover anthologies. These anthologies include the best poems of excellent poets (whose fame is unfortunately waning), recommended by...more | October 2014 | EDUCATION Improvement of educational quality at 8 schools, Kalehe, Kabare en Walungu, D.R. Congo, 2014 War Child is devoted to giving children who have experienced war a peaceful future. War Child wants 3,000 children aged between 11-14 years old in the conflict-ridden district of East Kivu to...more |
 October 2014 | EDUCATION Access to quality education in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone, 2014 In Sierra Leone, the number of children receiving an education is extremely low, and especially girls are often not going to school at all. This research project set up by Plan Nederland will allow 1,500...more | October 2014 | ART Munch / Van Gogh expositie, Van Gogh Museum, 2014 The artists Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944) are both renowned for their emotionally charged paintings and drawings, their innovative styles, and their troubled lives. Both wanted to...more |
October 2014 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for rural communities, River Cess, Liberia, 2014 Children in Crisis is an English NGO that sets up educational projects in conflict affected countries like D.R. Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. With partner organization FAWE, Children in Crisis offers...more |  October 2014 | EDUCATION Construction of a technical school in Kambila, Mali, 2013-2014 The Mali Foundation, in association with its local partner Solisa, will set up a basic technical school to provide some prospect beside primary education in an area where there is no secondary education...more |
 October 2014 | NATURE Sustainable conservation and food security for 20 villages, Région Maritime, Togo, 2014 In 20 villages in the very poor southeast of Togo, 4.000 farmers are trained in organic farming and...more | ||
July 2014 | |||
July 2014 | ART 'The Oasis of Matisse', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2015 Henri Matisse (1868-1954) was one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century, and one of the founders of modern art. Matisse was confined to a wheelchair for the final years of his...more | July 2014 | NATURE Mangrove Rehabilitation, Verde Island Passage, Philippines, 2014 For more than 25 years Conservation International has been doing valuable work protecting nature, and involving politicians, policy makers, business and society in these efforts. Conservation International...more |
 July 2014 | NATURE Effective restoration of mangroves, Philippines, 2014-2015 In addition to two major zoos, the mangroves-in-the-philippines" target=_blank>Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has a renowned science and conservation department. There has been increased interest in...more | July 2014 | EDUCATION Speed schools for 250 Adolescents, Dosso en Tillabéri, Niger, 2014 The Stromme Foundation is an international development organisation focused on microfinance and education. They operate in 12 countries across the world, including Niger, where - together with the local...more |
July 2014 | ART Turing Museum Bus - Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2014 The Turing Museum Square bus transported 33,000 schoolchildren since 2012 from the suburbs around Amsterdam to the three major museums in the Museum quarter (the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum and...more | July 2014 | ART The Fourth Turing Art Award, 2015 One of the goals of the Turing Foundation is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums. Reason for the foundation to launch the Turing Grant: two donations of € 500,000 and € 150,000...more |
 July 2014 | ART The Sixth Turing Poetry Contest 2014-2015 The Turing Poetry Contest is the only poetry competition that's open to everyone, and isn't about a poet, but a poem. Previous editions have been a major success. Poems for the sixth edition can be entered up to and...more |  July 2014 | NATURE Organic and fair trade cocoa production, Akebou, Togo, 2014-2015 This project from Progreso, the Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Instituut and AVSF wants to stimulate organic cocoa production and improve the lives of cocoa farmers in the Akebou district in Southwest Togo. In the pilot...more |
 July 2014 | EDUCATION Vocational training for women in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2014-2015 Sympany (formerly known as "Humana") is one of the largest clothing collectors of the Netherlands. Using the proceeds from the clothing sales, the organisation finances projects in (southern) Africa. This...more | July 2014 | ART Doe Maar, Dicht Maar, 2014 Doe Maar Dicht Maar is the largest poetry contest for secondary-school students aged 12-16 in the Netherlands. The contest is open to all secondary schools and comes with an education package. This September will see the start...more |
 July 2014 | EDUCATION Vocational education, Benin, 2014-2015 In Benin, Woord & Daad is working with local organisation DEDRAS. DEDRAS wants to offer youths vocational education tailored to the current labour market. Each year, DEDRAS wants to train 385 youths in the fields of...more | July 2014 | EDUCATION Schoolbook project for primary schools, Cameroon, 2014 Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon in setting up a proper book collection as well as a teacher training for the effective use of books in education. A book fund is also being...more |
April 2014 | |||
April 2014 | EDUCATION Teacher Training Rural Primary Education, Tambakha, Sierra Leone, 2014 Street Child is dedicated to make quality education available for the most vulnerable children in Sierra Leone, and so far they have reached 20,000 children in 30 locations throughout the country already....more |  April 2014 | ART Coup Fatal, Holland Festival, 2014 Every year, the Holland Festival manages to put together an internationally renowned, innovative and talked about festival, mixing performing arts, big names, and daring experiments. The 2014 musical programme (June 1-28)...more |
April 2014 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy, 2ndphase, 2014 The leprosy bacterium (M.leprae) knows a high affinity for Schwann cells, which are cells that create a protective layer around peripheral nerves. A team of the Leiden University Medical Centre is researching...more |  April 2014 | ART Poetry Calendar 2015 Since 2013, publishing house Van Oorschot and Poetry International have been issuing the Poetry Calendar. The block calendar has one poem a day, and offers QR links to the poetry archive. The 2015 Poetry Calendar will touch on...more |
 April 2014 | ART 'Geisha', National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, 2014-2015 The national Museum of Ethnology - owner of the largest collection of nineteenth-century Japanese art outside of Japan - is organising an exhibition on the number-one Japanese icon: the geisha. Her white face,...more |  April 2014 | NATURE Sustainable Management and Recovery Sahel Ecosystem, Burkina Faso, 2014-2015 Tiipaalga in Burkina Faso was founded in 2006 and is the local counterpart of the Swiss foundation newTree. The organisation wants to create a green Sahel by improving the fertility of the soil,...more |
 April 2014 | EDUCATION Vocational training for girls, Kimpoko-Nsele Commune, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2014-2015 Christian Aid and the local NGO Fraternité Pčre Maurice D'Hoore are setting up a training centre in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, so every year 150 underprivileged girls can attend a vocational training...more |  April 2014 | EDUCATION Revolving library and teacher training, Bamessing, Kameroen, 2014-2015 To help improve school results, the AgriDynamic Foundation arranges better teaching materials and facilities in Cameroon. After a successful pilot at a primary school in Bamessing, AgriDynamic has decided...more |
 April 2014 | EDUCATION Material for female vocational school, Bandiagara, Mali, 2014-2015 Tools to Work revises quality goods in the Netherlands and passes on its knowledge so local communities can revise and maintain them themselves. In doing so, they provide tools and machines (computers,...more |  April 2014 | EDUCATION Construction of Primary School, Fanta, Benin, 2014-2015 The Le Pont Foundation is active in Benin and sets up projects concerning education, healthcare, water and sanitation. Every year, Le Pont builds a school with help of the local community, who is responsible for...more |
 April 2014 | ART Jackson Pollock's 'Ocean Greyness' (1953) loan, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, 2014 From April 4, 2014, the CoBrA Museum in Amstelveen will be exhibiting some fifty works that were part of the opening exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City back in 1959. The exhibition is...more |  April 2014 | ART Wolfgang's Wonderous Worldtrip - school concerts, South-Holland, 2014-2015 SEOP (a foundation for educational orchestra projects) and RBO Symfonia are producing children's concerts about classical composers, and show them in small municipalities in South-Holland. In September...more |
 April 2014 | ART Poetry anthology Hans Lodeizen, 2014 Over a four-year period, publisher Van Oorschot will be publishing twelve beautiful, hardcover anthologies. These anthologies include the best poems of excellent poets (whose fame is unfortunately waning), recommended by...more |  April 2014 | ART International Saxophone Festival SAX, Amsterdam, 2014 In light of the 200th anniversary of its inventor Adolphe Sax, the Adolphe Sax Revisited Foundation is organising the first edition of the International Saxophone Festival: SAX 2014, held from 20-23 November. The...more |
 April 2014 | OTHER Nature Education, Ecomare Summer Camps, Texel, 2014-2016 Texel-based Ecomare is a nature museum, seal shelter, sea aquarium, dune park, and bird sanctuary. Led by expert staff, the summer camps are a unique way for children to get acquainted with nature. The Turing...more | April 2014 | LEPROSY Research into how mycobacteria lyse the phagosomal membrane 2014 The Tumor Biology Department of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) conducts fundamental research into the BCG vaccine. The vaccine is used to prevent tuberculosis, but also contributes to prevention of...more |
 April 2014 | EDUCATION Vocational training for 100 youths, Cameroon, 2014 Free a Girl (formerly "Stop Child Abuse") and its local partner ASSEJA offer vocational education to 100 underprivileged youths every year. The training consists of 3 months of theory combined with a 6-month to...more | ||
January 2014 | |||
January 2014 | NATURE Development of Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, Mozambique, 2014 The Peace Parks Foundation protects nature in the border regions of Southern Africa. There are currently 10 Peace Parks. The Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve was set up with the help of the Turing...more | January 2014 | LEPROSY IDEAL, early detection of leprosy: sample collection for biobanking and analysis of immune- and genetic host markers, 2014 The IDEAL Consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) is developing a new generation of tests to diagnose leprosy in an early stage. Since 2013,...more |
January 2014 | LEPROSY Research into macro- and micro-epidemiology of leprosy 2014 The Leonard Wood Memorial Research Centre in Cebu, Philippines, is conducting research into the transmission patterns of leprosy. In many areas, the transfer of leprosy seems to continue despite years of...more |  January 2014 | ART Christina Pluhar l'Arpeggiata concert, Early Music Festival, Utrecht, 2014 The Organisation Early Music (OOM) is a national and international authority on the latest developments in old music. The core activity of the organisation is the Early Music Festival: a ten-day festival...more |
 January 2014 | ART Dutch Youth String Orchestra NJSO 2014 The Dutch Youth String Orchestra (NJSO) the number-one string orchestra for talent aged 12-21. The orchestra combines the education of the young professionals with high-quality concerts. Apart from their regular concerts,...more |  January 2014 | ART Main supporter 'Brancusi,Rosso en Man Ray', Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, 2014 One of Turing Foundation's goals is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums. To that end, the Turing Foundation introduced the Turing Grant in December 2008, which is a...more |
January 2014 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 10,000 school children, Thika, Kenya, 2014 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more |  January 2014 | ART Museum Bus The Hague, 2014 Since 2009, SGPHM has been transporting 25,000 primary school children to and from 19 museums and cultural heritage institutions in The Hague every year. At the museums the pupils take classes from The Culture Menu that tie in...more |
 January 2014 | EDUCATION Education for 900 vulnerable girls in Paynesville, Monrovia en Kakata, Liberia, 2014-2015 Liberia is one of the focus countries of Save the Children. After years of emergency relief, the foundation is now working on structural education and health programs. For this project, Save the...more |  January 2014 | EDUCATION Job placement programs for underprivileged women, Lomé, Togo, 2014 The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports small-scale projects initiated by the local community in developing countries. There's a network of advisors on the spot to inform on the feasibility of the projects...more |
 January 2014 | ART Main Patron of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Community Concerts, 2014 'If the people don't visit the orchestra, the orchestra will visit the people.' That's the idea behind this extensive events program of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. In an attempt to make...more |  January 2014 | EDUCATION Technical vocational trainings, Lomé, Togo, 2014 The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports small-scale projects that have been initiated by the local community in developing countries. There's a network of advisors on the spot to inform on the feasibility of the...more |
January 2014 | ART Turing Museum Bus - Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2014 For school and schoolteachers, free, comfortable and safe transport is the key factor in their decision to take their pupils to visit museums. For the Turing Foundation, this was reason for the...more | ||
October 2013 | |||
October 2013 | ART Mark Rothko exhibition, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, 2014-2015 In autumn of 2014, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag will be organising an exhibition about abstract artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970). It will be the first retrospective of the influential artist in the Netherlands in...more | October 2013 | ART Munch / Van Gogh expositie, Van Gogh Museum, 2015-2016 The artists Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944) are both renowned for their emotionally charged paintings and drawings, their innovative styles, and their troubled lives. Both wanted to...more |
 October 2013 | ART The Fifth Turing Poetry Contest 2013-2014 Turing's National Poetry Contest is the only poetry competition that's open to everyone and is not about the poet, but about the poem. The first two editions have been a resounding success. Poems for the third edition...more |  October 2013 | ART The Poems Ball - Poetry Week closing ceremony 2014 The second edition of Poetry Week will run from January 30 to February 5, 2014. The event is a combination of the well-known events Poems Day, the VSB Poetry Prize, and the Turing Poetry Contest. The Poems Ball is...more |
 October 2013 | ART Dutch Harp Festival 2014 The Dutch Harp Festival was founded by the talented harpist Remy van Kesteren (1989) in 2010. The biannual festival wants to showcase the versatility of the harp as well as introduce it to a wider and new audience. The festival...more | October 2013 | EDUCATION Vocational Training for rural communities, River Cess, Liberia, 2013 Children in Crisis is an English NGO that sets up educational projects in conflict affected countries like D.R. Congo, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. With partner organization FAWE, Children in Crisis offers...more |
 October 2013 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2013 The Turing Foundation has been co-funding leprosy research projects with the Netherlands Leprosy Relief for many years. Just this year, the Turing Foundation contributed about € 450.000 to...more |  October 2013 | EDUCATION Speed schools and teacher training, Burkina Faso, 2013-2014 Woord en Daad and partner organization CREDO have established dozens of so-called speed schools in Burkina Faso. These schools offer children aged 9-12 who haven't enjoyed any education an opportunity to catch...more |
 October 2013 | EDUCATION Vocational training for supervisors after-school activities, Tillaberi, Niger, 2013 Oxfam Novib is an international organization that has made Niger one of their focus countries, because it's receiving relatively little developing aid. With the help of local partner MCE, Oxfam Novib...more |  October 2013 | NATURE Reforestation and sustainable management of ecosystems in the Kwilu district, D.R. Congo, 2013 Congodorpen (formerly known as CDI Bwamanda) is a Belgian NGO dedicated to education and sustainable agriculture in D.R. Congo. To lift the ecological pressure from the Kwilu district, restore...more |
 October 2013 | EDUCATION Development of school in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2013-2014 The Dutch Tosangana Foundation was founded by and for Congolese women. In collaboration with local organisations Anomes and Les Millénaires they want to improve the level of education in Kinshasa. Currently they...more |  October 2013 | EDUCATION Expansion of the secondary school, Gaongho, Burkina Faso, 2013 Zeewolde Werelddorp is dedicated to improve the lives of people from Gaongho in Burkina Faso, a municipality Zeewolde has a friendly relationship with. In collaboration with the developmental organization...more |
 October 2013 | EDUCATION Improvement of primary and vocational education, Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo, 2013 Congodorpen wants to contribute to recovering and setting up education in the north of the Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo. During a previous three-year phase of the project, the quality of...more | October 2013 | NATURE Sustainable conservation and food security for 20 villages, Région Maritime, Togo 2013 In 20 villages in the very poor southeast of Togo, 4.000 farmers are trained in organic farming and...more |
 October 2013 | NATURE Reforestation, Burkina Faso, 2013 The Burkina Faso desert is swiftly advancing. And due to logging for home use, the country loses 80,000 acres of forest every year. ChildFund and the local IDEES/ACG offers trainings for sustainable land use and...more | ||
July 2013 | |||
July 2013 | ART Doe Maar, Dicht Maar, 2013 Doe Maar Dicht Maar is the largest poetry contest for secondary-school students aged 12-16 in the Netherlands. The contest is open to all secondary schools and comes with an education package. This September will see the start...more | July 2013 | NATURE Organic and fair trade cocoa production, Togo, 2013 This project from Progreso, the Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Instituut and AVSF wants to stimulate organic cocoa production and improve the lives of cocoa farmers in the Akebou district in Southwest Togo. In the pilot phase...more |
July 2013 | EDUCATION Improvement of educational quality at 8 schools, East Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2013 War Child is devoted to giving children who have experienced war a peaceful future. War Child wants 3,000 children aged between 11-14 years old in the conflict-ridden district of East Kivu to pass their...more |  July 2013 | EDUCATION Teacher training and school expansion, Toungana, Burkina Faso, 2013 The Association for Small African Projects (ASAP) focuses on the improvement of the well-being of inhabitants of 9 poor villages in Western Burkina Faso. In 2011, teachers from the villages and their...more |
 July 2013 | ART St Matthew Passion: an adaptation for children, Frank Groothof, 2013-2014 The Turing Foundation has been a proud partner of Stichting de Vrije Val for already five years. For his lastest production, Frank Groothof wants to develop the first-ever children's version of the St...more |  July 2013 | EDUCATION Completing 2 classrooms CEG High School, Sazué, Benin, 2013 The Le Pont Foundation is focused on the improvement of the overall living conditions in Benin. The foundation sets up water and hygiene, education, and healthcare projects. The Turing Foundation has already...more |
