ÉTEL is a creative consultancy and design studio founded by art director and photographer Maurits Peeters. Its international clientele understands the power of effective communication through outstanding, considerate design. For them, we define, design, and apply their identity in the right context. The primary objective is always to move with clarity and create a timeless, elegant appeal, engage key audiences, and enable brands to become platforms that transcend their status quo.

As board member at the Welcome App Maurits is responsible for its partnerships with cultural and non-cultural organizations. Thereby involved with public relations and marketing.About Welcome App:The main goal of Welcome is to create sustainable friendships between newcomers (refugees) and locals. Based on similar interests, where one lives, his or her age, and study/work experience, locals and newcomers are matched and can meet through Blendin's online platform. Welcome App's platform stimulates newcomers and locals that have several shared interests to meet in real live. The foundation aims to let people meet as equals, without power relations. This is how natural relations are created. The platform is completely free and non-committal. welcomeapp.nl

Blendin Culture is part of the Blendin Foundation. It focusses on lowering the threshold for newcomers to visit cultural events and institutions to thereby enhance the process of integration.