Niels Tubbing Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Department of City Board and Management Consultancy- Responsible for advising the mayor and deputy mayors on social affairs at the EU and international level, as well as advising the city management directors and the different departments wihtin the social domain.- Coordinator on behalf of the city of Amsterdam of the Urban Agenda Partnership for Inclusion of Migrants & Refugees. Since 2016, the Partnership has developed into an effective, outcome-oriented platform for eye-level cooperation and trust-building between cities, Member States, EU institutions, and other stakeholders such civil society actors, international associations, think tanks, as well as migrants and refugees themselves. Since its launch, the Partnership has been co-led by the City of Amsterdam and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME).- Coordinator on behalf of the City of Amsterdam of the City Director's Roundtable on Fighting Rising Inequalities. The Roundtable is a group of cities including Amsterdam, Utrecht, Vienna, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Zagreb, Edinburgh, Warsaw, and Lyon working together at City Director level on combating inequality and segregation.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Senior Policy Advisor Integration of Status Holders and Civic Integration• Evaluate existing policies and provide strategic input on new directions in the fields of integration of refugees and status holders, specialized in education and integration of women refugees • Evaluate existing policies and provide strategic input on new directions in civic integration of newcomers, with a specialisation in the educational sector• Manage official communications with the city council and deputy mayors and between departments.• International Coordinator working group Citizenship, Inclusion and Education• EU Ambassador City of Amsterdam - working towards increased European and International collaboration• EUROCITIES Chair Working Group Migration & Integration• Experience with applying for European subsidies• Organizing working visits for international delegations• Give presentations to large groups of people (in Dutch, English or German)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Senior Advisor on European social affairs.

- Lead on the preparation and implementation of the WG work plan: The work is done in cooperation with the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff (policy advisor, project coordinator, support officer), and in coordination with the forum chair and forum steering committee. The WG work plan should be guided by the forum strategy and work programme, set specific and measurable goals, including a clear hierarchy of priorities, and provide an indicative implementation timeline; - Call WG meetings: While allowing for flexibility, the thematic focus of a WG meeting should be guided by the WG work plan and determined at the start of each year; - Report regularly on WG activities to the forum; - Prepare agendas for meetings: The work is done in cooperation with the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff;- Prepare minutes of meetings in cooperation with the relevant member of staff (including list of participants, issues addressed, decisions taken, way forward); - Follow up on relevant policy work, in cooperation with the EUROCITIES team; - Participate in meetings of the EU Urban Agenda Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees (depending on availability and topic relevance); - Report annually to the forum chair by a date set by the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff and the chair to have the report ready for consolidation with the other WG reports by early January; - Provide articles on the outputs of WG meetings that can be used e.g. for the EUROCITIES website or flash e-mails. This work is done in cooperation with the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff.The aim of the WG is to use a bottom-up approach to ensure that local experiences play an important role in drafting the EU migration and integration policies. It works as an environment for mutual learning on integration governance, by using mentoring activities and sharing experiences and good practice between cities.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Kitty Hawk is an Amsterdam based foursome playing thrashing alternative rock with a hardcore punk attitude. Terrorpop, so to speak. Founded in 2016 they have released their debut EP 'Lines of Flight' in 2018. In 2023 two EP's will see the light: 'Interstitial' (May 2023) and 'Frictional' (summer 2023).BRASS ORCHIDS...to wound this autumnal citySo howled out for it to name meI am here because it called mePrism, Mirror, Lens...Have I lost myself and if so when and where?I feel that somehow I must knowbut I don’t even know who the fuck I amDays draggingSpent drinkingLost in echoesAnd distortionsIf I lost my nameDoes that set me free?I’m tied to this landscapeOf saprophytic qualitiesThe streets still have their namesBut the city is rearrangedIn a constant fluxAnd so it changes usDraggingDrinkingEchoesDistortionsTo wander this cerebral cityCaught between these thoughts so grittyMy name lost, now reduced to kiddyHouse of AxHave I lost myself and if so when and whereI feel that somehow I must knowbut I don’t even know who the fuck I amRefractingWords writtenWhen ashesGrey the grassThe thought ‘I am going to die’Yet blood still beats in my earsIs this what thinking feels like?Is this what it means to be alive?Does this mean my mind is gone?But what does that even mean?Is my mental illness real?Or just an illusion? You tell meRefractingWrittenEchoesAnd distortionsI have come to woundHave I? Have I?Am I wounded?Am I? Am I?Healed or hurtIs it the same?I’m lingering inRuins of confusionDraggingDrinkingEchoesDistortionsDo these notebook poems reveal truthAbout who I just might be?So howled out for the world to give me a nameA ghosted smileLit by two moonsWhile a red sunBurns this cityForever adjustableTherefore unlearnableI’m still lingering, butI have come...(NT, standing on the shoulders of Samuel R Delany, 2022)

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● DJ and producer of electronic music (ambient, experimental, new wave, techno, stoner, disco, minimal wave).● Also available for a wide variety of parties focusing on music from the 1960s onwards.