July 2013 | EDUCATION Vocational education, Benin, 2013 In Benin, Woord & Daad is working with local organisation DEDRAS. DEDRAS wants to offer youths vocational education tailored to the current labour market. Each year, DEDRAS wants to train at least 385 youths in the fields of...more | July 2013 | EDUCATION Vocational training for women in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2013 Humana is one of the largest clothing collectors of the Netherlands. Using the proceeds from the clothing sales, the organisation finances projects in (southern) Africa. This specific project is aimed at women...more |
 July 2013 | EDUCATION School furniture for 16 schools in Lubero, D.R. Congo, 2013 In the Lubero region in North Kivu, D.R. Congo, Save the Children is carrying out a five-year programme focused on creating better access to safe and high-quality education. Activities include the foundation of...more |  July 2013 | NATURE Sustainable development of Mangrove areas, Aguégués Commune, Benin, 2013 Care International is an international aid agency. This project wants to enable structural coastal management by protecting and replanting mangroves in the Vallée du Couffo and Vallée de l'Ouémé in Benin,...more |
 July 2013 | ART Free transport to Boijmans van Beuningen and Chabot museums, 2013-2014 A special 'Turing Car' will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge...more |  July 2013 | ART Main patron Dutch Youth String Orchestra NJSO 2013 The NJSO has 24 musicians. All of them are between the ages of 12 and 20 years old and are associated with the young talent classes of the Dutch Schools of music. Thanks to the Turing Foundation, they are able to...more |
March 2013 | |||
 March 2013 | ART Main patron Henri Fantin-Latour Exhibition, Gouda Museum, 2013-2014 Museum Gouda will be hosting the first-ever solo exhibition of Fantin-Latour in the Netherlands, entitled Dromen op Doek (Canvas Dreams). With 60 works, including loans from France (e.g. Musée d'Orsay) and...more |  March 2013 | ART Hundertwasser and Japan exhibition, Cobra Museum, 2013-2014 The Cobra Museum has been offered the unique opportunity to take over an exhibition displaying the early works of the Austrian artist Hundertwasser (1928-2000) from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. Apart from the...more |
 March 2013 | ART Exhibition Old Drawings, New Names, Rembrandt House Museum, 2013-2014 In 2014, the Rembrandt House Museum will be hosting an exhibition of 17th-century drawings by Rembrandt, his apprentices and contemporaries. The museum will be showing drawings that include works formerly...more | March 2013 | EDUCATION Access to quality education in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone, 2013 In Sierra Leone, the number of children receiving an education is extremely low, and especially girls are often not going to school at all. This research project set up by Plan Nederland will allow 1,500...more |
 March 2013 | EDUCATION Technical school, Kara, Togo, 2013 SOS-Kinderdorpen helps orphans and abandoned children in developing countries find loving families to grow up with. Worldwide, SOS Kinderdorpen has set up 105 local vocational training centers where youths can work on...more |  March 2013 | ART Poetry anthology Elisabeth Eybers, 2013 Over a four-year period, publisher Van Oorschot will be publishing twelve beautiful, hardcover anthologies. These anthologies include the best poems of excellent poets (whose fame is unfortunately waning), recommended by...more |
March 2013 | ART The Third Turing Art Award, 2013-2014 One of Turing Foundation's goals is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums. To that end, the Turing Foundation introduced the Turing Grant in December 2008, which is a € 450,000 donation that...more |  March 2013 | NATURE Sustainable agriculture, Sissili Province, Burkina Faso, 2013 In the poor province of Sissili, Woord en Daad and CREDO are training farm families to make their companies and farming techniques more sustainable. Organic manure will be implemented in their farming, 600,000...more |
 March 2013 | LEPROSY Research into how mycobacteria lyse the phagosomal membrane 2013 The Tumor Biology Department of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) conducts fundamental research into the BCG vaccine. The vaccine is used to prevent tuberculosis, but also contributes to prevention of...more | March 2013 | EDUCATION Vocational training for 100 youths, Cameroon, 2013-2014 Stop Kindermisbruik (Stop Child Abuse) and its local partner ASSEJA offer vocational education to 100 underprivileged youths every year. The training consists of 3 months of theory combined with a 6-month to...more |
 March 2013 | EDUCATION Education Quality Improvement Programme, Machakos, Mwala and Gilgil district, Kenya, 2013 Build Africa focuses on education and income-generating programmes in Kenya and Uganda. In Central Kenya, Build Africa works at more than 20 rural schools to improve the quality of education by...more | March 2013 | LEPROSY Research into macro- and micro-epidemiology of leprosy 2013 The Leonard Wood Memorial Research Centre in Cebu, Philippines, is conducting research into the transmission patterns of leprosy. In many areas, the transfer of leprosy seems to continue despite years of...more |
 March 2013 | EDUCATION Improvement of education at 8 primary schools, East and Adamawa Region, Cameroon, 2013 Since 2007, the border of Cameroon's East Region has been host to over 100,000 refugees from the Central African Republic. In collaboration with the Cameroon Red Cross and Plan International...more | ||
January 2013 | |||
 January 2013 | ART Main patron Marino Marini tentoonstelling, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, 2013-2014 Mario Marini is one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century. Few people know he was also a painter en a drawer. The exhibition 'Mario Marino - painter, drawer, sculptor' focuses on the...more | January 2013 | EDUCATION Education for 900 vulnerable girls in Paynesville, Monrovia en Kakata, Liberia, 2013 Liberia is one of the focus countries of Save the Children. After years of emergency relief, the foundation is now working on structural education and health programs. For this project, Save the...more |
 January 2013 | EDUCATION Education for 500 underprivileged children, Région Maritime, Togo, 2013 Belgian organization IDAY wants underprivileged children in Africa to have access to high-quality education. With the help of local organization Le Rhonier, IDAY wants to improve education in 15 villages,...more | January 2013 | ART Museum Bus The Hague, 2013 Since 2009, SGPHM has been transporting 25,000 primary school children to and from 19 museums and cultural heritage institutions in The Hague every year. At the museums the pupils take classes from The Culture Menu that tie in...more |
 January 2013 | ART The Poems Ball - Closing ceremony Poetry Week 2013 Poetry Week 2013 (January 30 - February 6, 2013) joins well-known poetry events Poetry Day, the VSB Poetry Award and the Turing National Poem Contest. The week, initiated by CPNB, is meant to generate maximum...more | January 2013 | EDUCATION Job placement programs for underprivileged women, Lomé, Togo, 2013 The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports small-scale projects initiated by the local community in developing countries. There's a network of advisors on the spot to inform on the feasibility of the projects...more |
 January 2013 | ART El Gusto - Kashba Blues, Holland Festival, 2013 Every year, the Holland Festival manages to realize an internationally renowned, innovative and much talked-about festival, with a mix of performing arts, big names and daring experiments. The musical program for 2013...more |  January 2013 | ART 'United in Music', Amsterdam Canal Festival. Amsterdam, 2013 The 'Grachtenfestival' (canal festival) is a ten-day festival for classical music. The music is performed at special locations in the Amsterdam city center, and all performances can be attended either free of...more |
 January 2013 | ART 'Striggio Mass', Old Music Festival, Utrecht, 2013 For years, the Organization Old Music (OOM) has been an authoritative body nationally and internationally when it comes to the latest developments in old music. The core activity of the organization is the Festival...more | January 2013 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 10,000 school children, Thika, Kenya, 2013 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more |
 January 2013 | EDUCATION Construction of classrooms and quality improvement of primary education, Sakarou, Benin, 2013 The Hubi en Vinciane Foundation strives to improve the standard of living of the people living in the Borgou department in Benin. The foundation invests in the quality of education by building 3...more |  January 2013 | EDUCATION Vocational teacher training at 2 schools, Parakou, Benin, 2013 The Hubi en Vinciane Foundation strives to improve the standard of living of the people living in the Borgou department in Benin. In the area surrounding Parakou, only 12 percent of teachers has a...more |
January 2013 | LEPROSY IDEAL, continuation of sample collection for biobanking and pilot testing, 2013 The IDEAL Consortium (Initiative for Diagnostics and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) develops immunological tests to detect leprosy infections at an early stage. In 2012, IDEAL has set up a biobank...more | January 2013 | EDUCATION Technical vocational trainings, Lomé, Togo, 2013 The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports small-scale projects that have been initiated by the local community in developing countries. There's a network of advisors on the spot to inform on the feasibility of the...more |
 January 2013 | LEPROSY Research on identification of innate and adaptive immune biomarkers 2013 This LUMC (Leiden University Medical Centre) research gives more insight into certain immune pathological mechanisms. These new insights will shed light on the immunopathogenesis of leprosy and the...more |  January 2013 | EDUCATION Vocational training for girls, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2013 The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) supports local NGO ATTous in offering technical vocational education to deprived girls in Ouagadougou at the Centre Féminin d'Initiation et Apprentissage ŕ la...more |
January 2013 | ART Main patron of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Community Concerts, 2013-2014 'If the people don't visit the orchestra, the orchestra will visit the people.' That's the idea behind this extensive events program of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. In an attempt to make...more | January 2013 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy, 2ndphase, 2013 The leprosy bacterium (M.leprae) knows a high affinity for Schwann cells, which are cells that create a protective layer around peripheral nerves. A team of the Leiden University Medical Centre is researching...more |
January 2013 | LEPROSY Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2013 The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in which 14 researchers from renowned research institutes all over the world work together, combining...more | January 2013 | ART Turing Museum Bus - Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2013 For school and schoolteachers, free, comfortable and safe transport is the key factor in their decision to take their pupils to visit museums. For the Turing Foundation, this was reason for the...more |
November 2012 | |||
 November 2012 | ART Exhibition 'Les Nabis: Gaugin, Bonnard, Denis, Prophets of the Avant-Garde', Hermitage Amsterdam, 2013-2014 From September 14, 2013 through February 28, 2014, the Hermitage will host an exhibition on 'Les Nabis', a group of French artists from around 1900 who were in search of a new way of...more |  November 2012 | EDUCATION Tools for three training organizations in Benin, 2012-2014 Gered Gereedschap ("Rescued Tools") collects and fixes used tools and sends them to developing-aid projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on request. Every year, the foundation supplies developing countries...more |
 November 2012 | ART School concerts 'Mozart's Magic Journey', 2013 The Educational Orchestra Projects Foundation (SEOP) wants to familiarize children and teenagers with symphonic music. The foundation does so by adapting the 'Classical Kids' series on classical composers. In...more | November 2012 | LEPROSY Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2012-2024 The Turing Foundation has been co-funding leprosy research projects with the Netherlands Leprosy Relief for many years. Just this year, the Turing Foundation contributed about € 450.000...more |
 November 2012 | NATURE Lubombo Transfrontier Marine Protected Area, Mozambique/Zuid-Afrika, 2012 The Peace Parks Foundation dedicates itself to nature reserves located at countries' border regions, and strives for sustainable economic development, biodiversity, peace and stability in those regions....more | November 2012 | EDUCATION Speed schools and teacher training, Burkina Faso, 2012 Woord en Daad and partner organization CREDO have established dozens of so-called speed schools in Burkina Faso. These schools offer children aged 9-12 who haven't enjoyed any education an opportunity to catch up...more |
 November 2012 | EDUCATION Educational Governance, Doutchi and Filingué, Niger, 2012 In the Niger departments of Dogondoutchi and Filingué, French NGO Aide et Action is dedicating itself to the improvement of the quality of education in seventeen rural areas. The past ten years the focus has been...more |  November 2012 | EDUCATION Vocational training for supervisors after-school activities, Tillaberi, Niger, 2012 Oxfam Novib is an international organization that has made Niger one of their focus countries, because it's receiving relatively little developing aid. With the help of local partner MCE, Oxfam Novib...more |
November 2012 | NATURE Reforestation and sustainable management of ecosystems in the Kwilu district, D.R. Congo, 2012 Congodorpen is a Belgian NGO dedicated to education and sustainable agriculture in D.R. Congo. To lift the ecological pressure from the Kwilu district, restore the forests and structurally...more | November 2012 | EDUCATION Improvement of primary and vocational education, Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo, 2012 Congodorpen wants to contribute to recovering and setting up education in the north of the Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo. During a previous three-year phase of the project, the quality of...more |
November 2012 | NATURE Sustainable conservation and food security for 20 villages, Région Maritime, Togo 2012 In 20 villages in the very poor southeast of Togo, 4.000 farmers are trained in organic farming and...more | ||
August 2012 | |||
August 2012 | NATURE Development of organic and fair trade cocoa production, Togo, 2012 This Progreso and Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Institute project is aimed at promoting organic cocoa production and improving the living conditions of 650 farmers in Western Togo. During the project's pilot phase...more |  August 2012 | NATURE Regreening Initiative, Phase 2, Niger, 2012-2013 In 2010, Both Ends and CIS-VU (Centre for International Cooperation -VU University Amsterdam) started the Re-greening Initiative in Niger with the help of local NGO CRESA. It involves the natural regeneration of...more |
August 2012 | EDUCATION Vocational education, Benin, 2012 In Benin, Woord & Daad is working with local organisation DEDRAS. DEDRAS wants to offer youths vocational education tailored to the current labour market. Each year, DEDRAS wants to train at least 385 youths in the fields of...more |  August 2012 | EDUCATION Equipping information centre in Inkisi-Kisanu, D.R. Congo, 2012-2013 The Bambale Foundation is focused on education, agriculture, and healthcare in D.R. Congo. In Inkisi-Kisantu, Bambale wants to start and equip an Information & Training centre. Eventually, the foundation...more |
August 2012 | EDUCATION Improvement of educational quality at 8 schools, East Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2012 War Child is devoted to giving children who have experienced war a peaceful future. War Child wants 3,000 children aged between 11-14 years old in the conflict-ridden district of East Kivu to pass their...more |  August 2012 | ART The Fourth Turing National Poetry Contest 2012-2013 Turing's National Poetry Contest is the only poetry competition that's open to everyone and is not about the poet, but about the poem. The first two editions have been a resounding success. Poems for the third...more |
August 2012 | ART Free transport to Boijmans van Beuningen and Chabot museums, 2012 A special 'Turing Car' will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge...more | August 2012 | EDUCATION School furniture for 16 schools in Lubero, D.R. Congo, 2012 In the Lubero region in North Kivu, D.R. Congo, Save the Children is carrying out a five-year programme focused on creating better access to safe and high-quality education. Activities include the foundation of...more |
August 2012 | EDUCATION 20 Speed schools for 500 children, Dosso region, Niger, 2012 The Strřmme Foundation and partner organisation RAEDD are setting up so-called 'speed schools in Niger. These schools offer children in the ages of 9-12 who haven't had any previous education a chance to join...more |  August 2012 | EDUCATION Founding of Biblionef Ghana, 2012-2013 Biblionef considers books a source of development and wants to encourage reading. To that end, the organisation spreads new English and French children's books in Africa and Asia, facilitates the publication of local...more |
August 2012 | EDUCATION Teacher training and school expansion, Toungana, Burkina Faso, 2012 The Association for Small African Projects (ASAP) focuses on the improvement of the well-being of inhabitants of 9 poor villages in Western Burkina Faso. In 2011, teachers from the villages and their...more | August 2012 | NATURE Sustainable development of Mangrove areas, Aguégués Commune, Benin, 2012 Care International is an international aid agency. This project wants to enable structural coastal management by protecting and replanting mangroves in the Vallée du Couffo and Vallée de l'Ouémé in Benin,...more |
 August 2012 | EDUCATION Upgrading five vocational training centres, Kenya, 2012 VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) sends professional experts to developing countries to share their knowledge with local organisations, so these can do their work more effectively. In Kenya, VSO will be working on...more | August 2012 | EDUCATION Schoolbook project for primary schools, Cameroon, 2013 Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon in setting up a proper book collection as well as a teacher training for the effective use of books in education. A book fund is also being...more |
June 2012 | |||
 June 2012 | ART Exhibition 'Lissitzky-Kabakov. Dromen en Leven', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2012-2013 El Lissitzky (1890-1941) was one of the defining artists of the Russian avant-garde in the early 20th century as well as a representative of Suprematism. Under the authority of the Van Abbemuseum in...more | June 2012 | EDUCATION Vocational training for women in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2012 Humana is one of the largest clothing collectors of the Netherlands. Using the proceeds from the clothing sales, the organisation finances projects in (southern) Africa. This specific project is aimed at women...more |
 June 2012 | EDUCATION Vocational Training and job creation in Kinshasa, Uvira and Bandundu-Ville, D.R. Congo, 2012-2013 Tools to Work offers young people work experience by involving them in the repairing of goods for developing countries. Through Tools to Work, we support the revision, transport, clearance,...more |  June 2012 | ART Main patron Mike Kelley, a retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2012-2013 The exhibition concept 'Mike Kelley, a Retrospective' submitted by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has won the € 450.000 Turing Art Award...more |
