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Dealing with international policy questions and working in a complex and
political environment is exciting as well as highly demanding. Intelligent and
creative solutions can only be found once you and your staff have mastered
a number of essential competences. We design concepts ­ whether courses,
training needs analysis, seminars, workshops, strategic sessions, or consul-
tancy ­ that best match our clients' objectives and needs. In close cooperation
with you and possibly other partners, we co-create and share responsibility
in order to embed our common objectives into the broader goals of your
organisation and staff. Our knowledge, expertise and networks are at your
service to ensure sustainability and long-lasting results.
Training Methods
Our methodology goes beyond the ordinary. Participants are actively encour-
aged to take responsibility for their individual learning process. A personal
needs analysis and/or conversation about the participant's learning objectives
and requirements are standard procedures. Our programmes appeal to the
individual's personal competences, capacities and ambitions. We ensure that
there is ample room for open dialogue with other participants, by exchanging
and sharing experiences and ideas. Challenging lectures alternate with prac-
tical cases, simulation games, exercises, debating sessions, workshops, part-
nering, and `speed dates' with experts, etc. When participants complete our
programmes, they are more able to understand, shape and influence interna-
tional policies and processes. They can put this into practice and can therefore
contribute actively to their own organisation's professional development.
EXAMPLES OF OUR CUSTOMISED COURSES IN BOXES
Nuclear Security: Seminar for Chinese Diplomats
In cooperation with the Netherlands Minis
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try of Foreign Af-
fairs (MFA), Clingendael orga
nised a one-week seminar fo
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eleven Chinese diplomats working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing
and the Chinese Embassy in The Hague. This year's seminar focused on nucle-
ar security, with special emphasis on the Nuclear Security Summit that will be
held in The Hague in 2014. The programme included visits to the Netherlands
Forensic Institute, the OPCW and the Dutch MFA. The delegation also met
with policy-makers in Brussels and engaged in discussions with NGOs on non-
proliferation and disarmament. During the week, participants made a com-
parative analysis of Chinese and Dutch policies on security issues. At the end
of the seminar, they presented the outcomes, in teams, to a panel of experts.
Justice and Home Affairs: Course for the Dutch Ministry of Security and Jus-
TRAINING METHODS
Our methodology goes beyond the ordinary. Participants are actively encouraged
to take responsibility for their individual learning process. A personal needs
analysis and/or conversation about the participant's learning objectives and
requirements are standard procedures. Our programmes appeal to the
individual's personal competences, capacities and ambitions. We ensure that
there is ample room for open dialogue with other participants, by exchanging
and sharing experiences and ideas. Challenging lectures alternate with practi-
cal cases, simulation games, exercises, debating sessions, partnering, work-
shops, and `speed dates' with experts, etc.
When participants complete our programmes, they are more able to under-
stand, shape and influence international policies and processes. They can put
this into practice and can therefore contribute actively to the professional
development of their own organisation.
CUSTOMISED COURSES AND CONCEPT
DEVELOPMENT
Dealing with international policy questions and working in a complex and
political environment is exciting as well as highly demanding. Intelligent and
creative solutions can only be found once you and your staff have mastered
a number of essential competences. We design concepts ­ whether courses,
training needs analysis, seminars, workshops, strategic sessions, or consul-
tancy ­ that best match our clients' objectives and needs. In close cooperation
with you and possibly other partners, we co-create and share responsibility in
CUSTOMISED COURSES
AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
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