Harry Mertens

Harry Mertens

Spacial planner

Location
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Industry
Program Development

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Harry Mertens's Overview

Current
  • Senior adviseur Gebiedsgericht werken at MOVISIE
Past
  • Senior project leader Social Cohesion at MOVISIE
  • Program coordinator at Orange Foundation
  • Senior staff member innovation at Netherlands Institute of Care and Welfare
  • Staff member at NFB
Education
  • Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Harry Mertens's Summary

Project manager aiming at at improving the conditions of people living in a multicultural environment using their talents and strength.

Specialties

Management of lager projects concerning community development, improving the social cohesion in a multicultural context, ageing and ethnicity, use of ICT in social policy, use of art and culture to empower people and improve the living conditions in neighborhoods

Harry Mertens's Experience

Senior adviseur Gebiedsgericht werken

MOVISIE

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry

January 2012Present (2 months) Utrecht, Nederland

Senior project leader Social Cohesion

MOVISIE

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry

January 2007January 2012 (5 years 1 month)

MOVISIE is the Netherlands centre for social development. Our mission is to promote the participation and independence of citizens. We do this by supporting and advising professional organizations, volunteer organizations and government institutions in the field of welfare, care and social development. Five themes are central to our work: Informal Care, Vulnerable Groups, Volunteer Effort, Domestic and Sexual Violence, Social Cohesion.

Program coordinator

Orange Foundation

2004August 2007 (3 years)

Leader of a 3 years lasting project Multicultural neighbourhoods. In this project more than 30 welfare organizatiions recieved a grant from € 70.000 to improve their capabillity to work in a multicultural environment.

Senior staff member innovation

Netherlands Institute of Care and Welfare

January 1989December 2006 (18 years)

The Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare / NIZW is an independent organization dedicated to quality and innovation of the care and welfare sector. This sector employs over 750,000 professionals and many volunteers in the Netherlands.
Within NIZW I´m involved in all kind of innovations that supports the sector and thus contributes to a caring society, in which citizens’ personal responsibility and freedom of choice come first. My main focus is on multicultural issues and ICT & social policy. At the moment I´m the projectmanager of a national programm ´the multicultural neighbourhood'. The programm is sponsored by the Orange Foundation.

Staff member

NFB

19851989 (4 years)

Harry Mertens's Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

MSc, Spacial planning

Activities and Societies: Faculty council of student representative

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