 June 2012 | EDUCATION Construction of four classrooms, Kwale district, Kenia, 2012-2013 Kids in Kenia was founded to support local initiatives in the field of education in Kenya. The foundation supports the Vitsangalaweni primary school in the poor Kwali district in Southeast Kenya. Kids in...more |  June 2012 | EDUCATION Solar-powered computer labs, Mbekenyera en Liwale, Tanzania, 2012-2013 The Ukengee foundation is creating solar-powered computer labs at secondary schools in the Lindi district in Tanzania. Following a successful pilot at two secondary schools in 2009, it is now the...more |
 June 2012 | EDUCATION Construction of a secondary school, Sazué, Benin, 2012-2013 The Le Pont foundation is active in the field of education, healthcare, water and sanitation in Benin. The Turing Foundation has already funded the construction of a school by the Le Pont foundation three times...more |  June 2012 | EDUCATION Teacher training in South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2012 Children in Crisis is a British NGO that works on educational projects in post-conflict zones such as D.R. Congo, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 172 head masters and 1034 teachers will be...more |
 June 2012 | NATURE Seafood Savers Platform for Sustainable Tuna and Live Reef Fish, Coral Triangle, 2012 We're approaching the final phase of our support of the Coral Triangle Initiativethrough the World Wide Fund for Nature. One of the final projects is the setting up of a platform for sustainable...more |  June 2012 | NATURE Carbon footprint reduction and Protection of Critical Reefs, Coral triangle, 2012 We're approaching the final phase of our support of the Coral Triangle Initiative through the World Wide Fund for Nature. One of the final projects concerns the CO2-reduction and preservation of...more |
 June 2012 | NATURE Live Reef Fish Trade Transformation, Coral Triangle, 2012 This World Wildlife Federation programme intends to achieve a recovery of the diverse fish population in the Coral Triangle, and a reduction of destructive fishing methods (such as dynamite fishing). One of the...more |  June 2012 | NATURE Protecting Endangered Turtles, Coral Triangle, 2012 Six out of the seven species of sea turtles we have on this earth live in the Coral Triangle. The animals are threatened most by the accidental bycatch of fishermen and by the loss of breeding habitat along the...more |
June 2012 | ART Main patron Dutch Youth String Orchestra NJSO 2012 The NJSO has 24 musicians. All of them are between the ages of 12 and 20 years old and are associated with the young talent classes of the Dutch Schools of music. Thanks to the Turing Foundation, they are able to...more |  June 2012 | NATURE Sustainable Finance for Networks of Marine Protected Areas, Coral Triangle, 2012 The World Wildlife Federation has established a foundation for the identification and management of protected marine areas in the Coral Triangle, which consist of 50,000 km2 of coral reefs, 50,000 km2...more |
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 March 2012 | ART Main patron Paula Modersohn-Becker Ein Wunderland, Ein Götterland, Museum Belvedere, 2012-2013 Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) is a German painter who's regarded as one of the main representatives of early expressionism. Modersohn-Becker used to live in the artistic community of...more |  March 2012 | ART Poetry collection 'Dichter Draagt Voor', Ramsey Nasr, 2012-2013 'Dichter Draagt Voor' (poet recites) is a project by Poet Laureate Ramsey Nasr that aims at unlocking the works of classical Dutch poets to a wide audience. The selection includes poets like Leopold, Boutens,...more |
 March 2012 | EDUCATION Free school meals on four schools, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, 2012 Burkina Faso is on the brink of a famine. Stichting WOL and local partner DSF have set up the Zoodo educational complex in Ouahigouya, the capital of Burkina Faso's Yatenga province. Yatenga has been...more | March 2012 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 10,000 school children, Thika, Kenya, 2012 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more |
 March 2012 | EDUCATION Educational tools en solar panels, Primary school, Dazungu, Ghana, 2012 The Amsterdam-Bolgatanga Foundation wants to improve education in the poor Upper East region of Ghana, where an approximate 12.7% of people can read and write. The foundation has partnered with the local...more |  March 2012 | ART Closing performance Holland Festival, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, 2012 In June 2012, the Holland Festival will be bringing music of international standing to the Netherlands once again. This year, the closing musical performance will be played by the Simon Bolivar Symfonie...more |
March 2012 | LEPROSY IDEAL sample collection for biobanking, IDEAL (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy), 2012 The IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) consists of all authoritative leprosy research groups in the world and is developing...more |  March 2012 | ART Poetry anthology Jan Emmens, 2012 Over a four-year period, publisher Van Oorschot will be publishing twelve beautiful, hardcover anthologies. These anthologies include the best poems of excellent poets (whose fame is unfortunately waning), recommended by...more |
March 2012 | LEPROSY Research into macro- and micro-epidemiology of leprosy 2012 The Leonard Wood Memorial Research Centre in Cebu, Philippines, is conducting research into the transmission patterns of leprosy. In many areas, the transfer of leprosy seems to continue despite years of...more | March 2012 | LEPROSY Research into how mycobacteria lyse the phagosomal membrane 2012 The Tumor Biology Department of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) conducts fundamental research into the BCG vaccine. The vaccine is used to prevent tuberculosis, but also contributes to prevention of...more |
 March 2012 | EDUCATION School book project for primary schools, Northwest Cameroon, 2012 Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon by building up a decent book stock and effectively using books as an instructional tool in education. A book fund will also be set up in...more |  March 2012 | EDUCATION Programme for tutoring teenagers in South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2012-2013 ZOA Refugee Care wants to offer primary education in 3 years to youths from returnee families who missed one or more years of primary education. This mainly concerns orphans, ex-child soldiers, child...more |
March 2012 | EDUCATION Vocational training for 100 youths, Cameroon, 2012 Stop Kindermisbruik (Stop Child Abuse) and its local partner ASSEJA offer vocational education to 100 underprivileged youths every year. The training consists of 3 months of theory combined with a 6-month to 2-year...more | March 2012 | NATURE Sustainable agriculture, Sissili Province, Burkina Faso, 2012 In the poor province of Sissili, Woord en Daad and CREDO are training farm families to make their companies and farming techniques more sustainable. Organic manure will be implemented in their farming, 600,000...more |
March 2012 | EDUCATION Education Quality Improvement Programme, Machakos, Mwala and Gilgil district, Kenya, 2012 Build Africa focuses on education and income-generating programmes in Kenya and Uganda. In Central Kenya, Build Africa works at more than 20 rural schools to improve the quality of education by...more | March 2012 | EDUCATION Improvement of education at 8 primary schools, East and Adamawa Region, Cameroon, 2012 Since 2007, the border of Cameroon's East Region has been host to over 100,000 refugees from the Central African Republic. In collaboration with the Cameroon Red Cross and Plan International...more |
 March 2012 | NATURE Switch to sustainable cotton production, Mali, 2012 Mali is the largest producer of cotton in Western Africa. Cotton is a good source of income, but it's extremely harmful to the environment. In a pilot phase, 4,000 farmers switched to sustainable cotton farming that...more | March 2012 | NATURE Reforestation, Burkina Faso, 2012 The Burkina Faso desert is swiftly advancing. And due to logging for home use, the country loses 80,000 acres of forest every year. ChildFund and the local IDEES/ACG offers trainings for sustainable land use and...more |
 March 2012 | ART Main patron Diane Arbus - A Retrospective, FOAM Amsterdam, 2012-2013 Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most fascinating and important photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Never before have The Netherlands exhibited an extensive retrospective of her...more |  March 2012 | ART Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2012 The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic conservatory students, and performs a minimum of 100 times a year. They seek out the people that are unable to attend live classical performances for different...more |
March 2012 | ART The Princess Christina Concours - Classical Express, 2012 The Princess Christina Concours strives to excite as many children as possible for classical music. To that end, in 2007 the Turing Foundation contributed to the development of the Princess Christina Express, a...more |  March 2012 | EDUCATION Vocational training for underprivileged youths, Kenya, 2012 The Ujima Foundation offers vocational trainings to underprivileged youths that take care of their younger siblings, in Nakuru and Kisumu. They are trained for jobs in the hospitality sector (hotels,...more |
 March 2012 | EDUCATION Construction of a new school, Mamfe, Cameroon, 2011-2012 LiveBuild, in association with United Action for Children (UAC), wants to set up a high-quality school in Mamfe. UAC has already realised a similar school in Buea, with smaller classes, quality education,...more |  March 2012 | ART Goodbye tour Willem Breuker Collective, 2012 Willem Breuker (1944-2010) was a Dutch composer and saxophone player as well as one of the founding fathers of free music in the Netherlands. The Willem Breuker Collective he founded will be organizing a goodbye tour...more |
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 January 2012 | ART Rafael Exhibition, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2012-2013 Never before did the Netherlands see an exhibition on Rafael (Urbino 1483-1530 Rome), one of Europe's most influential artists. The Teylers Museum is the only Dutch museum owning a substantial collection of Rafael...more |  January 2012 | ART Exhibition The Road to Van Eyck, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 2012-2013 Johannes van Eyck (1390-1440) has decisively reinvented painting in Northern Europe. He's been named the father of oil painting. In the exhibition The Road to Van Eyck. In this exhibition in...more |
 January 2012 | EDUCATION Teacher houses with solar panels, Rakissé-Toęghin, Burkina Faso, 2012 The AFOS Foundation is dedicated to improving the life standard in developing countries, with a focus on Burkina Faso. In collaboration with the Burkina development aid agency Association Femmes de ZENA...more | January 2012 | EDUCATION Vocational training for girls, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2012 The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) supports local NGO ATTous in offering technical vocational education to deprived girls in Ouagadougou at the Centre Féminin d'Initiation et Apprentissage ŕ la...more |
January 2012 | ART Main patron of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Community Concerts, 2012 'If the people don't visit the orchestra, the orchestra will visit the people.' That's the idea behind this extensive events program of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. In an attempt to make...more |  January 2012 | ART St Matthew Passion: an adaptation for children, Frank Groothof, 2012 The Turing Foundation has been a proud partner of Stichting de Vrije Val for already five years. For his lastest production, Frank Groothof wants to develop the first-ever children's version of the St...more |
 January 2012 | LEPROSY Research on identification of innate and adaptive immune biomarkers 2012 This LUMC (Leiden University Medical Centre) research gives more insight into certain immune pathological mechanisms. These new insights will shed light on the immunopathogenesis of leprosy and the...more |  January 2012 | ART The Amsterdam Cello Biannual 2012 The Amsterdamse Cello Biannual is a biannual international cello festival. The fourth edition of the festival will be held from October 26 - November 3, 2012. Apart from recondite performances, the festival also focuses on a...more |
 January 2012 | EDUCATION Teacher training and school leaders' course, Southeast Kenya, 2012 Twice a year, Teachers4Teachers organizes trainings by Dutch educational professionals meant for principals, teachers and educational officials in Kenya. The training's aim is to contribute to teachers'...more |  January 2012 | EDUCATION Marera Primary School Project, Tanzania, 2012 In Tanzania, the Rhotia Valley Foundation offers shelter for 36 orphans in three family homes, and uses a tourist lodge as an environment for a learning and employment project generating income for the family homes....more |
January 2012 | LEPROSY Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2012 The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in which 14 researchers from renowned research institutes all over the world work together, combining...more | January 2012 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy, 2ndphase, 2012 The leprosy bacterium (M.leprae) knows a high affinity for Schwann cells, which are cells that create a protective layer around peripheral nerves. A team of the Leiden University Medical Centre is researching...more |
 January 2012 | ART Main patron Alexander Calder, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 2012 In 2008, the Turing Foundation launched the Turing Art Award, a € 450,000 donation presented biannually to the very best exhibition plan of a Dutch museum. The grant allows the Turing Foundation to...more |  January 2012 | ART Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2012 In 2012, literary magazine De Gids will be celebrating its 175th anniversary. For the past three years, De Gids has been able to substantially invest in the publication of poetry and managed to continue publishing the...more |
 January 2012 | EDUCATION Teacher training in Northern Cameroon, 2012 VSO sends out vocational specialists to developing countries in Africa and Asia who can share their knowledge and experience with local organisations, helping them to do their work in a more efficient way. The project...more | January 2012 | ART Turing Museum Bus - Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2012 For school and schoolteachers, free, comfortable and safe transport is the key factor in their decision to take their pupils to visit museums. For the Turing Foundation, this was reason for the...more |
 January 2012 | NATURE Developing organic vegetable gardens and orchards - Séguénéga, Burkina Faso, 2012 The Burkinan organisation ADECUSS will teach 300 women in the extremely poor and dry northern region of Burkina Faso modern market gardening and agricultural techniques (such as how to make compost...more | ||
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November 2011 | NATURE Reforestation and sustainable management of ecosystems in the Kwilu district, D.R. Congo, 2011 Congodorpen is a Belgian NGO dedicated to education and sustainable agriculture in D.R. Congo. To lift the ecological pressure from the Kwilu district, restore the forests and structurally...more | November 2011 | EDUCATION Improvement of primary and vocational education, Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo, 2011 Congodorpen wants to contribute to recovering and setting up education in the north of the Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo. During a previous three-year phase of the project, the quality of...more |
November 2011 | NATURE Sustainable conservation and food security for 20 villages, Région Maritime, Togo 2011 In 20 villages in the very poor southeast of Togo, 4.000 farmers are trained in organic farming and...more | November 2011 | EDUCATION Speed schools and teacher training, Burkina Faso, 2011 Woord en Daad and partner organization CREDO have established dozens of so-called speed schools in Burkina Faso. These schools offer children aged 9-12 who haven't enjoyed any education an opportunity to catch up...more |
 November 2011 | EDUCATION Expansion of the secondary school, Gaongho, Burkina Faso, 2012 Zeewolde Werelddorp is dedicated to improve the lives of people from Gaongho in Burkina Faso, a municipality Zeewolde has a friendly relationship with. In collaboration with the developmental organization...more |  November 2011 | ART Rock Opera "Kees de Jongen", by Frank Groothof, 2011-2012 Time and time again, Frank Groothof manages to incite curiosity and excitement for classical music among large groups of children. In 2011 and 2012, groothof is playing Kees de Jongen (Kees the Boy), after...more |
 November 2011 | ART Poetry anthology J. H. Leopold, 2011 Over a four-year period, publisher Van Oorschot will be publishing twelve beautiful, hardcover anthologies. These anthologies include the best poems of excellent poets (whose fame is unfortunately waning), recommended by...more |  November 2011 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a trade school in Chepchoina, Kenya, 2011 The Elimu Mount Elgon Foundation facilitates educational initiatives in the Mount Elgon Region in Kenya. As part of a larger school complex the foundation supports the establishment of a vocational...more |
 November 2011 | EDUCATION ICT vocational training CPAEC, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2011-2012 The Zod Neere Foundation set up a vocational training centre for underprivileged youngsters in Ouagadougou. The centre (CPAEC - Centre Professionnel d'Apprentissage et d'Echanges Culturels) will open its...more | November 2011 | EDUCATION Construction of a technical school in Kambila, Mali, 2011-2012 The Mali Foundation, in association with its local partner Solisa, will set up a basic technical school to provide some prospect beside primary education in an area where there is no secondary education...more |
November 2011 | EDUCATION Educational Governance, Doutchi and Filingué, Niger, 2011 In the Niger departments of Dogondoutchi and Filingué, French NGO Aide et Action is dedicating itself to the improvement of the quality of education in seventeen rural areas. The past ten years the focus has been...more |  November 2011 | NATURE Communal management of grazing land and forest restoration in Ségou, Mali, 2011 The agricultural region Ségou frequently suffers from food shortages caused by the exhaustion of agricultural and grazing land. Forests are chopped down for fire wood and frequently disputes arise...more |
 November 2011 | EDUCATION Teacher Training, Kenia en Tanzania, 2011 In Kenya and Tanzania, Terre des Hommes is working with local partners to improve the quality of secondary education at government schools. Teachers are being trained in modern teaching methods, exam methods and the...more |  November 2011 | NATURE Protection of natural resources in Timbuktu, Mali, 2011 In ten villages in the Timbuktu region primarily women will be trained in organic market gardening and small livestock farming and in the use of wood-saving ovens. One hundred of the poorest women in these...more |
 November 2011 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a Vocational Training Centre, Bamako, Mali, 2011 The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) is building a new vocational centre at the heart of the Malinese capital Bamako, together with the local organisation ENDA Mali. The centre will offer...more |  November 2011 | NATURE Sustainable management of the forest of Koubaye, Mali, 2011 This project aims to protect and restore 7,700 km2 of forest by making environmental agreements between the authorities of four local communities. Environmental education will be given to 8,000 adults and...more |
 November 2011 | ART Bach Day - An Introduction to Bach at Dutch Primary Schools, 2011-2012 The three-year project 'Bach Day' (Dag van Bach) focuses on primary schools across the country and introduces children to classical music, musicians and their musical instruments. In the coming three...more | November 2011 | ART The Third Turing National Poetry Contest 2011-2012 Turing's National Poetry Contest is the only poetry competition that's open to everyone and is not about the poet, but about the poem. The first two editions have been a resounding success. Poems for the third...more |