Amsterdam / Antwerp

Al meer dan dertig jaar is Gonzo (circus) het kompas voor de muzikale ontdekkingsreiziger in Vlaanderen én Nederland. Zonder krampachtig hip te willen zijn brengen we nieuwswaardige inhoud over namen en geluiden die minder gemakkelijk hun plek in de media krijgen.Gonzo (circus) werkt als een smaakmaker, een trechter die uit het overvloedige actuele aanbod muziek en kunst filtert die volgens ons belangrijk is en blijft. Vaak besteden wij als eerste aandacht aan artiesten wiens naam later de grote festivalaffiches siert.● Journalist for the art and music magazine Gonzo (circus), a bimonthly magazine issued in the Netherlands and Belgium. ● Conduct interviews, collect information, and write articles, including album, concert, and book reviews, for online and paper publications.

- Lead on the preparation and implementation of the WG work plan: The work is done in cooperation with the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff (policy advisor, project coordinator, support officer), and in coordination with the forum chair and forum steering committee. The WG work plan should be guided by the forum strategy and work programme, set specific and measurable goals, including a clear hierarchy of priorities, and provide an indicative implementation timeline; - Call WG meetings: While allowing for flexibility, the thematic focus of a WG meeting should be guided by the WG work plan and determined at the start of each year; - Report regularly on WG activities to the forum; - Prepare agendas for meetings: The work is done in cooperation with the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff;- Prepare minutes of meetings in cooperation with the relevant member of staff (including list of participants, issues addressed, decisions taken, way forward); - Follow up on relevant policy work, in cooperation with the EUROCITIES team; - Participate in meetings of the EU Urban Agenda Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees (depending on availability and topic relevance); - Report annually to the forum chair by a date set by the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff and the chair to have the report ready for consolidation with the other WG reports by early January; - Provide articles on the outputs of WG meetings that can be used e.g. for the EUROCITIES website or flash e-mails. This work is done in cooperation with the relevant member of EUROCITIES staff.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Evaluate existing policies and provide strategic input on new directions in the fields of adult education, language training and integration.• Manage official communications with the city council and deputy mayors and between departments.• Responsible for welcome policies for EU mobile citizens• International Coordinator working group Citizenship, Inclusion and Education• EU Ambassador City of Amsterdam - working towards increased European and International collaboration• EUROCITIES Vice-chair Working Group Migration• House of Skills - contact for adult education• Project leader of the Diversity Department’s local policy project ‘Shared History’ for a period of six months (July – Dec 2015).• Project leader of the European project ‘Local Welcome Policies for EU-Migrants’, a collaborative project with six European cities for the period of January 2015 until December 2016.• Give training sessions to casemanagers about working with customer tracking systems and work processes.• Experience with applying for European subsidies• Organizing working visits for international delegations• Give presentations to large groups of people (in Dutch, English or German)

Amsterdam

● Coordinated the legal administrative affairs team (10 fte) concerned with the ‘Wet inburgering’ (Civic Integration Act).● Responsible for the successful local implementation and enforcement of the Law for integration, quality control, and the division of labour. ● Responsible for implementing new and existing policies at the practical level.● Advisory role on policies concerning the enforcement of the Civic Integration Act.● Set up and communicated work processes, including department discussion with national governmental bodies.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● Enforcement and execution of legal administrative affairs concerning the Law for integration.● Partook in meetings, pro-active thinking about implementing policies.● Communicated with other (national) governmental bodies about best practices. Assumed large amount of responsibility for the citizens concerned. ● Promoted to coordinator in October 2011.

The Netherlands

Part of the music duo that is Black Oysters. Live elektro/techno. Singer, lyricist, synthesizers.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● Conducted interviews, collected information, and wrote articles and reviews for the now defunct online music magazine Jimmy Alter (www.jimmyalter.nl).

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● Wrote blogs about cultural and art events for the website www.newartnight.nl.● Responsible for final editing of blogs by other authors.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● Project coordinator for the then recently founded Research School for Media Studies (RMeS), for a fixed period of six months, to great satisfaction of the University of Amsterdam. ● Maintained position one day a week, in addition to my job at the City Government of Amsterdam.● Responsible for the start up of the research school, including contacting partner universities and professors, setting up member and email lists, and managing website and flyers design.● Successfully organised a two-day Summer School conference, including lectures and workshops.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● Wrote articles, interviews, reviews, newsletters. Mostly focused on the art and education sector.● Wrote newsletters for the JOB Academy, an organisation that deals with the interests of MBO-students in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● Worked as a shopkeeper in the store of De Persgroep, which sells cds, dvds, books etc. ● Responsible for opening and closing the shop and register, making orders and balancing the stock.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

● Worked for a helpdesk for online banking problems.

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

● Music journalist for the magazine Rock ‘n’ Roll Highschool● Developed subject topics, collected relevant materials, conducted interviews, and wrote articles for publication on print. ● Wrote articles in both Dutch and English for BeNeLux and worldwide publications.

Master’S Degree, Media Studies, Film Philosophy, Cum Laude

Filmphilosophy, sociology, media theories, layman neurology

High School, General, Vwo (A-Levels / Pre-University)

Graduated in the following subjects: English, Dutch, German, Physics, Mathematics (Algebra), Chemistry, Economics.