Renting our facilities

Aside from the schools, seminars, and conferences organized by the IIRE itself, the building is in principle also available for use by others in the periods between activities organized by the Institute. For example, it has been used in the past for youth conferences, solidarity events, conferences of the Transnational Institute and International Institute for Social History, and gatherings of German and Dutch NGOs.

All these events take place in the centre we opened in 1982 in Amsterdam. With the help of major donors as well as many volunteers we were able to rebuild and furnish a suitable building in a quiet part of town, aggregating four 19th-century Amsterdam houses, in which dozens can be housed. The renovated complex includes three conference/meeting rooms, holding between 15 and 70 people, equipped with three-channel infrared translation equipment for simultaneous translation; two dormitory floors comprising 24 simple bed- and workrooms, with adjoining showers and toilets; a collective kitchen and dining room; stock, laundry and tool rooms; three library floors; and three recreation rooms with facilities such as television, video recorders and videotape library, stereo systems, table tennis and so forth. All four original buildings adjoin the Institute garden, a special source of delight for participants in the spring and summer. Sites combining all these different facilities, in the heart of Western Europe and convenient to a major international airport, are rare indeed. All this is available at reasonable rates to interested progressive organizations, along with access to the Institute's equipment (fax, Macintosh and IBM computers, ADSL/wireless internet connection, overhead projector, photocopier).
Inquiries are welcome: please contact us.

From time to time we report on organizations whose gatherings we have hosted here in Amsterdam. In this way we hope to encourage our friends to think of other organizations that might meet here, since funds fom this source are important to our budget.

IIRE hosts Gender Justice training

Ecologists gather