 November 2011 | EDUCATION Construction of a school for elementary and secondary education, Djenné, Mali, 2011-2013 The Djenné Foundation focuses on education, the arts, and culture in the city of Djenné, Mali. In close cooperation with the local NGO community and the educational institutions, the foundation...more |  November 2011 | NATURE Organic gardening and 'night paddocks', Cameroon, 2011 Njamnjama is a vegetable similar to spinach. In Cameroon the traditional production of this vegetable has not been able to keep up with the huge demand. It grows extremely fast and can be grown all year round....more |
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 July 2011 | ART Main supporter, Rodin Erotique, Singer Museum Laren, 2012-2013 With this exhibition, the Singer Museum will be organizing the first-ever expo of the erotic works of Auguste Rodin in the Netherlands. All drawings will come from the collection of Musée Rodin in Paris....more | July 2011 | ART Supporter of 'Meer Licht' (More Light), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, 2011-2012 Museum De Fundatie is the only museum in the Netherlands that has a William Turner painting in its collection. The canvas will serve as the starting point for a contemporary art exhibition about the...more |
 July 2011 | ART 'Van Oostsanen, de Ware Jacob', Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, 2014 In 2014 it will have been 500 years since Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen enjoyed the high point of his career. This exhibition is designed as a triptych and will be on display at three locations: the Amsterdam...more |  July 2011 | ART 'Het Geheim van de Slang' (The Secret of the Snake), Afrika Museum, 2012 The Afrika Museum will be organising an intercultural exhibition on the appearance of a universal animal symbol, from the very first prehistoric art of humankind in Africa to contemporary art in Africa,...more |
 July 2011 | ART Main patron Paul Klee exhibition, CoBrA Museum Amstelveen, 2012 The Cobra Museum organises an exhibition on the much-loved artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) and his relation to the CoBrA art movement's artworks. The exhibition will be set up with the help of the Zentrum Paul...more | July 2011 | ART Free transport to Boijmans van Beuningen and Chabot museums, 2011 A special 'Turing Car' will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge...more |
July 2011 | EDUCATION School furniture for 16 schools in Lubero, D.R. Congo, 2011 In the Lubero region in North Kivu, D.R. Congo, Save the Children is carrying out a five-year programme focused on creating better access to safe and high-quality education. Activities include the foundation of...more | July 2011 | EDUCATION 20 Speed schools for 500 children, Dosso region, Niger, 2011 The Strřmme Foundation and partner organisation RAEDD are setting up so-called 'speed schools in Niger. These schools offer children in the ages of 9-12 who haven't had any previous education a chance to join...more |
 July 2011 | EDUCATION Vocational education Sustainable Farming, Gbomboro, Burkina Faso, 2011 In Gbomboro in the northwest of Burkina Faso, Heifer and partner organisation Asudec will establish a community school for vocational education on sustainable farming, as part of a broader sustainable...more | July 2011 | EDUCATION Founding of Biblionef Ghana, 2011 Biblionef considers books a source of development and wants to encourage reading. To that end, the organisation spreads new English and French children's books in Africa and Asia, facilitates the publication of local...more |
 July 2011 | NATURE NGO capability and community involvement, Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, 2011 In Mauritania, local NGOs are trained and alternative sources of income for the local community are created...more | July 2011 | NATURE Sustainable development of Mangrove areas, Aguégués Commune, Benin, 2011 Care International is an international aid agency. This project wants to enable structural coastal management by protecting and replanting mangroves in the Vallée du Couffo and Vallée de l'Ouémé in Benin,...more |
July 2011 | NATURE Seafood Savers Platform for Sustainable Tuna and Live Reef Fish, Coral Triangle, 2011 We're approaching the final phase of our support of the Coral Triangle Initiativethrough the World Wide Fund for Nature. One of the final projects is the setting up of a platform for sustainable...more | July 2011 | NATURE Carbon footprint reduction and Protection of Critical Reefs, Coral triangle, 2011 We're approaching the final phase of our support of the Coral Triangle Initiative through the World Wide Fund for Nature. One of the final projects concerns the CO2-reduction and preservation of...more |
July 2011 | EDUCATION Teacher training and school expansion, Toungana, Burkina Faso, 2011 The Association for Small African Projects (ASAP) focuses on the improvement of the well-being of inhabitants of 9 poor villages in Western Burkina Faso. In 2011, teachers from the villages and their...more |  July 2011 | EDUCATION Better access to education for vulnerable children, Bukavu and Walungu, D.R. Congo, 2011 In South Kivu, War Child strives for better access to education for vulnerable children. D.R. Congo knows a great shortage of qualified teachers. Therefore, War Child trains teachers associated...more |
July 2011 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 10,000 school children, Thika, Kenya, 2011 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more | July 2011 | ART Main patron Dutch Youth String Orchestra NJSO 2011 The NJSO has 24 musicians. All of them are between the ages of 12 and 20 years old and are associated with the young talent classes of the Dutch Schools of music. Thanks to the Turing Foundation, they are able to...more |
 July 2011 | EDUCATION Teacher Training Electricity & Renewable Energy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2011 The Kram Ngoy Centre is a vocational training centre in Phnom Penh where 100 youths a year are trained to be electricians. The centre is currently short on qualified teachers. In the next two years, the...more |  July 2011 | EDUCATION Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana 2011 All over the world, SOS Kinderdorpen offers structural support to orphans and abandoned children. Over the past couple of years, the foundation has increasingly focused on establishing and improving job training,...more |
 July 2011 | EDUCATION Afri-car Academy, Kisumu, Kenya, 2011 The Afri-Can Foundation and local organisations BIG Ltd and Pandipieri Centre set up a technical training centre for underprivileged youths in Kisumu in Western Kenya. The vocational training centre offers a practical...more | July 2011 | EDUCATION Free school meals, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, 2011 The WOL Foundation built the Zoodo educational complex in Ouahigouya, the capital of the province of Yatenga in Burkina Faso. Their goal is to high quality provide (vocational) education for rural youth and to...more |
July 2011 | EDUCATION Upgrading five vocational training centres, Kenya, 2011 VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) sends professional experts to developing countries to share their knowledge with local organisations, so these can do their work more effectively. In Kenya, VSO will be working on...more | ||
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 March 2011 | ART Main patron 'Pop Art in Western Europe', Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, 2012-2013 Pop Art is the core of the collection of the Valkhof Museum, which makes the museum the ideal place to demonstrate an overview of Pop Art in Europe, including works from Niki de Saint Phalle,...more | March 2011 | EDUCATION Teacher training in South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2011 Children in Crisis is a British NGO that works on educational projects in post-conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 172 head masters and 1034 teachers will be...more |
March 2011 | NATURE Switch to sustainable cotton production, Mali, 2011 Mali is the largest producer of cotton in Western Africa. Cotton is a good source of income, but it's extremely harmful to the environment. In a pilot phase, 4,000 farmers switched to sustainable cotton farming that...more |  March 2011 | EDUCATION Vocational training for 100 youths, Cameroon, 2011 Stop Kindermisbruik (No Child Abuse) and its local partner ASSEJA want to offer vocational training to 100 underprivileged youths, The trainings will consist of 3 months of theory and an apprentice-based training of...more |
March 2011 | EDUCATION Improvement of education at 8 primary schools, East and Adamawa Region, Cameroon, 2011 Since 2007, the border of Cameroon's East Region has been host to over 100,000 refugees from the Central African Republic. In collaboration with the Cameroon Red Cross and Plan International...more | March 2011 | NATURE Reforestation, Burkina Faso, 2011 The Burkina Faso desert is swiftly advancing. And due to logging for home use, the country loses 80,000 acres of forest every year. ChildFund and the local IDEES/ACG offers trainings for sustainable land use and...more |
March 2011 | NATURE Sustainable agriculture, Sissili Province, Burkina Faso, 2011 In the poor province of Sissili, Woord en Daad and CREDO are training farm families to make their companies and farming techniques more sustainable. Organic manure will be implemented in their farming, 600,000...more | March 2011 | EDUCATION Tools for twelve technical training centres, Western Kenya, 2011 Gered Gereedschap (Salvaged Tools) collects and repairs used tools, and ships them to development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America on request. Every year, the foundation provides over 100,000 tools...more |
March 2011 | EDUCATION Vocational training for underprivileged youths, Kenya, 2011 The Ujima Foundation offers vocational trainings to underprivileged youths that take care of their younger siblings, in Nakuru and Kisumu. They are trained for jobs in the hospitality sector (hotels,...more | March 2011 | NATURE Regreening Initiative, Niger, 2011 Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, with three-quarters of its surface covered by desert and 85% of its population being entirely dependent on agriculture. Both Ends and the VU Centre for International...more |
 March 2011 | ART 25th Romantic Music Day, 2011 This year will see the 25th edition of 'Romantic Music Day', organized by the Buitengoed Foundation. During this free festival, musicians of renowned orchestras will be performing along with laureates of the Princess Christina...more |  March 2011 | EDUCATION Programme for tutoring teenagers in South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2011 ZOA Refugee Care wants to offer primary education in 3 years to youths from returnee families who missed one or more years of primary education. This mainly concerns orphans, ex-child soldiers, child victims...more |
March 2011 | ART Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2011 The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic conservatory students, and performs a minimum of 100 times a year. They seek out the people that are unable to attend live classical performances for different reasons....more |  March 2011 | ART Main patron Diane Arbus - A Retrospective, FOAM Amsterdam, 2011 Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most fascinating and important photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Never before have The Netherlands exhibited an extensive retrospective of her work...more |
March 2011 | ART The Princess Christina Concours - Classical Express, 2011 The Princess Christina Concours strives to excite as many children as possible for classical music. To that end, in 2007 the Turing Foundation contributed to the development of the Princess Christina Express, a...more |  March 2011 | EDUCATION Construction of a medical school in Kiliba, D.R. Congo, 2011 Focus on Education, in association with the local NGO Fondation Chirezi, wants to set up an intermediate vocational school for health care with a capacity of 150 students a year. The school will offer a 3-year...more |
 March 2011 | NATURE Restoration of Mountain Forests by Introduction of Analogue Forestry, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2009-2010 The high mountains of Bamenda are sometimes referred to as the storehouse of Cameroon...more |  March 2011 | EDUCATION School book project for primary schools, Northwest Cameroon, 2011 Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon by building up a decent book stock and effectively using books as an instructional tool in education. A book fund will also be set up in...more |
 March 2011 | EDUCATION Social and financial skills for children, Ghana, 2011 Aflatoun provides children between the ages of 6 and 14 with important social and economic skills by teaching them about rights and responsibilities, personal development, spending and saving, and planning and...more | ||
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January 2011 | ART Turing Museum Bus - Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2011 For school and schoolteachers, free, comfortable and safe transport is the key factor in their decision to take their pupils to visit museums. For the Turing Foundation, this was reason for the...more | January 2011 | EDUCATION Education Quality Improvement Programme, Machakos, Mwala and Gilgil district, Kenya, 2011 Build Africa focuses on education and income-generating programmes in Kenya and Uganda. In Central Kenya, Build Africa works at more than 20 rural schools to improve the quality of education by...more |
January 2011 | LEPROSY Research into how mycobacteria lyse the phagosomal membrane 2011 The Tumor Biology Department of the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) conducts fundamental research into the BCG vaccine. The vaccine is used to prevent tuberculosis, but also contributes to prevention of...more |  January 2011 | EDUCATION Solar panels for four schools in Burkina Faso, 2011 The AFOS Foundation is dedicated to improve living conditions in developing countries and in Burkina Faso specifically. In partnership with the Burkina Faso development organisation Association Femmes de ZENA, the...more |
 January 2011 | ART Main patron The Iannis Xenakis Weekend, Holland Festival 2011 From June 2-26, 2011, Holland Festival will once again be welcoming international allure to the Netherlands. As before, this edition will feature an extensive and modern classical music programme. During...more | January 2011 | LEPROSY Research into macro- and micro-epidemiology of leprosy 2011 The Leonard Wood Memorial Research Centre in Cebu, Philippines, is conducting research into the transmission patterns of leprosy. In many areas, the transfer of leprosy seems to continue despite years of...more |
January 2011 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy, 2ndphase, 2011 The leprosy bacterium (M.leprae) knows a high affinity for Schwann cells, which are cells that create a protective layer around peripheral nerves. A team of the Leiden University Medical Centre is researching...more | January 2011 | NATURE Lubombo Transfrontier Marine Protected Area, Mozambique/Zuid-Afrika, 2011-2012 The Peace Parks Foundation dedicates itself to nature reserves located at countries' border regions, and strives for sustainable economic development, biodiversity, peace and stability in those...more |
January 2011 | ART Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2011 In 2012, literary magazine De Gids will be celebrating its 175th anniversary. For the past three years, De Gids has been able to substantially invest in the publication of poetry and managed to continue publishing the...more | January 2011 | LEPROSY Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2011 The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in which 14 researchers from renowned research institutes all over the world work together, combining...more |
January 2011 | NATURE Developing organic vegetable gardens and orchards - Séguénéga, Burkina Faso, 2011 The Burkinan organisation ADECUSS will teach 300 women in the extremely poor and dry northern region of Burkina Faso modern market gardening and agricultural techniques (such as how to make compost...more |  January 2011 | EDUCATION Construction and furnishing of the Makaror Mixed Day Secondary Scvhool, Makaror, Kenya, 2011-2012 The Welzijn Wajir Foundation supports the very poorest population of Wajir (North-eastern Kenya) and surroundings, especially concerning education, healthcare and food supply. In Makaror, the...more |
January 2011 | EDUCATION Teacher training in Northern Cameroon, 2011 VSO sends out vocational specialists to developing countries in Africa and Asia who can share their knowledge and experience with local organisations, helping them to do their work in a more efficient way. The project...more |  January 2011 | ART Main patron National Poetry Day 2011 Every Year, Poetry Day presents poetry to the nation. In light of this day, on January 27, 2011, over three hundred poetry activities will be organized (lectures, performances, school projects, library projects,...more |
 January 2011 | EDUCATION Teacher training and construction of a secondary school, Gbadagui, Benin, 2011-2012 In Benin, the Le Pont Foundation takes an active part in improving education, healthcare, water and sanitation. Previously, the Turing Foundation contributed to Le Pont Foundation's construction...more | January 2011 | NATURE Sustainable Finance for Networks of Marine Protected Areas, Coral Triangle, 2007-2011 The World Wildlife Federation is establishing a foundation for the identification and management of protected marine areas in the Coral Triangle, which consist of 50,000 km2 of coral reefs, 50,000...more |
 January 2011 | NATURE Managing Tuna nurseries and bycatch, Coral Triangle, 2007-2011 Tuna fishing yields food and income for tens of millions of people living in the Coral Triangle. Besides, tuna plays a crucial role in the ecology of the coral reefs. The governments in the Coral Triangle...more | January 2011 | NATURE Live Reef Fish Trade Transformation, Coral Triangle, 2007-2011 This World Wildlife Federation programme intends to achieve a recovery of the diverse fish population in the Coral Triangle, and a reduction of destructive fishing methods (such as dynamite fishing). One of...more |
January 2011 | NATURE Protecting Endangered Turtles, Coral Triangle, 2007-2011 Six out of the seven species of sea turtles we have on this earth live in the Coral Triangle. The animals are threatened most by the accidental bycatch of fishermen and by the loss of breeding habitat along the...more |  January 2011 | NATURE Responding to Climate Change through reduction of Tourism and travel footprint, Coral Triangle, 2007-2011 Global warming is bad for coral reefs - the corals will bleach, lose all their colour and eventually die. This is at the expense of marine life; it will limit fishing opportunities and...more |
 January 2011 | ART Performances Netherlands Student Orchestra, 2011 The 100-person strong Netherlands Student Orchestra (NSO) performs at the best music venues in the Netherlands. To turn the tide of the dropping number of visitors, NSO wants to experiment with a reduced ticket...more | January 2011 | LEPROSY Research on identification of innate and adaptive immune biomarkers 2011-2013 This LUMC (Leiden University Medical Centre) research gives more insight into certain immune pathological mechanisms. These new insights will shed light on the immunopathogenesis of leprosy and the...more |
 January 2011 | ART St. John Passion, Westerkerk, Amsterdam, 2011 After a period of grant trouble, the Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir are about to start afresh by planning two "unforgettable performances" of the St. John Passion by J.S. Bach, on April 9 and...more |  January 2011 | EDUCATION Jobortunity Training Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 2011 At the Jobortunity Training Centre in Arusha, underprivileged youths can enrol in a one-year training that prepares them for a career in tourism. The centre opened in September 2009 with a teacher training...more |
 January 2011 | EDUCATION Major repairs and improvements at Institut Zamenhof, Lomé, Togo, 2011 In 2004, the School in Togo Foundation built a private high standard school for primary and secondary education in Lomé, Togo. In 2008, with the help of the Turing Foundation, a four-classroom wing was...more | ||
October 2010 | |||
 October 2010 | ART Second International wind instruments festival On Wings! 2011 In order to reach as many people as possible, On Wings! will be collaborating with basically all cultural organizations in the...more |  October 2010 | EDUCATION Vocational Education for the Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya, 2010-2011 This projects makes make high-quality and relevant education more easily accessible for the Loita Maasai in the Narok district...more |
