About Noorderlink

Noorderlink is a collaboration of several major companies and organisations in the field of HRM (Human Resource Management) and HRD (Human Resource Development). The participating organisations all have their own personnel policy and  have a complete P&O department. They also have at least 1000 employees and are located in the North of the Netherlands.
Noorderlink strives to maintain a well-balanced mixture between profit and non-profit organisations.

Contact data Noorderlink
Het Kasteel, Melkweg 1, 9718 EP, Groningen
President, Henk Eggens: 06-51697673
Secretariat, Ivonne Weidgraaf: 06-23269080
Web-master, Philip Smits: 06-12903067
Post address: Postbus 1225, 9701 BE, Groningen

Services
The services of Noorderlink are mostly aimed at exchanging knowledge, expertise and best-practices between the participating organisations. It also seeks to increase the mobility of the employees of the participating organisation.

Some of the activities Noorderlink engages in:
Courses: trainings aimed at management in the field of leadership, policy advice and project management
Tasting events: at tasting events, the opportunity is offered to the HRM and managers to ‘taste’ hrm-trainings so as to see whether a certain training or mode of working would be suited for implementation within their own organisation.
Younglink: network for Young Professionals that work or graduate at one of the Noorderlink partners.
Projectlink: ProjectLink supports the personal development and professionalism of project managers in the Noorderlink by offering projects beyond their own organisation, developing a common offering in trainings and organising network meetings.
Coachlink: provides an overview of coaches that work at organisations that collaborate in Noorderlink which can also be consulted outside of their own organisation.

Besides that, Noorderlink strives to keep highly educated personnel in the North, or to attract people to the North by promoting it as an attractive environment to work and live in.
To ‘Life in the North’

Collaboration
Noorderlink is focused on collaboration. Each organisation can autonomously decide on its own personnel policy. However they underline the power of collaboration and will transfer knowledge and share expertise and experiences. All participating organisations are expected to actively contribute to products that have and will be developed.
Noorderlink isn’t itself legally constituted, but the collaborating organisations engage in a partnership and commonly sign a declaration of intent. Because of that, they are, within the frameworks of policy as agreed upon, all legally responsible for the dealings of Noorderlink.
Noorderlink chooses professionalism. That is why it has a Governing bureau to initiate, organise and combine activities.

Organisation
The collaborating organisations are represented by the directors/chiefs of P&O, that together form the General Board of Directors. Out of their midst a Board of Directors in charge of daily affairs is chosen. This board has 5 members and is chosen for a period of 2 years.
The General Board of Directors makes policy choices and crafts frameworks of policy (e.g. the yearly planning and the budget) and decides on the potential admittance of new members.
The Board of Directors in charge of daily affairs makes sure the organisation’s goals are guarded, plans are executed, policy is prepared and controls the Governing Bureau of Noorderlink.

Noorderlink’s strategic goals
Noorderlink has the following strategic goals:
Exchange of knowledge, expertise and best-practices in the field of HRM/HRD;
Getting mobility going and increasing the employability of personnel within the organisations collaborating in Noorderlink;
Positively positioning the North as an attractive place to work and live;
Being involved in regional society.