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Erik van der Kooij, director Feeling EUROPE FNDN is living and educated in the Netherlands and worked for decades in several professions and business at financial institutions, mainly in the sector control.
Changing moral values and norms round about the millenium, brought Erik in 2004 into touch with the Dutch government’s notion to bring this challenge to the notice of the public through the international conference ‘Europe, a Beautiful Idea?’, organized by the NEXUS Institute. Erik was also abled to participate the follow-up conference ‘The Sound of Europe’, organized in 2006 by the Austrian government. These experiences triggered to share European values and affairs through foundation and this website.
The foundation contributes to better living conditions and human condition and acts as an independent observer, fosters and guides European values and affairs, takes position as nexus between citizens, institutions, Europe, her identity and everything that is related in wider sense, mainly concerning cultural, philosophical and political fields. Also economic and technical areas are subjects of attention.
Furthermore, the desk delivers resonance, provides presentations and does research work.