 October 2010 | EDUCATION Teacher training and school leaders' course, Southeast Kenya, 2011 By contributing to the development of principals' leadership skills and teachers' professional skills, the...more | October 2010 | NATURE NGO capability and community involvement, Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, 2010 In Mauritania, local NGOs are trained and alternative sources of income for the local community are created...more |
October 2010 | NATURE Sustainable conservation and food security, Région Maritime, Togo 2010 In 20 villages in the very poor southeast of Togo, 4.000 farmers are trained in organic farming and...more | October 2010 | EDUCATION Educational Governance, Doutchi and Filingué, Niger, 2010 In the Niger departments of Dogondoutchi and Filingué, French NGO Aide et Action is dedicating itself to the improvement of the quality of education in seventeen rural areas. The past ten years the focus has been...more |
 October 2010 | EDUCATION Renovation and expansion of vocational training center, Kisantu, D.R. Congo 2010-2011 The Bambale Foundation focuses on education, agriculture and health in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Kisantu, the foundation wants to renovate the school building and expand the Institut...more |  October 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of a school for elementary and secondary education, Djenné, Mali 2010 The Djenné Foundation focuses on education, the arts, and culture in the city of Djenné, Mali. In close cooperation with the local NGO community and the educational institutions, the foundation wants...more |
 October 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of a vocational school for women, Bandiagara, Mali, 2011 The Women and Labour Market Foundation (VAM) is a center of expertise for women's vocational schools. The foundation wants to keep the idea of women's vocational schools alive by offering short, part-time...more | October 2010 | NATURE Protection of natural resources in Timbuktu, Mali, 2010 In ten villages in the Timbuktu region primarily women will be trained in organic market gardening and small livestock farming and in the use of wood-saving ovens. One hundred of the poorest women in these...more |
October 2010 | LEPROSY Main patron IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) 2010 This consortium of thirty Leprosy research groups will develop immunological tests in the coming years...more | October 2010 | NATURE Communal management of grazing land and forest restoration in Ségou, Mali, 2010 The agricultural region Ségou frequently suffers from food shortages caused by the exhaustion of agricultural and grazing land. Forests are chopped down for fire wood and frequently disputes arise...more |
October 2010 | NATURE Sustainable management of the forest of Koubaye, Mali, 2010 This project aims to protect and restore 7,700 km2 of forest by making environmental agreements between the authorities of four local communities. Environmental education will be given to 8,000 adults and...more |  October 2010 | EDUCATION Grants for Talented Underprivileged Children, Ghana 2010-2011 The SmartKids Foundation helps talented underprivileged children in Ghana to go to a reputable secondary school. The children are...more |
 October 2010 | ART Children's Opera about Napoleon, 2010-2011 Frank Groothof succeeds time and again in enthusing and exciting large groups of children with classical music. The Turing Foundation already made donations to earlier music theatre production of his, amongst which...more |  October 2010 | ART Main patron Bram and Geer van Velde, Museum Belvédčre, Friesland, 2010-2011 The Belvédčre Museum is preparing an exhibition on the work of artists and brothers Bram and Geer van Velde. The focus of the exhibition will be on the development phase of both artists. It shows how...more |
 October 2010 | ART Poetry anthology Simon Vestdijk, 2010 Over a period of four years, Van Oorschot Publishing will be publishing twelve beautiful, bound anthologies. Said anthologies hold the best poems of outstanding poets (who are at risk of losing public interest), praised by...more |  October 2010 | NATURE Ecological sustainability and the promotion of (small) livestock farming, Burkina Faso, 2010 In this project Heifer and the Louis Bolk Institute collaborate in the neighbourhood of the villages Gonsé and Gampela in Burkina Faso. The Burkinan organisation ASUDEC gives 'living loans'...more |
October 2010 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a new Vocational Training Centre, Bamako, Mali, 2010 The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) is building a new vocational centre at the heart of the Malinese capital Bamako, together with the local organisation ENDA Mali. The centre will offer...more |  October 2010 | ART Bach Day - An Introduction to Bach at Dutch Primary Schools, 2010 The three-year project 'Bach Day' (Dag van Bach) focuses on primary schools across the country and introduces children to classical music, musicians and their musical instruments. In the coming three...more |
July 2010 | |||
 July 2010 | ART Main patron Paul Klee exhibition, CoBrA Museum Amstelveen, 2012 The Cobra Museum organises an exhibition on the much-loved artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) and his relation to the CoBrA art movement's artworks. The exhibition will be set up with the help of the Zentrum Paul...more |  July 2010 | EDUCATION Modern Teaching Equipment for vocational training centre CPMA, Bamako, Mali, 2010-2011 The Centre Professionel Mécanique Auto (CPMA) for vocational training in car engineering, will be expanding with a four-year degree at Brevet de Technicien level (standard technician's...more |
July 2010 | EDUCATION Upgrading five vocational training centres, Kenya, 2010 VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) sends professional experts to developing countries to share their knowledge with local organisations, so these can do their work more effectively. In Kenya, VSO will be working on...more |  July 2010 | EDUCATION Competency-based Teaching as part of vocational training, Kumasi en Tamale, Ghana, 2010-2011 The ETC (Educational Training Consultants) Technical Training programme focuses on human resource development and capacity building in developing countries by improving technical training. In...more |
 July 2010 | NATURE Sustainable manioc cultivation, Ingoré, Guinea Bissau, 2010-2012 Apart from rice, the most important food plants in Guinea-Bissau are manioc, beans and sorghum. Local organisation Acçăo para o Desenvolvimento promotes the sustainable production of these plants to help land...more |  July 2010 | NATURE Improved sustainable rice cultivation, Sangaréyah Bay, Guinée Bissau, 2010-2012 In Guinea-Bissau, local organisations ADEPAG and ODIL are collaborating to (re)introduce the sustainable cultivation of rice. Since the years of cheap, imported Asian rice are over, sustainable...more |
July 2010 | EDUCATION Free school meals, Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, 2010 The WOL Foundation built the Zoodo educational complex in Ouahigouya, the capital of the province of Yatenga in Burkina Faso. Their goal is to high quality provide (vocational) education for rural youth and to...more | July 2010 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy 2010-2011 The leprosy bacterium has a high affinity for Schwann cells - cells that form a protective layer around nerves...more |
 July 2010 | ART Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum 2010 A special 'Turing Car' will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge...more |  July 2010 | EDUCATION Speed schools for 300 children, province of Kadiogo, Burkina Faso, 2010-2011 In Burkina Faso, Woord & Daad and partner CREDO started dozens of so-called speed schools. These schools give children in the ages of 9-12 who have not had any previous education the opportunity to...more |
July 2010 | EDUCATION ICT vocational training CPAEC, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2010 The Zod Neere Foundation set up a vocational training centre for underprivileged youngsters in Ouagadougou. The centre (CPAEC - Centre Professionnel d'Apprentissage et d'Echanges Culturels) will open its doors...more |  July 2010 | NATURE Sustainable soy cultivation around Lake Siré, Oueme, Benin, 2010-2012 Nature Tropicale focuses on the introduction and supervision of the sustainable cultivation of soy around Lake Siré in Oueme, Benin. A minimum of 50 women and 50 youngsters will be trained to cultivate soy...more |
 July 2010 | NATURE Preservation of Natural Resources, Timbuktu, Mali, 2010 Because of years of draught and a fast population growth, the natural vegetation of the Timbuktu region is under pressure. Because of this...more |  July 2010 | EDUCATION Computer rooms for Secondary Schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2010 Viafrica helps secondary schools to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. Schools must take...more |
 July 2010 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a trade school in Chepchoina, Kenya, 2010 The Elimu Mount Elgon Foundation facilitates educational initiatives in the Mount Elgon Region in Kenya. As part of a larger school complex the foundation supports the establishment of a vocational...more |  July 2010 | NATURE Lubombo Transfrontier Marine Protected Area, Mozambique/Zuid-Afrika, 2010 The Peace Parks Foundation is devoted to protecting those natural areas that are located across the borders between countries. The foundation's main goal is to establish sustainable economic development,...more |
 July 2010 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of the secondary school and teacher training, Kainam, Tanzania 2010 The Kamitei Foundation invests in primary and secondary education for rural children in Tanzania. Kamitei supplies facilities and goods, but also training...more |  July 2010 | EDUCATION School on Wheels, Cameroon, 2010 School on Wheels takes children to school, and teachers to children. Apart from reading and writing, children are taught practical skills and competences that they...more |
May 2010 | |||
May 2010 | ART The Second Turing National Poetry Contest 2010-2011 The Turing National Poetry Contest is the only national poetry contest in the Netherlands that is accessible to everyone and is not about a poet, but a poem. With 15,688 poems submitted, the first edition was a...more | May 2010 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 10,000 school children, Thika, Kenya, 2010 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more |
May 2010 | EDUCATION Teacher Training Electricity & Renewable Energy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2010 The Kram Ngoy Centre is a vocational training centre in Phnom Penh where 100 youths a year are trained to be electricians. The centre is currently short on qualified teachers. In the next two years, the...more | May 2010 | ART The Amsterdam Cello Biannual 2010 This two-yearly international cello festival offers specialist performances, but is at the same time directed at a broad audience from all over the Netherlands, presenting easily accessible activities and cello concerts...more |
May 2010 | ART Main patron Dutch Youth String Orchestra NJSO 2010 The NJSO has 24 musicians. All of them are between the ages of 12 and 20 years old and are associated with the young talent classes of the Dutch Schools of music. Thanks to the Turing Foundation, they are able to...more |  May 2010 | EDUCATION Technical vocational training, Rongo district, Kenya, 2010-2011 Edukans, in association with the Kenyan NGO ANPPCAN, is doing a 3-year project aimed at an improved accessibility to relevant and decent education. Education in the Rongo district is poorly developed and there...more |
May 2010 | EDUCATION Teacher Training, Kenia en Tanzania, 2010 In Kenya and Tanzania, Terre des Hommes is working with local partners to improve the quality of secondary education at government schools. Teachers are being trained in modern teaching methods, exam methods and the...more |  May 2010 | ART The Second Turing Art Award, 2011 One of Turing Foundation's goals is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums. To that end, the Turing Foundation introduced the Turing Grant in December 2008, which is a € 450,000 donation that will...more |
 May 2010 | ART Poetry anthologies Van Geel & Morriën, 2010 Over a period of four years, Van Oorschot Publishing will be publishing twelve beautiful, bound anthologies. Said anthologies hold the best poems of outstanding poets (who are at risk of losing public interest), praised...more |  May 2010 | EDUCATION Improvement of primary and vocational education, Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo, 2010 Congodorpen contributes to the recovery and building up of education in the Equatorial Province, D.R. Congo. During a three-year project, 22 schools will be working on educational improvement (6...more |
May 2010 | EDUCATION Better access to education for vulnerable children, Bukavu and Walungu, D.R. Congo, 2010 In South Kivu, War Child strives for better access to education for vulnerable children. D.R. Congo knows a great shortage of qualified teachers. Therefore, War Child trains teachers associated...more |  May 2010 | ART Free classical music at the Vondelpark 2010 On Sunday Summer mornings, renowned music ensembles render free classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark Theater. In 2010...more |
May 2010 | ART Romantic Music Day 2010 This year will see the 24th edition of 'Romantic Music Day', organized by the Buitengoed Foundation. During this free festival, musicians of renowned orchestras will be performing along with laureates of the Princess Christina...more |  May 2010 | EDUCATION Teacher Training solar enegry systems, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 2010-2011 At the request of six technical schools in Bobo Dioulasso, the ETC Technical Training Programme will be training 26 Electricity/Electrical Engineering teachers in solar energy systems. After the...more |
 May 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of teacher residences for Loita High School in Entasekira, Kenya, 2010-2011 For several years now, Mill-Hill College in Goirle has been supporting the development of Loita High School in Entasekira, Kenya. This Maasai region is short on schools, which is why in 2006, on...more |  May 2010 | ART Main patron Youth Concert 'Takkenherrie' 2010-2012 The Blikskaters! music group is part of the Alle Hoeken van de Kamermuziek Foundation, made up of musicians who started in the Ricciotti Ensemble. Blikskaters! created the classical production 'Takkenherrie'. They...more |
 May 2010 | EDUCATION Emergency aid in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2010 The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school...more | ||
March 2010 | |||
 March 2010 | ART Main patron Diane Arbus - A Retrospective, FOAM Amsterdam, 2010 Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most fascinating and important photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Never before have The Netherlands exhibited an extensive retrospective of her work...more |  March 2010 | EDUCATION School book project for primary schools, Northwest Cameroon, 2010 Knowledge for Children supports rural schools in Northwest Cameroon by building up a decent book stock and effectively using books as an instructional tool in education. A book fund will also be set up in...more |
March 2010 | EDUCATION Programme for tutoring teenagers in South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2010 ZOA Refugee Care wants to offer primary education in 3 years to youths from returnee families who missed one or more years of primary education. This mainly concerns orphans, ex-child soldiers, child victims...more |  March 2010 | ART Main patron Louise Bourgeois - Double Sexus, Den Haag Municipal Museum, 2010-2011 Louise Bourgeois (1911) is regarded as one of the most important artists still alive today. She was recently honoured with large-scale exhibitions in Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou. The Den Haag...more |
March 2010 | NATURE Regreening Initiative, Niger, 2010 Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, with three-quarters of its surface covered by desert and 85% of its population being entirely dependent on agriculture. Both Ends and the VU Centre for International...more |  March 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of a new school, Mamfe, Cameroon, 2010 LiveBuild, in association with United Action for Children (UAC), wants to set up a high-quality school in Mamfe. UAC has already realised a similar school in Buea, with smaller classes, quality education,...more |
 March 2010 | ART Music performance Who will tame the king?, 2010-2011 The Apollo Ensemble has specialized in baroque performances played with authentic instruments. In Who will tame the king? the focus is on baroque music for children. The show aims at having children experience...more | March 2010 | ART Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2010 The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic conservatory students, and performs a minimum of 100 times a year. They seek out the people that are unable to attend live classical performances for different reasons....more |
 March 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of a medical school in Kiliba, D.R. Congo, 2010 Focus on Education, in association with the local NGO Fondation Chirezi, wants to set up an intermediate vocational school for health care with a capacity of 150 students a year. The school will offer a 3-year...more |  March 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of a technical school in Kambila, Mali, 2010-2012 The Mali Foundation, in association with its local partner Solisa, will set up a basic technical school to provide some prospect beside primary education in an area where there is no secondary education...more |
 March 2010 | ART Main patron Alla Turca, Rotterdam Opera days 2010 The Rotterdam Opera days were founded in 2001 to make opera accessible to everyone. For ten days straight there will be concerts on various stages, in the street and at special venues in the city. For the 2010...more |  March 2010 | EDUCATION Tools for technical vocational education, Tanzania, 2010 The Foundation for Refurbished Tools (Gered Gereedschap) collects and refurbishes tools and dispatches these to development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America on demand. Every year, the foundation...more |
March 2010 | EDUCATION Teacher training in South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 2010 Children in Crisis is a British NGO that works on educational projects in post-conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In South Kivu, D.R. Congo, 72 head masters and 500 teachers will be...more | March 2010 | ART The Princess Christina Concours - Classical Express, 2010 The Princess Christina Concours strives to excite as many children as possible for classical music. To that end, in 2007 the Turing Foundation contributed to the development of the Princess Christina Express, a...more |
 March 2010 | EDUCATION ICT Vocational Training Programmes, Nairobi, Kenia, 2010 NairoBits is a Digital Design School in Kenya's capital Nairobi, founded by Butterfly Works. NairoBits is currently being managed on site and offers training programs in web design and job hunting skills to...more |  March 2010 | EDUCATION Social and financial skills for children, Ghana, 2010 Aflatoun provides children between the ages of 6 and 14 with important social and economic skills by teaching them about rights and responsibilities, personal development, spending and saving, and planning and...more |
March 2010 | ART Main patron of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2010 To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that...more |  March 2010 | ART Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2010 The Dutch cultural and literary magazine De Gids has already been published for 170 years. Its aim is to promote literature and to stimulate the Dutch cultural and social debate. De Gids holds a unique position within...more |
March 2010 | EDUCATION Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana 2010 All over the world, SOS Kinderdorpen offers structural support to orphans and abandoned children. Over the past couple of years, the foundation has increasingly focused on establishing and improving job training,...more |  March 2010 | NATURE Promotion and improvement of biological shea nut farming, Burkina Faso, 2010 For millions of African people, in particular women, the shea nut provides one of the most important sources of income. Forest fires, logging and the use of non-sustainable artificial fertilizer pose...more |
