The Swedish Chamber of Commerce cordially invites their members and guests to a Chamber Luncheon at Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel, Scheveningen Den Haag on Sweden’s National Day Wednesday June 6, 2012 from 12.00 – 14.15

Keynote Speaker and Honorary Guest: H.E. Mrs. Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten-Hyllner, State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport

Honorary Guest: H.E. Ambassador of Sweden Mr. Håkan Emsgård.

Venue: Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel, Scheveningen Den Haag

Time: 12.00 – 14.15

Program:
12.00
Registration
12.00
Welcome drink at the beautiful seaside terrace of the Kurhaus Hotel
12.30
Opening by H.E. Ambassador of Sweden Mr. Håkan Emsgård
Delicious 2-cource lunch Menu du Chef including drinks and coffee and tea with friandises
                        
Keynote speaker H.E. Mrs. Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten-Hyllner,    
State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport

14.15
End of Program

For more information and Registration please go to Events

The exhibition tells the story of the Vikings and the unique findings who are seen outside Scandinavia.
This new exhibition is created through the National Museum of Antiquities (Historiska Museet) and MuseumsPartners and starts its international worldtour in the Museum of Drenthe.
After Assen, the tour continues in Europe (Edinburgh, Moskow, Munich) and then off to the United States of America (Davenpoort).
Until the 28th of October 2012.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Tournament May 9, 2012

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce is looking back on a successful Annual Golf Tournament “The Swedish Chamber of Commerce Challenge Trophy 2012” played on May 9, 2012 at the fantastic Golf & Country Club of Nunspeet.

Our sincere congratulations to the winner of the tournament Mr. C. van Beurden, guest of Kinnarps.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the special sponsors and players for participating at the Swedish Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Tournament 2012 and for a great sporting day in at the Golf & Country Club in Nunspeet.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce is looking forward to welcome a new Main sponsor for The Swe-Cham Challenge Trophy 2013 – 2015 and invites all interested companies to contact us for more information about the Sponsor possibilities. 

For the complete prize list and more photos please go to Past Events.

Thursday April 26, 2012 the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and the Swedish Embassy was very proud and honored to welcome Ms. Margot Wallström, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. Ms. Wallström was in the Netherlands to attend the Taylor Conviction at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, was convicted on all counts of an 11-count indictment which alleged that he was responsible for crimes committed by rebel forces during Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war. With this judgment the Special Court reached a major milestone as The Special Court’s Trial Chamber II found unanimously that Mr. Taylor aided and abeted RUF and AFRC rebels in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.

End of the afternoon Mrs. Wallström arrived to Carlton Ambassador together with the Swedish Ambassador where she gave a very personal and intense presentation about her work as special UN Representative. More than 70 persons, a mix of members of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and representatives from many different aid organizations were very pleased to meet Ms. Wallström and to show their respect for her work. Ms. Brigid Inder, Executive Director of Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, an organization working with women in armed conflict situations, specially those under investigation by the ICC offered Ms. Wallström a small gift as appreciation and to show their strong support for her work and the impressive manner in which she has implemented her mandate as well as thanking her, given the recent announcement that Ms. Wallström is resigning from her post in May.

Photo: Henry Arvidsson,  www.henryarvidsson.com and Swedish Chamber of Commerce

For event photos, please go to past events!

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Jan Häggström, Chief economist Handelsbanken.

More than 80 participants showed up at Sheraton Hotel, Schiphol April 24, 2012 for the economy seminar organized by the Swedish Chamber together with Swedish Chamber Export Prize winner Handelsbanken. Keynote speaker Mr. Jan Häggström, Chief economist at Handelsbanken and the subject was Global Macro Outlook.

After openings remarks about the Swedish economy by H.E. Ambassador of Sweden Mr. Håkan Emsgård and brief presentation of Handelsbanken and its rapid growth in the Netherlands by General Manager Mr. Mikael Sörensen keynote speaker Mr. Häggström started his very interesting Global Macro Outlook presentation. He presented the fiscal policy of 2012 and the global economy situation during the past four years in Europe together with statistics and analysis of the economic situation in the Eurozone perspective as well as sharing his views about the current situation and prognoses for the near future. The presentation ended with Q&A and the interest to among the attendees was very high.

After the presentation Handelsbanken invited to drinks and mingle and to continue the discussions with the other participants and with keynote speaker Mr. Jan Häggström.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce would like to thank Handelsbanken for the nice set up and Mr. Jan Häggström for giving a very interesting presentation about the current global economy. We would also like to thank all attending guest in the Economy Seminar on April 24, 2012. 

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce is looking back on a very successful Conference Day in Friesland on April 19, 2012. Honorary Guest Ambassador of Sweden H.E. Mr. Håkan Emsgård,  together with more than 50 persons attend the very well organized “Sharing innovation knowledge” by Frisian Yacht Club in Harlingen and on the Island of Terschelling. At the reception at Frisian Yacht Club coffee and lunch were served while Guus Westra Chairman of the Frisian Yacht Club welcomed all guests and Mr. Roel Sluiter, Major of Harlingen, Hans Konst from the Province of Friesland, H.E. Mr. Håkan Emsgård Ambassador of Sweden and Mr. Nils van Dijkman held short introductions.

Mr. Frank de Graaf, Lector international business introduced his new book “North Europe as a role model” and presented the book to the Swedish Ambassador and to Mr. Konst before handing it out to all the participants.

Finally Mr. Guus Westra honored the Ambassador with an exclusive golden pin of the Frisian Yacht Club.  

After lunch the group embarked the Tiger of Rederij Doeksen for the fast ferry to Schelling where Mr. Theun de Jong from Municipality Terschelling welcomed the guests at Hotel Skylge. After a very interesting opening remark by the Swedish Ambassador the presentation started with an insight in new developments in modern yacht - and shipbuilding and new sustainable cargo shipping; the Ecoliner project by DynaRigg; presented by Gerard Dijkstra, Thys Nikkels and Thomas van Es. 

Ms Anna van Dijk presented the very impressing Intereg NSR Programme offering excellent opportunities to co-operate and invest in energy and sustainability projects and includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. One example of a public/private sector within the North Sea Region projects is Dryport presented by Mr. Jeroen van den Ende. Development, design and effective operation of Dryports are fully integrated with the freight handling systems and Jeroen presented one of their most recent projects at the locks of Trollhättan, Sweden.

Finally Mr. Hans van Meerendonk and Mr. Leo Bouwman from Province of Friesland and the Municipality of Terschelling presented the Energy Manifest of the Wadden Sea Islands.

After the Conference, Mr. Theun de Jong guided the whole group for a short walk through beautiful West Terschelling back to the boat. On board a delicious buffet was waiting and the participants enjoyed the company and the possibility to continue the discussions from the afternoon.

All in all it was a lovely day and a very interesting program with a nice mix of information and relaxation.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce would like to thank Guus Westra, Frisian Yach Club for his initiative and fantastic organization and also all partners making this generous program possible:
Province Friesland, SNN, Rederij Doeksen, Dykstra, Duurzame waddden, A7Westergo, Municipality of Harlingen, Waddenstroom.nl, Interreg , West Cord Hotels and Friesland Chamber of Commerce.