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 January 2010 | LEPROSY Research on treatment of early neuropathy in leprosy 2010 The TENLEP Research Consortium (Treatment of Early Neuropathy in Leprosy) is a large international association in which 14 researchers from renowned research institutes all over the world work together, combining...more |  January 2010 | ART Main patron Dance from Matisse, Hermitage, Amsterdam, 2010 In Spring 2010, the Amsterdam Hermitage organises an exhibition of 75 master pieces by artists like Picasso, Kandinsky, Van Dongen and Matisse. This exhibition presents a beautiful overview of modernism,...more |
 January 2010 | ART Main patron The Large Eyes of Kees van Dongen, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, 2010-2011 Starting in September 2010, the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum will present an overview of the works of painter Kees van Dongen (1877-1968). This exhibition will focus on the development of Van...more | January 2010 | EDUCATION Teacher training in Northern Cameroon, 2010 VSO sends out vocational specialists to developing countries in Africa and Asia who can share their knowledge and experience with local organisations, helping them to do their work in a more efficient way. The project...more |
 January 2010 | NATURE Sustainable fish production, Oueme river, Benin, 2010-2012 AquaDeD (Aquaculture et Développement Durable) is a young NGO from Benin which especially aims to further develop sustainable fishing in the flood plains of the Oueme river, a recognized nature reserve. The use...more |  January 2010 | ART Main patron National Poetry Day 2010 Every year, National Poetry Day ('Gedichtendag') puts poetry in the national spotlight. On 28 January 2010 over three hundred poetry-related activities will take place (lectures, recitals, school and library projects, et...more |
January 2010 | LEPROSY Research on identification of innate and adaptive immune biomarkers 2010 This LUMC (Leiden University Medical Centre) research gives more insight into certain immune pathological mechanisms. These new insights will shed light on the immunopathogenesis of leprosy and the...more |  January 2010 | NATURE Biological cultivation of red pepper, Igbodja region, Benin, 2010-2012 Since 1993, the Beninese organisation Action Plus is active in the fields of agriculture, environment and health care. This NGO is working on a biological agriculture training project for women in...more |
 January 2010 | ART Main patron First Bach Festival, Dordrecht, 2010 The Bach Festival Dordrecht has the ambition to become the first biennial Bach festival in the Netherlands. It will offer 80 to 100 large and small-scale concerts, performed by renowned musicians and recently...more |  January 2010 | NATURE Sustainable management of wetlands around Lake Doro, Mali, 2010-2011 9,500 people live in eight villages in the tidal area within the project region in South-West Mali: farmers, cattle-breeding nomads and fishermen. These people...more |
 January 2010 | LEPROSY Research on impact of preventive interventions on the transmission of M. Leprae, 2010 The Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) are together doing research into the transmission of the leprosy bacteria and the effects of prophylactic...more |  January 2010 | EDUCATION Extra classrooms and teacher training, Bona, Burkina Faso, 2010 The Association for Small African Projects labours to improve the welfare of inhabitants of nine poor villages in Western Burkina Faso. In 2010, teachers of the nine villages and the surrounding area will be...more |
 January 2010 | ART A Tribute to Umm Kulthum, Holland Festival 2010 For many years, the Holland Festival has brought the world's best artists to the Netherlands. The 2010 edition of the festival will start with songs by Umm Kulthum, written for the in the region very popular 'Arab...more |  January 2010 | ART Main patron Warenar by P.C. Hooft, 2010 The ambition of theatre company De Kale is to make classical poets and old Dutch texts accessible to a large Dutch audience. De Kale will present P.C. Hooft's poem Warenar in the Muiderslot Castle. With this project De...more |
 January 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of an income generating lodge for vocational training, Kisumu, Kenia, 2010 The Ujima Foundation offers vocational education for underprivileged children of Nakuru and Kisumu who need to provide for younger brothers and sisters. The young students are trained to find jobs...more |  January 2010 | NATURE Sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo, 2010-2012 The IUCN is recovering part of a rainforest that has been seriously impoverished due to human activities, but still houses...more |
 January 2010 | ART Main patron Classical music in..., Hengelo en Naarden-Vesting, 2010 Classical music in ... was founded to bring free classical music concerts to towns and cities that hardly have any classical music calendar at all. Musicians of ensembles such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic...more |  January 2010 | ART The Music Factory, school- and family concerts, 2010-2011 Calefax Reed Quintet has given more than 600 concerts in twenty countries since it was founded in 1985. The Times on Calefax: "Calefax - five extremely gifted Dutch Gents who almost made the reed quintet seem...more |
 January 2010 | EDUCATION Construction of new elementary school classrooms, Gountoëto, Benin, 2010 The Le Pont Foundation is active in Benin in the field of education, health care, water and sanitation. In 2010, Le Pont will construct three extra classrooms for the existing elementary school in...more |  January 2010 | EDUCATION Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka, 2009 The Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka for 300 orphans. Many of them...more |
 January 2010 | EDUCATION School Support Programme in the Upper Shiran Valley, Pakistan 2009-2010 The Haashar Foundation of the Netherlands supports victims of the earthquake of 8 October 2005 in Northern Pakistan. The School Support Programme helps children in the area to return to school, by paying...more | ||
October 2009 | |||
 October 2009 | NATURE Communal management of grazing land and forest restoration in Ségou, Mali, 2009 The agricultural region Ségou frequently suffers from food shortages caused by the exhaustion of agricultural and grazing land. Forests are chopped down for fire wood and frequently disputes arise...more |  October 2009 | ART Illusion and Reality - Van Gogh Museum, 2010-2011 On 8 October 2010 an exhibition of Naturalist painting will be opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, presenting huge paintings from collections all over the world. Never before has Naturalism been showcased...more |
October 2009 | EDUCATION Jobortunity Training Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 2010 Jobortunity is a new training institute in the city of Arusha, Tanzania. Underprivileged young people can follow a one-year course to prepare them for a career in the tourist industry. 120 young people will be...more |  October 2009 | NATURE Organic gardening and 'night paddocks', Cameroon, 2009-2010 Njamnjama is a vegetable similar to spinach. In Cameroon the traditional production of this vegetable has not been able to keep up with the huge demand. It grows extremely fast and can be grown all year round....more |
 October 2009 | NATURE Protection of natural resources in Timbuktu, Mali, 2009 In ten villages in the Timbuktu region primarily women will be trained in organic market gardening and small livestock farming and in the use of wood-saving ovens. One hundred of the poorest women in these...more |  October 2009 | ART Chamber Music Concerts for youngsters, Amsterdam, 2009-2010 The IJ-Salon is a private initiative by members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The foundation wants to make first-rate chamber music accessible to a wide audience by means of concerts in the Muziekgebouw aan 't...more |
 October 2009 | EDUCATION Vocational Training Centre Olokii, Tanzania, 2009-2010 Dorcas Hulp Nederland has set up a vocational training centre in the poor, rural outskirts of the city of Arusha. In 2009 the centre started with the training of the first 50 pupils. The aim is that, from 2012,...more |  October 2009 | NATURE Ecological sustainability and the promotion of (small) livestock farming, Burkina Faso, 2009 In this project Heifer and the Louis Bolk Institute collaborate in the neighbourhood of the villages Gonsé and Gampela. The Burkinan organisation ASUDEC gives 'living loans' according to the...more |
 October 2009 | NATURE Sustainable Agricultural Programmes, Burkina Faso 2009 In Burkina Faso, the Hunger Project is working on the improvement of sustainable agricultural methods, the protection of affected parcels of forest, the...more |  October 2009 | EDUCATION Grants for Talented Underprivileged Children, Ghana 2009 The SmartKids Foundation helps talented underprivileged children in Ghana to go to a reputable secondary school. The children are...more |
 October 2009 | NATURE Forest conservation on small-scale cacao plantations, Wassa Amenfi District, Ghana, 2009-2010 The Rural Environmental Care Association (RECA) focuses on the sustained use of land combined with forest conservation. In the Ghanaian District Wassa Amenfi the organisation teaches 800 cacao...more |  October 2009 | NATURE Sustainable management of the forest of Koubaye, Mali, 2009 This project aims to protect and restore 7,700 km2 of forest by making environmental agreements between the authorities of four local communities. Environmental education will be given to 8,000 adults and...more |
 October 2009 | ART Vincent van Gogh: the artist and his letters, 2009-2010 After years of of intensive research, Vincent van Gogh's letters will be published in a 'definitive version': in five bound volumes with high-quality reproductions of all 2,000 works of art referred to in the letters...more |  October 2009 | NATURE Introduction of the organic production of 'Niebe', Burkina Faso, 2009-2012 The floodplains around Lake Darkoye in the northwest of Burkina Faso are in the poor Sahel region, where malnutrition and hunger are still prevalent. The farmers use traditional agricultural methods in...more |
October 2009 | LEPROSY Main patron IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) 2009 This consortium of thirty Leprosy research groups will develop immunological tests in the coming years...more |  October 2009 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment Primary School, Chittachong, Bangladesh, 2009-2010 GlobalCare4All retrains spinal cord lesion patients to become teachers - a profession they are still able to practise - thereby meeting an enormous need. 130 children...more |
 October 2009 | NATURE Developing organic vegetable gardens and orchards - Séguénéga, Burkina Faso, 2009-2010 The Burkinan organisation ADECUSS will teach 300 women in the extremely poor and dry northern region of Burkina Faso modern market gardening and agricultural techniques (such as how to make compost...more |  October 2009 | EDUCATION Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2009 This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers,...more |
 October 2009 | EDUCATION Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2009 A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education,...more | ||
July 2009 | |||
 July 2009 | ART Main patron Theo van Doesburg and the Avant-Garde, de Lakenhal, Leiden, 2009-2010 Hundreds of works that have never been seen before in the Netherlands, from Van Doesburg, Mondriaan, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky and others, will be...more |  July 2009 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a Vocational Training Centre, Bamako, Mali, 2009 The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) is building a new vocational centre at the heart of the Malinese capital Bamako, together with the local organisation ENDA Mali. The centre will offer...more |
 July 2009 | EDUCATION Vocational Education for the Loita Maasai, Narok South District, Kenya, 2009 In Kenya, the Edukans Foundation works together with local organisation ILIDP to improve the accessibility of qualitatively adequate and relevant vocational education for the Loita Maasai in the Narok...more |  July 2009 | NATURE Restoration and protection of local ecosystems, Région des Savanes, Togo, 2009-2010 In the Région des Savanes in Northern Togo, a very poor region, the ecosystem is deteriorating at an alarming pace as a result of uncontrolled (over)exploitation of soil and wood (especially...more |
 July 2009 | ART Bach Day - An Introduction to Bach at Dutch Primary Schools, 2009-2010 The three-year project 'Bach Day' (Dag van Bach) focuses on primary schools across the country and introduces children to classical music, musicians and their musical instruments. In the coming three...more |  July 2009 | ART Children's Opera based on Goethe's Faust, 2009-2010 Frank Groothof succeeds time and again in enthusing and exciting large groups of children with classical music. The Turing Foundation already made donations to earlier music theatre production of his, amongst which...more |
 July 2009 | EDUCATION Vocational Education in Mai Mahiu, Kenya, 2009-2010 The Red een Kind Foundation supports children in developing countries who suffer from poverty, discrimination, disasters or illnesses by offering them education, vocational training and HIV/Aids education. The...more |  July 2009 | EDUCATION School Improvement Programme, Kenya, 2009-2010 Net4Kids supports the School Improvement Programme in Kenya, launched by the organisation International Child Support. Representatives from schools and communities work together in this programme to ensure good...more |
July 2009 | ART Main patron Bram and Geer van Velde, Museum Belvédčre, Friesland, 2009 The Belvédčre Museum is preparing an exhibition on the work of artists and brothers Bram and Geer van Velde. The focus of the exhibition will be on the development phase of both artists. It shows how...more | July 2009 | LEPROSY Field Projects Leprosy Control, Cambodia 2009 The Leprosy Foundation works together with the CIOMAL organisation on Leprosy control in Cambodia. The quality of diagnostics is a...more |
July 2009 | ART Free classical music at the Vondelpark 2009 On Sunday Summer mornings, renowned music ensembles render free classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark Theater. In 2009...more |  July 2009 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment for a new Vocational Training Centre, Kisumu, Kenya, 2009-2011 Together with local organisations BIG Ltd and Pandipieri Centre, Afri-Can Foundation (formerly known as VCAA) is setting up a technical training centre for underprivileged youngsters in Kisumu,...more |
July 2009 | ART Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum 2009 A special 'Turing Car' will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge. What's more, each...more | July 2009 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy 2009 The leprosy bacterium has a high affinity for Schwann cells - cells that form a protective layer around nerves...more |
 July 2009 | EDUCATION Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, 2009 The UAF supports refugees and asylum seekers with a higher education in their further training and in finding work by means of providing money, advice and supervision. Around 300 UAF-students will graduate...more |  July 2009 | EDUCATION School on Wheels, Cameroon, 2009 School on Wheels takes children to school, and teachers to children. Apart from reading and writing, children are taught practical skills and competences that they...more |
July 2009 | NATURE Preservation of Natural Resources, Timbuktu, Mali, 2009 Because of years of draught and a fast population growth, the natural vegetation of the Timbuktu region is under pressure. Because of this...more |  July 2009 | EDUCATION Computer rooms for Secondary Schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2009 Viafrica helps secondary schools to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. Schools must take...more |
 July 2009 | EDUCATION Informal Skills Training Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009-2010 The Edukans Foundation works on vocational and practically-oriented education for youth in Nairobi in a profession that they choose themselves and that they will later be able to practise independently. After that, they will apprentice themselves to...more |  July 2009 | LEPROSY Field Projects Leprosy Control, Laos 2009 In Laos leprosy occurs mostly among minorities that are hard to reach. Mutilations are often severe and irreparable if the...more |
July 2009 | ART Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2009 The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who hardly ever...more | July 2009 | ART Main patron of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2009 To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that...more |
 July 2009 | EDUCATION Education in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2009 The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school...more |  July 2009 | EDUCATION Computer lessons, Philippines, 2009 Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as...more |
May 2009 | |||
 May 2009 | ART The Turing Art Award 2009 - Mike Kelley, a retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2009-2011 The exhibition concept 'Mike Kelley, a Retrospective' submitted by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has won the € 450.000 Turing Art Award...more | ||
April 2009 | |||
April 2009 | ART The First Turing National Poetry Contest 2009-2010 On 21 April 2009 the Turing National Poetry Competition was launched. This is the first national poetry contest that is open to anyone over 16 and focuses, first of all, on poetry, not on the poet. The concept...more |  April 2009 | ART Exhibition "Made in Holland", Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2010-2011 In the Autumn of 2010 the Mauritshuis organises an exhibition of 44 Dutch masterworks from the Golden Age that are part of an American private collection. The paintings will include works by Rembrandt,...more |
April 2009 | EDUCATION Farming and Livelihood Improvement Programme, Ghana 2009 All over the world, SOS Kinderdorpen offers structural support to orphans and abandoned children. Over the past couple of years, the foundation has increasingly focused on establishing and improving job training,...more |  April 2009 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a primary school in Balandougou, Mali, 2009 The Dutch Mali Foundation and its regular Malinese partner Solisa support the local people in the hills surrounding the city of Bamako, and seek, among others, to set up primary education for both boys...more |
 April 2009 | ART Exhibition 'Art and Games', Kortenhoef, 2009 The Kunst aan de Dijk Foundation has been organising exhibitions of Dutch painters for over 25 years. The foundation will exhibit a number of paintings by, among others, Toorop, Sluyters, and Israels, in which...more |  April 2009 | ART Pitié, Holland Festival 2009 Since 1947 the annual Holland Festival has staged a wide array of impressive and high-profile artistic projects from all over the world, including theatre, music, dance, and the plastic arts. Like in 2007 ('Era La Notte')...more |
 April 2009 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 1180 children of Several Primary Schools in Thika, Kenya, 2009-2009 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more |  April 2009 | ART International wind instruments festival On Wings! 2009 In June 2009 the city of Groningen will stage On Wings!, Holland's first wind instruments festival. Players of wind instruments from home and abroad will perform throughout town. Apart from the many concerts, a...more |
 April 2009 | ART Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam, 2009-2010 Over the years, the Brisk Recorder Quartet has built a firm reputation, particularly when it comes to performances for children. BRISK is aware, from experience, that school performances allow children who normally...more |  April 2009 | EDUCATION Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2009 The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children in...more |
 April 2009 | ART Poetry anthologies Vasalis & Hanlo, 2009 Publishing house Van Oorschot is planning to publish twelve beautifully printed hardcover anthologies in the course of four years. These anthologies feature the very best poems by excellent Dutch poets - who may be in...more |  April 2009 | ART Matthew Passion by Residentie Bach Ensembles, 2009 Each year, the Residentie Bach Ensembles offer a varied concert programme of classical music, aiming to reach as many young people as possible without damaging the quality of the music. In 2006, their Matthew...more |
 April 2009 | EDUCATION Construction of an educational institute in Yatenga, Burkina Faso, 2007-2009 The WOL Foundation is building an educational institute in Burkina Faso to further develop vocational training for rural youngsters in the region, and to prevent a relapse into illiteracy...more | April 2009 | ART Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2009 The Dutch cultural and literary magazine De Gids has already been published for 170 years. Its aim is to promote literature and to stimulate the Dutch cultural and social debate. De Gids holds a unique position within...more |
 April 2009 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of the secondary school and teacher training, Kainam, Tanzania 2009 The Kamitei Foundation invests in primary and secondary education for rural children in Tanzania. Kamitei supplies facilities and goods, but also training...more |  April 2009 | EDUCATION Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia, 2009 Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 80 AIDS orphans and street children in Windhoek can go to school...more |
 April 2009 | EDUCATION Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009 The Foundation Kindertehuizen Bulgarije supports five children's homes near Sofia, where 400 children...more | ||
January 2009 | |||
 January 2009 | ART Main patron National Poetry Day 2009 Every year, National Poetry Day ("Gedichtendag") puts poetry in the national spotlight. On 29 January 2009 over three hundred poetry-related activities will take place, including lectures, recitals, and school and library...more |  January 2009 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a trade school in Chepchoina, Kenya, 2009 The Elimu Mount Elgon Foundation facilitates educational initiatives in the Mount Elgon Region in Kenya. As part of a larger school complex the foundation supports the establishment of a vocational...more |
 January 2009 | EDUCATION Technical and vocational training, Nyonko and Fada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso, 2009 By boosting technical training, ETC's Technical Training Programme focuses on human resource development and capacity building in developing countries. The ETC ("Educational Training Consultants") has...more |  January 2009 | ART Main patron Anton Mauve exhibitions, Singer Museum, Laren and Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2009-2010 In the Autumn of 2009 The Singer Museum in Laren and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem will simultaneously present a special exhibition of the popularly acclaimed painter Anton Mauve...more |
 January 2009 | ART Main patron Meijer de Haan retrospective, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2009-2010 From 11 October 2009 the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present a generous retrospective of the 19th-century artist Meijer de Haan. For the first time in 125 years this exhibition will...more |  January 2009 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a school in Agome Anedi, Togo, 2009 Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese organisation the Turing Foundation will help replace the self-built school in Agome Anedi...more |
 January 2009 | EDUCATION Vocational training for underprivileged young people in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009 The Vialisa Foundation's aim is to offer a more hopeful perspective to the underprivileged youth in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Vialisa offers refresher courses, training and support to young...more | January 2009 | NATURE Promotion and improvement of biological shea nut farming, Burkina Faso, 2009 For millions of African people, in particular women, the shea nut provides one of the most important sources of income. Forest fires, logging and the use of non-sustainable artificial fertilizer pose...more |
 January 2009 | ART Chamber Opera Festival 2009 Zwolle's Chamber Orchestra Festival is the only festival dedicated exclusively to chamber opera and small-scale musical theatre. For as many as ten days performances from home and abroad, and from baroque to contemporary music...more |  January 2009 | EDUCATION Construction of an ecological school in Sinia, D.R. Congo, 2009-2011 The Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation protects animals threatened with extinction. One of its projects is the establishment of a nature reserve (Boyoma Sanctuary) on an island in the River Congo, near the...more |
 January 2009 | EDUCATION Furnishing two school libraries in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2009 The Paymaan Foundation provides structural educational support to children in Afghanistan. Apart from financing the adoption of street children and orphans, the Foundation furnishes school libraries in Kabul by...more |  January 2009 | ART Main patron 'The Orchestra Kitchen' 2009 The Holland Symfonia (nowadays, The Ballet Orchestra) is one the major Dutch symphony orchestras, acting as the regular accompanist of the Dutch National Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater. Developed especially...more |
 January 2009 | ART The First Turing Art Award, 2009 One of the aims of the Turing Foundation is to enable a greater number of people to enjoy art in Dutch museums. This is why in December 2008 the Turing Foundation initiated the Turing Art Award, a € 450,000...more |  January 2009 | EDUCATION Construction of two schools in Efa and Sofič, Togo, 2009 The R.C. Maagdenhuis Foundation supports locally initiated small-scale projects in developing countries. A network of local advisors provides recommendations on the projects' feasibility and monitors their...more |
 January 2009 | EDUCATION Extension and furnishing of a school in Kuma Konda, Togo, 2009 Having collaborated with Les Compagnons Ruraux on nature conservation before, under the supervision of this Togolese organisation the Turing Foundation will help extend the school in Kuma Konda with additional...more |  January 2009 | EDUCATION ICT Vocational Training Programmes, Nairobi, Kenia, 2009 NairoBits is a Digital Design School in Kenya's capital Nairobi, founded by Butterfly Works. NairoBits is currently being managed on site and offers training programs in web design and job hunting skills to...more |
January 2009 | EDUCATION Social and financial skills for children, Ghana, 2009 Aflatoun provides children between the ages of 6 and 14 with important social and economic skills by teaching them about rights and responsibilities, personal development, spending and saving, and planning and...more | ||
October 2008 | |||
 October 2008 | NATURE Establishing Lubombo Transfrontier Marine Protected Area, Mozambique/Zuid-Afrika, 2009 The Peace Parks Foundation is devoted to protecting those natural areas that are located across the borders between countries. The foundation's main goal is to establish sustainable economic...more |  October 2008 | ART Main patron Paris Central, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, 2009-2010 The Cobra Movement was established in 1948 in Paris, the capital of European art of that time. In those years, the most important Cobra artists Appel and Jorn became part of a larger European network of...more |
 October 2008 | ART Main patron 'Jan Lievens - A Dutch Master Rediscovered', Rembrandthuis Amsterdam, 2009 Jan Lievens was a prodigy child who lived in the seventeenth century. He established himself as an independent master painter when he was only ten years old. His painting greatly influenced the...more |  October 2008 | EDUCATION Construction of a vocational training centre in Nairobi, Kenia, 2009-2011 The mission of ChildsLife International is to improve the lives of needy children in developing countries. On the outskirts of the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, the foundation is establishing a...more |
 October 2008 | EDUCATION Construction of a primary school in Isitu, Tanzania, 2009-2012 Connect International supports small-scale sustainable self-help projects of local organisations in developing countries. The foundation is establishing a school in the Tanzanian village of Isitu, including a...more |  October 2008 | ART Main patron Elizabeth Peyton exhibition, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 2009-2010 The Bonnefanten Museum celebrates its 125th anniversary with several special exhibitions, such as a retrospective on contemporary painter Elizabeth Peyton. Her work has never before been shown in the...more |
 October 2008 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy 2008 The leprosy bacterium has a high affinity for Schwann cells - cells that form a protective layer around nerves...more | October 2008 | EDUCATION Construction of a primary school in N'goro, Mali, 2009 The Dutch Mali Foundation and its permanent Malinese partner Solisa together support the community living in the hills around the town of Bamako in Mali, and try to set up institutions of primary education, for...more |
 October 2008 | ART World Premiere Svadebka! The Village Wedding, 2009 Svadebka! De Dorpsbruiloft (The Village Wedding) is the completed version of Stravinsky's unfinished instrumentation of Les Noces by the Dutch composer Theo Verbey, written in 1919. It has never before been...more |  October 2008 | ART Main patron of the Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 2009 Following the success of Benjamin's Orchestra in 2007, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will in the Spring of 2009 be putting on Händel's 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' in children's adaptation,...more |
 October 2008 | ART Opera per Tutti - Opera for everybody, 2008-2009 Opera per Tutti puts on operas of good quality in an informal atmosphere. Parts of well-known or less famous operas are performed in a light-hearted way, while no harm is being done to the quality of the performance....more |  October 2008 | EDUCATION Tools for technical vocational education, Ghana, 2009 500 volunteers of the Gered Gereedschap Foundation collect and recycle used tools and send them on request to development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Every year, the foundation supplies over 100,000...more |
 October 2008 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a primary school in Sukuma, Laos, 2009 Child's Dream helps underprivileged children in the Mekong region by improving the social circumstances and the level of education. In the village of Sukuma, Laos, the foundation takes care of the...more |  October 2008 | ART Main patron of The Secret of Silence, Roermond, 2009 Stichting De Roermondse Kartuizers (The Carthusians of Roermond Foundation) organises the exhibition 'Het Geheim van de Stilte -De besloten wereld van de Roermondse Kartuizers' (The Secret of Silence - The...more |
October 2008 | EDUCATION Vocational training in Mai Mahiu, Kenya, 2008 Red een Kind supports children in developing countries who are confronted with poverty, discrimination, disasters or diseases by means of education, vocational training and HIV/Aids education. In Kenya, the foundation...more |  October 2008 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of secondary school library, renovation of vocational training building, Wajir, Kenya, 2008-2009 The Stichting Welzijn Wajir (Welfare Wajir Foundation) supports the poorest community in and around Wajir (North-Eastern Kenya), especially in the field of education, health care,...more |
October 2008 | EDUCATION School Support Programme in the Upper Shiran Valley, Pakistan 2008 The Haashar Foundation of the Netherlands supports victims of the earthquake of 8 October 2005 in Northern Pakistan. The School Support Programme helps children in the area to return to school, by paying for...more |  October 2008 | NATURE Teacher training and nature education, Ido Eco Community, Tanzania, 2008-2010 Hugo van Lawick devoted his life to observing and capturing nature. He was married to Jane Goodall and is a legend in Tanzania. The foundation established in his name is devoted to nature education...more |
 October 2008 | ART Christmas concerts Händel and Purcell, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Emmen, 2008 Capella Frisiae is a professional chamber choir which is well-known in the North of the Netherlands. At the end of 2008, the choir organises a series of Christmas concerts (featuring works by Händel...more | October 2008 | ART The letters of Vincent van Gogh, 2008-2009 After years of of intensive research, Vincent van Gogh's letters will be published in a 'definitive version': in five bound volumes with high-quality reproductions of all 2,000 works of art referred to in the letters...more |
 October 2008 | EDUCATION Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi, 2008 SOS Children's Villages is particularly known for the special 'villages' they have built in more than 100 countries, where orphans can...more | October 2008 | EDUCATION Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2008 This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers,...more |
October 2008 | EDUCATION Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2008 A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education,...more |  October 2008 | ART Main patron of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra 2008 To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that...more |
October 2008 | EDUCATION Computer lessons, Philippines, 2008 Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as...more | ||
July 2008 | |||
 July 2008 | ART Main patron Retrospective Exhibition Jan van Scorel, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2009 Jan van Scorel was one of the first Dutch painters to practice the new Renaissance style of painting. The Centraal Museum of Utrecht...more | July 2008 | EDUCATION Grants for Talented Underprivileged Children, Ghana 2008 The SmartKids Foundation helps talented underprivileged children in Ghana to go to a reputable secondary school. The children are...more |
 July 2008 | LEPROSY Main patron IDEAL consortium (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) 2008 This consortium of thirty Leprosy research groups will develop immunological tests in the coming years...more |  July 2008 | ART Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival 2008 Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival explicitly aims to interest also the younger generation in chamber music. In 2008 the festival...more |
 July 2008 | ART The Amsterdam Cello Biennale 2008 This two-yearly international cello festival offers specialist performances, but is at the same time directed at a broad audience, presenting easily accessible activities and cello concerts...more |  July 2008 | EDUCATION Vocational Programme Organic Food Production, Sanka, Ghana, 2008-2009 The Bebo Bakery Foundation sets up a training centre for biological food production in Sanka, Ghana. 20 young women are trained to...more |
 July 2008 | EDUCATION Teacher Training Underprivileged Youth, Manyu Division, Cameroon 2008 The remote province of Manyu Division in Cameroon has an urgent lack of qualified teachers. The ABCD Foundation pays for the tuition of underprivileged...more |  July 2008 | NATURE Community Forest, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008-2010 ANCO introduces and stimulates sustainable agriculture and other types of sustainable sources of income...more |
July 2008 | NATURE The Coral Triangle Initiative, 2008-2012 There is no place on earth that is home to such great biodiversity as the coral triangle. The Turing Foundation contributes € 3,000,000 to...more | July 2008 | EDUCATION Educational/Food Programme for 1180 children of Several Primary Schools in Thika, Kenya, 2008 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya supports several primary schools by providing...more |
July 2008 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment Primary School, Chittachong, Bangladesh, 2008 GlobalCare4All retrains spinal cord lesion patients to become teachers - a profession they are still able to practise - thereby meeting an enormous need. 130 children...more |  July 2008 | ART Contemporary Art Exhibition: Not Normal, Beurs van Berlage, 2009-2010 The manifestation Not Normal - Difference on Display is centred on an international visual art exhibition displaying paintings by Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Luc Tuymans, Marc Quinn...more |
 July 2008 | ART Music Theatre Vincent van Gogh, a Life in Paintings, 2008-2009 The most recent music theatre production by Frank Groothof shows the life of Van Gogh, accompanied by music from contemporaries of Van Gogh - like Mendelssohn, Satie, Fauré...more |  July 2008 | EDUCATION Construction of a Primary School in Dangbo, Benin, 2009 The Le Pont Foundation constructs schools in Benin that are provided with teachers by the government and are run on parental contributions. In 2008 a new primary school for 100 children...more |
 July 2008 | EDUCATION School Books for Developing Countries, 2008 The Read to Grow Foundation collects second-hand recreational and school books and sends them to village schools in developing countries...more | July 2008 | NATURE Sustainable Agricultural Programmes, Burkina Faso, 2008 In Burkina Faso, the Hunger Project is working on the improvement of sustainable agricultural methods, the protection of affected parcels of forest, the...more |
 July 2008 | NATURE Restoration of Mountain Forests by Introduction of Analogue Forestry, Bamenda High Mountains, Cameroon, 2008 The high mountains of Bamenda are sometimes referred to as the storehouse of Cameroon...more | July 2008 | EDUCATION Education for Aids Orphans and Street Children in Katutura, Namibia, 2008 Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 80 AIDS orphans and street children in Windhoek can go to school...more |
 July 2008 | ART Classical Music Performances for Small Children, Utrecht, 2008-2009 The MEMO Foundation puts small children - who are still fully receptive - into contact with live classical music. This year, MEMO plans...more |  July 2008 | NATURE Sustainable Cocoa Production Eastern and Ashanti Region, Ghana, 2008-2010 As in many other countries, the production of cocoa leads to serious deforestation and forest degradation in Ghana...more |
July 2008 | EDUCATION Educational Programme for Orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka, 2008 The Sri Lanka Orphanage Foundation constructs and develops an orphanage in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka for 300 orphans. Many of them...more |  July 2008 | OTHER Meningitis Township Project, South-Africa, 2008-2009 Meningitis as a result of tuberculosis is a serious threat for young children in South Africa. There is an increased risk of developing TB especially for children living in townships. The VU Children's Infectious...more |
May 2008 | |||
May 2008 | ART Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum 2008 A special 'Turing Car' will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum free of charge. What's more, each...more |  May 2008 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a primary school, Kisantu, D.R. Congo, 2008-2009 The Bambale Foundation focuses on education, agriculture and health care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The foundation is now building durable educational facilities...more |
 May 2008 | LEPROSY Field Projects Leprosy Control, Cambodia 2008 The Leprosy Foundation works together with the CIOMAL organisation on Leprosy control in Cambodia. The quality of diagnostics is a...more |  May 2008 | ART Rossini's Opera Il Turco In Italia, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, 2008 The 'Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (NBE)' has created a 'new' opera genre - the chamber opera - suitable to be performed at all kinds of locations. The music is well-accessible for...more |
May 2008 | EDUCATION School on Wheels, Cameroon, 2008 School on Wheels takes children to school, and teachers to children. Apart from reading and writing, children are taught practical skills and competences that they...more |  May 2008 | ART Music Theatre "Ik en de Koningin", Max Tak, 2008-2009 Children who have never before seen an orchestra perform live, and have no knowledge of classical music, can in this show...more |
May 2008 | NATURE Preservation of Natural Resources, Timbuktu, Mali, 2008 Because of years of draught and a fast population growth, the natural vegetation of the Timbuktu region is under pressure. Because of this...more |  May 2008 | LEPROSY Field Projects Leprosy Control, Laos 2008 In Laos leprosy occurs mostly among minorities that are hard to reach. Mutilations are often severe and irreparable if the...more |
 May 2008 | ART Noorderkerk Concerts: Marketplace for Music 2008 The Noorderkerk Concerts Foundation each year performs a series of 30 to 35 short, easily accessible concerts of high quality in an informal atmosphere....more |  May 2008 | ART Poetry Circus 2008 The Poetry Circus organises literature and poetry performances for a young, new and varied audience, such as the Poetry Slam. The combination of experienced poets and new talent turns out to be a great success....more |
May 2008 | EDUCATION Informal Skills Training Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008 The Edukans Foundation works on vocational and practically-oriented education for youth in Nairobi in a profession that they choose themselves and that they will later be able to practise independently. After that, they will apprentice themselves to...more | May 2008 | EDUCATION Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, 2008 The UAF supports refugees and asylum seekers with a higher education in their further training and in finding work by means of providing money, advice and supervision. Around 300 UAF-students will graduate...more |
 May 2008 | ART Delft Chamber Music Festival 2008 The Delft Chamber Music Festival has been organising performances of chamber music in the summer months for over 20 years. Every year, around 6,000 music lovers visit...more | May 2008 | ART Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2008 The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who hardly ever...more |
 May 2008 | EDUCATION Construction of an educational institute in Yatenga, Burkina Faso, 2008 The WOL Foundation is building an educational institute in Burkina Faso to further develop vocational training for rural youngsters in the region, and to prevent a relapse into illiteracy...more | May 2008 | EDUCATION Education in the Slum Area of Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2008 The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school...more |
February 2008 | |||
 February 2008 | EDUCATION Construction Macha Innovative Community School, Macha, Zambia, 2009 PrivaServe increases the independence and autonomy of the rural population in developing countries....more | February 2008 | ART Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2008 The Dutch cultural and literary magazine De Gids has already been published for 170 years. Its aim is to promote literature and to stimulate the Dutch cultural and social debate. De Gids holds a unique position within...more |
 February 2008 | ART Main patron La Pasion segun San Marcos, Holland Festival 2008 International art critics have called it "the first masterpiece of the 21st century". In this swinging, large choral work, the Argentinean composer...more |  February 2008 | EDUCATION Support for URDT Girls School, Kibaale, Uganda, 2008 The Ugandan URDT trains people in the district of Kibaale, Uganda, who have to live on less than $1 per day. The URDT Girls School offers training...more |
 February 2008 | EDUCATION Young Africa Skills Center, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, 2008 Young Africa offers support in the education of underprivileged young people between 15 and 25 years of age. Repro-ducible model projects...more |  February 2008 | ART Poetry anthologies Van Schagen & Der Mouw, 2008 Twelve beautifully printed hardcover anthologies will be published in the coming four years. Featuring the very best poems by excellent Dutch poets presented by well-known...more |
February 2008 | ART Free classical music in the Vondelpark 2008 On Thursday Summer nights, renowned music ensembles render free classical music in the Amsterdam Vondelpark Openluchttheater. In 2008...more |  February 2008 | EDUCATION Computer rooms for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2008 Viafrica helps secondary schools to offer their students ICT education, and to ensure a well-educated middle class. Schools must take...more |
February 2008 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of the secondary school and teacher training, Kainam, Tanzania 2008 The Kamitei Foundation invests in primary and secondary education for rural children in Tanzania. Kamitei supplies facilities and goods, but also training...more |  February 2008 | ART The 'Zwoele Zomeravonden' of the Kröller-Müller Museum, 2008 The Kröller-Müller Museum is famous for its collection and its sculpture garden. To increase the interest in the collection and reach new audiences...more |
February 2008 | EDUCATION Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009 The Foundation Kindertehuizen Bulgarije supports five children's homes near Sofia, where 400 children...more | ||
November 2007 | |||
 November 2007 | NATURE € 1.000.000 for sustainable IUCN agricultural projects in Africa, 2009-2010 After the realization of several successful projects within the Small Grants Programme of IUCN Nederland, the Turing Foundation has decided...more | November 2007 | EDUCATION Improvement of vocational training in Nyakabiga, Burundi, 2007 SOS Children's Villages is particularly known for the special 'villages' they have built in more than 100 countries, where orphans can...more |
 November 2007 | EDUCATION Support for the schools in North-West Thailand, 2007-2008 The Samsara Foundation organises concrete and small-scaled projects for the improvement of education in North-West Thailand, where 25,000 underprivileged children...more |  November 2007 | ART Main patron of 'Back to Zeeland', Zeeuws Museum, 2008 In the first large Summer exhibition at the renewed Zeeuws Museum, important showpieces from...more |
 November 2007 | ART De Week van de Poëzie 2008 At least 60 poetry events are taking place in April 2008, organised by libraries, book shops, publishers and...more | November 2007 | EDUCATION Educational projects Liliane Foundation 2008 The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children in...more |
 November 2007 | EDUCATION Construction and renovation of the Milalani Primary School, Msambweni, Kenya, 2008 The Twiga Foundation focuses on education in Msambweni, Kenya and contributes to quality...more | November 2007 | ART Matthew Passion translated/adapted by Jan Rot, 2008 The Residentie Bach Ensembles offer a varied concert programme of classical music in 2008 and 2009, aiming to reach as many young people...more |
 November 2007 | ART Family show of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, 2007-2008 With his opera arrangements, Frank Groothof succeeds time and again in enthusing and exciting large groups of children...more |  November 2007 | ART Concerts of the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales, 2008 Under the inspiring baton of the young Spanish conductor Josep Vincent, the World Orchestra will give four concerts in January 2008...more |
 November 2007 | EDUCATION Kuloro Skills Training Centre, Gambia, 2007-2008 Net4Kids funds a training centre in Kuloro, Gambia, which provides training for 100 young people in skills such as batik, tie & dye, sewing, soap making, preparing food...more |  November 2007 | ART Poetry anthology 'Jou Willen Is Je Missen', 2008 The thematic poetry anthology 'Jou Willen Is Je Missen' of Dutch poems about love is published...more |
September 2007 | |||
 September 2007 | NATURE Ecosystem Management for the Murciellagos Bay, Philippines, 2007-2009 Murciellagos Bay is a breeding ground of important and diverse ecosystems, coral reefs, mangrove forests, sea grass beds and rare...more |  September 2007 | EDUCATION Construction of a school in Kenenkou, Mali, 2008 The Dutch Mali Foundation supports the population in the vicinity of Bamako in Mali. One of its projects is the construction of a secondary school with a capacity of 200 to 300 pupils...more |
September 2007 | LEPROSY Research on immunopathology of leprosy 2007 The leprosy bacterium has a high affinity for Schwann cells - cells that form a protective layer around nerves...more | September 2007 | EDUCATION Education for 250 street children in Calcutta, India, 2007-2009 A so-called 'Rainbow Home' is being realized in the Loreto Sealdah Day School in Calcutta. It accommodates 250 street children, and provides them with food, education,...more |
 September 2007 | ART Main patron Gedichtendag 2008 Poem Day brings poetry to the notice on a national level. 300 poetry activities are taking place on or around 31 January. Newspapers will publish poems, poetry will be read on radio and TV...more |  September 2007 | NATURE Sustainable management of the biodiversity in the Lamit Bay, Philippines, 2007-2010 The biodiversity of the Lamit Bay is threatened by commercial overfishing and dynamite fishing. The local community will cooperate to create a network of...more |
 September 2007 | EDUCATION Practical Textile Training Room and Art Room for Architecture and Engineering, Moengo, Surinam, 2008-2009 The STOOM Foundation supports the improvement of the Barronschool, which is the sole vocational school in Moengo. At this moment, the 450 pupils lack the classrooms and...more | September 2007 | EDUCATION Improvement of education for 1,500 children in Balochistan, Pakistan 2007 This Save the Children project will, among other things, provide ten schools with educational materials, trainings for teachers,...more |
 September 2007 | ART Seven Bridges Jazz Festival, Amsterdam, 2007 The Turing Foundation contributed € 7,000 to the Seven Bridges Jazz Festival. It is a Summer festival in Amsterdam, meant as an incentive to further professionalize fund-raising activities. Like the grant...more | ||
July 2007 | |||
 July 2007 | NATURE €3.000.000 for the Coral Triangle Initiative 2007-2012 There is no place on earth that is home to such great biodiversity as the coral triangle. The Turing Foundation contributes € 3,000,000 to...more |  July 2007 | EDUCATION Construction of an educational institute in Yatenga, Burkina Faso, 2007 The WOL Foundation is building an educational institute in Burkina Faso to further develop vocational training for rural youngsters in the region, and to prevent a relapse into illiteracy...more |
 July 2007 | NATURE Sustainable management of wetlands around Lake Doro, Mali, 2007-2009 9,500 people live in eight villages in the tidal area within the project region in South-West Mali: farmers, cattle-breeding nomads and fishermen. These people...more |  July 2007 | ART Main patron Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2008 For the first time in over fifty years, there will be an exhibition on the origin of Dutch painting in...more |
July 2007 | EDUCATION Enlargement of a school in Lomé, Togo, 2008 The Een School in Togo Foundation built a private 'model school' for 300 children in Lomé, Togo. The school offers education for children between 6 and...more |  July 2007 | NATURE Dungonab Bay and Sanganeb Atoll Marine National Park, Sudan, 2007-2009 African Parks helps the Sudanese government in managing, conserving and restoring two national parks. The Turing Foundation contributes 1 million euros to the Sanganeb Atoll Marine...more |
 July 2007 | ART The 10th Grachtenfestival of Amsterdam, 2007 During this yearly music festival, performances of classical music in special locations in the historic town centre of Amsterdam and special concerts in...more |  July 2007 | EDUCATION Computer rooms for secondary schools in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda 2007 Viafrica helps secondary schools to provide an ICT curriculum. The schools must themselves take the initiative, for example by...more |
 July 2007 | NATURE Sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo, 2007-2009 The IUCN is recovering part of a rainforest that has been seriously impoverished due to human activities, but still houses...more |  July 2007 | NATURE Sustainable small-scaled agriculture in Borgou, Benin, 2007-2009 In Benin, the IUCN and the CRFA work on alternative and improved agricultural systems around the Antisua community forest...more |
 July 2007 | ART Main patron Unknown Modern Masterpieces from Moscow, Jewish Historical Museum, 2007-2008 The Jewish Historical Museum presents unknown masterpieces by Russian-Jewish artists from the period 1910-1940. The Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of the exhibition...more |  July 2007 | ART Jazz Impuls double concerts, 2007/2008 The Turing Foundation contributed € 20,000 to the 130 Jazz Impuls double concerts in 2007 and 2008, aiming to reach a larger jazz audience in all four corners of the country and hoping to arouse their interest...more |
May 2007 | |||
May 2007 | EDUCATION School books for developing countries, 2007 The Read to Grow Foundation collects second-hand recreational books and textbooks and sends them to village schools in developing countries where...more | May 2007 | EDUCATION Education in the slum of Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2007 The IBISS Foundation supports the most marginalized groups of Brazil. In the slums, children are hardly stimulated to go to school...more |
May 2007 | ART Main patron of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2008-2010 To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that...more | ||
March 2007 | |||
 March 2007 | ART Main patron 'The De Bray Family', Frans Hals Museum, 2008 In 2008, the Frans Hals Museum of Haarlem is setting up a special exhibition on the painters of the seventeenth century De Bray family. The Turing Foundation will be the main...more |  March 2007 | EDUCATION Education and food programme for 550 children of the Kianjau Primary School, Kenya, 2007-2009 The Macheo Children's Centre in Thika, Kenya runs a children's home, and supports the nearby Primary School. Everyone in the slum of Kiandutu can...more |
March 2007 | EDUCATION Education for AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Namibia, 2007 Stichting Pappa ensures that a group of 100 AIDS orphans and street children in Katutura, Windhoek can go to school. Tuition, uniforms and...more |  March 2007 | ART 38th Poetry International Festival, 2007 The theme for 2007 of this leading international poetry festival is the relation between poetry, insanity and melancholy. Several international...more |
March 2007 | ART Free classical music in the Vondelpark 2007 On eleven Thursday nights in June, July and August, free classical music concerts are played by renowned music ensembles at the central park of...more |  March 2007 | EDUCATION Construction of a vocational training campus, Pakistan, 2007-2008 The Pakistan Development Foundation offers easily accessible vocational education and training, and provides assistance in starting...more |
 March 2007 | EDUCATION Computer lessons, Philippines, 2007 Zone One Tondo Organisation (ZOTO) is a popular movement which helps poor people of the Philippines aged 10 to 24, with education as well as...more |  March 2007 | EDUCATION Construction of an Educational Resource Centre, Komenda, Ghana, 2008 ToBe Worldwide zet Educational Resource Centres op in achtergebleven gebieden in Ghana. De centra bieden kinderen van 6 to 15 jaar...more |
 March 2007 | ART Main patron Era La Notte, Holland Festival 2007 During the 60th edition of the Holland Festival, soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci sings early Italian baroque music. This concert...more | March 2007 | EDUCATION Teaching programmes in children's homes, Doganovo and Roman, Bulgaria, 2007-2009 De Stichting Kindertehuizen Bulgarije steunt vijf kindertehuizen in de omgeving van Sofia waar 400 kinderen...more |
 March 2007 | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of vocational training in woodworking, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2007 De Stichting Bebo Bakery wil wees- en zwerfkinderen in Ghana, na een goede basisopleiding, een vak leren in kleine, zelfstandige ondernemingen...more |  March 2007 | LEPROSY Projects to cure leprosy 2007 The Dutch Leprosy Foundation invests all over the world in projects that help diagnose and cure people who suffer from leprosy...more |
February 2007 | |||
 | LEPROSY €1.000.000 for the Dutch Leprosy Foundation, 2007 The Dutch Leprosy Foundation has devoted itself for forty years to creating a world in which the permanent suffering, caused by leprosy, is no longer existent...more |  | OTHER War Trauma Aid via de War Trauma Foundation, 2007 The War Trauma Foundation provides assistance to victims of violence...more |
 | EDUCATION Individual scholarships 2007-2012 In the past few years the Board of The Turing Foundation agreed to individual scholarships for several years to students in Nigeria, Togo, Gambia, Haiti and Benin. Up to and including 2012, a total of...more |  | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a primary school with teacher accommodation in Idi, Atjeh, 2007 De Stichting Zicht Op Toekomst richt zich op scholenbouw in Indonesië, in gebieden waar de infrastructuur verwoest is. In Atjeh, waar de tsunami van 2002...more |
| EDUCATION Educational programme for an orphanage, Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka, 2007 De Stichting Weeshuis Sri Lanka bouwt en exploiteert een weeshuis in Harumalgoda, Sri Lanka voor 300 weeskinderen. Velen daarvan...more |  | ART The Atlas Ensemble 2007-2009 30 musicians from China, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe are united in this ensemble and bring together instruments which originate from a common 'ancestor', but...more |
 | EDUCATION College Education for talented Antillean students, 2006-2008 Two talented Antillean students wish to attend the Atlantic College in Wales...more |  | EDUCATION Support for education of handicapped children, Tanguiéta, Northern Benin, 2007 The Liliane Foundation provides direct, small-scale and tailor-made help to handicapped children and young people in developing countries. In many cases,...more |
 | ART Bouw 'Classic Express' of the Princess Christina Concours, 2007 Het Prinses Christina Concours wil de jeugd kennis laten maken met klassieke en jazz muziek...more |  | EDUCATION Construction and equipment of a school for street children, Lombok, Indonesia, 2007 De stichting Peduli Anak bouwt drie opvanghuizen en een school voor straatkinderen op het eiland Lombok in Indonesië. 144 straatkinderen...more |
 | ART Main patron of De Week van de Poëzie 2007 Many large and sparkling, or instead modest poetry activities and events related to poetry from all over the Netherlands come together in this 'Poetry Week'. At least 60 events...more | | ART Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2007 consists of 40 idealistic students who give 100 concerts a year at venues such as care homes, prisons, schools and asylum centres, for people who...more |
| EDUCATION Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, 2007 The UAF supports higher educated refugees and asylum seekers in their studies and in finding a job by financial support, advice and coaching....more |  | ART Poetry anthology 'The First Miracle' , 2007 The thematic poetry anthology 'Het Eerste Wonder' of Dutch poems about birth is published...more |
 | EDUCATION Educational tools for 42 primary schools, Rwanda, 2007 To improve the quality of and participation (of especially girls) in education, and to improve quality by teacher refresher courses...more |  | ART May 4 Concert, Amsterdam, 2007 The Turing Foundation supported the educative programme related to the commemoration concert on 4 May 2007 in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw...more |
 | ART Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 2007 The RCO gives a children's concert that is linked to an educational project which enables primary school children in Amsterdam to enjoy...more |  | EDUCATION Teaching material for primary school, Kombo North district, Gambia, 2007 The Kebba Jarju Memorial Nursery is a primary school in a village in the Kombo North district of Gambia. It has over 120 pupils...more |
 | OTHER Support for Village Elder, Cotonou, Benin 2007-2009 A grant was made to support the village chief of a village near Cotonou in Benin. The village chief bears great responsibility for the village community. Although this allowance of € 1,000 a year will...more |  | ART Extension opening hours Museum Belvédčre 2007-2009 Museum Belvédčre is het eerste museum voor moderne en hedendaagse kunst in Friesland...more |
 | ART 25th anniversary of the Amsterdam Chamber Music Society, 2007 Het Reizend Muziekgezelschap is een kamermuziekgezelschap met een wisselende bezetting van internationale topmuzikanten...more | ||